[web-devel] ALPHA: http-types 0.1

[Aristid Breitkreuz]

Christian, I incorporated your approach of defining the ADT, and Michael's
suggestions into

*tada*

http-types 0.2.0 - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-types-0.2.0

Features:
* StdMethod is an enumeration without OtherMethod constructor, containing
only RFC 2616 standard HTTP methods.
* parseMethod :: ByteString -> Either ByteString StdMethod (I think the type
says all).
* There are a few pre-defined Headers (headerAccept...)
* urlEncode / urlDecode
* Parsing and rendering of query strings (Query / SimpleQuery).

I hope this is closer to what most people would consider a nice version.


Aristid


2011/2/4 Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de>

> Am 04.02.2011 11:49, schrieb Christian Maeder:
> > The disadvantage for just strings are possible spelling errors. With
> > constants or constructors spelling errors are detected by the compiler
> > (but you still can confuse constants having the same type).
>
> Therefore just having
>
>  type Method = ByteString
>
> is also less safe, because constants for methods and i.e. header names
> (if they are also just byte strings) can be mixed up without type errors.
>
> Better would be a newtype wrapper around byte strings (or just strings):
>
>  newtype Method = M ByteString
>
> But I do not want to interfere with Michael Snoymann's compatibility
> issues for wai.
>
> Cheers Christian
>
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