Oh and one more thing. The idea of the void? was to help catch mistakes where someone thought they could return a xexpr or response structure from these functions and have it returned.
Jay On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm catching up on this thread. > > The contracts should all be "void?" and it says "void" then it's > probably a typo and an error. "void" is a function that takes any > number of arguments and returns "void", which is not false, so "void" > is like an "any/c" contract, except that it is less efficient. (The > contract system will not put the same kind of wrapper when the > function can return anything.) > > I'm loathe to fix this typo though, because I suspect that a lot of > code relies on the "void" behavior. If anything, I should change it to > have "any" so that it is more efficient and has the same errors. > > Jay > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:09 PM, André Matheus <amath...@mac.com> wrote: >> If I understood what Matthew said correctly, the point of the contract >> requiring void is to prevent >> an error when someone uses a function returning a string rather than writing >> to the output port. >> >> But in this case, response should require returning void too, right? What >> confused me more than >> the error message and the contracts was that the same function worked when >> creating a response >> but didn’t work when using response/output, but response/output simply >> creates a response with >> default values, so my understanding was that the function should either work >> or fail on both. >> >> Em 06/03/2015, à(s) 21:40, Alexis King <lexi.lam...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> >> I do sort of agree that the void? requirement is strange and unneeded. It’s >> usually only used to indicate that a function provided by some module >> returns #<void>, but callback functions are usually specified with any as >> the return value to allow precisely this sort of thing. >> >> On Mar 6, 2015, at 16:26, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: >> >>> From the error message, I changed the lambda to return (void) and then it >>> worked. >>> I think maybe the contract is wrong but frankly I don't understand much >>> about contracts. >> >> >> The contract, by definition, is always right ;) >> >> In this case, `response/output` takes as its first argument a procedure that >> accepts an output-port and returns void. [1] In contract-speak this is >> commonly written with dot notation as: >> >> (output-port? . -> . void?) >> >> but it appears in error messages, like the one above, with the equivalent >> notation: >> >> (-> output-port? void?) >> >> Note also that the error says the contract violation was "in the range of >> the 1st argument of" ... [giant contract follows]. That helps track down the >> error. The contract for the first argument is '(-> output-port? void?)'. >> This is a procedure contract. And "the range of" a procedure contract means >> the contract on the return value. Which in this case is `void?`. So the >> complaint is that the procedure given in the first argument is returning >> '11' when it should be returning void. >> >> Why is (-> output-port? void?) the contract for the first arg of >> `response/output`? The idea is that you write to the output-port directly >> rather than returning a value to the caller. Insisting on void as a return >> value imposes an extra measure of discipline, and sets an expectation. >> >> The reason your 'not-working' dispatcher is not working is that >> `write-bytes` does two things: it sends bytes to the output port, but then >> also returns the number of bytes written. [2] So this procedure: >> >> (λ (op) (write-bytes #"Hello world" op)) >> >> is defective because it returns the number of bytes. Meaning, it breaks the >> contract, which demands void. (That's also why your error is '11': that's >> the number of bytes in "Hello world"). >> >> But your revised procedure: >> >> (λ (op) (write-bytes #"Hello world" op) (void)) >> >> Meets the contract because it ignores the return value from `write-bytes` >> and returns (void) instead. >> >> You should repeat this technique whenever you use `response/output`. >> >> You can also look into `response/full` and `response/xexpr`, which can be a >> more convenient way of making simple HTML or text responses. >> >> >> >> [1] >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=response%2Foutput#%28def._%28%28lib._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fresponse-structs..rkt%29._response%2Foutput%29%29 >> >> which cross-references >> >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/http.html?q=response%2Foutput#%28def._%28%28lib._web-server%2Fhttp%2Fresponse-structs..rkt%29._response%29%29 >> >> [2] >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Byte_and_String_Output.html?q=write-bytes#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._write-bytes%29%29 >> >> which cross-references >> >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Byte_and_String_Output.html?q=write-bytes#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._write-string%29%29 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM, André Matheus <amath...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, starting a project of mine, I've setup a dispatch rule and a function >>> to return the response. >>> To make things simple, I've used response/output, with a lambda writing to >>> the output-port. >>> However, I've got the error: >>> >>> response/output: contract violation >>> expected: void? >>> given: 11 >>> in: the range of >>> the 1st argument of >>> (->* >>> ((-> output-port? void?)) >>> (#:code >>> number? >>> #:headers >>> (listof header?) >>> #:message >>> bytes? >>> #:mime-type >>> (or/c bytes? #f) >>> #:seconds >>> number?) >>> response?) >>> contract from: >>> <pkgs>/web-server-lib/web-server/http/response-structs.rkt >>> blaming: /home/amatheus/Dropbox/focus/todagendas/teste.rkt >>> (assuming the contract is correct) >>> at: <pkgs>/web-server-lib/web-server/http/response-structs.rkt:41.2 >>> context...: >>> /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/blame.rkt:143:0: >>> raise-blame-error16 >>> >>> /usr/share/racket/pkgs/web-server-lib/web-server/http/response.rkt:115:12 >>> >>> So I've tried to use a response, with the same lambda, and it worked. >>> From the error message, I changed the lambda to return (void) and then it >>> worked. >>> >>> I think maybe the contract is wrong but frankly I don't understand much >>> about contracts. >>> >>> I've setup some code that exposes the problem. Navigating to "/working" >>> and "/fixed" works >>> fine; navigating to "/not-working" exposes the problem. >>> >>> #lang racket >>> (require web-server/dispatch >>> web-server/servlet-env >>> net/url >>> web-server/http/request-structs >>> web-server/http/response-structs) >>> >>> (define (not-working req) >>> (response/output (λ (op) (write-bytes #"Hello world" op)))) >>> >>> (define (working req) >>> (response >>> 301 #"OK" >>> (current-seconds) TEXT/HTML-MIME-TYPE >>> empty >>> (λ (op) (write-bytes #"Hello world" op)))) >>> >>> (define (fixed req) >>> (response/output (λ (op) (write-bytes #"Hello world" op) (void)))) >>> >>> (define (url->request u) >>> (make-request #"GET" (string->url u) empty >>> (delay empty) #f "1.2.3.4" 80 "4.3.2.1")) >>> >>> (define-values (agenda-dispatch agenda-url) >>> (dispatch-rules >>> [("working") working] >>> [("not-working") not-working] >>> [("fixed") fixed])) >>> >>> (define (main) >>> (serve/servlet agenda-dispatch >>> #:servlet-regexp #rx"" >>> #:servlet-path "")) >>> >>> (module+ main >>> (main)) >>> >>> The contracts in response-structs.rkt: >>> >>> (provide/contract >>> [struct response >>> ([code number?] >>> [message bytes?] >>> [seconds number?] >>> [mime (or/c false/c bytes?)] >>> [headers (listof header?)] >>> [output (output-port? . -> . void)])] >>> [response/full (-> number? bytes? number? (or/c false/c bytes?) (listof >>> header?) (listof bytes?) response?)] >>> [response/output (->* ((-> output-port? void?)) >>> (#:code number? >>> #:message bytes? >>> #:seconds number? >>> #:mime-type (or/c bytes? #f) >>> #:headers (listof header?)) >>> response?)] >>> [TEXT/HTML-MIME-TYPE bytes?]) >>> >>> Is the contract wrong or am I doing something weird? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> André >>> >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >>> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >> >> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 -- Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. 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