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Change PANE's protocol to use protobufs #58

Open adferguson opened 12 years ago

adferguson commented 12 years ago

PANE should use protobufs as the primary means of interaction. On the client side of the protobufs, we will have, for example, 1) Chen's Java API and 2) a telnet/ascii-based interaction server, running the current/traditional PANE protocol. this will be uber-helpful for extending PANE in the future, and for providing a more natural interface to non-interactive clients.

protobufs for Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/protocol-buffers

official protobufs site: https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

adferguson commented 12 years ago

or Thrift? http://thrift.apache.org/ ... http://hackage.haskell.org/package/thrift ... it provides the RPC piece as well as serialization, but unfortunately, the Haskell package is from 2011, whereas Haskell ProtoBufs is from 2012. not sure if that's an issue or a red herring.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

another thrift example: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftUsageHaskell

adferguson commented 12 years ago

Thrift: The Missing Guide -- http://diwakergupta.github.com/thrift-missing-guide/