Capability to throw exceptions of type e under tag.

HasThrow/HasCatch capabilities at different tags should be independent. See HasCatch.

Throw an exception in the specified exception capability.

Capability to catch exceptions of type e under tag.

HasThrow/HasCatch capabilities at different tags should be independent. In particular, the following program should throw SomeError and not return (). > example :: > (HasThrow Left SomeError m, HasCatch Right SomeError m) > => m () > example = > catch Left > (throw Right SomeError) > _ -> pure ()

See wrapError for a way to combine multiple exception types into one.

Provide a handler for exceptions thrown in the given action in the given exception capability.

Like catch, but only handle the exception if the provided function returns Just.

Wrap exceptions inner originating from the given action according to the accessor t. Retain arbitrary capabilities listed in cs.

Example:

wrapError
  @"ComponentError" @(Ctor "ComponentError" "AppError") @'[]
  component

component :: HasError "ComponentError" ComponentError m => m ()
data AppError = ComponentError ComponentError

This function is experimental and subject to change. See https://github.com/tweag/capability/issues/46.

Type synonym using the TypeOf type family to specify HasThrow constraints without having to specify the type associated to a tag.

Type synonym using the TypeOf type family to specify HasCatch constraints without having to specify the type associated to a tag.

Type family associating a tag to the corresponding type. It is intended to simplify constraint declarations, by removing the need to redundantly specify the type associated to a tag.

It is poly-kinded, which allows users to define their own kind of tags. Standard haskell types can also be used as tags by specifying the * kind when defining the type family instance.

Defining TypeOf instances for Symbols (typelevel string literals) is discouraged. Since symbols all belong to the same global namespace, such instances could conflict with others defined in external libraries. More generally, as for typeclasses, TypeOf instances should always be defined in the same module as the tag type to prevent issues due to orphan instances.

Example:

    import Capability.Reader

    data Foo
    data Bar
    type instance TypeOf * Foo = Int
    type instance TypeOf * Bar = String

    -- Same as: foo :: HasReader Foo Int M => …
    foo :: HasReader' Foo m => …
    foo = …

Derive 'HasError from m's MonadError instance.

Derive HasThrow from m's MonadThrow instance.

Derive 'HasCatch from m's 'Control.Monad.Catch.MonadCatch instance.

Derive HasError using the functionality from the safe-exceptions package.

Derive HasError using the functionality from the unliftio package.

Any type that you wish to throw or catch as an exception must be an instance of the Exception class. The simplest case is a new exception type directly below the root:

data MyException = ThisException | ThatException
    deriving Show

instance Exception MyException

The default method definitions in the Exception class do what we need in this case. You can now throw and catch ThisException and ThatException as exceptions:

*Main> throw ThisException `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MyException))
Caught ThisException

In more complicated examples, you may wish to define a whole hierarchy of exceptions:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make the root exception type for all the exceptions in a compiler

data SomeCompilerException = forall e . Exception e => SomeCompilerException e

instance Show SomeCompilerException where
    show (SomeCompilerException e) = show e

instance Exception SomeCompilerException

compilerExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException
compilerExceptionToException = toException . SomeCompilerException

compilerExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e
compilerExceptionFromException x = do
    SomeCompilerException a <- fromException x
    cast a

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make a subhierarchy for exceptions in the frontend of the compiler

data SomeFrontendException = forall e . Exception e => SomeFrontendException e

instance Show SomeFrontendException where
    show (SomeFrontendException e) = show e

instance Exception SomeFrontendException where
    toException = compilerExceptionToException
    fromException = compilerExceptionFromException

frontendExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException
frontendExceptionToException = toException . SomeFrontendException

frontendExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e
frontendExceptionFromException x = do
    SomeFrontendException a <- fromException x
    cast a

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make an exception type for a particular frontend compiler exception

data MismatchedParentheses = MismatchedParentheses
    deriving Show

instance Exception MismatchedParentheses where
    toException   = frontendExceptionToException
    fromException = frontendExceptionFromException

We can now catch a MismatchedParentheses exception as MismatchedParentheses, SomeFrontendException or SomeCompilerException, but not other types, e.g. IOException:

*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MismatchedParentheses))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeFrontendException))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeCompilerException))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: IOException))
*** Exception: MismatchedParentheses

The class Typeable allows a concrete representation of a type to be calculated.