cereal

A binary serialization library

https://github.com/GaloisInc/cereal

Version on this page:0.5.3.0
LTS Haskell 23.21:0.5.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-05-07:0.5.8.3
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
This version can be pinned in stack with:cereal-0.5.3.0@sha256:9b2aee30f8db95c7cbece276fe62aa785b5a99385a3cf42393e391a96bd7d65f,2242

Module documentation for 0.5.3.0

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

Changes

0.5.2.0

  • Implement the AMP recommended refactoring for the Functor/Applicative/Monad hierarchy for Get and PutM (thanks to Herbert Valerio Riedel!)
  • Unconditionally support GHC generics (thanks to Eric Mertens!)
  • Split the GSerialize class in two, to deal with a GHC bug (thanks Austin Seipp!)
  • No longer use Enum in the Serialize instance for Bool (thanks Francesco Mazzoli!)

0.5.1.0

  • Re-enable GHC.Generics support which was accidentally removed in 0.5.0.0

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.