Call this function if you want to be able to run your client side app before doing the first request, that is, when the client side app is not sent by the server. This may be the case for example if you are developing a mobile app. The parameters correspond to the base URL of the server side of your application.

Alternatively, and to make sure it is done early enough, define JS variables called __eliom_server and __eliom_app_name at the beginning of your html file, containing the full URL of your server and Eliom app name.

site_dir (if given) specifies the path that the application runs under. It should correspond to the <site> tag of your server configuration. Calls to server functions use this path.

Returns whether the application is sent by a server or started on client side. If called on server side, always returns false. Otherwise, it tests the presence of JS variables added automatically by Eliom when the page is sent by a server. Example:

    if not (Eliom_client.is_client_app ())
then Eliom_client.init_client_app ... 

Call a service and change the current page. If the service belongs to the same application, the client side program is not stopped, and only the content (not the container) is reloaded. If the replace flag is set, the new page will replace the current page in the browser history if the service belongs to the same application. The last two parameters are respectively the GET and POST parameters to send to the service. If window_name is provided and not "_self" (for example "_blank"), will behave as exit_to.

Call a server side service that return an OCaml value.

If the service raises an exception, the call to the call_ocaml_service raises an exception <<a_api|exception Exception_on_server>> whose argument describes the server-side exception. (NB that we cannot send the original exception as-it, because OCaml permits the marshalling of exceptions ...)

Stop current program and load a new page. Note that for string arguments, sole line feed or sole carriage return characters are substituted by the string "\r\n". If window_name is specified (for example "_blank"), open in new window by calling Javascript function window.open. In that case, you can add window_features parameter (as in Javascript function window.open). Warning: opening in other window may not work on mobile apps if window.open is not implemented.

Loads an Eliom service in a window (cf. Javascript's window.open).

Changes the URL, without doing a request. It takes a GET (co-)service as parameter and its parameters. If the replace flag is set, the current page is not saved in the history.

(low level) Call a server side service and return the content of the resulting HTTP frame as a string.

Registers some code to be executed after loading the client application, or after changing the page the next time.

It complements as a toplevel expression in the client module with the side effect from client values while creating the response of a service: While the latter are executed each time the service has been called; the former is executed only once; but each at a time where the document is in place:

Beware of using onload when using the DOM caching functionality, i.e. push_history_dom. When switching to a cached page (e.g. by going back) the onload event is not triggered (as the page is not loaded). To avoid this problem rely on Page_status.onactive which is triggered for freshly generated pages as well as pages served from the DOM cache.

<<code language="ocaml"| [%%shared open Eliom_lib] [%%client let () = alert "Once only during initialization of the client, \ i.e. before the document is available." let () = Eliom_client.onload (fun () -> alert "Once only when the document is put in place.") ] [%%server let _ = My_app.register_service ~path ~get_params (fun () () -> ignore {unit{ alert "Each time this service is called and the sent document \ is put in place." }}; Lwt.return html ] >>

Returns a Lwt thread that waits until the next page is loaded.

changepage_event is a record of some parameters related to page changes. in_cache is true if the dom of the page is cached by push_history_dom. origin_uri is the uri of the current page and target_uri is the uri of the next page. origin_id is the state_id of the current page and target_id is the state_id of the next page. target_id is not None if and only if the onchangepage event takes place during a navigation in history.

Run some code *before* the next page change, that is, before each call to a page-producing service handler. Just like onpreload, handlers registered with onchangepage only apply to the next page change.

onbeforeunload f registers f as a handler to be called before changing the page the next time. If f returns Some s, then we ask the user to confirm quitting. We try to use s in the confirmation pop-up. None means no confirmation needed.

The callback f is sometimes triggered by internal service calls, and sometimes by the browser onbeforeunload event. In the onbeforeunload case, the confirmation pop-up is managed by the browser. For Firefox, the string s returned by f is ignored: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641509

onbeforeunload can be used to register multiple callbacks.

onunload f registers f as a handler to be called before page change. The callback f is sometimes triggered by internal service calls, and sometimes by the browser onunload event. onunload can be used to register multiple callbacks.

Wait for the initialization phase to terminate

Returns the name of currently running Eliom application, defined while applying Eliom_registration.App functor.

After this function is called, the document head is no longer changed on page change.

A ('a, 'b) server_function provides transparently access to a server side function which has been created by <<a_api subproject="server"| val Eliom_client.server_function>> .

See also <<a_api subproject="server" text="the opaque server side representation"| type Eliom_client.server_function>> .

The handling of exception on the server corresponds to that of <<a_api subproject="client"|val Eliom_client.call_ocaml_service>>.

change_page_uri ?replace uri identifies and calls the client-side service that implements uri.

We fallback to a server service call if the service is not registered on the client.

If the replace flag is set to true, the current page is not saved in the history.

Set the name of the HTML file loading our client app. The default is "eliom.html". A wrong value will not allow the app to initialize itself correctly.