Introduction to the Haxe Standard Library

The Haxe Standard Library provides common purpose tools without trying to be an exhaustive collection of data structures and algorithms. A Haxe distribution comes with a std directory containing the Haxe Standard Library. Its contents can be categorized like so:

• General purpose: The std directory itself contains a few top-level classes such as Array, Map or String which can be used on all targets. The haxe sub-directory provides additional data structures, input/output APIs and many more tools.

• System: The sys sub-directory contains APIs related to file systems and database. Additionally, the Sys top-level class allows various interaction with the operating system. They can only be accessed when compiling to a target of the sys-category (C++, C#, Java, Neko, PHP).

• Target specific: Each Haxe target has a distinct sub-directory containing target-specific APIs. These can only be accessed when compiling to the given target.

General purpose API:

Available on all targets.

Top-level:

• Array: Typed collection which defines several ECMA-compliant operations
• Date, DateTools: Operations related to dates and timestamps
• EReg: Regular Expressions
• Lambda: Operations over iterables
• Map: Key-to-value mapping data structure
• Math: ECMA-compliant mathematical functions
• Reflect: Field-related reflection
• Std: Runtime type-checking; numerical parsing; conversion to Int and String
• String: Basic operations on String
• StringBuf: Optimized for building Strings
• StringTools: Various extensions to String
• Type: Type-related reflection
• Xml: Cross-platform XML

The haxe package:

• haxe.Http: HTTP requests
• haxe.Json: Encoding and decoding JSON
• haxe.Resource: Work with Haxe resources
• haxe.Serializer: Serialize arbitrary objects as String
• haxe.Template: Simple templating system
• haxe.Timer: Repeated/delayed execution; measuring
• haxe.Unserializer: Complement to haxe.Serializer
• haxe.Utf8: Cross-platform UTF8 strings
• haxe.crypto: Various encryption algorithms
• haxe.macro: Types for working with Haxe macros
• haxe.remoting: Remoting between various client and server types
• haxe.rtti: Run-time type information
• haxe.unit: Basic unit-test framework
• haxe.web: Map URLs to operations
• haxe.xml: Complementary XML tools
• haxe.zip: Support of the ZIP-format

The haxe.ds package:

• haxe.ds.ArraySort: Stable, cross-platform array sorting
• haxe.ds.BalancedTree: Balanced tree data structure
• haxe.ds.EnumValueMap: Map type supporting enum value keys
• haxe.ds.GenericStack: Stack data structure which is optimized on static targets
• haxe.ds.IntMap: Map type supporting Int keys
• haxe.ds.ObjectMap: Map type supporting object keys
• haxe.ds.StringMap: Map type supporting string keys
• haxe.ds.Vector: Fixed-size data structure

The haxe.io package:

• haxe.io.Bytes: Byte operations on native representations
• haxe.io.BytesBuffer: Optimized for building Bytes
• haxe.io.Path: Operations on path strings

System API:

Available on C++, C#, Java, Neko and PHP.

• Sys: Execute native commands; interact with stdin, stdout and stderr; various other native operations
• sys.FileSystem: Read and modify directories; obtain information on files and directories
• sys.db: APIs for working with MySQL and SQLite databases
• sys.io.File: Read and write file content; copy files
• sys.io.Process: Use native processes

Target Specific APIs:

• cpp:

  • cpp.Lib: Low level interactions with cpp target
  • cpp.net: Tools for interacting with networks and running servers
  • cpp.vm: Thread API, debugger, profiler etc.
  • cpp.zip: API for working with zip compression

• cs: API for C# target

• flash:

  • flash Externs for Flash API
  • flash.Lib Basic interactions with the Flash platform
  • flash.Memory Extern for Flash Memory API
  • flash.Vector Extern for Flash Vectors

• flash8:

  • flash8 Externs for Flash 8 API

• java: API for Java target

• js:

  • js.Browser: Shortcuts for common browser functions
  • js.Cookie: Helpers for interacting with HTTP cookies in the browser
  • js.JQuery: Extern class and helpers for jQuery
  • js.Lib: Shortcuts for alert(), eval() and debugger
  • js.html: Externs for interacting with the browser DOM

• neko:

  • neko.Lib: Low level interactions with the neko platform
  • neko.Web: Work with HTTP requests and responses
  • neko.net: Tools for interacting with networks and running servers
  • neko.vm: API for multi-threaded applications
  • neko.zip: API for working with zip compression

• php:

  • php.Lib: Low level interactions with PHP platform
  • php.Session: Work with native PHP sessions
  • php.Web: Work with HTTP requests and responses
  • php.db.PDO: Additional PDO driver for database interactions