Data.TypedEncoding

Overview

This library uses TypeLits symbols to specify and work with types like

-- Base 64 encoded bytes (could represent binary files)
Enc '["enc-B64"] ByteString

-- Base 64 encoded UTF8 bytes
Enc '["enc-B64", "r-UTF8"] ByteString

-- Text that contains only ASCII characters
Enc '["r-ASCII"] Text

or to do transformations to strings like

upper :: Text -> Enc '["do-UPPER"] Text
upper = ...

or to define precise types to use with toEncString and fromEncString

date :: Enc '["r-date-%d%b%Y:%X %Z"] Text
date = toEncString ...

Primary focus of type-encodings is to provide type safe

• encoding
• decoding
• validation (recreation) (verification of existing payload)
• type conversions between encoded types

of string-like data (ByteString, Text) that is subject of some encoding or formatting restrictions.

as well as

• toEncString
• fromEncString

conversions.

Groups of annotations

typed-encoding uses type annotations grouped into semantic categories

"r-" restriction / predicate

• encoding is a partial identity
• validation is a partial identity (matching encoding)
• decoding is identity

Examples: "r-UTF8", "r-ASCII", upper alpha-numeric bound r-ban restrictions like "r-ban:999-999-9999"

"do-" transformations

• encoding applies transformation to the string (could be partial)
• decoding - typically none
• validation - typically none but, if present, verifies the payload has expected data (e.g. only uppercase chars for "do-UPPER")

Examples: "do-UPPER", "do-lower", "do-reverse"

"enc-" data encoding that is not "r-"

• encoding applies encoding transformation to the string (could be partial)
• decoding reverses the transformation (can be now be used as pure function)
• validation verifies that the payload has correctly encoded data

Examples: "enc-B64"

"bool[Op]:" encodings

Encodings that are defined in terms of other encodings using boolean algebra.

(early, beta version)

Examples:

"boolOr:(r-ban:999-999-9999)(r-ban:[phone])"

"@boolNot:(r-ASCII)"

Call Site Usage

To use this library import this module and one or more instance or combinator module.

Here is list of instance modules available in typed-encoding library itself

• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Enc.Base64
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Restriction.Misc (replaces Common from v0.2)
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Restriction.ASCII
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Restriction.UTF8
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Restriction.Bool (experimental / early alpha version, moved from Combinators to Instances in v0.3)
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Restriction.BoundedAlphaNums (moved from Combinators to Instances in v0.3)
• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Do.Sample

... and needed conversions.

Conversion combinator module structure is similar to one found in text and bytestring packages And can be found (since 0.2.2) in

• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.Text
• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.Text.Encoding
• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.Text.Lazy
• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.Text.Lazy.Encoding
• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.ByteString.Char8
• Data.TypedEncoding.Conv.ByteString.Lazy.Char8

This list is not intended to be exhaustive, rather separate libraries can provide instances for other encodings and transformations.

New encoding instance creation

To implement a new encoding import

• Data.TypedEncoding.Instances.Support

Examples

Examples of how to use this library are included in

• Examples.TypedEncoding

Enc and basic combinators

data Enc nms conf str

Contains encoded data annotated by

• nms list of Symbols with encoding names (encoding stack)
• conf that can contain configuration / encoding information such as digest.
• str the encoded data

Example:

Enc '["r-ASCII"] () ByteString

Since: 0.1.0.0

Instances

(Eq conf, Eq str) => Eq (Enc nms conf str)

Defined in Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Enc

Methods

(==) :: Enc nms conf str -> Enc nms conf str -> Bool

(/=) :: Enc nms conf str -> Enc nms conf str -> Bool

(Show conf, Show str) => Show (Enc nms conf str)

Defined in Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Enc

Methods

showsPrec :: Int -> Enc nms conf str -> ShowS

show :: Enc nms conf str -> String

showList :: [Enc nms conf str] -> ShowS

(SymbolList xs, Show c, Displ str) => Displ (Enc xs c str)

>>> let disptest = UnsafeMkEnc Proxy () "hello" :: Enc '["TEST"] () T.Text
>>> displ disptest
"Enc '[TEST] () (Text hello)"

Defined in Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Enc

Methods

displ :: Enc xs c str -> String

toEncoding :: conf -> str -> Enc ('[] :: [Symbol]) conf str

Since: 0.1.0.0

fromEncoding :: Enc '[] conf str -> str

Since: 0.1.0.0

getPayload :: Enc enc conf str -> str

Since: 0.1.0.0

Existentially quantified and untyped versions of Enc

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.SomeEnc

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.CheckedEnc

Encoding and basic combinators

data Encoding f (nm :: Symbol) (alg :: Symbol) conf str where

Wraps the encoding function. Contains type level information about the encoding name and the algorithm used.

This type is used by programs implementing encoding instance. Such program needs to define a value of this type. It also implements Encode instance that simply returns that value.

Programs using encoding can access this type using encoding (from the Encode typeclass) but a better (and recommended) approach is to use its plural sibling Encodings defined below.

This type has 2 symbol type variables:

• nm defines the encoding
• alg defines algorithm

These two are related, currently this library only supports

• Names nm containing ":" using format "alg:...", for example name "r-ban:999" has "r-ban" algorithm
• Names without ":" require that nm ~ alg

Future version are likely to relax this, possibly introducing ability do define more than one algorithm for given encoding.

Using 2 variables allows us to define typeclass constraints that work with definitions like "r-ban" where "r-ban:" can be followed by arbitrary string literal.

Examples:

Encoding (Either EncodeEx) "r-ban:9" "r-ban" () String

encodes a single character <= 9'

Encoding Identity "enc-B64" "enc-B64" () ByteString

Represents a Byte 64 encoder that can operate on any stack of previous encodings. (encoding name and algorithm name are "enc-B64", there is no additional configuration () needed and it runs in the Identity Functor.

Similar boilerplate for Decoding and Validation is specified in separate modules.

Since: 0.3.0.0

Constructors

UnsafeMkEncoding :: Proxy nm -> (forall (xs :: [Symbol]). Enc xs conf str -> f (Enc (nm ': xs) conf str)) -> Encoding f nm alg conf str

Consider this constructor as private or use it with care

Defining constructor like this: MkEncoding :: Proxy nm -> (forall (xs :: [Symbol]) . Enc xs conf str -> f (Enc (nm ': xs) conf str)) -> Encoding f nm (AlgNm nm) conf str

would make compilation much slower

_mkEncoding :: forall f (nm :: Symbol) conf str. (forall (xs :: [Symbol]). Enc xs conf str -> f (Enc (nm ': xs) conf str)) -> Encoding f nm (AlgNm nm) conf str

Type safe smart constructor

Adding the type family (AlgNm nm) mapping to Encoding constructor slows down the compilation. Using smart constructor does not have that issue.

This approach also provides more future flexibility with possibility of future overloads relaxing current limitations on alg names.

Notice underscore _ convention, it indicates a use of Algorithm AlgNm: compiler figures out alg value. These can be slower to compile when used.

Here are other conventions that relate to the existence of alg

• functions ending with: ', for example encodeF' have alg as first type variable in the forall list.
• functions without tick tend to assume nm ~ alg

This particular function appears to not increase compilation time.

Since: 0.3.0.0

runEncoding' :: forall alg nm f xs conf str. Encoding f nm alg conf str -> Enc xs conf str -> f (Enc (nm ': xs) conf str)

Since: 0.3.0.0

_runEncoding :: forall nm f xs conf str alg. Algorithm nm alg => Encoding f nm alg conf str -> Enc xs conf str -> f (Enc (nm ': xs) conf str)

Same as runEncoding' but compiler figures out algorithm name

Using it can slowdown compilation

This combinator has Algorithm nm alg constraint (which stands for TakeUntil ":" nm ~ alg. If rules on alg are relaxed this will just return the default algorithm.

If that happens -XTypeApplications annotations will be needed and _ methods will simply use default algorithm name.

Since: 0.3.0.0

List of encodings

data Encodings f (nms :: [Symbol]) (algs :: [Symbol]) conf str where

HList like construction that defines a list of Encoding elements.

This type is used by programs using / manipulating encodings.

Can be easily accessed with EncodeAll constraint using encodings. But could also be used by creating Encodings list by hand.

Since: 0.3.0.0

Constructors

ZeroE :: Encodings f '[] '[] conf str

constructor is to be treated as Unsafe to Encode and Decode instance implementations particular encoding instances may expose smart constructors for limited data types

ConsE :: Encoding f nm alg conf str -> Encodings f nms algs conf str -> Encodings f (nm ': nms) (alg ': algs) conf str

runEncodings' :: forall algs nms f c str. Monad f => Encodings f nms algs c str -> Enc ('[] :: [Symbol]) c str -> f (Enc nms c str)

Runs encodings, requires -XTypeApplication annotation specifying the algorithm(s)

>>> runEncodings' @'["r-ban"] encodings . toEncoding () $ ("22") :: Either EncodeEx (Enc '["r-ban:111"] () T.Text)
Left (EncodeEx "r-ban:111" ("Input list has wrong size expecting 3 but length \"22\" == 2"))

Since: 0.3.0.0

_runEncodings :: forall nms f c str algs. (Monad f, algs ~ AlgNmMap nms) => Encodings f nms algs c str -> Enc ('[] :: [Symbol]) c str -> f (Enc nms c str)

At a possibly some compilation cost, have compiler figure out algorithm names.

>>> _runEncodings encodings . toEncoding () $ ("Hello World") :: Identity (Enc '["enc-B64","enc-B64"] () B.ByteString)
Identity (UnsafeMkEnc Proxy () "U0dWc2JHOGdWMjl5YkdRPQ==")

>>> _runEncodings encodings . toEncoding () $ ("22") :: Either EncodeEx (Enc '["r-ban:111"] () T.Text)
Left (EncodeEx "r-ban:111" ("Input list has wrong size expecting 3 but length \"22\" == 2"))

(see also _runEncoding) @since 0.3.0.0

Similar to Encoding and Encodings but cover Decoding and Validation

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Decoding

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Validation

UncheckedEnc is an untyped version of Enc that represents not validated encoding

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.UncheckedEnc

Classes

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Class

Combinators

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Common

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Encode

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Decode

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Validate

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Unsafe

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.ToEncStr

module Data.TypedEncoding.Combinators.Promotion

Exceptions

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Exceptions

Other

module Data.TypedEncoding.Common.Types.Common