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msgpack

Author

Hugo Arregui

Requirements

• byte-blob
• numbers
• blob-utils
• bind

Description

A MessagePack implementation for scheme.

API

Pack

pack PORT VALUEprocedure

This procedure will call primitive type packers, with the following rules:

• if the VALUE has a packer, apply it.
• if the VALUE is a string, it will be packed as str.
• if the VALUE is a blob, it will be packed as bin.
• if the VALUE is a char, it will be packed as a uint.
• if the VALUE is a list, it will be packed as an array.
• if the VALUE is a extension (see below), it will be packed as an ext

pack-uint PORT VALUEprocedure

pack-sint PORT VALUEprocedure

pack-float PORT VALUEprocedure

pack-double PORT VALUEprocedure

pack-bin PORT BYTE-BLOBprocedure

pack-str PORT STRINGprocedure

pack-array PORT VECTORprocedure

pack-map PORT HASH-TABLEprocedure

pack-ext PORT EXTprocedure

Unpack

(unpack PORT [MAPPER identity])procedure

Extension

Definition:

extension type datarecord

• type: integer from 0 to 127
• data: a byte-blob

Example:

(make-extension 1 (string->byte-blob "hi"))

License

BSD