Function: serializeField()

serializeField(field, d?): string

Serialize a single AstmField to its spec-clean wire text, re-escaping each component. A low-level helper for callers assembling a field outside a whole record.

Parameters

field

AstmField

The field to serialize.

d?

Delimiters = CANONICAL_DELIMITERS

The delimiters to emit against; defaults to H|\^&.

Returns

string

The escaped field text.

Throws

AstmSerializeError when a component contains an unencodable CR/LF (ASTM_EMIT_UNENCODABLE_VALUE), or when d fails one of the three conditions readback requires (ASTM_EMIT_INVALID_DELIMITERS) - necessary conditions, not sufficient ones, so a set can pass them and still not reverse.

Example

import { serializeField, tokenizeRecord, CANONICAL_DELIMITERS } from "@cosyte/astm";
const fields = tokenizeRecord("R|1|^^^687|1&S&40", CANONICAL_DELIMITERS);
serializeField(fields[3]!); // "1&S&40"