Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, Data.Text and errors

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Alexander Dunlap wrote:

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I have noticed that in both Data.Binary and Data.Text (which is still experimental, but still), the "decode" functions can be undefined (i.e. bottom) if they encounter malformed input.

For decoding Unicode, it's typical to provide a flexible API that can do one of the following on a bad encoding:

Substitute a character Skip it Return the partial decode Throw an exception

I just haven't gotten there yet.

Thanks! I guess we'll see how this comes together. Does anyone know about error handling options in Data.Binary? Are there plans to add an error handling mechanism? Alex