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Monad for bidirectional Toml conversion. Contains pair of functions:

1. How to read value of type a from immutable environment context r?
2. How to store value of type a in stateful context w?

In practice instead of r we will use some Reader Toml and instead of w we will use State Toml. This approach with the bunch of utility functions allows to have single description for from/to Toml conversion.

In practice this type will always be used in the following way:

type Bi r w a = Bijection r w a a

Type parameter c if fictional. Here some trick is used. This trick is implemented in codec and described in more details in related blog post.

Specialized version of Bijection data type. This type alias is used in practice.

This is an instance of Profunctor for Bijection. But since there's no Profunctor type class in base or package with no dependencies (and we don't want to bring extra dependencies) this instance is implemented as a single top-level function.

Useful when you want to parse newtypes. For example, if you had data type like this:

data Example = Example
    { foo :: Bool
    , bar :: Text
    }

toml bidirectional converter for this type will look like this:

exampleT :: BiToml Example
exampleT = Example
    $ bool "foo" .= foo
    * str  "bar" .= bar

Now if you change your time in the following way:

newtype Email = Email { unEmail :: Text }

data Example = Example
    { foo :: Bool
    , bar :: Email
    }

you need to patch your toml parser like this:

exampleT :: BiToml Example
exampleT = Example
    $ bool "foo" .= foo
    * dimap unEmail Email (str  "bar") .= bar

Operator to connect two operations:

1. How to get field from object?
2. How to write this field to toml?

In code this should be used like this:

data Foo = Foo { fooBar :: Int, fooBaz :: String }

foo :: BiToml Foo
foo = Foo
 $ int "bar" .= fooBar
 * str "baz" .= fooBaz