{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies, FlexibleContexts #-} {-# OPTIONS -fallow-undecidable-instances #-} -- Needed for the same reasons as in Reader, State etc {- | Module : Control.Monad.Error Copyright : (c) Michael Weber 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 (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:] @'Data.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 ( module Control.Monad.Error.Class, 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 import Control.Monad.Cont.Class import Control.Monad.Error.Class import Control.Monad.Fix import Control.Monad.RWS.Class import Control.Monad.Reader.Class import Control.Monad.State.Class import Control.Monad.Trans import Control.Monad.Writer.Class import Control.Monad.Instances () import Data.Monoid import System.IO instance MonadPlus IO where mzero = ioError (userError "mzero") m `mplus` n = m `catch` \_ -> n type instance ErrorType IO = IOError instance MonadError IO where throwError = ioError catchError = catch -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Our parameterizable error monad instance (Error e) => Monad (Either e) where return = Right Left l >>= _ = Left l Right r >>= k = k r fail msg = Left (strMsg msg) instance (Error e) => MonadPlus (Either e) where mzero = Left noMsg Left _ `mplus` n = n m `mplus` _ = m instance (Error e) => MonadFix (Either e) where mfix f = let a = f $ case a of Right r -> r _ -> error "empty mfix argument" in a type instance ErrorType (Either e) = e instance (Error e) => MonadError (Either e) where throwError = Left Left l `catchError` h = h l Right r `catchError` _ = Right r {- | The error monad transformer. It can be used to add error handling to other monads. The @ErrorT@ Monad structure is parameterized over two things: * e - The error type. * m - The inner monad. Here are some examples of use: > -- wraps IO action that can throw an error e > type ErrorWithIO e a = ErrorT e IO a > ==> ErrorT (IO (Either e a)) > > -- IO monad wrapped in StateT inside of ErrorT > type ErrorAndStateWithIO e s a = ErrorT e (StateT s IO) a > ==> ErrorT (StateT s IO (Either e a)) > ==> ErrorT (StateT (s -> IO (Either e a,s))) -} newtype ErrorT e m a = ErrorT { runErrorT :: m (Either e a) } mapErrorT :: (m (Either e a) -> n (Either e' b)) -> ErrorT e m a -> ErrorT e' n b mapErrorT f m = ErrorT $ f (runErrorT m) instance (Monad m) => Functor (ErrorT e m) where fmap f m = ErrorT $ do a <- runErrorT m case a of Left l -> return (Left l) Right r -> return (Right (f r)) instance (Monad m, Error e) => Monad (ErrorT e m) where return a = ErrorT $ return (Right a) m >>= k = ErrorT $ do a <- runErrorT m case a of Left l -> return (Left l) Right r -> runErrorT (k r) fail msg = ErrorT $ return (Left (strMsg msg)) instance (Monad m, Error e) => MonadPlus (ErrorT e m) where mzero = ErrorT $ return (Left noMsg) m `mplus` n = ErrorT $ do a <- runErrorT m case a of Left _ -> runErrorT n Right r -> return (Right r) instance (MonadFix m, Error e) => MonadFix (ErrorT e m) where mfix f = ErrorT $ mfix $ \a -> runErrorT $ f $ case a of Right r -> r _ -> error "empty mfix argument" type instance ErrorType (ErrorT e m) = e instance (Monad m, Error e) => MonadError (ErrorT e m) where throwError l = ErrorT $ return (Left l) m `catchError` h = ErrorT $ do a <- runErrorT m case a of Left l -> runErrorT (h l) Right r -> return (Right r) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Instances for other mtl transformers instance (Error e) => MonadTrans (ErrorT e) where lift m = ErrorT $ do a <- m return (Right a) instance (Error e, MonadIO m) => MonadIO (ErrorT e m) where liftIO = lift . liftIO instance (Error e, MonadCont m) => MonadCont (ErrorT e m) where callCC f = ErrorT $ callCC $ \c -> runErrorT (f (\a -> ErrorT $ c (Right a))) instance (Error e, Monoid (WriterType m), MonadRWS m) => MonadRWS (ErrorT e m) type instance EnvType (ErrorT e m) = EnvType m instance (Error e, MonadReader m) => MonadReader (ErrorT e m) where ask = lift ask local f m = ErrorT $ local f (runErrorT m) type instance StateType (ErrorT e m) = StateType m instance (Error e, MonadState m) => MonadState (ErrorT e m) where get = lift get put = lift . put type instance WriterType (ErrorT e m) = WriterType m instance (Error e, MonadWriter m) => MonadWriter (ErrorT e m) where tell = lift . tell listen m = ErrorT $ do (a, w) <- listen (runErrorT m) case a of Left l -> return $ Left l Right r -> return $ Right (r, w) pass m = ErrorT $ pass $ do a <- runErrorT m case a of Left l -> return (Left l, id) Right (r, f) -> return (Right r, f) {- $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)) -}