Haskell Cookbook

How it works...

You will notice a few peculiar things in this recipes:

• The UserIntimation data is required to be an instance of Binary. This is required for serialization between the calling process and called process.
• We first create a transport. In this case, we start the backend on a local server at port 10501.
• We create a node where we would like to run the processes.
• We use the Process monad to define what we want to do at the node.
• The runProcess function takes the Process monad and converts it to IO action.
• The receiveWait and match functions are used to wrap up the kind of messages we expect to run in Process.
• We declare our expectation using either expect or expectTimeout. We use expectTimeout to showcase that if we do not get a ...