Copyright	(c) 2013 Leon P Smith
License	BSD3
Maintainer	Leon P Smith <leon@melding-monads.com>
Stability	experimental
Safe Haskell	None
Language	Haskell98

Blaze.ByteString.Builder.Word

Contents

Writing words to a buffer
Creating builders from words

Description

Writes and Builders for serializing words.

Note that for serializing a three tuple (x,y,z) of bytes (or other word values) you should use the expression

fromWrite $ writeWord8 x `mappend` writeWord8 y `mappend` writeWord z

instead of

fromWord8 x `mappend` fromWord8 y `mappend` fromWord z

The first expression will result in a single atomic write of three bytes, while the second expression will check for each byte, if there is free space left in the output buffer. Coalescing these checks can improve performance quite a bit, as long as you use it sensibly.

Synopsis

Writing words to a buffer

writeWord8 :: Word8 -> Write #

Write a single byte.

Big-endian writes

writeWord16be :: Word16 -> Write #

Write a Word16 in big endian format.

writeWord32be :: Word32 -> Write #

Write a Word32 in big endian format.

writeWord64be :: Word64 -> Write #

Write a Word64 in big endian format.

Little-endian writes

writeWord16le :: Word16 -> Write #

Write a Word16 in little endian format.

writeWord32le :: Word32 -> Write #

Write a Word32 in big endian format.

writeWord64le :: Word64 -> Write #

Write a Word64 in little endian format.

Host-endian writes

writeWordhost :: Word -> Write #

Write a single native machine Word. The Word is written in host order, host endian form, for the machine you're on. On a 64 bit machine the Word is an 8 byte value, on a 32 bit machine, 4 bytes. Values written this way are not portable to different endian or word sized machines, without conversion.

writeWord16host :: Word16 -> Write #

Write a Word16 in native host order and host endianness.

writeWord32host :: Word32 -> Write #

Write a Word32 in native host order and host endianness.

writeWord64host :: Word64 -> Write #

Write a Word64 in native host order and host endianness.

Creating builders from words

We provide serialization functions both for singleton words as well as for lists of words. Using these list serialization functions is much faster than using mconcat . map fromWord<n>, as the list serialization functions use a tighter inner loop.

fromWord8 :: Word8 -> Builder #

Serialize a single byte.

fromWord8s :: [Word8] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of bytes.

Big-endian serialization

fromWord16be :: Word16 -> Builder #

Serialize a Word16 in big endian format.

fromWord32be :: Word32 -> Builder #

Serialize a Word32 in big endian format.

fromWord64be :: Word64 -> Builder #

Serialize a Word64 in big endian format.

fromWord32sbe :: [Word32] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word32s in big endian format.

fromWord16sbe :: [Word16] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word16s in big endian format.

fromWord64sbe :: [Word64] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word64s in big endian format.

Little-endian serialization

fromWord16le :: Word16 -> Builder #

Serialize a Word16 in little endian format.

fromWord32le :: Word32 -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word32s in little endian format.

fromWord64le :: Word64 -> Builder #

Serialize a Word64 in little endian format.

fromWord16sle :: [Word16] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word16s in little endian format.

fromWord32sle :: [Word32] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word32s in little endian format.

fromWord64sle :: [Word64] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Word64s in little endian format.

Host-endian serialization

fromWordhost :: Word -> Builder #

Serialize a single native machine Word. The Word is serialized in host order, host endian form, for the machine you're on. On a 64 bit machine the Word is an 8 byte value, on a 32 bit machine, 4 bytes. Values written this way are not portable to different endian or word sized machines, without conversion.

fromWord16host :: Word16 -> Builder #

Write a Word16 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord32host :: Word32 -> Builder #

Write a Word32 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord64host :: Word64 -> Builder #

Write a Word64 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWordshost :: [Word] -> Builder #

Serialize a list of Words. See fromWordhost for usage considerations.

fromWord16shost :: [Word16] -> Builder #

Write a list of Word16s in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord32shost :: [Word32] -> Builder #

Write a list of Word32s in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord64shost :: [Word64] -> Builder #

Write a Word64 in native host order and host endianness.