HaXR — the Haskell XML-RPC library

HaXR is a library for writing XML-RPC client and server applications in Haskell.

Christopher Milton came up with the HaXR name, thanks!

Documentation

Examples

Example are available in the examples/ folder in the darcs repository. Here we talk about a couple of them.

Server

This is a simple CGI-based server with only one method that takes two integers and returns their sum.

import Network.XmlRpc.Server

add :: Int -> Int -> IO Int
add x y = return (x + y)

main = cgiXmlRpcServer [("examples.add", fun add)]

Note: the argument to fun can be a function that takes any number of arguments.

Client

This is a client that calls the method implemented by the server above and prints the result.

import Network.XmlRpc.Client

server = "http://localhost/~bjorn/cgi-bin/simple_server"

add :: String -> Int -> Int -> IO Int
add url = remote url "examples.add"

main = do
       let x = 4
	   y = 7
       z <- add server x y
       putStrLn (show x ++ " + " ++ show y ++ " = " ++ show z)

Note: the function returned by remote can be a function that takes any number of arguments.

Heterogeneous structs

Have a look at examples/Person.hs for an example of how to use heterogeneous structs. examples/PersonTH.hs does the same using the Network.XmlRpc.THDeriveXmlRpcType module.

XML-RPC introspection

This library supports XML-RPC introspection, both in the client and server. See examples/make-stubs.hs for an example of how to use introspection in a client.

API reference

Use the online copy of the API documentation.

Report

I have written a report (ps, pdf) on the design and implementation of Haskell XML-RPC. The report was written in January 2004, and is slowly getting out of date.

Download

Hackage

You can get the latest versions of the haxr from Hackage.

There used to be a separate haxr-th, now everything is available in haxr.

Darcs repository

Use darcs to get the source from the repo at http://code.haskell.org/haxr/:

$ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/haxr/

Reporting bugs, requesting features

To report bugs, request features, submit patches, or ask for help, email Gracjan Polak.

Some known problems are listed in the TODO file in the source distribution. If you need any of those fixed, let me know.

License

HaXR is distributed under a BSD-style license.

HaXR

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