Unpack_sequence
uses an Unpack_buffer.t
to unpack a sequence of packed values
coming from a string Pipe.Reader.t
or a Reader.t
. It can produce a pipe of
upacked values or iterate a user-supplied function over the unpacked values.
Unpack_from
specifies the source of the sequence of bytes to unpack from.
unpack_into_pipe ~from:input ~using:unpack_buffer
returns (output, result)
, and
uses unpack_buffer
to unpack values from input
until input
is closed. It puts
the unpacked values into output
, which is closed once unpacking finishes, be it
normally or due to an error. result
indicates why unpacking finished.
To unpack from a bin_reader
, use:
unpack_into_pipe ~from ~using:(Unpack_buffer.create_bin_prot bin_reader)
Using ~from:(Reader reader)
is more efficient than ~from:(Pipe (Reader.pipe
reader))
because it blits bytes directly from the reader buffer to the unpack buffer,
without any intervening allocation.
unpack_iter
is a more efficient version of unpack_into_pipe
that calls f
on each
value as it is unpacked, rather than putting the value into a pipe. If f
raises,
then the result will be Unpack_error
.