pack

The pack module provides native binary serialization using the netidx Pack format. Like json::read, pack::read uses type-directed deserialization.

use sys::io;

/// Decode a value from packed binary bytes or stream.
val read: fn(input: [bytes, Stream<'a>]) -> Result<'b, [`PackErr(string), `IOErr(string), `InvalidCast(string)]>;

/// Encode a value to packed binary bytes.
val write_bytes: fn(value: Any) -> Result<bytes, `PackErr(string)>;

/// Encode a value and write to a stream.
val write_stream: fn(stream: Stream<'a>, value: Any) -> Result<null, [`PackErr(string), `IOErr(string)]>;

The Pack format is a compact binary encoding native to netidx. It is more space-efficient than JSON or TOML and supports the full range of Graphix types including bytes, datetime, and duration.