#cl-bare

A library to encode and decode bare messages, as described in baremessages.org

#How it works (right now)

Until I've implemented a proper API for this, I'll just explain a little about lisp-binary, which cl-bare heavily relies on. lisp-binary defines a small DSL, defbinary which sort-of works like the defstruct in common lisp.

For each binary type we define we get these functions (assume type is uint):

• copy-uint
• make-uint
• uint
• uint-p
• uint-value

Using these we can compose different aggregated types based on a (to come) schema.

;; Assume we have two types, 'uint' and 'u8'
(let ((x (make-uint :value 31231))
      (y (make-u8 :value 2)))
  (print (uint-value x))
  (print (u8-value y)))

If read from stream we can chain them together, and read and write.

#todo

• real API
• tagged union
• structs
• schema
• max size handling

#bugs

yes