Pipes.Text.IO

Simple streaming text IO

Where pipes IO replaces lazy IO, Producer Text IO r replaces lazy Text. The official IO of this package and the pipes ecosystem generally would use the IO functions in Pipes.ByteString and the encoding and decoding material in Pipes.Text.Encoding.

The streaming functions exported here, namely, readFile, writeFile, fromHandle, toHandle, stdin and stdout simplify this and use the system encoding on the model of Data.Text.IO and Data.Text.Lazy.IO Some caveats described below.

The main points are as in Pipes.ByteString:

A Handle can be associated with a Producer or Consumer according as it is read or written to.

import Pipes
import qualified Pipes.Text as Text
import qualified Pipes.Text.IO as Text
import System.IO

main =
    withFile "inFile.txt"  ReadMode  $ \hIn  ->
    withFile "outFile.txt" WriteMode $ \hOut ->
    runEffect $ Text.fromHandle hIn >-> Text.toHandle hOut

To stream from files, the following is perhaps more Prelude-like (note that it uses Pipes.Safe):

import Pipes
import qualified Pipes.Text as Text
import qualified Pipes.Text.IO as Text
import Pipes.Safe

main = runSafeT $ runEffect $ Text.readFile "inFile.txt" >-> Text.writeFile "outFile.txt"

Finally, you can stream to and from stdin and stdout using the predefined stdin and stdout pipes, as with the following "echo" program:

main = runEffect $ Text.stdin >-> Text.stdout

These programs, unlike the corresponding programs written with the line-based functions, will pass along a 1 terabyte line without affecting memory use.

Caveats

The operations exported here are a convenience, like the similar operations in Data.Text.IO (or rather, Data.Text.Lazy.IO, since, again, Producer Text m r is 'effectful text' and something like the pipes equivalent of lazy Text.)

• Like the functions in Data.Text.IO, they attempt to work with the system encoding.
• Like the functions in Data.Text.IO, they significantly slower than ByteString operations. Where you know what encoding you are working with, use Pipes.ByteString and Pipes.Text.Encoding instead, e.g. view utf8 Bytes.stdin instead of Text.stdin
• Like the functions in Data.Text.IO , they use Text exceptions, not the standard Pipes protocols.

Producers

fromHandle :: MonadIO m => Handle -> Producer Text m ()

Convert a Handle into a text stream using a text size determined by the good sense of the text library. Note with the remarks at the head of this module that this is slower than view utf8 (Pipes.ByteString.fromHandle h) but uses the system encoding and has other nice Data.Text.IO features

stdin :: MonadIO m => Producer Text m ()

Stream text from stdin

readFile :: MonadSafe m => FilePath -> Producer Text m ()

Stream text from a file in the simple fashion of Data.Text.IO

>>> runSafeT $ runEffect $ Text.readFile "hello.hs" >-> Text.map toUpper >-> hoist lift Text.stdout
MAIN = PUTSTRLN "HELLO WORLD"

Consumers

toHandle :: MonadIO m => Handle -> Consumer' Text m r

Convert a text stream into a Handle

Note: again, for best performance, where possible use (for source (liftIO . hPutStr handle)) instead of (source >-> toHandle handle).

stdout :: MonadIO m => Consumer' Text m ()

Stream text to stdout

Unlike toHandle, stdout gracefully terminates on a broken output pipe.

Note: For best performance, it might be best just to use (for source (liftIO . putStr)) instead of (source >-> stdout) .

writeFile :: MonadSafe m => FilePath -> Consumer' Text m ()

Stream text into a file. Uses pipes-safe.

Re-exports

class (MonadCatch m, MonadMask m, MonadIO m, MonadIO (Base m)) => MonadSafe (m :: Type -> Type) where

MonadSafe lets you register and release finalizers that execute in a Base monad

Associated Types

type Base (m :: Type -> Type) :: Type -> Type

The monad used to run resource management actions, corresponding to the monad directly beneath SafeT

Methods

liftBase :: Base m r -> m r

Lift an action from the Base monad

register :: Base m () -> m ReleaseKey

register a finalizer, ensuring that the finalizer gets called if the finalizer is not released before the end of the surrounding SafeT block.

release :: ReleaseKey -> m ()

release a registered finalizer

You can safely call release more than once on the same ReleaseKey. Every release after the first one does nothing.

Instances

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (CatchT m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (CatchT m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (CatchT m) r -> CatchT m r

register :: Base (CatchT m) () -> CatchT m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> CatchT m ()

(MonadIO m, MonadCatch m, MonadMask m) => MonadSafe (SafeT m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (SafeT m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (SafeT m) r -> SafeT m r

register :: Base (SafeT m) () -> SafeT m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> SafeT m ()

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (IdentityT m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (IdentityT m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (IdentityT m) r -> IdentityT m r

register :: Base (IdentityT m) () -> IdentityT m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> IdentityT m ()

(MonadSafe m, Monoid w) => MonadSafe (WriterT w m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (WriterT w m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (WriterT w m) r -> WriterT w m r

register :: Base (WriterT w m) () -> WriterT w m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> WriterT w m ()

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (StateT s m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (StateT s m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (StateT s m) r -> StateT s m r

register :: Base (StateT s m) () -> StateT s m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> StateT s m ()

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (ReaderT i m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (ReaderT i m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (ReaderT i m) r -> ReaderT i m r

register :: Base (ReaderT i m) () -> ReaderT i m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> ReaderT i m ()

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (StateT s m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (StateT s m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (StateT s m) r -> StateT s m r

register :: Base (StateT s m) () -> StateT s m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> StateT s m ()

(MonadSafe m, Monoid w) => MonadSafe (WriterT w m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (WriterT w m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (WriterT w m) r -> WriterT w m r

register :: Base (WriterT w m) () -> WriterT w m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> WriterT w m ()

(MonadSafe m, Monoid w) => MonadSafe (RWST i w s m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (RWST i w s m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (RWST i w s m) r -> RWST i w s m r

register :: Base (RWST i w s m) () -> RWST i w s m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> RWST i w s m ()

(MonadSafe m, Monoid w) => MonadSafe (RWST i w s m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (RWST i w s m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (RWST i w s m) r -> RWST i w s m r

register :: Base (RWST i w s m) () -> RWST i w s m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> RWST i w s m ()

MonadSafe m => MonadSafe (Proxy a' a b' b m)

Defined in Pipes.Safe

Associated Types

type Base (Proxy a' a b' b m) :: Type -> Type

Methods

liftBase :: Base (Proxy a' a b' b m) r -> Proxy a' a b' b m r

register :: Base (Proxy a' a b' b m) () -> Proxy a' a b' b m ReleaseKey

release :: ReleaseKey -> Proxy a' a b' b m ()

runSafeT :: (MonadMask m, MonadIO m) => SafeT m r -> m r

Run the SafeT monad transformer, executing all unreleased finalizers at the end of the computation

runSafeP :: forall (m :: Type -> Type) r. (MonadMask m, MonadIO m) => Effect (SafeT m) r -> Effect' m r

Run SafeT in the base monad, executing all unreleased finalizers at the end of the computation

Use runSafeP to safely flush all unreleased finalizers and ensure prompt finalization without exiting the Proxy monad.

withFile :: MonadSafe m => FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> m r) -> m r

Acquire a Handle within MonadSafe

The file is opened in text mode. See also: withBinaryFile