vault: a persistent store for values of arbitrary types

The vault package

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A vault is a persistent store for values of arbitrary types. It's like having first-class access to the storage space behind IORefs.

The data structure is analogous to a bank vault, where you can access different bank boxes with different keys; hence the name.

Also provided is a locker type, representing a store for a single element.

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Versions 0.1.0.0, 0.2.0.0, 0.2.0.1, 0.2.0.3, 0.2.0.4, 0.3.0.0, 0.3.0.1, 0.3.0.2, 0.3.0.3, 0.3.0.4, 0.3.0.5, 0.3.0.6
Dependencies base (==4.*), containers (>=0.4 && <0.6), hashable (>=1.1 && <1.3), unordered-containers (>=0.2.1.0 && <0.3) [details]
License BSD3
Copyright (c) Heinrich Apfelmus 2011
Author Heinrich Apfelmus, Elliott Hird
Maintainer Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel de>
Stability Unknown
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Home page https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/vault
Source repository head: git clone git://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/vault.git
Uploaded Sat Dec 22 14:32:14 UTC 2012 by HeinrichApfelmus
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Readme for vault-0.2.0.4

Vault is a tiny library that provides a single data structure called vault.

A vault is a type-safe, persistent storage for values of arbitrary types. Like IORef, I want to be able to store values of any type in it, but unlike IORef, I want the storage space to behave like a persistent, first-class data structure, as appropriate for a purely functional language.

It is analogous to a bank vault, where you can access different bank boxes with different keys; hence the name.

In other words, a vault is an abstract data type with the following basic signature

data Key a
data Vault

newKey :: IO (Key a)
empty  :: Vault
lookup :: Key a -> Vault -> Maybe a
insert :: Key a -> a -> Vault -> Vault
delete :: Key a -> Vault -> Vault

A few common functions for finite maps, like adjust and union, are provided as well.

This library was created thanks to the feedback on my blog post Vault - a persistent store for values of arbitrary types.

Installation

The whole thing is available on hackage, so you just have to type

cabal update
cabal install vault

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