Module Eliom_client

module Eliom_client: sig .. end

Returns whether the application is sent by a server or started on client side. If called on server side, always returns false. Otherwise, it tests the presence of JS variables added automatically by Eliom when the page is sent by a server. Example:

 if not (Eliom_client.is_client_app ())
 then Eliom_client.init_client_app ...

val is_client_app : unit -> bool

RPC / Server functions

See the .

type ('a, 'b) server_function

A value of type ('a, 'b) server_function is created on the server from a function 'a -> 'b Lwt.t and provides a given function on the client side. See also .

val server_function : ?scope:[< Eliom_common.scope ] ->
       ?options:unit ->
       ?charset:string ->
       ?code:int ->
       ?content_type:string ->
       ?headers:Ocsigen_header.t ->
       ?secure_session:bool ->
       ?name:string ->
       ?csrf_safe:bool ->
       ?csrf_scope:[< Eliom_common.user_scope ] ->
       ?csrf_secure:bool ->
       ?max_use:int ->
       ?timeout:float ->
       ?https:bool ->
       ?error_handler:((string * exn) list -> 'b Lwt.t) ->
       'a Deriving_Json.t ->
       ('a -> 'b Lwt.t) -> ('a, 'b) server_function

server_function argument_type f creates a value of type . This allows to call f from the client. The first argument argument_type is an instance of Deriving_Json for the type of the argument. It is used to safely encode and decode the argument sent to the server.

The optional parameters correspond directly to the optional parameters of .