ocaml/otherlibs/labltk/frx/frx_rpc.ml

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(*                                                                     *)
(*                 MLTk, Tcl/Tk interface of OCaml                     *)
(*                                                                     *)
(*    Francois Rouaix, Francois Pessaux, Jun Furuse and Pierre Weis    *)
(*               projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt                    *)
(*            Jacques Garrigue, Kyoto University RIMS                  *)
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(*  Copyright 2002 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique and Kyoto University.  All rights reserved.         *)
(*  This file is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library        *)
(*  General Public License, with the special exception on linking      *)
(*  described in file LICENSE found in the OCaml source tree.          *)
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(* Some notion of RPC *)
open Camltk
open Protocol

(* A RPC is just a callback with a particular name, plus a Tcl procedure *)
let register name f =
  let id = new_function_id() in
  Hashtbl.add callback_naming_table id f;
  (* For rpc_info *)
  Textvariable.set (Textvariable.coerce ("camltkrpc("^name^")"))
                   (string_of_cbid id);
  tkCommand [| TkToken "proc"; TkToken name; TkToken "args";
            TkToken ("camlcb "^(string_of_cbid id)^" $args") |]

(* RPC *)
let invoke interp f args =
  tkEval [|
    TkToken "send";
    TkToken interp;
    TkToken f;
    TkTokenList (List.map (fun s -> TkToken s) args)
    |]

let async_invoke interp f args =
  tkCommand [|
    TkToken "send";
    TkToken "-async";
    TkToken interp;
    TkToken f;
    TkTokenList (List.map (fun s -> TkToken s) args)
    |]

let rpc_info interp =
  tkEval [|
    TkToken "send";
    TkToken interp;
    TkToken "array";
    TkToken "names";
    TkToken "camltkrpc"
    |]