creates an input from value

(as-input {:a 1} :json) => “{"a":1}”

completes a request on the wire

coerces redis return to bytes

coerces bytes to data

(coerce-bytes (.getBytes “OK”) :json) => “OK”

(coerce-bytes (serialize-bytes {:a 1} :json) :json) => {:a 1}

converts bytes back to data structure

(deserialize-bytes (serialize-bytes {:a 1} :json) :json) => {:a 1}

serializes objects (data) to bytes

(h/string (serialize-bytes “HELLO” :string)) => “HELLO”