Hello,
Thanks for all the links. It seems that I have a lot to study before I
produce a decent library :)
The Network.HTTP package looks nice too. It seems to be at the right
level of abstraction compared to Network.Browser.
I have to get used with searching the Hackage repository... :)
On 5/25/10 3:12 PM, Christopher Done wrote:
Hello Ionut,
On 25 May 2010 13:26, Ionut G. Stan<ionut.g.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
The first step that I want to undertake is to write a client library for the
GitHub API, so my questions would be:
1. Is there any such library?
I don't know of nor have seen such a library on Hackage or Github.
There was some brief talk on StackOverflow[1], but nothing about a
full library. I would be interested in using such a library as I am an
enthusiastic user of Github.
[1]:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816092/using-the-github-gist-api-from-haskell
2. What other client library should I consider as an API model? Or maybe
there's some paper/blog post on how do design a Haskell API?
There are some good examples of Haskell code that uses REST-ish
APIs.[1][2][3][4]
Regarding designing a Haskell API, Real World Haskell has some
chapters about that.[5]
My personal advice would be at least to ensure you make it
cabal-install-able, so that entails having a proper cabal file,
documented with Haddock format, with QuickCheck test cases if
appropriate, and provide one or two examples in the documentation, see
Don's guide about writing a Haskell program[8].
[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/flickr
[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/twitter
[3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/feed-cli
[4]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Bitly
[5]:
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/writing-a-library-working-with-json-data.html
[6]:
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-library-for-searching-the-filesystem.html
[7]:
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/advanced-library-design-building-a-bloom-filter.html
[8]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program
3. What network package do people use for accessing simple, rest-like web
services? Network.Curl? If not, which other?
Network.Curl is OK but it relies on a C library which is another
dependency and it's maybe preferable to use the HTTP library or
similar library written in pure Haskell, that you can find on Hackage.
--
Ionuț G. Stan | http://igstan.ro
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