[Ur] About clientOnly

[Aistis Raulinaitis]

Thanks!

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Artyom Shalkhakov <
artyom.shalkhakov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-05-22 9:19 GMT+06:00 Aistis Raulinaitis <sheganinans at gmail.com>:
> > Hmm, that makes sense. Do you have an example of FFI with an abstract
> type?
> > I tried to encapsulate the map type with a con, but obviously that does
> not
> > work..
> >
>
> Sure, here are two examples:
>
> https://github.com/bbarenblat/urweb-regex (in particular, take a look
> at regex__FFI.urs and the two types [substring_t] and
> [substring_list_t])
> https://github.com/ashalkhakov/urweb-storage (shameless plug; in
> particular, take a look at storage__FFI.urs and the type [storage])
>
> > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Artyom Shalkhakov
> > <artyom.shalkhakov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2017-05-22 6:22 GMT+06:00 Aistis Raulinaitis <sheganinans at gmail.com>:
> >> > So I am working with the JS FFI, however it seems that the clientOnly
> >> > directive is being ignored.
> >> >
> >> > Here is the example code:
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > main.urp:
> >> > ~~~
> >> >
> >> > ffi js_map
> >> > jsFunc Js_map.new_map=new_map
> >> > jsFunc Js_map.new_map_with=new_map_with
> >> > clientOnly Js_map.new_map
> >> > clientOnly Js_map.new_map_with
> >> > benignEffectful Js_map.new_map
> >> > benignEffectful Js_map.new_map_with
> >> > jsFile js_map.js
> >> >
> >> > main
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > main.urs:
> >> > ~~~
> >> >
> >> > val main : unit -> transaction page
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > main.ur:
> >> > ~~~
> >> >
> >> > fun main () =
> >> >     c <- Js_map.new_map_with ((1, 2)::[]);
> >> >     return <xml></xml>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > js_map.urs:
> >> > ~~~
> >> >
> >> > con js_map :: Type -> Type -> Type
> >> >
> >> > val new_map      : k ::: Type -> v ::: Type -> unit -> transaction
> >> > (js_map k
> >> > v)
> >> > val new_map_with : k ::: Type -> v ::: Type -> list (k * v) ->
> >> > transaction
> >> > (js_map k v)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > js_map.js:
> >> > ~~~
> >> >
> >> > function new_map () {return new Map ();}
> >> >
> >> > function new_map_with (arg) {return new Map (arg); }
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ~~~
> >> > So in main.ur, you can see that I am calling this Js code in a C
> >> > context,
> >> > instead of getting an error complaining about how it should be called
> on
> >> > the
> >> > client, instead I get this confusing error:
> >> >
> >> > urweb main
> >> > /Users/ace/src/cli_only/js_map.urs:4:75: (to 4:87) Unsupported type
> >> > constructor
> >> > Constructor:  FFI(Js_map.js_map_with) FFI(Basis.int) FFI(Basis.int)
> >> > /usr/local/Cellar/urweb/20170105/lib/urweb/ur/basis.urs:127:23: (to
> >> > 127:25)
> >> > Unsupported type constructor
> >> > Constructor:  FFI(Js_map.js_map_with) FFI(Basis.int) FFI(Basis.int)
> >> > make: *** [all] Error 1
> >> >
> >>
> >> I got the impression that Ur/Web being a whole-program optimizing
> >> compiler, the only types being supported for marshalling between FFI
> >> code and non-FFI code are primitive types and abstract types. I think
> >> I asked this same question some time ago.
> >>
> >> So it looks like you will have to work around this somehow.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Artyom Shalkhakov
> >>
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