bin_prot v0.10.0 · OCaml Package

Utility functions for user convenience

val size_header_length : int

size_header_length is the standard number of bytes allocated for the size header in size-prefixed bin-io payloads. This size-prefixed layout is used by the bin_dump and bin_read_stream functions below, as well as:

Core.Bigstring.read,write_bin_prot
Core.Unpack_buffer.unpack_bin_prot
Async.
eader,Writer
.read,write_bin_prot among others.

The size prefix is always 8 bytes at present. This is exposed so your program does not have to know this fact too.

We do not use a variable length header because we want to know how many bytes to read to get the size without having to peek into the payload.

val bin_read_size_header : int Read.reader

val bin_write_size_header : int Write.writer

bin_read_size_header and bin_write_size_header are bin-prot serializers for the size header described above.

val bin_dump : ?header:bool -> 'a Type_class.writer -> 'a -> Common.buf

bin_dump ?header writer v uses writer to first compute the size of v in the binary protocol, then allocates a buffer of exactly this size, and then writes out the value. If header is true, the size of the resulting binary string will be prefixed as a signed 64bit integer.

returns
the buffer containing the written out value.

parameter header
default = false

raises Failure
if the size of the value changes during writing, and any other exceptions that the binary writer in writer can raise.

val bin_read_stream : 
  ?max_size:int ->
  read:(Common.buf -> pos:int -> len:int -> unit) ->
  'a Type_class.reader ->
  'a

bin_read_stream ?max_size ~read reader reads binary protocol data from a stream as generated by the read function, which places data of a given length into a given buffer. Requires a header. The reader type class will be used for conversion to OCaml-values.

parameter max_size
= nothing

raises Failure
if the size of the value disagrees with the one specified in the header, and any other exceptions that the binary reader associated with reader can raise.

raises Failure
if the size reported in the data header is longer than max_size.

Conversion of binable types

module type Make_binable_spec = sig ... end

module Of_minimal (S : Binable.Minimal.S) : Binable.S with type t := S.t

module Make_binable
  (Bin_spec : Make_binable_spec) : 
  Binable.S with type t := Bin_spec.t

module type Make_binable1_spec = sig ... end

module Make_binable1
  (Bin_spec : Make_binable1_spec) : 
  Binable.S1 with type 'a t := 'a Bin_spec.t

module type Make_binable2_spec = sig ... end

module Make_binable2
  (Bin_spec : Make_binable2_spec) : 
  Binable.S2 with type ('a, 'b) t := ('a, 'b) Bin_spec.t

module type Make_binable3_spec = sig ... end

module Make_binable3
  (Bin_spec : Make_binable3_spec) : 
  Binable.S3 with type ('a, 'b, 'c) t := ('a, 'b, 'c) Bin_spec.t

Conversion of iterable types

module type Make_iterable_binable_spec = sig ... end

module Make_iterable_binable
  (Iterable_spec : Make_iterable_binable_spec) : 
  Binable.S with type t := Iterable_spec.t

module type Make_iterable_binable1_spec = sig ... end

module Make_iterable_binable1
  (Iterable_spec : Make_iterable_binable1_spec) : 
  Binable.S1 with type 'a t := 'a Iterable_spec.t

module type Make_iterable_binable2_spec = sig ... end

module Make_iterable_binable2
  (Iterable_spec : Make_iterable_binable2_spec) : 
  Binable.S2 with type ('a, 'b) t := ('a, 'b) Iterable_spec.t

module type Make_iterable_binable3_spec = sig ... end

module Make_iterable_binable3
  (Iterable_spec : Make_iterable_binable3_spec) : 
  Binable.S3 with type ('a, 'b, 'c) t := ('a, 'b, 'c) Iterable_spec.t

package bin_prot