• Media type: E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding; Text
  • Title: Multiparty Session Programming With Global Protocol Combinators
  • Contributor: Imai, Keigo [Author]; Neykova, Rumyana [Author]; Yoshida, Nobuko [Author]; Yuen, Shoji [Author]
  • imprint: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.9
  • Keywords: Concurrent and Distributed Programming ; Multiparty Session Types ; Communication Protocol ; OCaml
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  • Description: Multiparty Session Types (MPST) is a typing discipline for communication protocols. It ensures the absence of communication errors and deadlocks for well-typed communicating processes. The state-of-the-art implementations of the MPST theory rely on (1) runtime linearity checks to ensure correct usage of communication channels and (2) external domain-specific languages for specifying and verifying multiparty protocols. To overcome these limitations, we propose a library for programming with global combinators - a set of functions for writing and verifying multiparty protocols in OCaml. Local behaviours for all processes in a protocol are inferred at once from a global combinator. We formalise global combinators and prove a sound realisability of global combinators - a well-typed global combinator derives a set of local types, by which typed endpoint programs can ensure type and communication safety. Our approach enables fully-static verification and implementation of the whole protocol, from the protocol specification to the process implementations, to happen in the same language. We compare our implementation to untyped and continuation-passing style implementations, and demonstrate its expressiveness by implementing a plethora of protocols. We show our library can interoperate with existing libraries and services, implementing DNS (Domain Name Service) protocol and the OAuth (Open Authentication) protocol.
  • Access State: Open Access