[Haskell-beginners] Network PortNumber deprecation warning

[Jeff C. Britton]

The Network module is deprecated.  I didn’t really get that from the warning, I thought it was just about PortNumber.
From Hackage:
“””
Milestones
2.7
See https://github.com/haskell/network/issues/296
• [x] Making Network deprecated
• [x] Making Network.BSD deprecated
• [x] Making MkSocket deprecated
 “””
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Network PortNumber deprecation warning

You may have figured this out by now, but according to the docs, the error is correct: PortNumber exposes no constructor at all. Instead, it has a Num instance; you should be able to just use the literal 7200 there.

This strikes me as a highly questionable decision on the part of the module authors, but it is at least convenient.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:59 AM Jeff C. Britton <mailto:jcb at iteris.com> wrote:
I have just installed Haskell using Stack on Windows.
I wanted to try and write some code to do network programming with TCP/IP.
I found a simple example on Stack Overflow to start me off.
I’m having some problems with PortNumber and deprecated warnings.
I don't know how to modify the code to be deprecation free.
 
stack install network – installed version 2.8.0.1
 
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package.yaml
network >= 2.8.0.1
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The following code gives a deprecation warning, but ultimately my sample compiles and runs.
 
import qualified Network
import qualified Network.Socket
 
main = Network.withSocketsDo $ do
  handle <- Network.connectTo "192.168.1.2" (Network.PortNumber 7200)
  talk handle `finally` hClose handle
 
D:\work\hsSocket\app\Main.hs:14:46: warning: [-Wdeprecations]
    In the use of data constructor `PortNumber'
    (imported from Network):
    Deprecated: "The high level Network interface is no longer supported. Please use Network.Socket."
 
 
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So, now I try and use Network.Socket as the warning indicates.
 
main = Network.withSocketsDo $ do
  handle <- Network.connectTo "192.168.1.2" (Network.Socket.PortNumber 7200)
  talk handle `finally` hClose handle
 
D:\work\hsSocket\app\Main.hs:15:46: error:
    Not in scope: data constructor `Network.Socket.PortNumber'
    Module `Network.Socket' does not export `PortNumber'.
   |
15 |   handle <- Network.connectTo "192.168.1.2" (Network.Socket.PortNumber 7200)
 
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