named-binary-tag: NBT (named binary tag) serialization and deserialization.

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This project was created because the old nbt package has had a 1-liner open issue preventing compilation for 2 years now at the time of writing, despite submitting a pull request to fix it.

While I was at it, I went ahead and changed the data structure to use konsumlamm's rrb-vector package instead of lists or unboxed arrays for more well-rounded asymptotics.

StrictData is also turned on, and some functions are exported for reading/writing NBT files that remove some of the old boilerplate code.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1.0.0
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Dependencies base (>=4.16.0 && <4.18), bytestring (>=0.11.3 && <0.12), cereal (>=0.5.8 && <0.6), containers (>=0.6.6 && <0.7), indexed-traversable (>=0.1.2 && <0.2), rrb-vector (>=0.1.1.0 && <0.2), text (>=2.0.1 && <2.1), zlib (>=0.6.3 && <0.7) [details]
Tested with ghc ==9.2.4, ghc ==9.4.2
License MIT
Author David Garland
Maintainer davidrgarland@me.com
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Home page https://github.com/davidgarland/named-binary-tag
Bug tracker https://github.com/davidgarland/named-binary-tag
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/davidgarland/named-binary-tag.git
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Readme for named-binary-tag-0.1.0.0

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named-binary-tag

A replacement for the old nbt package, because that one has been defunct for 2 years due to missing a single-line fix.

There are also a few improvements(?) made while I was at it:

  • You can choose between a version with or without label maps using MapNbt or Nbt' respectively.
  • Uses konsumlamm's rrb-vector package instead of a mix of lists and unboxed arrays for more well-rounded asymptotics.
  • StrictData is enabled.
  • Names of types and constructors are shortened a bit, with the reasoning that you should really be using qualified access for most of them.
  • The code is shorter and better documented now (not that it really needed any documentation...)
  • Less boilerplate is required to use it, at the expense of having zlib as a dependency. See below.

Usage

import Data.Nbt qualified as Nbt
import Data.Serialize

main :: IO ()
main = do
  shouldBeNbt <- Nbt.readCompressed "level.dat" :: IO (Either String Nbt') -- see also "Nbt.readUncompressed"
  case shouldBeNbt of
    Left err -> putStrLn err
    Right nbt -> do
      print nbt
      Nbt.writeCompressed "anotherlevel.dat" nbt -- see also "Nbt.writeUncompressed"

Possible Future Work

  • Drop the cereal dependency and do bytestring parsing directly.
  • Conversion to/from SNBT.
  • Conversion to/from JSON.