[Haskell-beginners] System.USB.writeInterrupt -- confused by error message from type system

[emacstheviking]

Karol, Alexander,

Thanks for your feedback... I am still a little confused as I shall
explain... first of all let's look at the prototype for 'writeInterrupt',

    writeInterrupt :: DeviceHandle -> EndpointAddress -> WriteAction

To me, that reads a "takes a device handle and an endpoint address and
returns a WriteAction", and to quote the WriteAction help text verbatim so
there is no confusion:

    type WriteAction = ByteString -> Timeout -> IO (Size, Status)Source

    Handy type synonym for write transfers.

        "A WriteAction is a function which takes a ByteString to write and
a Timeout.
         The function returns an IO action which, when exectued(sic),
returns the number
         of bytes that were actually written paired with a Status flag
which indicates whether
         the transfer Completed or TimedOut."


Now let's move to my original code and the 'right' code...

    action <- writeInterrupt handle endPoint
    let action = writeInterrupt handle endPoint


If I understand things correctly up to this point, my mistake was being too
eager in using "<-", my mind at that point was obviously confusing the
return value from WriteAction with the return type of writeInterrupt and I
can see now that what I should have done was use "let" which captures the
WriteAction that is returned which can be executed with the payload and the
timeout on the next line:

    (size, status) <- action payload 1000

On this line, the use of "<-" is what is required in order to cause the
promised IO action to  perform its duties and return me the tuple of data
sent and status returned from the USB inner workings.

However, we now come to the new type checker error, and this one has me
floored right now. Time and time again I find myself beating my head
against a wall and tearing my hair out trying to understand the
thousand-and-one variations on strings in Haskell! I even tried the
"string-conversions" (convertString) package but decided to battle it out
instead...

First the new code as edited in response to Karol:

    testBoard :: Device -> DeviceHandle -> IO ()
    testBoard dev handle = do
      putStrLn $ "Inspecting device: \"" ++ (show dev) ++ "\""
      -- write 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00, get back same...we need to pad
the
      -- packet out to 64 bytes for a full-speed device... should
probably
      -- get this (64) from the device configuration / description
record
      -- for maximum
portability!

      let payload  = BS.replicate 64 '\0'
      let endPoint = EndpointAddress 0 Out
      let action   = writeInterrupt handle endPoint
      (size, status) <- action payload 1000
      return ()

And the new error:

usb1.hs:64:28:
    Couldn't match expected type
`bytestring-0.9.2.1:Data.ByteString.Internal.ByteString'
                with actual type `ByteString'
    In the first argument of `action', namely `payload'
    In a stmt of a 'do' block: (size, status) <- action payload 1000
    In the expression:
      do { putStrLn $ "Inspecting device: \"" ++ (show dev) ++ "\"";
           let payload = BS.replicate 64 '\NUL';
           let endPoint = EndpointAddress 0 Out;
           let action = writeInterrupt handle endPoint;
           .... }


Where and why does it think that "Data.ByteString.Internal.ByteString" is
the type of the first parameter to "action" which is quite clearly stated
as being "ByteString" ???
I know that "String", the native type is 4-bytes and that ByteString
(Strict) and ByteString (Lazy) are both 8-bit, which is great, and I
understand that the strict version (at least to me) feels like the
rightmatch to be using for data buffers for a USB transfer but why oh why
oh why can't I understand why the type checker picked up "internal"
somewhere along the way?

In the source code for WriteAction we have this:

    type WriteAction = B.ByteString → Timeout → IO (Size, Status)

and at the top of the that source file:

    -- from bytestring:
    import qualified Data.ByteString          as B  ( ByteString,
packCStringLen, drop, length )
    import qualified Data.ByteString.Internal as BI ( createAndTrim,
createAndTrim' )
    import qualified Data.ByteString.Unsafe   as BU ( unsafeUseAsCStringLen
)


So why is it trying to be "internal"! I have tried not to be lazy, I have
read everything and looked everywhere before posting again. If it had said:

    type WriteAction = BI.ByteString → Timeout → IO (Size, Status)

I would have understood but it doesn't does it ?!
Can somebody explain for me so I can just get on and write my killer USB
application please! LOL

:)
Thanks,
Sean.





On 27 February 2013 12:07, Karol Samborski <edv.karol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> I think that your function for testing board should look like this:
>
> testBoard :: Device -> DeviceHandle -> IO ()
> testBoard dev handle = do
>   putStrLn $ "Inspecting device: \"" ++ (show dev) ++ "\"\n"
>   -- write 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00, get back same...
>   let payload  = pack "\x00\x00\x00\x00"
>   let endPoint = EndpointAddress 0 Out
>   let action = writeInterrupt handle endPoint
>   (size, status) <- action payload 1000
>   return ()
>
> You need to use let because writeInterrupt returns (Timeout ->
> ByteString -> IO (Size, Bool)) instead of IO (Timeout -> ByteString ->
> IO (Size, Bool))
>
> Karol
>
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