package bookaml

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Module Bookaml_amazon

Module providing facilities for finding information about books. It works by invoking the Amazon Product Advertising API, and therefore most of its functions require the associate tag, access key, and secret key available to registered users of Amazon Web Services.

Exceptions

exception No_response
exception No_match of [ `ISBN10 | `ISBN13 ] Bookaml_ISBN.t

Inner modules

module Locale : sig ... end

Definition of the various supported Amazon locales.

Type definitions

type credential_t = {
  1. locale : Locale.t;
  2. associate_tag : string;
  3. access_key : string;
  4. secret_key : string;
}

Credential for Amazon Web Services.

type criteria_t

Search criteria expected by some ENGINE functions. The search criteria must be created beforehand by function make_criteria.

Public functions and values

val make_credential : locale:Locale.t -> associate_tag:string -> access_key:string -> secret_key:string -> credential_t

Constructs the AWS credential that is required for ENGINE functions.

val make_criteria : ?title:string -> ?author:string -> ?publisher:string -> ?keywords:string -> unit -> criteria_t

Constructs the search criteria that may be given to ENGINE functions. The search criteria may consist of any combination of title, author, publisher, or generic keywords. If none are specified, exception Invalid_arg is raised.

Public module types

module type XMLHANDLER = sig ... end
module type HTTPGETTER = sig ... end
module type ENGINE = sig ... end

Public functors