Blaze.ByteString.Builder.Word

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.

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 little 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 Word32 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 list of Word64s in native host order and host endianness.