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diff --git a/dev-haskell/http-media/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/http-media/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8281b91cfa5b --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/http-media/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="project"> + <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Gentoo Haskell</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription> + This library is intended to be a comprehensive solution to parsing and + selecting quality-indexed values in HTTP headers. It is capable of parsing + both media types and language parameters from the Accept and Content header + families, and can be extended to match against other accept headers as well. + Selecting the appropriate header value is achieved by comparing a list of + server options against the quality-indexed values supplied by the client. + + In the following example, the Accept header is parsed and then matched against + a list of server options to serve the appropriate media using + 'mapAcceptMedia': + + > getHeader >>= maybe send406Error sendResourceWith . mapAcceptMedia + > [ ("text/html", asHtml) + > , ("application/json", asJson) + > ] + + Similarly, the Content-Type header can be used to produce a parser for request + bodies based on the given content type with 'mapContentMedia': + + > getContentType >>= maybe send415Error readRequestBodyWith . mapContentMedia + > [ ("application/json", parseJson) + > , ("text/plain", parseText) + > ] + + The API is agnostic to your choice of server. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |