[elm-discuss] Support for binary data

[John Watson]

Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.

[Evan Czaplicki]

I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.

What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[John Watson]

Thanks for replying, Evan. I need to download soundfonts (these are
maintained as JSON and contain Base64-encoded data), decode them and pass
them to Web-Audio. I can do this all in a native library but I have been
attempting to follow your advice and do as much work as possible in pure
elm - i.e. binary base64 conversions.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Daniel Bachler]

I need it too, for these use cases:

My app is a slideshow editor. You drag photos into the webapp (extracting
the File metadata like the filesize via a Json decoder in the ondrop
event), then the files are read with a FileReader as ArrayBuffers (via
SimonH's FileReader module). The library treats the ArrayBuffer as a
Json.Value ATM. Next they need to be uploaded to a server, so
round-tripping the ArrayBuffer to Http.send would be required.

A more advanced use case for working with Files would be a kind of "Lens"
library to work on ArrayBuffers/ArrayBufferViews - then I could write a
Library that decodes the Jpeg header in Elm to check if it is a valid jpeg
image and give the user feedback if the dimensions are too small or too big
etc.

My app also accepts sound files and after loading they are currently handed
to a port to be decoded in native JS (and stored there because I kept the
audio playback library in native JS and control playback via ports).

Post by John Watson
Thanks for replying, Evan. I need to download soundfonts (these are
maintained as JSON and contain Base64-encoded data), decode them and pass
them to Web-Audio. I can do this all in a native library but I have been
attempting to follow your advice and do as much work as possible in pure
elm - i.e. binary base64 conversions.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Jesse Levine]

I have a very similar use case to Jon. I would like to download raw mp3
data and pass it over to Web-Audio. I could do this in not-Elm but I would
prefer not-not-Elm!

Post by John Watson
Thanks for replying, Evan. I need to download soundfonts (these are
maintained as JSON and contain Base64-encoded data), decode them and pass
them to Web-Audio. I can do this all in a native library but I have been
attempting to follow your advice and do as much work as possible in pure
elm - i.e. binary base64 conversions.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Jesse Levine]

ArrayBuffer is the API I would need btw.

Post by Jesse Levine
I have a very similar use case to Jon. I would like to download raw mp3
data and pass it over to Web-Audio. I could do this in not-Elm but I would
prefer not-not-Elm!

Post by John Watson
Thanks for replying, Evan. I need to download soundfonts (these are
maintained as JSON and contain Base64-encoded data), decode them and pass
them to Web-Audio. I can do this all in a native library but I have been
attempting to follow your advice and do as much work as possible in pure
elm - i.e. binary base64 conversions.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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['Dave Keen' via Elm Discuss]

I'm doing audio recording with WebRTC and it would be useful to have an
ArrayBuffer so I could mostly stay in Elm-land. Also I'm doing some
uploading to S3 buckets and it would be great to be able to use Blobs in
Elm instead of ObjectURL strings.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Daniel Bachler]

You can hack this ATM if you need to go via blobs. The filereader library
<https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader> can already handle binary blobs
as opaque Json.Value values and you can hack elm-http to be able to pass
those through when uploading files (like I did on a branched version of
elm-http here: https://github.com/danyx23/elm-http/tree/encode-as-json ).
You can't use the package manager for the filereader library and my fork
because they contain native code and native module review has stopped.
Altogether it's quite a hack, but if all you need is to ingest blobs and
upload them, this is a relatively painless way that allows you to stay in
elm land. Let me know if you need more details, I have used this exact path
in an app I developed.

AFAICS the upcoming 0.17 version should make this workaround superfluous.
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On 6 April 2016 at 10:31, 'Dave Keen' via Elm Discuss <

Post by 'Dave Keen' via Elm Discuss
I'm doing audio recording with WebRTC and it would be useful to have an
ArrayBuffer so I could mostly stay in Elm-land. Also I'm doing some
uploading to S3 buckets and it would be great to be able to use Blobs in
Elm instead of ObjectURL strings.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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['Dave Keen' via Elm Discuss]

Thanks! That's a nice approach, but I've cobbled something together with
ports for now and with 0.17 round the corner I'll wait and see what it
brings before changing anything over.

Post by Daniel Bachler
You can hack this ATM if you need to go via blobs. The filereader library
<https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader> can already handle binary
blobs as opaque Json.Value values and you can hack elm-http to be able to
pass those through when uploading files (like I did on a branched version
of elm-http here: https://github.com/danyx23/elm-http/tree/encode-as-json
). You can't use the package manager for the filereader library and my fork
because they contain native code and native module review has stopped.
Altogether it's quite a hack, but if all you need is to ingest blobs and
upload them, this is a relatively painless way that allows you to stay in
elm land. Let me know if you need more details, I have used this exact path
in an app I developed.
AFAICS the upcoming 0.17 version should make this workaround superfluous.
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Post by 'Dave Keen' via Elm Discuss
I'm doing audio recording with WebRTC and it would be useful to have an
ArrayBuffer so I could mostly stay in Elm-land. Also I'm doing some
uploading to S3 buckets and it would be great to be able to use Blobs in
Elm instead of ObjectURL strings.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Ian Mackenzie]

I'd love to have ArrayBuffers supported for doing WebGL stuff. For
rendering very large and complex scenes, I think it would be useful to be
able to do a lot of the heavy lifting (level of detail and occlusion
calculations etc.) on the server, and then just send compact ArrayBuffers
to the client that could be passed directly to
WebGLRenderingContext.bufferData() or similar (via an Elm wrapper,
presumably, but without any parsing/conversion/copying).

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Gábor Varga]

This feature would come handy for me too.
Our use-case is that we get some encrypted data from an MQTT broker and it
might be broken up to several messages.
The binary data first has to be reassembled before it can be converted to
UTF8 encoded strings.

Post by Ian Mackenzie
I'd love to have ArrayBuffers supported for doing WebGL stuff. For
rendering very large and complex scenes, I think it would be useful to be
able to do a lot of the heavy lifting (level of detail and occlusion
calculations etc.) on the server, and then just send compact ArrayBuffers
to the client that could be passed directly to
WebGLRenderingContext.bufferData() or similar (via an Elm wrapper,
presumably, but without any parsing/conversion/copying).

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[John Mayer]

I took a shot at starting a basic version of this in my fork of websocket
and a new package simply called binary. My approach was largely thin
wrappers on top of the spec.

Evan, is your draft public? No updates from you since January. IMHO, don't
try to carry this one yourself. This is an opportunity to spread the load
and develop yourself as a manager of contributors while building out the
process for accepting large contributions.

Post by Gábor Varga
This feature would come handy for me too.
Our use-case is that we get some encrypted data from an MQTT broker and it
might be broken up to several messages.
The binary data first has to be reassembled before it can be converted to
UTF8 encoded strings.

Post by Ian Mackenzie
I'd love to have ArrayBuffers supported for doing WebGL stuff. For
rendering very large and complex scenes, I think it would be useful to be
able to do a lot of the heavy lifting (level of detail and occlusion
calculations etc.) on the server, and then just send compact ArrayBuffers
to the client that could be passed directly to
WebGLRenderingContext.bufferData() or similar (via an Elm wrapper,
presumably, but without any parsing/conversion/copying).

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Yosuke Torii]

I need binary things too for two cases, uploading files and Web Audio.
These are not special things.

I'd like to know the plans, when it is most likely to come (or how these
features are prioritized).

Post by John Mayer
I took a shot at starting a basic version of this in my fork of websocket
and a new package simply called binary. My approach was largely thin
wrappers on top of the spec.
Evan, is your draft public? No updates from you since January. IMHO, don't
try to carry this one yourself. This is an opportunity to spread the load
and develop yourself as a manager of contributors while building out the
process for accepting large contributions.

Post by Gábor Varga
This feature would come handy for me too.
Our use-case is that we get some encrypted data from an MQTT broker and
it might be broken up to several messages.
The binary data first has to be reassembled before it can be converted to
UTF8 encoded strings.

Post by Ian Mackenzie
I'd love to have ArrayBuffers supported for doing WebGL stuff. For
rendering very large and complex scenes, I think it would be useful to be
able to do a lot of the heavy lifting (level of detail and occlusion
calculations etc.) on the server, and then just send compact ArrayBuffers
to the client that could be passed directly to
WebGLRenderingContext.bufferData() or similar (via an Elm wrapper,
presumably, but without any parsing/conversion/copying).

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Simon]

I need to be able to upload PDFs
Simon

Post by Yosuke Torii
I need binary things too for two cases, uploading files and Web Audio.
These are not special things.
I'd like to know the plans, when it is most likely to come (or how these
features are prioritized).

Post by John Mayer
I took a shot at starting a basic version of this in my fork of websocket
and a new package simply called binary. My approach was largely thin
wrappers on top of the spec.
Evan, is your draft public? No updates from you since January. IMHO,
don't try to carry this one yourself. This is an opportunity to spread the
load and develop yourself as a manager of contributors while building out
the process for accepting large contributions.

Post by Gábor Varga
This feature would come handy for me too.
Our use-case is that we get some encrypted data from an MQTT broker and
it might be broken up to several messages.
The binary data first has to be reassembled before it can be converted
to UTF8 encoded strings.

Post by Ian Mackenzie
I'd love to have ArrayBuffers supported for doing WebGL stuff. For
rendering very large and complex scenes, I think it would be useful to be
able to do a lot of the heavy lifting (level of detail and occlusion
calculations etc.) on the server, and then just send compact ArrayBuffers
to the client that could be passed directly to
WebGLRenderingContext.bufferData() or similar (via an Elm wrapper,
presumably, but without any parsing/conversion/copying).

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Gábor Varga]

Another use case:

I would like to add Elm support to the flatbuffers compiler.
Flatbuffers let you describe your protocol in a lightweight schema
description language and generate low-level DTOs and serialization logic in
different languages. If Elm supported binary data we could generate
flatbuffers messages in pure Elm, in a lot friendlier way than the
JavaScript implementation.
We use flatbuffers in a realtime video streaming application.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[W. Brian Gourlie]

My use-case: I'm creating a debugger front-end for a NES emulator I'm
writing. Having to serialize binary data (in particular, 16KB of address
space) to be consumed by elm is inefficient in about every way possible. I
currently pack it into an array of 32-bit signed ints before serialization
and use a port to convert that to a UInt8Array.

Also, I wrote the disassembler in typescript because I could operate on
UInt8Array (again integrated via port). It would be possible in elm, but
would have felt a bit hacky. ArrayBuffer would fix that!

Brian

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Simon]

My use case:

My company uses websockets for mobile apps and thus wants to save on
bandwidth. As a result all websocket traffic is encoded using msgpack, but
the current library cannot handle that.

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Coury Ditch]

Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.

We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum developers
and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit from the
strong guarantees of using Elm.

Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
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[Berry Groenendijk]

Coury,

I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For exactly the reason
you mentioned. Where can I follow the progress on this project?

Berry

Post by Coury Ditch
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum
developers and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit
from the strong guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
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[Coury Ditch]

Here are a couple relevant repos so far - they are mostly barren at the
moment, as we're trying to solve some hard API problems before we put too
much code down.

https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack

Post by Berry Groenendijk
Coury,
I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For exactly the reason
you mentioned. Where can I follow the progress on this project?
Berry

Post by Coury Ditch
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum
developers and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit
from the strong guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
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[Zachary Kessin]

I would really like to have a way to do file uploads in Elm, I needed that
at a project a while back

Zach
ᐧ

Post by Coury Ditch
Here are a couple relevant repos so far - they are mostly barren at the
moment, as we're trying to solve some hard API problems before we put too
much code down.
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack

Post by Berry Groenendijk
Coury,
I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For exactly the reason
you mentioned. Where can I follow the progress on this project?
Berry

Post by Coury Ditch
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum
developers and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit
from the strong guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Martin Bailey]

What kind of interaction with binary data would you require for your
projects?

-Blob : black box to store and pass opaque data around (anything that isn't
a valid Unicode string)
-Byte array : equivalent to char/string for arbitrary bytes
-Bit stream : more flexible mechanism to implement binary protocols or
binary coding

Byte array would remove the need for blobs and would also allow building a
clean bitstream library in pure Elm. It needs to be designed properly for
binary data to be reliable and fun to work with, but that would probably be
the best abstraction. Haskell calls theirs Data.ByteString.

Post by Zachary Kessin
I would really like to have a way to do file uploads in Elm, I needed that
at a project a while back
Zach
ᐧ

Post by Coury Ditch
Here are a couple relevant repos so far - they are mostly barren at the
moment, as we're trying to solve some hard API problems before we put too
much code down.
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack

Post by Berry Groenendijk
Coury,
I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For exactly the
reason you mentioned. Where can I follow the progress on this project?
Berry

Post by Coury Ditch
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum
developers and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit
from the strong guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[pukkamustard]

Our use-case: Decoding and encoding binary hardware data.

We connect to various hardware via a TCP <-> WebSocket bridge, via
WebBluetooth and via a Chrome App. Currently we do all low-level hardware
connectivity (including binary decoding/encoding) outside of Elm in
Javascript and exchange data with ports. The complexity required to manage
all the hardware on the Javascript side is increasing and it would be very
nice to handle all that neatly in Elm.

Post by Martin Bailey
What kind of interaction with binary data would you require for your
projects?

A byte array (ArrayBuffer) seems to be what we need. We need enough
low-level access to decode binary protocols (currently we use Javascript
DataView). It should be usable with WebSocket and other WebAPI modules
(e.g. WebBluetooth).

[Coury Ditch]

I think it would be really excellent to begin work on something like
crypto-elm (a la crypto-js). It will take a lot of work, but I find it a
sorely needed foundational library for many other elm libraries I'd like to
build out.

A byte array seems like the only option viable in this particular case.
(Please correct me if I'm mistaken).

Post by Martin Bailey
What kind of interaction with binary data would you require for your
projects?
-Blob : black box to store and pass opaque data around (anything that
isn't a valid Unicode string)
-Byte array : equivalent to char/string for arbitrary bytes
-Bit stream : more flexible mechanism to implement binary protocols or
binary coding
Byte array would remove the need for blobs and would also allow building a
clean bitstream library in pure Elm. It needs to be designed properly for
binary data to be reliable and fun to work with, but that would probably be
the best abstraction. Haskell calls theirs Data.ByteString.

Post by Zachary Kessin
I would really like to have a way to do file uploads in Elm, I needed
that at a project a while back
Zach
ᐧ

Post by Coury Ditch
Here are a couple relevant repos so far - they are mostly barren at the
moment, as we're trying to solve some hard API problems before we put too
much code down.
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack

Post by Berry Groenendijk
Coury,
I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For exactly the
reason you mentioned. Where can I follow the progress on this project?
Berry

Post by Coury Ditch
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think Ethereum
developers and the blockchain developer community at large would benefit
from the strong guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks

Post by Evan Czaplicki
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but I wasn't sure who
needed them.
What is your particular use case?

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in
elm? I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Christophe de Vienne]

Our use-case:

We connect our elm application to a NATS server through a websocket [1]

The protocol is text-based but the payload can be binary. We would like
to switch to protobuf to encode our payloads but cannot do that because
of the elm client. So we stick to json for now.

So the need is to be able to encode/decode data structures to a binary
websocket connection.


[1] https://github.com/orus-io/elm-nats

Post by Martin Bailey
What kind of interaction with binary data would you require for your
projects?
-Blob : black box to store and pass opaque data around (anything that
isn't a valid Unicode string)
-Byte array : equivalent to char/string for arbitrary bytes
-Bit stream : more flexible mechanism to implement binary protocols or
binary coding
Byte array would remove the need for blobs and would also allow building
a clean bitstream library in pure Elm. It needs to be designed properly
for binary data to be reliable and fun to work with, but that would
probably be the best abstraction. Haskell calls theirs Data.ByteString.
I would really like to have a way to do file uploads in Elm, I
needed that at a project a while back
Zach
ᐧ
Here are a couple relevant repos so far - they are mostly barren
at the moment, as we're trying to solve some hard API problems
before we put too much code down.
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3
<https://github.com/cmditch/elm-web3>
https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack
<https://github.com/cmditch/elm-truffle-webpack>
Coury,
I am very interested in an Elm version of web3.js. For
exactly the reason you mentioned. Where can I follow the
progress on this project?
Berry
Our use case: Pure elm library for cryptographic functions.
We are creating a pure Elm web3.js equivalent. We think
Ethereum developers and the blockchain developer
community at large would benefit from the strong
guarantees of using Elm.
Thanks
I have been drafting Blob and ArrayBuffer APIs, but
I wasn't sure who needed them.
What is your particular use case?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:55 AM, John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for
supporting binary data in elm? I'm thinking of
a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and
also implementing Blob in HTTP responses.
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[Alex Shroyer]

I could use ArrayBuffer for lots of things, for what it's worth.

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.

[Simon]

My need is to upload PDFs directly to S3. That requires two additional
things

- the ability to read a file from the hard disk - the sort of native code
needed is
at https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader/blob/master/src/Native/FileReader.js
- an extra function in Http with signature `blobPart
<http://package.elm-lang.org:8018/packages/elm-lang/http/1.0.0/Http#stringPart>
: String -> Blob -> Part
<http://package.elm-lang.org:8018/packages/elm-lang/http/1.0.0/Http#Part>`

Simon

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.

[Martin DeMello]

Seconding this one - I need to be able to pass a binary file to my backend,
which requires the ability to both load the file and attach binary data to
a POST request.

martin

Post by Simon
My need is to upload PDFs directly to S3. That requires two additional
things
- the ability to read a file from the hard disk - the sort of native code
needed is at https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader/blob/
master/src/Native/FileReader.js
- an extra function in Http with signature `blobPart
<http://package.elm-lang.org:8018/packages/elm-lang/http/1.0.0/Http#stringPart>
: String -> Blob -> Part
<http://package.elm-lang.org:8018/packages/elm-lang/http/1.0.0/Http#Part>`
Simon

Post by John Watson
Can anyone tell me what the plans are for supporting binary data in elm?
I'm thinking of a Byte (and some sort of Byte Array) type and also
implementing Blob in HTTP responses.

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[Duane Johnson]

My use case:

I have a compiled microcontroller file (a ".hex" file) delivered to the
client browser. I use the data to draw a fancy SVG barcode that is
subsequently displayed on the screen and scanned by a camera (like a QR
Code).

I need a way to retrieve binary data from the server, and iterate over
16-bit integer values.