Module `Base64`

Base64 RFC4648 implementation.

Base64 is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. It is specified in RFC 4648.

Release v3.5.0 - https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-base64

type alphabet: Type of alphabet.

type sub = string * int * int: Type of sub-string: str, off, len.

val default_alphabet : alphabet: A 64-character alphabet specifying the regular Base64 alphabet.

val uri_safe_alphabet : alphabet: A 64-character alphabet specifying the URI- and filename-safe Base64 alphabet.

val make_alphabet : string -> alphabet: Make a new alphabet.

val length_alphabet : alphabet -> int: Returns length of the alphabet, should be 64.

val alphabet : alphabet -> string: Returns the alphabet.

val decode_exn : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> string

decode_exn ?off ?len s decodes len bytes (defaults to String.length s - off) of the string s starting from off (defaults to 0) that is encoded in Base64 format. Will leave trailing NULLs on the string, padding it out to a multiple of 3 characters. alphabet defaults to default_alphabet. pad = true specifies to check if s is padded or not, otherwise, it raises an exception.

Decoder can fail when character of s is not a part of alphabet or is not padding character. If input is not padded correctly, decoder does the best-effort but it does not ensure decode_exn (encode ~pad:false x) = x.

raises if: Invalid_argument s is not a valid Base64 string.

val decode_sub : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> (sub, [> `Msg of string ]) Stdlib.result: Same as decode_exn but it returns a result type instead to raise an exception. Then, it returns a sub string. Decoded input (str, off, len) will starting to off and will have len bytes - by this way, we ensure to allocate only one time result.

val decode : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> (string, [> `Msg of string ]) Stdlib.result: Same as decode_exn, but returns an explicit error message result if it fails.

val encode : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> (string, [> `Msg of string ]) Stdlib.result

encode s encodes the string s into base64. If pad is false, no trailing padding is added. pad defaults to true, and alphabet to default_alphabet.

encode fails when off and len do not designate a valid range of s.

val encode_string : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> string -> string: encode_string s encodes the string s into base64. If pad is false, no trailing padding is added. pad defaults to true, and alphabet to default_alphabet.

val encode_sub : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> (sub, [> `Msg of string ]) Stdlib.result: Same as encode but return a sub-string instead a plain result. By this way, we ensure to allocate only one time result.

val encode_exn : ?⁠pad:bool -> ?⁠alphabet:alphabet -> ?⁠off:int -> ?⁠len:int -> string -> string: Same as encode but raises an invalid argument exception if we retrieve an error.