YAML-RPC README =============== Ilya V. Portnov <portnov84@rambler.ru> The yaml-rpc package contains a small library to organize remote procedure call (RPC) over TCP/IP network, using YAML as data serialization format. RPC server should supply a set of "RPC methods", which are simply functions :: a -> IO b, `a' and 'b' should be of class IsYamlObject. This class guarantees that values of given type can be serialized to YAML and de-serialized. Network.YAML.Instances module provides some instances declaration for this typeclass. Moreover, Network.YAML.Derive module contains (TemplateHaskell) function deriveIsYamlObject, which will help you to declare `instance IsYamlObject ...' for almost any ADT. RPC-client calls RPC-methods usually using one of two ways. First is to use `call' (or `callDynamic') function from Network.YAML.Caller module. One need to give method name as it's parameter. Second way is to use (TemplateHaskell-) function `remote' from Network.YAML.WrapMethods module to declare wrapper functions for RPC-methods. These wrappers will have same names as source functions, and almost same behaivour. Single difference is that wrappers require pair: (RPC-server host name, port number) as their first argument. You can see examples of usage in files Test.hs and TestCall.hs. Haddock documentation is here: http://iportnov.ru/files/yaml-rpc/html/index.html. Depends: ghc >= 6.10, network, data-object, data-object-yaml, yaml, data-default, convertible-text.