ocaml-erlang-port

Installation

$ ocaml setup.ml -configure
$ ocaml setup.ml -build
$ ocaml setup.ml -install

Examples

OCaml

open ErlangTerm

let port_command_dispatcher old_value = function
  | ET_Tuple [ET_Atom "forget"; _] ->
    None, ET_Atom "ok"
  | ET_Tuple [ET_Atom "set"; term] ->
    Some term, ET_Atom "ok"
  | ET_Tuple [ET_Atom "get"; _] ->
    old_value, begin match old_value with
        | None -> ET_Tuple [ET_Atom "error"; ET_Atom "no_value"]
        | Some term -> ET_Tuple [ET_Atom "ok"; term]
    end
  | _ -> raise (Failure "Unknown command")
  ;;

ErlangPort.erlang_port_interact_with_key port_command_dispatcher None

To compile the code above run:

$ cd examples/
$ ocamlfind ocamlopt -package ocaml-erlang-port -linkpkg -o port_sample port_sample.ml

Erlang

Make sure you have mavg package installed. Then launch the port_sample binary using portserver.erl.

1> c(portserver).
{ok,portserver}
2> portserver:start_link({local, ocaml}, "./port_sample").
{ok,<0.40.0>}
3> portserver:call(ocaml, get, []).
{error,no_value}
4> portserver:call(ocaml, set, {foo,bar}).
ok
5> portserver:call(ocaml, get, []).
{ok,{foo,bar}}
6> portserver:call(ocaml, forget, []).
ok
7> portserver:call(ocaml, get, []).
{error,no_value}
8> portserver:ping(ocaml).
pong
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