[Haskell-cafe] Typesafe API calls

[Kyle Marek-Spartz]

I'm not old either. This should clarify REST APIs. Haskell has type-safe
API calls out of the box.

Joachim Breitner writes:

> Hi
>
> reading the paragraph
>
> Am Freitag, den 12.12.2014, 17:01 +1000 schrieb Fabian Bergmark:
>> I just released a library on hackage
>> (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/apis-0.0.0). The goal of the
>> library is to provide typesafe API calls to a large amount of existing
>> APIs. By typesafe I mean that, for each API the library provides two
>> types, Input and Output, and a function :: Input -> IO Output.
>> Internally the library knows how to serialize Input to make an HTTP
>> request and how to deserialize the response into Output.
>
> made me feel old, as I first didn’t get what this was about, then
> started to wonder why HTTP appears in a message about application
> programming interfaces, and then noticed that this seems to be talking
> about “Web-APIs”, which seem to be normal kind of APIs these days...
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim

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