cereal

A binary serialization library

https://github.com/GaloisInc/cereal

Version on this page:0.5.8.1
LTS Haskell 22.39:0.5.8.3
Stackage Nightly 2024-10-31:0.5.8.3
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 Eric Mertens
This version can be pinned in stack with:cereal-0.5.8.1@sha256:37cb7a78c84412e94592a658768320c41f015f2b8707a433de835afb8ebc18d7,2767

Module documentation for 0.5.8.1

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

Changes

0.5.8.1

  • GHC 8.8.1 compatibility

0.5.8.0

  • Added ShortByteString instances

0.5.7.0

  • Added runPutMBuilder

0.5.6.0

  • Added GSerializeGet and GSerializePut instances for V1

0.5.5.0

  • Added Semigroup instances

0.5.4.0

  • Allow building with older versions of GHC (thanks to Ryan Scott!)
  • Additional putters for ints (thanks to Andrew Martin!)

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.