I want to translate the following Javascript example program in OCaml, using js_of_ocaml
:
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.region = 'us-west-2';
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
s3.listBuckets(function(err, data) {
if (err) { console.log("Error:", err); }
else {
for (var index in data.Buckets) {
var bucket = data.Buckets[index];
console.log("Bucket: ", bucket.Name, ' : ', bucket.CreationDate);
}
}
});
I wrote the following OCaml snippet
let require_module s =
Js.Unsafe.fun_call
(Js.Unsafe.js_expr "require")
[|Js.Unsafe.inject (Js.string s)|]
module AWS : sig
type error
class type s3 = object
method listBuckets :
(error -> Js.Unsafe.any -> unit) Js.callback -> unit Js.meth
end
val s3client : unit -> s3
end = struct
let _js_aws = require_module "aws-sdk"
type error =
Js.Unsafe.any
class type s3 = object
method listBuckets :
(error -> Js.Unsafe.any -> unit) Js.callback -> unit Js.meth
end
let s3client () =
let constr_s3 = _js_aws ## S3 in
new%js constr_s3 ()
end
but when I compile it with
ocamlfind ocamlc -c -package "js_of_ocaml js_of_ocaml.syntax" -o example_s3.cmo example_s3.ml
It dies with
Error: '##' is not a valid value identifier.
How can I fix my program or my compilation command to fix this?
If you want to use the package js_of_ocaml.syntax
you must add the -syntax camlp4o
option to ocamlfind.
But you should use the new ppx syntax instead of the old camlp4 one (which you seem to know since you use new%js
).
For that you need to replace js_of_ocaml.syntax
with the package for the ppx syntax.