{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-} {-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-} {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-} {-| Module : Data.Partial Description : Constructing records with default values Copyright : (C) mniip 2019 License : BSD3 Maintainer : mniip@email.com Stability : experimental If you have a datatype with a lot of default-able fields, e.g. @ data Foo = { fld1 :: Maybe Int , fld2 :: Maybe Char , fld3 :: Word } @ and you want to avoid the the boilerplate of writing all the default values every time you construct a record of this type, you could write a "default value" of this type: @ defaultFoo :: Foo defaultFoo = Foo { fld1 = Nothing, fld2 = Nothing, fld3 = 0 } @ You could then use record modification syntax to make necessary changes to this value. But perhaps you can't/don't want to provide default values for /all/ of the fields, but only some of them? You could implement a "default smart constructor" that would take the non-optional arguments and then fill in the optional ones like so: @ defaultFoo :: Word -> Foo defaultFoo x = Foo { fld1 = Nothing, fld2 = Nothing, fld3 = x } @ But then you lose the benefit of record syntax: you can't name the fields you're providing values for. This package reconciles the two problems: with only a little bit of Template Haskell it provides a way to construct a record with optional fields while also letting you refer to the names of those fields. You make two splices: @ 'Data.Partial.TH.mkToPartial' ''Foo -- defines mkfld1, mkfld2, mkfld3 'Data.Partial.TH.mkFromPartial' "mkFoo" [t|Foo|] [|Foo { fld1 = Nothing, fld2 = Nothing }|] -- defines mkFoo @ And then you can use them like so: @ val :: Foo val = mkFoo $ mkfld3 123 '?' mkfld1 (Just 456) -- val = Foo { fld1 = Just 456, fld2 = Nothing, fld3 = 123 } @ The Template Haskell splice lets you define default values for a subset of the fields, and those defaults will be used when you call @mkFoo@. You can list fields in any order, but if you omit a mandatory field (one that doesn't have a default), that would be a type error at compile time. You can make multiple 'Data.Partial.TH.mkFromPartial' splices, this is occasionally useful for parameterized types, for example: @ data Bar a = { bar1 :: Maybe Int , bar2 :: a } 'Data.Partial.TH.mkToPartial' ''Bar 'Data.Partial.TH.mkFromPartial' "mkBar" [t|forall a. Bar a|] [|Bar { bar1 = Nothing }|] -- mkBar :: ... -> Bar a, and bar2 is a required field 'Data.Partial.TH.mkFromPartial' "mkBarMaybe" [t|forall a. Bar (Maybe a)|] [|Bar { bar1 = Nothing, bar2 = Nothing }|] -- mkBarMaybe :: ... -> Bar (Maybe a), and bar2 is an optional field @ -} module Data.Partial ( Partial , Graded(..) , type (<||>) ) where import Data.Type.Bool -- | @Partial T '[b1, b2, ...]@ is a partial version of the datatype @T@ where -- the first field's presence is indicated by @b1 :: Bool@, second field's -- presence is indicated by @b2@ and so on. Instances of this would be generated -- by 'Data.Partial.TH.mkToPartial'. data family Partial (a :: *) :: [Bool] -> * -- | A "graded semigroup": if we have two partial structures with only some of -- the fields, we can merge them to obtain a partial structure with the union of -- the fields. Prefers to take fields from the left hand side. Instances of this -- would be generated by 'Data.Partial.TH.mkToPartial'. class Graded a where (?) :: Partial a b1 -> Partial a b2 -> Partial a (b1 <||> b2) type family (b1 :: [Bool]) <||> (b2 :: [Bool]) :: [Bool] where '[] <||> '[] = '[] (x ': xs) <||> (y ': ys) = (x || y) ': (xs <||> ys)