cereal

A binary serialization library

Version on this page:	0.5.1.0
LTS Haskell 23.21:	0.5.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-05-05:	0.5.8.3
Latest on Hackage:	0.5.8.3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Lennart Kolmodin, Galois Inc., Lemmih, Bas van Dijk

Maintained by Trevor Elliott

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Module documentation for 0.5.1.0

Data
- Data.Serialize

Depends on 5 packages(full list with versions):

array, base, bytestring, containers, ghc-prim

Used by 55 packages in lts-5.0(full list with versions):

A binary serialization library, similar to binary, that introduces an isolate primitive for parser isolation, and labeled blocks for better error messages.

Changes

0.5.0.0

Switch to using the builder provided by the ByteString package
Change the encoding of Float and Double with the Serialize class to use the Data.Serialize.IEEE754 module
Add support for encoding and decoding ShortByteString
New and improved test suite thanks to Kei Hibino
Fix two bugs involving the lookAhead combinator and partial chunks.