I'm trying to modify a bit the MirageOS http-fetch example (https://github.com/mirage/mirage-skeleton) that can be found inside mirage-skeleton but I'm having some problems understanding why I can't move some of the function executed inside the config.ml file to my unikernel.ml file. The original config.ml file follows (I'll copy just the interesting part) :
[...]
let client =
foreign "Unikernel.Client" @@ console @-> resolver @-> conduit @-> job
let () =
add_to_ocamlfind_libraries ["mirage-http"];
add_to_opam_packages ["mirage-http"];
let sv4 = stack default_console in
let res_dns = resolver_dns sv4 in
let conduit = conduit_direct sv4 in
let job = [ client $ default_console $ res_dns $ conduit ] in
register "http-fetch" job
What I'm trying to do is move these two lines :
let res_dns = resolver_dns sv4 in
let conduit = conduit_direct sv4 in
into my unikernel.ml start method. Basically I want to pass to my module just the stack and let it create a dns resolver and a conduit. My start function follows:
let start c s =
C.log_s c (sprintf "Resolving in 1s using DNS server %s" ns) >>= fun () ->
OS.Time.sleep 1.0 >>= fun () ->
let res_dns = resolver_dns s in
let conduit = conduit_direct s in
http_fetch c res_dns conduit >>= fun (data) ->
Lwt.return(dump_to_db data);
Right now I'm getting this error at http_fetch parameters submission:
Error: This expression has type Mirage.resolver Mirage.impl
but an expression was expected of type Resolver_lwt.t
What I'm asking here is mostly a conceptual question because I'm clearly missing something. I'm not an expert in OCaml/MirageOS but this controversial behaviour of type mismatch is hard to understand considering that I'm just calling the same function from a different file.
config.ml
is used to generate main.ml
. You can copy the generated code from there if you want.