This module provides an interface for decoding and encoding arbitrary CBOR values (ones that, for example, may not have been generated by this library).

Using decodeTerm, you can decode an arbitrary CBOR value given to you into a Term, which represents a CBOR value as an AST.

Similarly, if you wanted to encode some value into a CBOR value directly, you can wrap it in a Term constructor and use encodeTerm. This would be useful, as an example, if you needed to serialise some value into a CBOR term that is not compatible with that types Serialise instance.

Because this interface gives you the ability to decode or encode any arbitrary CBOR term, it can also be seen as an alternative interface to the Encoding and Decoding modules.