# packer-messagepack [](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/packer-messagepack) [](https://travis-ci.org/mtesseract/packer-messagepack)
### About
This package provides [MessagePack](http://msgpack.org/index.html)
serialization / deserialization built on top of
[Packer](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/packer).
More precisely, this package exposes the following:
- the type class `ToMsgPack`:
```haskell
class ToMsgPack a where
toMsgPack :: a -> Packing ()
msgPackSize :: MonadThrow m => a -> m Int64
```
- the type class `FromMsgPack`:
```haskell
class FromMsgPack a where
fromMsgPack :: Unpacking a
```
- the type `Object`:
```haskell
data Object = ObjectString Text
| ObjectBinary ByteString
| ObjectUInt Word64
| ObjectInt Int64
| ObjectBool Bool
| ObjectFloat32 Float
| ObjectFloat64 Double
| ObjectArray [Object]
| ObjectMap (Map Object Object)
| ObjectNil
```
- Instances for the following types:
- Bool
- Int
- Word8
- Word16
- Word32
- Word64
- Int8
- Int16
- Int32
- Int64
- Float
- Double
- ByteString
- Text
- Object
- Furthermore there are instances for
- lists `[a]`, if the type `a` is an instance of `FromMsgPack`
resp. `ToMsgPack`.
- maps `Map k v` if the types `k` and `v` are instances of
`FromMsgPack` resp. `ToMsgPack`.
### Usage
For example, to serialize a number into a MessagePack encoded
ByteString, use:
```haskell
let n = 2342 :: Int
size <- msgPackSize n
let bytes = runPacking size (toMsgPack n)
```
To deserialize a `ByteString` you can use `fromMsgPack` specialized to
`fromMsgPack :: Unpacking Object` in case the type of the next
MessagePack object is not known. For example:
```haskell
let obj = runUnpacking fromMsgPack bytes :: Object
```
On the other hand, if a specific type is expected, `fromMsgPack` can
be used specialized to the respective type as follows:
```haskell
let n' = runUnpacking fromMsgPack bytes :: Int
```
Note that a MessagePack signed (resp. unsigned) integer can be as big
as an `Int64` (resp. `Word64`). Therefore, if you want to make sure
that there are no overflow problems, use `Int64` (resp. `Word64`)
during deserialization. In case of overflows exceptions will be
thrown. For example:
```haskell
let n = (2^62) :: Int64
size <- msgPackSize n
let bytes = runPacking size (toMsgPack n)
n' = runUnpacking fromMsgPack bytes :: Int32
```
Because the number `2^62` exceeds the boundaries of `Int32`, `n'` will
denote a pure exception:
```haskell
MsgPackDeserializationFailure "Integer Overflow"
```
### Stackage
Currently, [Packer](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/packer) is not
included in [Stackage](https://www.stackage.org/) yet. Therefore, if
you would like to use this package together with Stackage, you could
pull them in via extra-deps. For example:
```
extra-deps: [packer-VERSION, packer-messagepack-VERSION]
```