erlang: Improve documentation

The doc is in edoc format, generated from the source as an html file.
The makefile's default action now also generates the documentation.

I ignored unpack_all/1 and pack(dict()) for now because their future is still uncertain.
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Vincent de Phily
2010-07-12 14:08:22 +02:00
parent e944c1ee93
commit e629e8784f
2 changed files with 56 additions and 21 deletions

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@@ -15,26 +15,47 @@
%% See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
%% limitations under the License.
%% @doc <a href="http://msgpack.org/">MessagePack</a> codec for Erlang.
%%
%% APIs are almost compatible with <a href="http://msgpack.sourceforge.jp/c:doc">C API</a>
%% except for buffering functions (both copying and zero-copying), which are unavailable.
%%
%% <table border="1">
%% <caption>Equivalence between Erlang and <a href="http://msgpack.sourceforge.jp/spec">Msgpack type</a> :</caption>
%% <tr><th> erlang </th><th> msgpack </th></tr>
%% <tr><td> integer() </td><td> pos_fixnum/neg_fixnum/uint8/uint16/uint32/uint64/int8/int16/int32/int64 </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> float() </td><td> float/double </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> nil </td><td> nil </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> boolean() </td><td> boolean </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> binary() </td><td> fix_raw/raw16/raw32 </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> list() </td><td> fix_array/array16/array32 </td></tr>
%% <tr><td> {proplist()} </td><td> fix_map/map16/map32 </td></tr>
%% </table>
%% @end
-module(msgpack).
-author('kuenishi+msgpack@gmail.com').
%% tuples, atoms are not supported. lists, integers, double, and so on.
%% see http://msgpack.sourceforge.jp/spec for supported formats.
%% APIs are almost compatible with C API (http://msgpack.sourceforge.jp/c:doc)
%% except buffering functions (both copying and zero-copying).
-export([pack/1, unpack/1, unpack_all/1]).
% compile:
% erl> c(msgpack).
% erl> S = <some term>.
% erl> {S, <<>>} = msgpack:unpack( msgpack:pack(S) ).
-type reason() :: {badarg,term()} | incomplete.
% @type msgpack_term() = [msgpack_term()]
% | {[{msgpack_term(),msgpack_term()}]}
% | integer() | float() | binary().
% Erlang representation of msgpack data.
-type msgpack_term() :: [msgpack_term()]
| {[{msgpack_term(),msgpack_term()}]}
| integer() | float() | binary().
% ===== external APIs ===== %
-spec pack(Term::msgpack_term()) -> binary() | {error, reason()}.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% external APIs
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% @doc Encode an erlang term into an msgpack binary.
% Returns {error, {badarg, term()}} if the input is illegal.
% @spec pack(Term::msgpack_term()) -> binary() | {error, {badarg, term()}}
-spec pack(Term::msgpack_term()) -> binary() | {error, {badarg, term()}}.
pack(Term)->
try
pack_(Term)
@@ -43,11 +64,12 @@ pack(Term)->
{error, Exception}
end.
% unpacking.
% if failed in decoding and not end, get more data
% and feed more Bin into this function.
% TODO: error case for imcomplete format when short for any type formats.
-spec unpack( Bin::binary() )-> {msgpack_term(), binary()} | {error, reason()}.
% @doc Decode an msgpack binary into an erlang term.
% It only decodes the first msgpack packet contained in the binary; the rest is returned as is.
% Returns {error, {badarg, term()}} if the input is corrupted.
% Returns {error, incomplete} if the input is not a full msgpack packet (caller should gather more data and try again).
% @spec unpack(Bin::binary()) -> {msgpack_term(), binary()} | {error, incomplete} | {error, {badarg, term()}}
-spec unpack(Bin::binary()) -> {msgpack_term(), binary()} | {error, incomplete} | {error, {badarg, term()}}.
unpack(Bin) when is_binary(Bin) ->
try
unpack_(Bin)
@@ -58,7 +80,7 @@ unpack(Bin) when is_binary(Bin) ->
unpack(Other) ->
{error, {badarg, Other}}.
-spec unpack_all( binary() ) -> [msgpack_term()].
-spec unpack_all(binary()) -> [msgpack_term()].
unpack_all(Data)->
case unpack(Data) of
{ Term, Binary } when bit_size(Binary) =:= 0 ->
@@ -68,7 +90,9 @@ unpack_all(Data)->
end.
% ===== internal APIs ===== %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% internal APIs
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% pack them all
-spec pack_(msgpack_term()) -> binary() | no_return().
@@ -95,6 +119,7 @@ pack_(Map) when is_tuple(Map), element(1,Map)=:=dict ->
pack_(Other) ->
throw({error, {badarg, Other}}).
-spec pack_uint_(non_neg_integer()) -> binary().
% positive fixnum
pack_uint_(N) when N < 128 ->
@@ -129,6 +154,7 @@ pack_int_(N) when N > -16#FFFFFFFF ->
pack_int_(N) ->
<< 16#D3:8, N:64/big-signed-integer-unit:1 >>.
-spec pack_double(float()) -> binary().
% float : erlang's float is always IEEE 754 64bit format.
% pack_float(F) when is_float(F)->
@@ -138,6 +164,7 @@ pack_int_(N) ->
pack_double(F) ->
<< 16#CB:8, F:64/big-float-unit:1 >>.
-spec pack_raw(binary()) -> binary().
% raw bytes
pack_raw(Bin) ->
@@ -150,6 +177,7 @@ pack_raw(Bin) ->
<< 16#DB:8, Len:32/big-unsigned-integer-unit:1, Bin/binary >>
end.
-spec pack_array([msgpack_term()]) -> binary() | no_return().
% list
pack_array(L) ->
@@ -173,6 +201,7 @@ unpack_array_(Bin, Len, Acc) ->
{Term, Rest} = unpack_(Bin),
unpack_array_(Rest, Len-1, [Term|Acc]).
-spec pack_map(M::[{msgpack_term(),msgpack_term()}]) -> binary() | no_return().
pack_map(M)->
case length(M) of
@@ -245,7 +274,10 @@ unpack_(Bin) ->
throw(incomplete)
end.
% ===== test codes ===== %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% unit tests
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
-ifdef(EUNIT).