[Haskell-cafe] couldn't match expected type ByteString with actual type IO ByteString

[Carl Petersen]

Hello All,

I'm getting the following error:

/apps/workspace/hade/src/Step/ReadExcel.hs:39:23:
    Couldn't match expected type ‘L.ByteString’
                with actual type ‘IO L.ByteString’
    In the first argument of ‘IBuf’, namely ‘j’
    In the second argument of ‘sendChan’, namely ‘(IBuf j)’


when I compile the following code:

data Buf = IChan (SendPort Buf) | IBuf (L.ByteString) deriving 
(Show,Generic,Typeable)

instance Binary Buf

readExcel :: Process()
readExcel = do
  sendChan chan (IBuf j) 
 where 
    IChan chan = expect
    j = do
      r <- toTableRowsFromFile 8 "final-project.xlsx"
      let b = A.encode r 
      return b

remotable ['readExcel]

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Carl

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