I want to create a Happstack application with lots of access to a database. I think that a Monad Stack with IO at the bottom and a Database Write-like monad on top (with log writer in the middle) will work to have a clear functions in each access, example:
itemsRequest :: ServerConfig -> ServerPart Response
itemsRequest cf = dir "items" $ do
methodM [GET,HEAD]
liftIO $ noticeM (scLogger cf) "sended job list"
items <- runDBMonad (scDBConnString cf) $ getItemLists
case items of
(Right xs) -> ok $ toResponse $ show xs
(Left err) -> internalServerError $ toResponse $ show err
With:
getItemList :: MyDBMonad (Error [Item])
getItemList = do
-- etc...
But I have little knowledge of Monad and Monad Transformers (I see this question as an exercise to learn about it), and I have no idea how to begin the creation of Database Monad, how to lift the IO from happstack to the Database Stack,...etc.
You likely want to use 'ReaderT':
The
Reader
monad transformer makes a single value accessible using theask
function - in this case, the value we want everyone to get at is the database connection.Here,
DbHandle
is some connection to your database.Because 'ReaderT' is already an instance of all of the happstack-server type-classes all normal happstack-server functions will work in this monad.
You probably also want some sort of helper to open and close the database connection:
(It might be better to use a function like 'bracket' here, but I don't know that there is such an operation for the ServerPart monad)
I don't know how you want to do logging - how do you plan to interact with your log-file? Something like:
and then:
might be enough. You could then build on those primitives to make higher-level functions. You would also need to change
runMyMonad
to be passed in aLogHandle
, whatever that is.Once you get more than two things you want access to it pays to have a proper record type instead of a tuple.