[Haskell-cafe] Writing a web service client

[Vo Minh Thu]

2010/5/25 Ionut G. Stan <ionut.g.stan at gmail.com>:
> Hi, café
>
> I've begun learning Haskell for some time already, and although I don't
> really feel confident writing real world Haskell, I have a little idea that
> I want to materialize in Haskell code so I'm pretty eager to do something
> instead of just reading books and blog posts.
>
> The first step that I want to undertake is to write a client library for the
> GitHub API, so my questions would be:
>
> 1. Is there any such library?
> 2. What other client library should I consider as an API model? Or maybe
> there's some paper/blog post on how do design a Haskell API?
> 3. What network package do people use for accessing simple, rest-like web
> services? Network.Curl? If not, which other?
>

Hi,

1. I don't think so.
2. Maybe Twidge, on hackage [1]
3. Have also a look at Network.Browser [2]

Cheers,
Thu

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/twidge
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/latest/doc/html/Network-Browser.html