I've been playing around with creating a binding for Zenfolio's JSON-RPC API for the last few days. I've been looking at Sigbjorn Finne's excellent packages on Hackage for guidance, including flickr, delicious, and hs-twitter. I've also been looking at HTTP's Network.Browser and HAXR's Network.XmlRpc since I'm having to implement the underying JSON-RPC protocol too (again based on Sigbjorn's excellent json package).
-md begin Ionut G. Stan quotation: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
