Thanks! I'm going to start working on this. Creating specific typeclasses is a good idea and I also believe that these changes can be done without breaking existing code. I'll see how that goes and keep you guys updated.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jer...@goop.org> wrote: > On 02/15/2011 05:49 PM, Diego Souza wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks for the feedbacks. They sound very reasonable. >> >> Going back in time, the first version was in fact a pure library. >> However, at some point I changed this as I thought it would make it >> easier to use, which might have been a mistake of mine. > > Yes, I think its a good idea to keep things simple and pure to ease > composition. > >> I'm just concerned about changing the interface once more, but it >> might be justified. Perhaps splitting it into the pure oauth functions >> as used to be in the beginning and another one that puts the http >> layer, in case one finds it convenient. That might mitigate this >> problem, and perhaps, avoid changing the interface. > > Since there seem to be a number of existing users of your API, it would > be rude to break it on them. > > You can implement a clearly defined two-layer API for the package: a > mostly pure layer which deals with the basics of settings up OAuth > requests and responses, and then the current API layered on top of it. > > The main problem is dealing with all the different Request/Response > types. But if you can narrow down the sets of operations you need for > each and define typeclasses with the appropriate functions, it should be > fairly to make the existing types instances of those classes (ie, akin > to HttpClient, but avoiding the IO where possible). > > J > -- ~dsouza yahoo!im: paravinicius gtalk: dsouza...@gmail.com gpg pub key: http://bitforest.org/~dsouza/pub/gpg-pubkey.txt authorized_keys: http://bitforest.org/~dsouza/pub/authorized_keys.txt _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe