[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] protobuf-simple: Protocol Buffers library

[Andrey Sverdlichenko]

Isn't http://hackage.haskell.org/package/protocol-buffers doing the same
thing with records?

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 at 07:30, Martijn Rijkeboer <mrr at sru-systems.com> wrote:

> > How does this compare to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/protobuf?
>
> It uses "simpler" types. The Foo type in protobuf would be like
> the following (from the manual):
>
>   data Foo = Foo
>     { field1 :: Required 1 (Value Int64)
>     , field2 :: Optional 2 (Value Text)
>     , field3 :: Repeated 3 (Value Bool)
>     } deriving (Generic, Show)
>
>
> In protobuf-simple it would be like the following:
>
>   data Foo = Foo
>     { field1 :: Int64
>     , field2 :: Maybe Text
>     , field3 :: Seq Bool
>     } deriving (Show, Eq, Ord)
>
>
> Besides this, protobuf-simple uses newtypes for messages with only one
> field (something we use very often).
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Martijn Rijkeboer
>
>
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