Can't launch ocsigen server due to failure : ("That function cannot be called here because it needs information about the request or the site.") - ocaml

Question

I want to create a service who generates its HTML according to the parameter given and a map. Given the parameter, the service search in the map for the html, and a function to launch on client side.
type sample =
(string (* little text *)*
Html5_types.html Eliom_content.Html5.elt (* html page *) *
(unit -> unit)(* Demonstration function *))
Given that the function is to be launched on client side, I insert it in the map as a client value :
{client{
let demo_function = ignore (Ojquery.add_html
(Ojquery.jQ "li") "<p id='test1'>new paragraph</p>") }}
let get_samples () =
let samples_map = Samples.empty in
let samples_map = Samples.add "add_html"
("text",
(Eliom_tools.F.html
(** html stuff **)
),
{unit->unit{demo_function}}) samples_map in
samples_map
And then I register the service like this :
let sample_service =
Eliom_service.service
~path:["examples"]
~get_params:Eliom_parameter.(string "entry")
()
let () =
Examples_app.register
~service:sample_service
(fun (entry) () ->
try
(let entry = Samples.find entry samples_map in
let html = ((function (name, html, func) -> html) entry) in
let func = ((function (name, html, func) -> func) entry) in
ignore {unit{%func ()}};
Lwt.return (html))
with Not_found -> Lwt.return (not_found)
)
The rest of the code is pretty much only the result of a classic eliom-distillery, with the inclusion of the ojquery package for the client function used.
The compilation phase goes smoothly, but when I try to launch the server, I get the following error message :
ocsigenserver: main: Fatal - Error in configuration file: Error while parsing configuration file: Eliom: while loading local/lib/examples/examples.cma: Failure("That function cannot be called here because it needs information about the request or the site.")
My first guess was that it is due to the fact that I store client values outside of a service, but is there any way to store this kind of values on the server?
I tried to wrap them in regular functions :
let demo_serv_func () = {unit{demo_client_func ()}}
But the problem remained...

Answer 1

I found the issue. The problem was not because I stored client functions, but because I used Eliom_tools.F.html outside of a service.
It happens that Eliom_tools needs the context of the service to function, and since I was storing it outside of the service, it could not work.
I solved the issue by using Eliom_tools inside the service, and storing the body of the HTML page in the map.