A lifted variant of withFile.

You almost definitely don't want to use this; instead, use withBinaryFile in conjunction with Data.ByteString.Streaming.

A lifted variant of withBinaryFile.

Write to the specified file.

Append to the specified file.

Apply a function to the contents of the file.

Note that a different monadic stack is allowed for the ByteString input, as long as it later gets resolved to the required output type (e.g. remove transformer).

This is withSystemTempFile from the temporary package with the continuation re-structured to only take one argument.

Create and use a temporary file in the system standard temporary directory.

Behaves exactly the same as withTempFile, except that the parent temporary directory will be that returned by getCanonicalTemporaryDirectory.

Since: 0.1.1.0

This is withTempFile from the temporary package with the continuation re-structured to only take one argument.

Use a temporary filename that doesn't already exist.

Creates a new temporary file inside the given directory, making use of the template. The temp file is deleted after use. For example:

withTempFile "src" "sdist." $ \(tmpFile, hFile) -> ...

The tmpFile will be file in the given directory, e.g. src/sdist.342.

Since: 0.1.1.0

Create and use a temporary directory in the system standard temporary directory.

Behaves exactly the same as withTempDirectory, except that the parent temporary directory will be that returned by getCanonicalTemporaryDirectory.

Create and use a temporary directory inside the given directory.

The directory is deleted after use.

A class for monads which provide for the ability to account for all possible exit points from a computation, and to mask asynchronous exceptions. Continuation-based monads are invalid instances of this class.

Instances should ensure that, in the following code:

fg = f `finally` g

The action g is called regardless of what occurs within f, including async exceptions. Some monads allow f to abort the computation via other effects than throwing an exception. For simplicity, we will consider aborting and throwing an exception to be two forms of "throwing an error".

If f and g both throw an error, the error thrown by fg depends on which errors we're talking about. In a monad transformer stack, the deeper layers override the effects of the inner layers; for example, ExceptT e1 (Except e2) a represents a value of type Either e2 (Either e1 a), so throwing both an e1 and an e2 will result in Left e2. If f and g both throw an error from the same layer, instances should ensure that the error from g wins.

Effects other than throwing an error are also overriden by the deeper layers. For example, StateT s Maybe a represents a value of type s -> Maybe (a, s), so if an error thrown from f causes this function to return Nothing, any changes to the state which f also performed will be erased. As a result, g will see the state as it was before f. Once g completes, f's error will be rethrown, so g' state changes will be erased as well. This is the normal interaction between effects in a monad transformer stack.

By contrast, lifted-base's version of finally always discards all of g's non-IO effects, and g never sees any of f's non-IO effects, regardless of the layer ordering and regardless of whether f throws an error. This is not the result of interacting effects, but a consequence of MonadBaseControl's approach.

Generalized abstracted pattern of safe resource acquisition and release in the face of errors. The first action "acquires" some value, which is "released" by the second action at the end. The third action "uses" the value and its result is the result of the bracket.

If an error is thrown during the use, the release still happens before the error is rethrown.

Note that this is essentially a type-specialized version of generalBracket. This function has a more common signature (matching the signature from Control.Exception), and is often more convenient to use. By contrast, generalBracket is more expressive, allowing us to implement other functions like bracketOnError.