blaze-builder-0.4.2.1: Efficient buffered output.
Copyright(c) 2013 Leon P Smith
LicenseBSD3
MaintainerLeon P Smith <leon@melding-monads.com>
Stabilityexperimental
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell98

Blaze.ByteString.Builder.Word

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 Source #

Write a single byte.

Big-endian writes

writeWord16be :: Word16 -> Write Source #

Write a Word16 in big endian format.

writeWord32be :: Word32 -> Write Source #

Write a Word32 in big endian format.

writeWord64be :: Word64 -> Write Source #

Write a Word64 in big endian format.

Little-endian writes

writeWord16le :: Word16 -> Write Source #

Write a Word16 in little endian format.

writeWord32le :: Word32 -> Write Source #

Write a Word32 in big endian format.

writeWord64le :: Word64 -> Write Source #

Write a Word64 in little endian format.

Host-endian writes

writeWordhost :: Word -> Write Source #

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 Source #

Write a Word16 in native host order and host endianness.

writeWord32host :: Word32 -> Write Source #

Write a Word32 in native host order and host endianness.

writeWord64host :: Word64 -> Write Source #

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 Source #

Serialize a single byte.

fromWord8s :: [Word8] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of bytes.

Big-endian serialization

fromWord16be :: Word16 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a Word16 in big endian format.

fromWord32be :: Word32 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a Word32 in big endian format.

fromWord64be :: Word64 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a Word64 in big endian format.

fromWord32sbe :: [Word32] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word32s in big endian format.

fromWord16sbe :: [Word16] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word16s in big endian format.

fromWord64sbe :: [Word64] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word64s in big endian format.

Little-endian serialization

fromWord16le :: Word16 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a Word16 in little endian format.

fromWord32le :: Word32 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word32s in little endian format.

fromWord64le :: Word64 -> Builder Source #

Serialize a Word64 in little endian format.

fromWord16sle :: [Word16] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word16s in little endian format.

fromWord32sle :: [Word32] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word32s in little endian format.

fromWord64sle :: [Word64] -> Builder Source #

Serialize a list of Word64s in little endian format.

Host-endian serialization

fromWordhost :: Word -> Builder Source #

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 Source #

Write a Word16 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord32host :: Word32 -> Builder Source #

Write a Word32 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWord64host :: Word64 -> Builder Source #

Write a Word64 in native host order and host endianness.

fromWordshost :: [Word] -> Builder Source #

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

fromWord16shost :: [Word16] -> Builder Source #

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

fromWord32shost :: [Word32] -> Builder Source #

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

fromWord64shost :: [Word64] -> Builder Source #

Write a Word64 in native host order and host endianness.