Re: [Caml-list] invoke function from its name as string

[Berke Durak <berke.durak@exalead.com>]

Ludovic Coquelle a écrit :
> First, hello everyone as it is my first message to this list ;)
> 
> I'm trying to solve this problem:
> I have a module name and function name in string variables,
> and I would like to call this function, like :
> let mod = "MyMod" in
> let fn = "my_fun" in
> what_come_here mod fn
> 
> Can this problem be solved?

There is a Turkish saying stating that "There is a solution to every
problem in a democracy"!

So here you go.

Note that since you're asking for a hackish operation, I felt authorized
to use a hackish solution, using Dynlink.

File alpha.ml:

let f () = Printf.printf "Alpha.f\n%!"

--

File foo.ml:

module A = Alpha

let _ = Dynlink.init ()

let call md fn =
   let oc = open_out "x.ml" in
   Printf.fprintf oc "let _ = %s.%s ()\n" md fn;
   close_out oc;
   if Sys.command "ocamlbuild x.byte" <> 0 then failwith "Duh";
   try
     Dynlink.add_interfaces ["alpha"] ["_build"];
     Dynlink.loadfile "_build/x.cmo"
   with
   | Dynlink.Error e ->
     Printf.printf "Too bad: %s\n%!" (Dynlink.error_message e)

let _ =
   call Sys.argv.(1) Sys.argv.(2)

--

% ocamlbuild.native -tags use_dynlink foo.byte
% ./foo.byte Alpha f
Alpha.f

-- 
Berke DURAK