https://guide.aelve.com/haskell/feed/category/j4fyc7t72016-08-24T18:14:15Zc3qi9iwm2016-08-24T18:14:15Z<h1> <span class="item-name">protobuf-native</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/protobuf-native">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Supports proto3 (and probably proto2 as well) as it uses the official protoc implementation by Google.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul><p><li>Reuses Google's original C++ code and there original tool, protoc.</li></p></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul><p><li>low-level interface</li></p><p><li>Does not auto-generate Haskell data structures (only checks them).</li></p><p><li>protobuf structures are not Haskell data structures, need to convert.</li></p></ul>nb48vfic2016-08-24T18:06:53Z<h1> <span class="item-name">proto-lens-protoc</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/proto-lens-protoc">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Generates definitions from .proto files for use with proto-lens.</p> <p>Supported .proto format version: ?</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul></ul>l0t3etz52016-08-24T18:06:08Z<h1> <span class="item-name">protobuf-simple</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/protobuf-simple">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Simple package for encoding and decoding protocol buffers. Can auto-generate message data structure definition from .proto files through an own implementation of protoc.</p> <p>Supports proto2.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul><p><li>Supports .proto files through own implementation of protoc.</li></p><p><li>Minimal interface that is simple to grasp.</li></p></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul></ul>f861xj3y2016-08-24T18:04:49Z<h1> <span class="item-name">proto-lens</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/proto-lens">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Lens based protocol buffer interaction for Haskell, developed by Google but is not an <a href="http://https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">official protocol buffers implementation</a>.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul><p><li>Lens based protocol buffers.</li></p><p><li>support for .proto files through proto-lens-protoc</li></p></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul><p><li>Lacking tutorial-esque documentation.</li></p></ul>pshstquk2016-08-24T17:43:21Z<h1> <span class="item-name">protobuf</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/protobuf">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Protocol Buffers are defined through special data structures equivalent to .proto files. Encoding and decoding is done through type classes that can be derived by GHC.Generics.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul><p><li>No preprocessor required</li></p></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul><p><li>Only a (useful) subset of the protocol buffers specification</li></p><p><li>No support for .proto files (planned though).</li></p></ul>ixwshz562016-08-24T17:30:12Z<h1> <span class="item-name">protocol-buffers</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/protocol-buffers">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Pure haskell reimplementation of Google's C++ protocol buffers implementation.</p> <p>Allows users to read and write the binary format as well as deal with the structures generated by hprotoc.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul></ul>twqnmyhx2016-08-24T17:24:04Z<h1> <span class="item-name">hprotoc</span> (<a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hprotoc">Hackage</a>) </h1><p>Auto-generates haskell source trees of message data structures from .proto files for use with protocol-buffers.</p> <p>Supports proto2.</p> <h2>Pros</h2><ul></ul><h2>Cons</h2><ul></ul>