API reference

The Erlang term model.

Every term that can travel over the distribution protocol has a class here, so a decoder can hand back a value that can be pattern matched and a printer can render it back to Erlang syntax. ErlangOpaque carries the encoded bytes of the few types that cannot be modelled as ordinary values (funs, exports and anything a future OTP invents) so decoding never loses data.

All of them are value classes: == compares contents, hash() agrees with ==, and instances can be used as Map and Set keys.

Public Types

• primitive AcceptFailed
• type AcceptResult
• primitive AcceptTimedOut
• type Connection
• primitive ConnectionFailed
• type ConnectionStatus
• primitive ConnectionSucceeded
• class EInterface
• class EMessage
• primitive ErlError
• class ErlangAtom
• class ErlangBigInteger
• class ErlangBinary
• class ErlangBitstring
• class ErlangFloat
• class ErlangInteger
• class ErlangList
• class ErlangMap
• class ErlangOpaque
• class ErlangPid
• class ErlangPort
• class ErlangReference
• primitive ErlangShapes
• class ErlangString
• type ErlangTerm
• primitive ErlangTermDecoder
• primitive ErlangTermEncoder
• primitive ErlangTermPrinter
• primitive ErlangTerms
• class ErlangTuple
• primitive ErlangValues
• primitive MessageType
• primitive PublishFailed
• type PublishResult
• primitive Published
• primitive ReceiveFailed
• type ReceiveResult
• primitive ReceiveTimedOut
• primitive SendFailed
• type SendResult
• primitive SendTimedOut
• primitive SentOk
• primitive Strings
• primitive TermType