I am writing a stop-motion capture application using AngularJS and it's going OK. I was inspired to do so after installing "IPCamera" on my phone and Sony tablet. A typical IPCamera session lives on an internal address like this, this example will turn on the LED on the camera:
Just because I can (or so I thought), I decided to write a tiny little FastCGI application in Haskell to act as a proxy using the PATH_INFO variable. This means that in to my Javascript code I have this code in a service file:
angular.module('stomoServices', ['ngResource']).
factory(
'IPCamera',
function($resource, urlIPCameraAPI) {
return $resource(
urlIPCameraAPI,
{}, {
ledOn: { method: 'GET', params: {featureReq: 'enabletorch' }},
ledOff: { method: 'GET', params: {featureReq: 'disabletorch' }},
focusOn: { method: 'GET', params: {featureReq: 'focus' }},
focusOff: { method: 'GET', params: {featureReq: 'nofocus'}}
});
});
and I then issue commands like "IPCamera.ledOn()" etc. All very nice except that it doesn't work yet because I can't get the worlds seemingly simplest CGI application to compile yet! Here is the code that I have, it could be "cleared up" but this is what I have so far:
main :: IO ()
main = runFastCGI . handleErrors $ do
command <- getVar "PATH_INFO"
case command of
Nothing ->
outputError 400 "Missing IPCamera instruction (PATH_INFO)" []
Just cmd ->
ipCamExec (tail cmd) >> output "OK" -- tail drops the "/"
where
ipCamExec :: String -> IO ()
ipCamExec url = do
simpleHTTP (getRequest url) -- don't want or need response.
return () -- to match the return type or so I thought.
and the error message I cannot seem to understand as it fills me with monadic fear which I can't get out of:
ipcamera.hs:16:7:
Couldn't match expected type `CGIT IO a0' with actual type `IO ()'
In the return type of a call of `ipCamExec'
In the first argument of `(>>)', namely `ipCamExec (tail cmd)'
In the expression: ipCamExec (tail cmd) >> output "OK"
Please could some kind souls explain to me in simple terms just what is going on and why I am close to tears right now? I have read the definitions of CGIResult and CGI and they leave me cold. I am trying to understand monads more but at times like this I once again realise what a complete rank beginner I am!
Thanks.
Sean.