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标题：Multiparty Session Type-safe Web Development with Static Linearity
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作者：Jonathan King ; Nicholas Ng ; Nobuko Yoshida 等
期刊名称：Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
电子版ISSN：2075-2180
出版年度：2019
卷号：291
页码：35-46
DOI：10.4204/EPTCS.291.4
语种：English
出版社：Open Publishing Association
摘要：Modern web applications can now offer desktop-like experiences from within the browser, thanks to technologies such as WebSockets, which enable low-latency duplex communication between the browser and the server. While these advances are great for the user experience, they represent a new responsibility for web developers who now need to manage and verify the correctness of more complex and potentially stateful interactions in their application. In this paper, we present a technique for developing interactive web applications that are statically guaranteed to communicate following a given protocol. First, the global interaction protocol is described in the Scribble protocol language – based on multiparty session types. Scribble protocols are checked for well-formedness, and then each role is projected to a Finite State Machine representing the structure of communication from the perspective of the role. We use source code generation and a novel type-level encoding of FSMs using multi-parameter type classes to leverage the type system of the target language and guarantee only programs that communicate following the protocol will type check. Our work targets PureScript – a functional language that compiles to JavaScript – which crucially has an expressive enough type system to provide static linearity guarantees. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through a web-based Battleship game where communication is performed through WebSocket connections.