package cborl

ocaml-cborl

An implementation of the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) as specified by RFC 8949 for OCaml.

It can process CBOR data items without a complete in-memory representation of the data (see Cborl.Signal).

Scope

This library supports the CBOR basic generic data model (see CBOR Data Models) modulo following TODOs:

• [ ] Support for IEEE 754 Half-Precision Float (16 bits). Support for decoding such values could be added with some minimal OCaml code (see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html#name-half-precision)

• [ ] Indefinite-lenght byte and text strings

In addition to the basic generic data model this implementation supports:

• Simple values for false, true, null and undefined

• Bignums: Cborl.Integer z items with z that is larger than what can be encoded in 8 bytes will be encoded as Bignums (tag 2 or 3 followed by a bytestring; see Section 3.4.3 of RFC 8949).

Contributions are very welcome!

Acknowledgments

ocaml-cborl was initially developed for the openEngiadina project and has been supported by the NLNet Foundation trough the NGI0 Discovery Fund.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later