hex-text

ByteString-Text hexidecimal conversions

https://github.com/typeclasses/hex-text

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Stackage Nightly 2025-12-22:0.1.0.9@rev:3
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MIT licensed by Chris Martin
Maintained by Chris Martin, Julie Moronuki
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Module documentation for 0.1.0.4

hex-text

hex-text is a small library for converting between ByteStrings and their representations as hexidecimal numbers encoded as Text.

Motivation

When using Stripe for payments, Stripe sends a signature as a hexidecimal Text value. The cryptonite package can be used to verify the signature, but it requires ByteString values, not Text.

Example usage

A ByteString is a list of bytes. A byte is a number between 0 and 255, represented by the Word8 type. In a fixed-width hexidecimal representation, the lowest byte 0 is represented by the hex string 00, and the greatest byte 255 is represented by the hex string ff. So, for example, the ByteString consisting of bytes [ 1, 2, 3, 253, 254, 255 ] is represented as 010203fdfeff.

λ> import Text.Hex (encodeHex)
λ> import Data.ByteString (pack)

λ> (encodeHex . pack) [1, 2, 3, 253, 254, 255]
"010203fdfeff"

Changes

Initial release: version 0.1.0.0, published in 2018.

Version 0.1.0.2, published October 2020:
★ Adds tighter version bounds
★ Supports base16-bytestring version 1.0, drops support for earlier versions

Version 0.1.0.4, published March 2021:
★ Adds support for GHC 9.0
★ Removes the test suite's dependency on doctest