[racket] struct contract violation problem

Since there's little background here, I thought I'd just add that this
feature you're coming across is one of the critical things that underpins
Racket and differentiates it from languages like python and ruby. That is,
what you're seeing is that Racket has a way to make unforgeable values.
This ability is (in addition to lots of stuff, notably macros) is what
makes it possible for Racket's class system to be a library and lots of
other things that you'd expect to be built into a language to also be
libraries.

As a little example, if you have these files:

;; a.rkt
#lang racket
(struct url (stuff more-stuff))

;; b.rkt
#lang racket
(struct url (stuff more-stuff))

;; c.rkt
#lang racket
(require (prefix-in a: "a.rkt") (prefix-in b: "b.rkt"))
(b:url-stuff (a:url 1 2))


you'll see an error message very similar to the one you reported.

It is the struct declaration's location (technically when it is evaluated
-- you can even stick them inside functions and each time you call the
function you get a different notion of "url") that determines which is
which.

This is why, for example, you cannot see the hidden stuff inside the class
and object structs. Or, for that matter functions! The "lambda" that #lang
racket exports is a lot fancier than the low-level built-in lambda, and
that is all implemented with structs. Indeed, you cannot tell what is
primitive and what is implemented with a struct in some private file
(unless you read the source code). Or, to put it another way: everything is
implemented with struct and the runtime system is just good at optimizing a
small subset of the structs where performance matters.

Robby



On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Erik Pearson <erik at adaptations.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Here are two ideas.
>>
>> 1) You simply have an old use of the original net/url. When #<url> is
>> printed, it uses the symbolic name and you can't really figure out
>> what the underlying code came from. I would do a grep to make sure
>> this is not the case.
>>
>
> Would the operative places to look be the point at which the url object is
> created and then where it is used? In other words, if it is created in the
> context of net/url (i.e. a module where net/url is required) and used in a
> module with adaptnet/url required, it will look like a #<url> (when
> printed) but not be a url? according to adaptnet/url's url-structs, and
> where the object travels in between doesn't make a difference?
>
>
>> 2) You are using namespaces somewhere and actually have two instances
>> of the same module somewhere where a value produced by copy 1 is going
>> to copy 2. This is possible with the Web server if you don't set up
>> the servlet namespace properly:
>>
>>
>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/dispatch-servlets.html#(part._namespace)
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Erik Pearson <erik at adaptations.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Excuse my poor experience with contracts, this is probably an easy one.
>> >
>> > I'm using a copy of net/url and have a strange problem. The copied
>> library
>> > is working fine in general, but this problem cropped up today:
>> >
>> > struct:exn:fail:contract:blame url-port: contract violation
>> > expected: url?
>> > given: #<url>
>> > in: the 1st argument of
>> > (-> url? (or/c #f number?))
>> > contract from:
>> > /home/epearson/work/racket/github/adaptnet/url-structs.rkt
>> > blaming: /home/epearson/work/racket/github/racqueb/httpc.rkt
>> > at: /home/epearson/work/racket/github/adaptnet/url-structs.rkt:4.28
>> >
>> > The error is thrown in my usage of url-port which is being passed a
>> > perfectly good url struct object. The file is requiring the copied
>> > url-structs. If I play with the function that is being blamed in
>> httpc.rkt
>> > via the repl in dr racket, this specific error is not thrown. The call
>> to
>> > (url-port url) succeeds without throwing this contract exception.
>> >
>> > From my primitive understanding, I'm flummoxed: Why is a #<url> not a
>> url?
>> >
>> > I suspected that there may have been a leftover require of net/url
>> confusing
>> > things, but I can't find any in my code.
>> >
>> > Using racket head from github 5.90.0.9--2013-10-20(d6610289/d)
>> >
>> > Help!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Erik.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>
>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>>
>
>
>
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