On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > claus.reinke: >> >> To binary package users/authors: is there a typed version of binary (that >> is, one that records and checks a representation of the serialized type >> before actual (de-)serialization)? It >> would be nice to have such a type check, even though it >> wouldn't protect against missing bytes or strictness changes. >> > > There is a wrapper, that wraps all encodes in a typeOf (iirC), I think > by Edward Kmett, but I couldn't find e.g. binary-typed on Hackage. >
In Happstack.Data there's a wrapper type called Object which we serialize through which has a type-rep field and a ByteString field, and the deserialize instance function checks that the type-string filed matches "show (typeOf result)": http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/happstack-data/0.5.0.2/doc/html/Happstack-Data-Serialize.html#t%3AObject A similar technique might be approrpiate for 'binary' or 'cereal'. Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
