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{- |
Module : Control.Monad.Error
Copyright : (c) Michael Weber <michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de> 2001,
(c) Jeff Newbern 2003-2006,
(c) Andriy Palamarchuk 2006
License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org
Stability : experimental
Portability : non-portable (type families)
[Computation type:] Computations which may fail or throw exceptions.
[Binding strategy:] Failure records information about the cause\/location
of the failure. Failure values bypass the bound function,
other values are used as inputs to the bound function.
[Useful for:] Building computations from sequences of functions that may fail
or using exception handling to structure error handling.
[Zero and plus:] Zero is represented by an empty error and the plus operation
executes its second argument if the first fails.
[Example type:] @'Data.Either' String a@
The Error monad (also called the Exception monad).
-}
{-
Rendered by Michael Weber <mailto:michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de>,
inspired by the Haskell Monad Template Library from
Andy Gill (<http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~andy/>)
-}
module Control.Monad.Error (
-- * Monads with error handling
MonadError(..),
Error,
-- * The ErrorT monad transformer
ErrorT(..),
mapErrorT,
module Control.Monad,
module Control.Monad.Fix,
module Control.Monad.Trans,
-- * Example 1: Custom Error Data Type
-- $customErrorExample
-- * Example 2: Using ErrorT Monad Transformer
-- $ErrorTExample
) where
import Control.Monad.Error.Class
import Control.Monad.Trans
import Control.Monad.Trans.Error (ErrorT(..), mapErrorT)
import Control.Monad
import Control.Monad.Fix
import Control.Monad.Instances ()
{- $customErrorExample
Here is an example that demonstrates the use of a custom 'Error' data type with
the 'throwError' and 'catchError' exception mechanism from 'MonadError'.
The example throws an exception if the user enters an empty string
or a string longer than 5 characters. Otherwise it prints length of the string.
>-- This is the type to represent length calculation error.
>data LengthError = EmptyString -- Entered string was empty.
> | StringTooLong Int -- A string is longer than 5 characters.
> -- Records a length of the string.
> | OtherError String -- Other error, stores the problem description.
>
>-- We make LengthError an instance of the Error class
>-- to be able to throw it as an exception.
>instance Error LengthError where
> noMsg = OtherError "A String Error!"
> strMsg s = OtherError s
>
>-- Converts LengthError to a readable message.
>instance Show LengthError where
> show EmptyString = "The string was empty!"
> show (StringTooLong len) =
> "The length of the string (" ++ (show len) ++ ") is bigger than 5!"
> show (OtherError msg) = msg
>
>-- For our monad type constructor, we use Either LengthError
>-- which represents failure using Left LengthError
>-- or a successful result of type a using Right a.
>type LengthMonad = Either LengthError
>
>main = do
> putStrLn "Please enter a string:"
> s <- getLine
> reportResult (calculateLength s)
>
>-- Wraps length calculation to catch the errors.
>-- Returns either length of the string or an error.
>calculateLength :: String -> LengthMonad Int
>calculateLength s = (calculateLengthOrFail s) `catchError` Left
>
>-- Attempts to calculate length and throws an error if the provided string is
>-- empty or longer than 5 characters.
>-- The processing is done in Either monad.
>calculateLengthOrFail :: String -> LengthMonad Int
>calculateLengthOrFail [] = throwError EmptyString
>calculateLengthOrFail s | len > 5 = throwError (StringTooLong len)
> | otherwise = return len
> where len = length s
>
>-- Prints result of the string length calculation.
>reportResult :: LengthMonad Int -> IO ()
>reportResult (Right len) = putStrLn ("The length of the string is " ++ (show len))
>reportResult (Left e) = putStrLn ("Length calculation failed with error: " ++ (show e))
-}
{- $ErrorTExample
@'ErrorT'@ monad transformer can be used to add error handling to another monad.
Here is an example how to combine it with an @IO@ monad:
>import Control.Monad.Error
>
>-- An IO monad which can return String failure.
>-- It is convenient to define the monad type of the combined monad,
>-- especially if we combine more monad transformers.
>type LengthMonad = ErrorT String IO
>
>main = do
> -- runErrorT removes the ErrorT wrapper
> r <- runErrorT calculateLength
> reportResult r
>
>-- Asks user for a non-empty string and returns its length.
>-- Throws an error if user enters an empty string.
>calculateLength :: LengthMonad Int
>calculateLength = do
> -- all the IO operations have to be lifted to the IO monad in the monad stack
> liftIO $ putStrLn "Please enter a non-empty string: "
> s <- liftIO getLine
> if null s
> then throwError "The string was empty!"
> else return $ length s
>
>-- Prints result of the string length calculation.
>reportResult :: Either String Int -> IO ()
>reportResult (Right len) = putStrLn ("The length of the string is " ++ (show len))
>reportResult (Left e) = putStrLn ("Length calculation failed with error: " ++ (show e))
-}
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