Unicode.hs

-- Copyright (C) 2009-2010 John Millikin <jmillikin@gmail.com>
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module DBus.Wire.Unicode
	( maybeEncodeUtf8
	, maybeDecodeUtf8) where
import Data.ByteString.Lazy (ByteString)
import Data.Text.Lazy (Text)
import Data.Text.Lazy.Encoding (encodeUtf8, decodeUtf8)
import Data.Text.Encoding.Error (UnicodeException)
import qualified Control.Exception as Exc
import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO)

excToMaybe :: a -> Maybe a
excToMaybe x = unsafePerformIO $ fmap Just (Exc.evaluate x) `Exc.catch` unicodeError

unicodeError :: UnicodeException -> IO (Maybe a)
unicodeError = const $ return Nothing

maybeEncodeUtf8 :: Text -> Maybe ByteString
maybeEncodeUtf8 = excToMaybe . encodeUtf8

maybeDecodeUtf8 :: ByteString -> Maybe Text
maybeDecodeUtf8 = excToMaybe . decodeUtf8