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Yes. Typically interop is very straightforward. You look in the api docs and copy paste. Example here is the String doc[1]. Way down you see all the methods. S
by natchy 6y ago
Yes. Typically interop is very straightforward. You look in the api docs and copy paste.
Example here is the String doc[1]. Way down you see all the methods. Some of the methods have overloads (multiple variants). Pretty straightforward here. (E.g. `"mystring".Contains("ring")`)
Where it gets more verbose and finicky is when the API takes a C# callback. Even more complex is if it’s asynchronous so it takes a C# callback as a Task.
An example being the `.Use` method for defining server middleware.[2]
To see how it’s done, here’s a gist I found.[3] Notice how the function for requestHandler is verbosely annotated with Func<> and RequestDelegate, etc.
Luckily this isn’t the norm, most APIs are less complicated. Even so, you write a wrapper (abstraction) around that complexity and only look at your wrapper. Which is why someone in this thread said to leave them in a dark corner.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string?view=net-5.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string?vi...
[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.builder.useextensions.use?view=aspnetcore-5.0#Microsoft_AspNetCore_Builder_UseExtensions_Use_Microsoft_AspNetCore_Builder_IApplicationBuilder_System_Func_Microsoft_AspNetCore_Http_HttpContext_System_Func_System_Threading_Tasks_Task__System_Threading_Tasks_Task__ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnet...
[3]: https://gist.github.com/kspeakman/7870a75283f6942dd96ff34a03a612f8#file-program-fs-L27 https://gist.github.com/kspeakman/7870a75283f6942dd96ff34a03...
- Serow225 6y agoI think it will get better in F# 5.1, which adds native C# Task support... https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-1087-resumable-code-and-task-builder.md https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-...
- seankearon 6y agoIn the meantime, you can use the fantastic TaskBuilder.fs for C# Task support and interop. https://www.nuget.org/packages/TaskBuilder.fs/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/TaskBuilder.fs/ https://github.com/rspeele/TaskBuilder.fs https://github.com/rspeele/TaskBuilder.fs
- jpcooper 6y agoThanks. I appreciate the explanation.