{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-} {- | Module : Control.Monad.Error.Class Copyright : (c) Michael Weber 2001, (c) Jeff Newbern 2003-2006, (c) Andriy Palamarchuk 2006 License : BSD-style (see the file LICENSE) Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org Stability : experimental Portability : non-portable (multi-parameter type classes) [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:] @'Either' 'String' a@ The Error monad (also called the Exception monad). -} {- Rendered by Michael Weber , inspired by the Haskell Monad Template Library from Andy Gill () -} module Control.Monad.Error.Class ( Error(..), MonadError(..), ) where import Control.Monad.Trans.Error (Error(..), ErrorT) import qualified Control.Monad.Trans.Error as ErrorT (throwError, catchError) import Control.Monad.Trans.Identity as Identity import Control.Monad.Trans.List as List import Control.Monad.Trans.Maybe as Maybe import Control.Monad.Trans.Reader as Reader import Control.Monad.Trans.RWS.Lazy as LazyRWS import Control.Monad.Trans.RWS.Strict as StrictRWS import Control.Monad.Trans.State.Lazy as LazyState import Control.Monad.Trans.State.Strict as StrictState import Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Lazy as LazyWriter import Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Strict as StrictWriter import Control.Monad.Trans.Class (lift) import Control.Exception (IOException) import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Instances () import Data.Monoid {- | The strategy of combining computations that can throw exceptions by bypassing bound functions from the point an exception is thrown to the point that it is handled. Is parameterized over the type of error information and the monad type constructor. It is common to use @'Data.Either' String@ as the monad type constructor for an error monad in which error descriptions take the form of strings. In that case and many other common cases the resulting monad is already defined as an instance of the 'MonadError' class. You can also define your own error type and\/or use a monad type constructor other than @'Either' 'String'@ or @'Either' 'IOError'@. In these cases you will have to explicitly define instances of the 'Error' and\/or 'MonadError' classes. -} class (Monad m) => MonadError e m | m -> e where -- | Is used within a monadic computation to begin exception processing. throwError :: e -> m a {- | A handler function to handle previous errors and return to normal execution. A common idiom is: > do { action1; action2; action3 } `catchError` handler where the @action@ functions can call 'throwError'. Note that @handler@ and the do-block must have the same return type. -} catchError :: m a -> (e -> m a) -> m a instance MonadError IOException IO where throwError = ioError catchError = catch -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Our parameterizable error monad instance Error e => MonadError e (Either e) where throwError = Left Left l `catchError` h = h l Right r `catchError` _ = Right r instance (Monad m, Error e) => MonadError e (ErrorT e m) where throwError = ErrorT.throwError catchError = ErrorT.catchError -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Instances for other mtl transformers -- -- All of these instances need UndecidableInstances, -- because they do not satisfy the coverage condition. instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (IdentityT m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = Identity.liftCatch catchError instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (ListT m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = List.liftCatch catchError instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (MaybeT m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = Maybe.liftCatch catchError instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (ReaderT r m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = Reader.liftCatch catchError instance (Monoid w, MonadError e m) => MonadError e (LazyRWS.RWST r w s m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = LazyRWS.liftCatch catchError instance (Monoid w, MonadError e m) => MonadError e (StrictRWS.RWST r w s m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = StrictRWS.liftCatch catchError instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (LazyState.StateT s m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = LazyState.liftCatch catchError instance MonadError e m => MonadError e (StrictState.StateT s m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = StrictState.liftCatch catchError instance (Monoid w, MonadError e m) => MonadError e (LazyWriter.WriterT w m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = LazyWriter.liftCatch catchError instance (Monoid w, MonadError e m) => MonadError e (StrictWriter.WriterT w m) where throwError = lift . throwError catchError = StrictWriter.liftCatch catchError