Copyright | (c) 2011 MailRank, Inc. (c) 2011-2012 Leon P Smith (c) 2012-2013 Janne Hellsten |
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License | BSD3 |
Maintainer | Janne Hellsten <jjhellst@gmail.com> |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | None |
Language | Haskell2010 |
The FromField
typeclass, for converting a single value in a row
returned by a SQL query into a more useful Haskell representation.
A Haskell numeric type is considered to be compatible with all
SQLite numeric types that are less accurate than it. For instance,
the Haskell Double
type is compatible with the SQLite's 32-bit
Int
type because it can represent a Int
exactly. On the other hand,
since a Double
might lose precision if representing a 64-bit BigInt
,
the two are not considered compatible.
- class FromField a where
- fromField :: FieldParser a
- type FieldParser a = Field -> Ok a
- data ResultError
- = Incompatible { }
- | UnexpectedNull { }
- | ConversionFailed { }
- data Field
- fieldData :: Field -> SQLData
- returnError :: forall a err. (Typeable a, Exception err) => (String -> String -> String -> err) -> Field -> String -> Ok a
Documentation
class FromField a where Source
A type that may be converted from a SQL type.
fromField :: FieldParser a Source
Convert a SQL value to a Haskell value.
Returns a list of exceptions if the conversion fails. In the case of
library instances, this will usually be a single ResultError
, but
may be a UnicodeException
.
Implementations of fromField
should not retain any references to
the Field
nor the ByteString
arguments after the result has
been evaluated to WHNF. Such a reference causes the entire
LibPQ.
to be retained.Result
For example, the instance for ByteString
uses copy
to avoid
such a reference, and that using bytestring functions such as drop
and takeWhile
alone will also trigger this memory leak.
type FieldParser a = Field -> Ok a Source
data ResultError Source
Exception thrown if conversion from a SQL value to a Haskell value fails.
Incompatible | The SQL and Haskell types are not compatible. |
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UnexpectedNull | A SQL |
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ConversionFailed | The SQL value could not be parsed, or could not be represented as a valid Haskell value, or an unexpected low-level error occurred (e.g. mismatch between metadata and actual data in a row). |
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fieldData :: Field -> SQLData Source
Return the actual SQL data for a database field. This allows
user-defined FromField
instances to access the SQL data
associated with a field being parsed.
returnError :: forall a err. (Typeable a, Exception err) => (String -> String -> String -> err) -> Field -> String -> Ok a Source
Given one of the constructors from ResultError
, the field,
and an errMessage
, this fills in the other fields in the
exception value and returns it in a 'Left . SomeException'
constructor.