{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE DeriveAnyClass #-} {-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-} {-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-} {- | Copyright: (c) 2014 Chris Allen, Edward Kmett (c) 2018-2020 Kowainik SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 Maintainer: Kowainik Lightweight pure data validation based on 'Applicative' and 'Selective' functors. 'Validation' allows to accumulate all errors instead of short-circuting on the first error so you can display all possible errors at once. Common use-cases include: 1. Validating each input of a form with multiple inputs. 2. Performing multiple validations of a single value. 'Validation' provides __modular__ and __composable__ interface which means that you can implement validations for different pieces of your data independently, and then combine smaller parts into the validation of a bigger type. The below table illustrates main ways to combine two 'Validation's: +---------------+-------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | Typeclass | Operation ○ | 'Failure' e ○ 'Failure' d | 'Success' a ○ 'Success' b | 'Failure' e ○ 'Success' a | 'Success' a ○ 'Failure' e | +===============+=============+===========================+===========================+===========================+===========================+ | 'Semigroup' | '<>' | 'Failure' (e '<>' d) | 'Success' (a '<>' b) | 'Failure' e | 'Failure' e | +---------------+-------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | 'Applicative' | '<*>' | 'Failure' (e '<>' d) | 'Success' (a b) | 'Failure' e | 'Failure' e | +---------------+-------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | 'Alternative' | '<|>' | 'Failure' (e '<>' d) | 'Success' a | 'Success' a | 'Success' a | +---------------+-------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | 'Selective' | '<*?' | 'Failure' e | 'Selective' choice | 'Failure' e | 'Selective' choice | +---------------+-------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ In other words, instances of different standard typeclasses provide various semantics which can be useful in different use-cases: 1. 'Semigroup': accumulate both 'Failure' and 'Success' with '<>'. 2. 'Monoid': 'Success' that stores 'mempty'. 3. 'Functor': change the type inside 'Success'. 4. 'Bifunctor': change both 'Failure' and 'Success'. 5. 'Applicative': apply function to values inside 'Success' and accumulate errors inside 'Failure'. 6. 'Alternative': return the first 'Success' or accumulate all errors inside 'Failure'. 7. 'Selective': choose which validations to apply based on the value inside. -} module Validation ( -- * Type Validation (..) -- * How to use -- $use -- * Interface functions , isFailure , isSuccess , validation , failures , successes , partitionValidations , fromFailure , fromSuccess -- ** 'NonEmpty' combinators -- $nonEmptyCombinators , failure , failureIf , failureUnless -- ** 'Either' conversion -- $either , validationToEither , eitherToValidation ) where import Control.Applicative (Alternative (..), Applicative (..)) import Control.DeepSeq (NFData, NFData1, NFData2 (..)) import Control.Selective (Selective (..)) import Data.Bifoldable (Bifoldable (..)) import Data.Bifunctor (Bifunctor (..)) import Data.Bitraversable (Bitraversable (..)) import Data.Data (Data) import Data.Foldable (Foldable (..)) import Data.Kind (Constraint) import Data.List.NonEmpty (NonEmpty (..)) import GHC.Generics (Generic, Generic1) import GHC.TypeLits (ErrorMessage (..), TypeError) -- $setup -- >>> import Control.Applicative (liftA3) -- >>> import Control.Selective (ifS) -- >>> import Data.Char (isDigit) -- >>> import Data.Maybe (listToMaybe) -- >>> import Text.Read (readMaybe) {- $use This section contains the typical 'Validation' usage example. Let's say we have a form with fields where you can input your login information. >>> :{ data Form = Form { formUserName :: !String , formPassword :: !String } :} This @Form@ data type can represent values of some text fields on the web page or inside the GUI application. Our goal is to create a value of the custom @User@ data type from the @Form@ fields. First, let's define our @User@ type and additional @newtype@s for more type safety. >>> :{ newtype UserName = UserName { unUserName :: String } deriving newtype (Show) :} >>> :{ newtype Password = Password { unPassword :: String } deriving newtype (Show) :} >>> :{ data User = User { userName :: !UserName , userPassword :: !Password } deriving stock (Show) :} We can easily create a @User@ from the @Form@ in the /unsafe/ way by wrapping each form field into the corresponding @newtype@: >>> :{ unsafeUserFromForm :: Form -> User unsafeUserFromForm Form{..} = User { userName = UserName formUserName , userPassword = Password formPassword } :} However, this conversion is unsafe (as name suggests) since @Form@ can contain /invalid/ data. So, before creating a @User@ we want to check whether all @Form@ fields satisfy our preconditions. Specifically: 1. User name must not be empty. 2. Password should be at least 8 characters long. 3. Password should contain at least 1 digit. 'Validation' offers __modular__ and __composable__ way of defining and outputting all validation failures which means: 1. __Modular__: define validation checks for different fields independently. 2. __Composable__: combine smaller validations easily into a validation of a bigger type. Before implementing @Form@ validation, we need to introduce a type for representing our validation errors. It is a good practice to define all possible errors as a single sum type, so let's go ahead: >>> :{ data FormValidationError = EmptyName | ShortPassword | NoDigitPassword deriving stock (Show) :} With 'Validation' we can define checks for individual fields independently and compose them later. First, let's start with defining validation for the name: >>> :{ validateName :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty FormValidationError) UserName validateName name = UserName name <$ failureIf (null name) EmptyName :} You can notice a few things about this function: 1. All errors are collected in 'NonEmpty', since we want to have guarantees that in case of errors we have at least one failure. 2. It wraps the result into @UserName@ to tell that validation is passed. Let's see how this function works: >>> validateName "John" Success "John" >>> validateName "" Failure (EmptyName :| []) Since 'Validation' provides __modular__ interface for defining checks, we now can define all validation functions for the password separately: >>> :{ validateShortPassword :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty FormValidationError) Password validateShortPassword password = Password password <$ failureIf (length password < 8) ShortPassword :} >>> :{ validatePasswordDigit :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty FormValidationError) Password validatePasswordDigit password = Password password <$ failureUnless (any isDigit password) NoDigitPassword :} After we've implemented validations for different @Form@ fields, it's time to combine them together! 'Validation' offers several ways to compose different validations. These ways are provided via different instances of common Haskell typeclasses, specifically: * 'Semigroup' * 'Alternative' * 'Applicative' 'Semigroup' allows combining values inside both 'Failure' and 'Success' but this requires both values to implement the 'Semigroup' instance. This doesn't fit our goal, since @Password@ can't have a reasonble 'Semigroup' instance. 'Alternative' returns first 'Success' or combines all 'Failure's. We can notice that 'Alternative' also doesn't work for us here. In our case we are interested in collecting all possible errors and returning 'Success' only when all checks are passed. Fortunately, 'Applicative' is exactly what we need here. So we can use the '*>' operator to compose all checks for password: >>> :{ validatePassword :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty FormValidationError) Password validatePassword password = validateShortPassword password *> validatePasswordDigit password :} Let's see how it works: >>> validatePassword "abcd" Failure (ShortPassword :| [NoDigitPassword]) >>> validatePassword "abcd1" Failure (ShortPassword :| []) >>> validatePassword "abcd12345" Success "abcd12345" After we've implemented validations for all fields, we can compose them together to produce validation for the whole @User@. As before, we are going to use the 'Applicative' instance: >>> :{ validateForm :: Form -> Validation (NonEmpty FormValidationError) User validateForm Form{..} = User <$> validateName formUserName <*> validatePassword formPassword :} And it works like a charm: >>> validateForm (Form "" "") Failure (EmptyName :| [ShortPassword,NoDigitPassword]) >>> validateForm (Form "John" "abc") Failure (ShortPassword :| [NoDigitPassword]) >>> validateForm (Form "Jonh" "qwertypassword") Failure (NoDigitPassword :| []) >>> validateForm (Form "Jonh" "qwertypassword123") Success (User {userName = "Jonh", userPassword = "qwertypassword123"}) -} {- | 'Validation' is a polymorphic sum type for storing either all validation failures or validation success. Unlike 'Either', which returns only the first error, 'Validation' accumulates all errors using the 'Semigroup' typeclass. Usually type variables in @'Validation' e a@ are used as follows: * @e@: is a list or set of failure messages or values of some error data type. * @a@: is some domain type denoting successful validation result. Some typical use-cases: * @'Validation' ['String'] User@ * Either list of 'String' error messages or a validated value of a custom @User@ type. * @'Validation' ('NonEmpty' UserValidationError) User@ * Similar to previous example, but list of failures guaranteed to be non-empty in case of validation failure, and it stores values of some custom error type. -} data Validation e a = Failure e -- ^ Validation failure. The @e@ type is supposed to implement the 'Semigroup' instance. | Success a -- ^ Successful validation result of type @a@. deriving stock (Eq, Ord, Show, Generic, Generic1, Data) deriving anyclass (NFData, NFData1) {- | Allows changing the value inside 'Success' with a given function. __Examples__ >>> fmap (+1) (Success 9) Success 10 >>> fmap (+1) (Failure ["wrong"]) Failure ["wrong"] -} instance Functor (Validation e) where fmap :: (a -> b) -> Validation e a -> Validation e b fmap _ (Failure e) = Failure e fmap f (Success a) = Success (f a) {-# INLINE fmap #-} (<$) :: a -> Validation e b -> Validation e a x <$ Success _ = Success x _ <$ Failure e = Failure e {-# INLINE (<$) #-} {- | 'Semigroup' allows merging multiple 'Validation's into single one by combining values inside both 'Failure' and 'Success'. The '<>' operator merges two 'Validation's following the below rules: 1. If both values are 'Failure's, returns a new 'Failure' with accumulated errors. 2. If both values are 'Success'ful, returns a new 'Success' with combined success using 'Semigroup' for values inside 'Success'. 3. If one value is 'Failure' and another one is 'Success', then 'Failure' is returned. __Examples__ >>> success1 = Success [9] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> success2 = Success [15] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> failure1 = Failure ["WRONG"] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> failure2 = Failure ["FAIL"] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> success1 <> success2 Success [9,15] >>> failure1 <> failure2 Failure ["WRONG","FAIL"] >>> success1 <> failure1 Failure ["WRONG"] >>> failure2 <> success1 <> success2 <> failure1 Failure ["FAIL","WRONG"] -} instance (Semigroup e, Semigroup a) => Semigroup (Validation e a) where (<>) :: Validation e a -> Validation e a -> Validation e a (<>) = liftA2 (<>) {-# INLINE (<>) #-} {- | @'mempty' :: 'Validation' e a@ is @Success@ which stores @'mempty' :: a@ to be consistent with the 'Semigroup' instance. __Examples__ >>> mempty :: Validation String [Bool] Success [] -} instance (Semigroup e, Semigroup a, Monoid a) => Monoid (Validation e a) where mempty :: Validation e a mempty = Success mempty {-# INLINE mempty #-} mappend :: Validation e a -> Validation e a -> Validation e a mappend = (<>) {-# INLINE mappend #-} {- | This instance if the most important instance for the 'Validation' data type. It's responsible for the many implementations. And it allows to accumulate errors while performing validation or combining the results in the applicative style. __Examples__ >>> success1 = Success 9 :: Validation [String] Int >>> success2 = Success 15 :: Validation [String] Int >>> successF = Success (* 2) :: Validation [String] (Int -> Int) >>> failure1 = Failure ["WRONG"] :: Validation [String] Int >>> failure2 = Failure ["FAIL"] :: Validation [String] Int >>> successF <*> success1 Success 18 >>> successF <*> failure1 Failure ["WRONG"] >>> (+) <$> success1 <*> success2 Success 24 >>> (+) <$> failure1 <*> failure2 Failure ["WRONG","FAIL"] >>> liftA2 (+) success1 failure1 Failure ["WRONG"] >>> liftA3 (,,) failure1 success1 failure2 Failure ["WRONG","FAIL"] Implementations of all functions are lazy and they correctly work if some arguments are not fully evaluated. >>> failure1 *> failure2 Failure ["WRONG","FAIL"] >>> isFailure $ failure1 *> failure2 True >>> epicFail = error "Impossible validation" :: Validation [String] Int >>> isFailure $ failure1 *> epicFail True -} instance Semigroup e => Applicative (Validation e) where pure :: a -> Validation e a pure = Success {-# INLINE pure #-} (<*>) :: Validation e (a -> b) -> Validation e a -> Validation e b Failure e1 <*> b = Failure $ case b of Failure e2 -> e1 <> e2 Success _ -> e1 Success _ <*> Failure e = Failure e Success f <*> Success a = Success (f a) {-# INLINE (<*>) #-} (*>) :: Validation e a -> Validation e b -> Validation e b Failure e1 *> b = Failure $ case b of Failure e2 -> e1 <> e2 Success _ -> e1 Success _ *> Failure e = Failure e Success _ *> Success b = Success b {-# INLINE (*>) #-} (<*) :: Validation e a -> Validation e b -> Validation e a Failure e1 <* b = Failure $ case b of Failure e2 -> e1 <> e2 Success _ -> e1 Success _ <* Failure e = Failure e Success a <* Success _ = Success a {-# INLINE (<*) #-} liftA2 :: (a -> b -> c) -> Validation e a -> Validation e b -> Validation e c liftA2 _ (Failure e1) b = Failure $ case b of Failure e2 -> e1 <> e2 Success _ -> e1 liftA2 _ (Success _) (Failure e) = Failure e liftA2 f (Success a) (Success b) = Success (f a b) {-# INLINE liftA2 #-} {- | 'Selective' functors from the [selective](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/selective) package. This instance allows choosing which validations to apply based on value inside. 'Validation' can't have a lawful 'Monad' instance but it's highly desirable to have the monadic behavior in cases when you want future checks depend on previous values. 'Selective' allows to circumvent this limitation by providing the desired behavior. ==== __Examples__ To understand better, how 'Selective' can be helpful, let's consider a typical usage example with validating passwords. >>> :{ newtype Password = Password { unPassword :: String } deriving stock (Show) :} When user enters a password in some form, we want to check the following conditions: 1. Password must not be empty. 2. Password must contain at least 8 characters. 3. Password must contain at least 1 digit. As in the previous usage example with form validation, let's introduce a custom data type to represent all possible errors. >>> :{ data PasswordValidationError = EmptyPassword | ShortPassword | NoDigitPassword deriving stock (Show) :} And, again, we can implement independent functions to validate all these cases: >>> type PasswordValidation = Validation (NonEmpty PasswordValidationError) Password >>> :{ validateEmptyPassword :: String -> PasswordValidation validateEmptyPassword password = Password password <$ failureIf (null password) EmptyPassword :} >>> :{ validateShortPassword :: String -> PasswordValidation validateShortPassword password = Password password <$ failureIf (length password < 8) ShortPassword :} >>> :{ validatePasswordDigit :: String -> PasswordValidation validatePasswordDigit password = Password password <$ failureUnless (any isDigit password) NoDigitPassword :} And we can easily compose all these checks into single validation for @Password@ using 'Applicative' instance: >>> :{ validatePassword :: String -> PasswordValidation validatePassword password = validateEmptyPassword password *> validateShortPassword password *> validatePasswordDigit password :} However, if we try using this function, we can notice a problem immediately: >>> validatePassword "" Failure (EmptyPassword :| [ShortPassword,NoDigitPassword]) Due to the nature of the 'Applicative' instance for 'Validation', we run all checks and combine all possible errors. But you can notice that if password is empty, it doesn't make sense to run other validations. The fact that the password is empty implies that password is shorter than 8 characters. You may say that check for empty password is redundant because empty password is a special case of a short password. However, when using 'Validation', we want to display readable and friendly errors to users, so they know how to fix errors and can act correspondingly. This behaviour could be achieved easily if 'Validation' had the 'Monad' instance. But it can't have a lawful 'Monad' instance. Fortunately, the 'Selective' instance for 'Validation' can help with our problem. But to solve it, we need to write our password validation in a slightly different way. First, we need to write a function that checks whether the password is empty: >>> :{ checkEmptyPassword :: String -> Validation e Bool checkEmptyPassword = Success . null :} Now we can use the @ifS@ function from the @selective@ package to branch on the result of @checkEmptyPassword@: >>> :{ validatePassword :: String -> PasswordValidation validatePassword password = ifS (checkEmptyPassword password) (failure EmptyPassword) (validateShortPassword password *> validatePasswordDigit password) :} With this implementation we achieved our desired behavior: >>> validatePassword "" Failure (EmptyPassword :| []) >>> validatePassword "abc" Failure (ShortPassword :| [NoDigitPassword]) >>> validatePassword "abc123" Failure (ShortPassword :| []) >>> validatePassword "security567" Success (Password {unPassword = "security567"}) -} instance Semigroup e => Selective (Validation e) where select :: Validation e (Either a b) -> Validation e (a -> b) -> Validation e b select (Failure e) _ = Failure e -- Skip effect after failed conditions select (Success eab) f = case eab of Left a -> ($ a) <$> f -- Apply second effect Right b -> Success b -- Skip second effect {-# INLINE select #-} {- | This instance implements the behaviour when the first 'Success' is returned. Otherwise all 'Failure's are combined. __Examples__ >>> success1 = Success [9] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> success2 = Success [15] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> failure1 = Failure ["WRONG"] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> failure2 = Failure ["FAIL"] :: Validation [String] [Int] >>> success1 <|> success2 Success [9] >>> failure1 <|> failure2 Failure ["WRONG","FAIL"] >>> failure2 <|> success2 Success [15] -} instance (Semigroup e, Monoid e) => Alternative (Validation e) where empty :: Validation e a empty = Failure mempty {-# INLINE empty #-} (<|>) :: Validation e a -> Validation e a -> Validation e a s@Success{} <|> _ = s _ <|> s@Success{} = s Failure e <|> Failure e' = Failure (e <> e') {-# INLINE (<|>) #-} {- | 'Foldable' for 'Validation' allows folding values inside 'Success'. __Examples__ >>> fold (Success [16]) [16] >>> fold (Failure "WRONG!" :: Validation String [Int]) [] -} instance Foldable (Validation e) where fold :: Monoid m => Validation e m -> m fold = \case Failure _ -> mempty Success a -> a {-# INLINE fold #-} foldMap :: Monoid m => (a -> m) -> Validation e a -> m foldMap f = \case Failure _ -> mempty Success a -> f a {-# INLINE foldMap #-} foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> Validation e a -> b foldr f x = \case Failure _ -> x Success a -> f a x {-# INLINE foldr #-} foldr' :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> Validation e a -> b foldr' = foldr {-# INLINE foldr' #-} foldl :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> Validation e a -> b foldl f x = \case Failure _ -> x Success a -> f x a {-# INLINE foldl #-} foldl' :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> Validation e a -> b foldl' = foldl {-# INLINE foldl' #-} toList :: Validation e a -> [a] toList = \case Failure _ -> [] Success a -> [a] {-# INLINE toList #-} null :: Validation e a -> Bool null = \case Failure _ -> True Success _ -> False {-# INLINE null #-} length :: Validation e a -> Int length = \case Failure _ -> 0 Success _ -> 1 {-# INLINE length #-} elem :: Eq a => a -> Validation e a -> Bool elem x = \case Failure _ -> False Success a -> x == a {-# INLINE elem #-} sum :: Num a => Validation e a -> a sum = \case Failure _ -> 0 Success a -> a {-# INLINE sum #-} product :: Num a => Validation e a -> a product = \case Failure _ -> 1 Success a -> a {-# INLINE product #-} -- not-implemented because they are partial, so we're using the -- default implementations -- -- foldr1 :: (a -> a -> a) -> Validation e a -> a -- foldl1 :: (a -> a -> a) -> Validation e a -> a -- maximum :: Ord a => Validation e a -> a -- minimum :: Ord a => Validation e a -> a {- | Traverse values inside 'Success' with some effectful computation. __Examples__ >>> parseInt = readMaybe :: String -> Maybe Int >>> traverse parseInt (Success "42") Just (Success 42) >>> traverse parseInt (Success "int") Nothing >>> traverse parseInt (Failure ["42"]) Just (Failure ["42"]) -} instance Traversable (Validation e) where traverse :: Applicative f => (a -> f b) -> Validation e a -> f (Validation e b) traverse f (Success a) = Success <$> f a traverse _ (Failure e) = pure (Failure e) {-# INLINE traverse #-} sequenceA :: Applicative f => Validation e (f a) -> f (Validation e a) sequenceA = \case Failure e -> pure (Failure e) Success f -> Success <$> f {-# INLINE sequenceA #-} {- | Similar to 'Functor' but allows mapping of values inside both 'Failure' and 'Success'. __Examples__ >>> bimap length show (Success 50) Success "50" >>> bimap length show (Failure ["15", "9"]) Failure 2 -} instance Bifunctor Validation where bimap :: (e -> d) -> (a -> b) -> Validation e a -> Validation d b bimap f _ (Failure e) = Failure (f e) bimap _ g (Success a) = Success (g a) {-# INLINE bimap #-} first :: (e -> d) -> Validation e a -> Validation d a first f (Failure e) = Failure (f e) first _ (Success a) = Success a {-# INLINE first #-} second :: (a -> b) -> Validation e a -> Validation e b second _ (Failure e) = Failure e second g (Success a) = Success (g a) {-# INLINE second #-} {- | Similar to 'Foldable' but allows folding both 'Failure' and 'Success' to the same monoidal value according to given functions. __Examples__ >>> one x = [x] >>> bifoldMap id (one . show) (Success 15) ["15"] >>> bifoldMap id (one . show) (Failure ["Wrong", "Fail"]) ["Wrong","Fail"] -} instance Bifoldable Validation where -- bifoldMap :: (e -> m) -> (a -> m) -> Validation e a -> m bifoldMap f _ (Failure e) = f e bifoldMap _ g (Success a) = g a {-# INLINE bifoldMap #-} {- | Similar to 'Traversable' but traverses both 'Failure' and 'Success' with given effectful computations. __Examples__ >>> parseInt = readMaybe :: String -> Maybe Int >>> bitraverse listToMaybe parseInt (Success "42") Just (Success 42) >>> bitraverse listToMaybe parseInt (Success "int") Nothing >>> bitraverse listToMaybe parseInt (Failure [15]) Just (Failure 15) >>> bitraverse listToMaybe parseInt (Failure []) Nothing -} instance Bitraversable Validation where bitraverse :: Applicative f => (e -> f d) -> (a -> f b) -> Validation e a -> f (Validation d b) bitraverse f _ (Failure e) = Failure <$> f e bitraverse _ g (Success a) = Success <$> g a {-# INLINE bitraverse #-} instance NFData2 Validation where liftRnf2 :: (e -> ()) -> (a -> ()) -> Validation e a -> () liftRnf2 f _s (Failure x) = f x liftRnf2 _f s (Success y) = s y ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Custom errors ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- {- | ⚠️__CAUTION__⚠️ This instance is for custom error display only. It's not possible to implement lawful 'Monad' instance for 'Validation'. In case it is used by mistake, the user will see the following: >>> Success 42 >>= \n -> if even n then Success n else Failure ["Not even"] ... ... Type 'Validation' doesn't have lawful 'Monad' instance which means that you can't use 'Monad' methods with 'Validation'. ... -} instance (NoValidationMonadError, Semigroup e) => Monad (Validation e) where return = error "Unreachable Validation instance of Monad" (>>=) = error "Unreachable Validation instance of Monad" -- | Helper type family to produce error messages type family NoValidationMonadError :: Constraint where NoValidationMonadError = TypeError ( 'Text "Type 'Validation' doesn't have lawful 'Monad' instance" ':$$: 'Text "which means that you can't use 'Monad' methods with 'Validation'." ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Either ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- {- $either 'Validation' is usually compared to the 'Either' data type due to the similarity in structure, nature and use case. Here is a quick table you can relate to, in order to see the main properties and differences between these two data types: +------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | | 'Either' | 'Validation' | +========================+===========================+===========================+ | Error result | 'Left' | 'Failure' | +------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | Successful result | 'Right' | 'Success' | +------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | 'Applicative' instance | Stops on the first 'Left' | Aggregates all 'Failure's | +------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ | 'Monad' instance | Lawful instance | __Cannot__ exist | +------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+ == Comparison in example For the sake of better illustration of the difference between 'Either' and 'Validation', let's go through the example of how parsing is done with the usage of these types. Our goal is to parse two given 'String's and return their sum in case if both of them are valid 'Int's. If any of the inputs is failing to be parsed we should return the @ParseError@ which we are introducing right now: >>> :{ newtype ParseError = ParseError { nonParsedString :: String } deriving stock (Show) :} Let's first implement the parsing of single input in the 'Either' context: >>> :{ parseEither :: String -> Either ParseError Int parseEither input = case readMaybe @Int input of Just x -> Right x Nothing -> Left $ ParseError input :} And the final function for 'Either' looks like this: >>> :{ parseSumEither :: String -> String -> Either ParseError Int parseSumEither str1 str2 = do let x = parseEither str1 let y = parseEither str2 liftA2 (+) x y :} Let's now test it in action. >>> parseSumEither "1" "2" Right 3 >>> parseSumEither "NaN" "42" Left (ParseError {nonParsedString = "NaN"}) >>> parseSumEither "15" "Infinity" Left (ParseError {nonParsedString = "Infinity"}) >>> parseSumEither "NaN" "infinity" Left (ParseError {nonParsedString = "NaN"}) __Note__ how in the case of both failed parsing we got only the first @NaN@. To finish our comparison, let's implement the same functionality using 'Validation' properties. >>> :{ parseValidation :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty ParseError) Int parseValidation input = case readMaybe @Int input of Just x -> Success x Nothing -> failure $ ParseError input :} >>> :{ parseSumValidation :: String -> String -> Validation (NonEmpty ParseError) Int parseSumValidation str1 str2 = do let x = parseValidation str1 let y = parseValidation str2 liftA2 (+) x y :} It looks almost completely identical except for the resulting type — @'Validation' ('NonEmpty' ParseError) 'Int'@. But let's see if they behave the same way: >>> parseSumValidation "1" "2" Success 3 >>> parseSumValidation "NaN" "42" Failure (ParseError {nonParsedString = "NaN"} :| []) >>> parseSumValidation "15" "infinity" Failure (ParseError {nonParsedString = "infinity"} :| []) >>> parseSumValidation "NaN" "infinity" Failure (ParseError {nonParsedString = "NaN"} :| [ParseError {nonParsedString = "infinity"}]) As expected, with 'Validation' we got __all__ parse 'Failure's we received on the way. == Combinators We are providing several functions for better integration with the 'Either' related code in this section. -} {- | Transform a 'Validation' into an 'Either'. >>> validationToEither (Success "whoop") Right "whoop" >>> validationToEither (Failure "nahh") Left "nahh" -} validationToEither :: Validation e a -> Either e a validationToEither = \case Failure e -> Left e Success a -> Right a {-# INLINE validationToEither #-} {- | Transform an 'Either' into a 'Validation'. >>> eitherToValidation (Right "whoop") Success "whoop" >>> eitherToValidation (Left "nahh") Failure "nahh" -} eitherToValidation :: Either e a -> Validation e a eitherToValidation = \case Left e -> Failure e Right a -> Success a {-# INLINE eitherToValidation #-} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Interface ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- {- | Predicate on if the given 'Validation' is 'Failure'. >>> isFailure (Failure 'e') True >>> isFailure (Success 'a') False -} isFailure :: Validation e a -> Bool isFailure = \case Failure _ -> True Success _ -> False {- | Predicate on if the given 'Validation' is 'Success'. >>> isSuccess (Success 'a') True >>> isSuccess (Failure 'e') False -} isSuccess :: Validation e a -> Bool isSuccess = \case Success _ -> True Failure _ -> False {- | Transforms the value of the given 'Validation' into @x@ using provided functions that can transform 'Failure' and 'Success' value into the resulting type respectively. >>> let myValidation = validation (<> " world!") (show . (* 10)) >>> myValidation (Success 100) "1000" >>> myValidation (Failure "Hello") "Hello world!" -} validation :: (e -> x) -> (a -> x) -> Validation e a -> x validation fe fa = \case Success a -> fa a Failure e -> fe e {- | Filters out all 'Failure' values into the new list of @e@s from the given list of 'Validation's. Note that the order is preserved. >>> failures [Failure "Hello", Success 1, Failure "world", Success 2, Failure "!" ] ["Hello","world","!"] -} failures :: [Validation e a] -> [e] failures v = [e | Failure e <- v] {-# INLINE failures #-} {- | Filters out all 'Success' values into the new list of @a@s from the given list of 'Validation's. Note that the order is preserved. >>> successes [Failure "Hello", Success 1, Failure "world", Success 2, Failure "!" ] [1,2] -} successes :: [Validation e a] -> [a] successes v = [a | Success a <- v] {-# INLINE successes #-} {- | Redistributes the given list of 'Validation's into two lists of @e@s and @e@s, where the first list contains all values of 'Failure's and the second one — 'Success'es correspondingly. Note that the order is preserved. >>> partitionValidations [Failure "Hello", Success 1, Failure "world", Success 2, Failure "!" ] (["Hello","world","!"],[1,2]) -} partitionValidations :: [Validation e a] -> ([e], [a]) partitionValidations = go where go :: [Validation e a] -> ([e], [a]) go [] = ([], []) go (Failure e:rest) = first (e:) $ go rest go (Success a:rest) = second (a:) $ go rest {- | Returns the contents of a 'Failure'-value or a default value otherwise. >>> fromFailure "default" (Failure "failure") "failure" >>> fromFailure "default" (Success 1) "default" -} fromFailure :: e -> Validation e a -> e fromFailure _ (Failure e) = e fromFailure e _ = e {- | Returns the contents of a 'Success'-value or a default value otherwise. >>> fromSuccess 42 (Success 1) 1 >>> fromSuccess 42 (Failure "failure") 42 -} fromSuccess :: a -> Validation e a -> a fromSuccess _ (Success a) = a fromSuccess a _ = a ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- NonEmpty Combinators ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- {- $nonEmptyCombinators When using 'Validation', we often work with the 'NonEmpty' list of errors, and those lists will be concatenated later. The following functions aim to help with writing more concise code. For example, instead of (perfectly fine) code like: >>> :{ validateNameVerbose :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty String) String validateNameVerbose name | null name = Failure ("Empty Name" :| []) | otherwise = Success name :} one can write simply: >>> :{ validateNameSimple :: String -> Validation (NonEmpty String) String validateNameSimple name = name <$ failureIf (null name) "Empty Name" :} -} {- | Create a 'Failure' of 'NonEmpty' list with a single given error. >>> failure "I am a failure" Failure ("I am a failure" :| []) -} failure :: e -> Validation (NonEmpty e) a failure e = Failure (e :| []) {-# INLINE failure #-} {- | Returns a 'Failure' in case of the given predicate is 'True'. Returns @'Success' '()'@ otherwise. >>> let shouldFail = (==) "I am a failure" >>> failureIf (shouldFail "I am a failure") "I told you so" Failure ("I told you so" :| []) >>> failureIf (shouldFail "I am NOT a failure") "okay" Success () -} failureIf :: Bool -> e -> Validation (NonEmpty e) () failureIf p e | p = failure e | otherwise = Success () {-# INLINE failureIf #-} {- | Returns a 'Failure' unless the given predicate is 'True'. Returns @'Success' '()'@ in case of the predicate is satisfied. Similar to 'failureIf' with the reversed predicate. @ 'failureUnless' p ≡ 'failureIf' (not p) @ >>> let shouldFail = (==) "I am a failure" >>> failureUnless (shouldFail "I am a failure") "doesn't matter" Success () >>> failureUnless (shouldFail "I am NOT a failure") "I told you so" Failure ("I told you so" :| []) -} failureUnless :: Bool -> e -> Validation (NonEmpty e) () failureUnless p e | p = Success () | otherwise = failure e {-# INLINE failureUnless #-}