|  | Haskell Thrift Bindings | 
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|  | Running | 
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|  | You need -fglasgow-exts. Use Cabal to compile and install. If you're trying to | 
|  | manually compile or load via ghci, and you're using ghc 6.10 (or really if your | 
|  | default base package has major version number 4), you must specify a version of | 
|  | the base package with major version number 3. Furthermore if you have the syb | 
|  | package installed you need to hide that package to avoid import conflicts. | 
|  | Here's an example of what I'm talking about: | 
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|  | ghci -fglasgow-exts -package base-3.0.3.0 -hide-package syb -isrc Thrift.hs | 
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|  | To determine which versions of the base package you have installed use the | 
|  | following command: | 
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|  | ghc-pkg list base | 
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|  | All of this is taken care of for you if you use Cabal. | 
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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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