| Haskell Thrift Bindings |
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| Compile |
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| Use Cabal to compile and install; ./configure uses Cabal underneath, and that |
| path is not yet well tested. Thrift's library and generated code should compile |
| with pretty much any GHC extensions or warnings you enable (or disable). |
| Please report this not being the case as a bug on |
| https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa |
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| Chances you'll need to muck a bit with Cabal flags to install Thrift: |
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| CABAL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--user" ./configure |
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| Base Types |
| ========== |
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| The mapping from Thrift types to Haskell's is: |
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| * double -> Double |
| * byte -> Data.Word.Word8 |
| * i16 -> Data.Int.Int16 |
| * i32 -> Data.Int.Int32 |
| * i64 -> Data.Int.Int64 |
| * string -> String |
| * binary -> Data.ByteString.Lazy |
| * bool -> Boolean |
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| Enums |
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| Become Haskell 'data' types. Use fromEnum to get out the int value. |
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| Structs |
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| Become records. Field labels are ugly, of the form f_STRUCTNAME_FIELDNAME. All |
| fields are Maybe types. |
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| Exceptions |
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| Identical to structs. Throw them with throwDyn. Catch them with catchDyn. |
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| Client |
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| Just a bunch of functions. You may have to import a bunch of client files to |
| deal with inheritance. |
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| Interface |
| ========= |
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| You should only have to import the last one in the chain of inheritors. To make |
| an interface, declare a label: |
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| data MyIface = MyIface |
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| and then declare it an instance of each iface class, starting with the superest |
| class and proceding down (all the while defining the methods). Then pass your |
| label to process as the handler. |
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| Processor |
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| Just a function that takes a handler label, protocols. It calls the |
| superclasses process if there is a superclass. |
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