Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] cconv-0.2

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@gazagnaire.org>]

Hi Simon,

Do you have any benchmarks to compare CConv and similar camlp4 generators?

Thanks,
Thomas

> On 1 Dec 2014, at 09:44, Simon Cruanes <simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the release of cconv 0.2 [1]. CConv is a
> BSD-licensed combinators library for serializing and unserializing data
> structures.  It particularity is that it doesn't target a specific
> serialization format, but any format that is expressive enough (using
> some type machinery involving a few GADTs and visitor patterns).
> 
> The rationale is that, for library writers, the current go-to practice
> to provide some serialization support is to use type_conv and "with sexp".
> This requires camlp4 and a lot of libraries, and forces the choice of
> S-expressions on the user. Instead, by providing CConv encoders and
> decoders, the user could choose which serialization format (even simple
> printing) to use by herself.
> 
> To serialize values of type 'a, one can write a value of type ['a
> CConv.Encode.encoder] that can be used with any serialization backend;
> to unserialize, it's a value of type ['a CConv.Decode.decoder].
> Then, cconv ships with three (optional) backends, to Yojson, Bencode and
> Sexplib; an ['a encoder] can be used with any of those three (same for
> decoders). See the readme [2] for more details.
> 
> There will be a ppx_deriving [3] instance [4] soon for automatically
> generating decoders and encoders based on types.
> 
> If anyone used cconv-0.1, I apologize for the change of interface. The
> ideas took time to evolve...
> 
> As usual, bug reports, comments, criticism and accusations of
> reinventing the wheel are all welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Simon
> 
> [1] https://github.com/c-cube/cconv/tree/0.2
> [2] https://github.com/c-cube/cconv/blob/0.2/README.md#usage
> [3] https://github.com/whitequark/ppx_deriving
> [4] https://github.com/c-cube/ppx_deriving_cconv (work in progress, comments appreciated!)
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