EDN Library for .NET
This library provides the following EDN support for .NET:
- EDN Reader/Parser: Access to the EDN abstract syntax tree(AST)
- EDN Serialization: An extensible framework for EDN serialization and deserialization
Why not use the clojure.clr instead of edn-dot-net ?
The ability to customize serialization and deserilization, e.g.:
- You might want your EDN ints to be int32 instead of BigInts
- Implement serialization/deserialization for you own custom types
The reader functions below return an object graph created from the EDN data. Each function has two arities: one which uses the default type handler and one which allows you to pass in your own custom type handler. A sample custom type handler can be found in the EDNReaderTestCS project (SampleCustomHandler).
Note: the functions which return lists of objects do so because the EDN data may contain more than one "root" EDN element. In the case of a stream only the first/next object is returned.
- readString(string edn) - Takes an EDN string and returns a list of object graphs.
- readFile(string fileName) - Takes a path to an EDN file and returns a list of object graphs.
- readDirectory(string directoryPath) - Takes a directory path and reads all files with extension ".edn". Returns a list of objects graphs.
- readStream(Stream charStream) - Takes a stream of characters and reads the first/next EDN element. Returns a single object graph.
The default type handler is consistent with the equality rules of EDN. For collections it uses types which have EDN equality symantics. Also, EDNTypes.EDNMap supports null keys unlike System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary and System.Collections.Hashtable
The default type handler has the following EDN to .NET type mappings:
- nil : null
- integer : Int64 or System.Numerics.BigInteger (if too large to fit in Int64)
- string : string
- bool : bool
- float : double
- list : EDNTypes.EDNList
- vector : EDNTypes.EDNVector
- set : EDNTypes.EDNSet
- list : EDNTypes.EDNMap
- symbol : EDNTypes.EDNVector
- keyword : EDNTypes.EDNSet
- inst : DateTime
- uuid : System.Guid
If you want to customize reading you can implement TypeHandlers.ITypeHandler or derive from the default type handler: TypeHandlers.BaseTypeHandler. An example of this can be found in the EDNReaderTestCS project (SampleCustomHandler).
The writer functions below take an object graph and convert it to EDN character data. Each function has two arities: one which uses the default write handler and one which allows you to pass in your own custom write handler. A sample custom write handler can be found in the EDNReaderTestCS project (SampleCustomWriter).
- writeString - Takes an object graph and returns a string of EDN data.
- writeStream - Takes an object graph and writes EDN character data to a stream.
The default write handler is the inverse of the default type handler in the reader (see above)
If you have your own custom types, you can derive from IEDNWritable and implement the two WriteEDN functions
If you want to customize writing for types that cannot implement IEDNWritable, you can implement IWriteHandler or derive from the default write handler: WriteHandlers.BaseWriteHandler. An example of this can be found in the EDNReaderTestCS project (SampleCustomWriter).
The parsing functionality is exposed if you want to work directly with the EDN syntax tree.
Here is where you will find conveniant funtions for generating syntax trees for EDN data
- parseString - doc
- parseFile - doc
- parseDirectory - doc
- parseStream - doc
Examples for CSharp can be found in the EDNReaderTestCS projects. F# examples can ve found in thge EDNReaderTest project.
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