Effect.Uncurried

This module defines types for effectful uncurried functions, as well as functions for converting back and forth between them.

Traditionally, it has been difficult to give a PureScript type to JavaScript functions such as this one:

function logMessage(level, message) {
  console.log(level + ": " + message);
}

In particular, note that logMessage performs effects immediately after receiving all of its parameters, so giving it the type Data.Function.Fn2 String String Unit, while convenient, would effectively be a lie.

Because there has been no way of giving such functions types, we generally resort to converting functions into the normal PureScript form (namely, a curried function returning an Effect action), and performing the marshalling in JavaScript, in the FFI module, like this:

-- In the PureScript file:
foreign import logMessage :: String -> String -> Effect Unit

// In the FFI file:
exports.logMessage = function(level) {
  return function(message) {
    return function() {
      logMessage(level, message);
    };
  };
};

This method, unfortunately, turns out to be both tiresome and error-prone. This module offers an alternative solution. By providing you with:

• the ability to give the real logMessage function a PureScript type, and
• functions for converting between this form and the normal PureScript form,

the FFI boilerplate is no longer needed. The previous example becomes:

-- In the PureScript file:
foreign import logMessageImpl :: EffectFn2 String String Unit

// In the FFI file:
exports.logMessageImpl = logMessage

You can then use runEffectFn2 to provide a nicer version:

logMessage :: String -> String -> Effect Unit
logMessage = runEffectFn2 logMessageImpl

(note that this has the same type as the original logMessage).

Effectively, we have reduced the risk of errors by moving as much code into PureScript as possible, so that we can leverage the type system. Hopefully, this is a little less tiresome too.

Here's a slightly more advanced example. Here, because we are using callbacks, we need to use mkEffectFn{N} as well.

Suppose our logMessage changes so that it sometimes sends details of the message to some external server, and in those cases, we want the resulting HttpResponse (for whatever reason).

function logMessage(level, message, callback) {
  console.log(level + ": " + message);
  if (level > LogLevel.WARN) {
    LogAggregatorService.post("/logs", {
      level: level,
      message: message
    }, callback);
  } else {
    callback(null);
  }
}

The import then looks like this:

foreign import logMessageImpl
 EffectFn3
   String
   String
   (EffectFn1 (Nullable HttpResponse) Unit)
   Unit

And, as before, the FFI file is extremely simple:

exports.logMessageImpl = logMessage

Finally, we use runEffectFn{N} and mkEffectFn{N} for a more comfortable PureScript version:

logMessage ::
  String ->
  String ->
  (Nullable HttpResponse -> Effect Unit) ->
  Effect Unit
logMessage level message callback =
  runEffectFn3 logMessageImpl level message (mkEffectFn1 callback)

The general naming scheme for functions and types in this module is as follows:

• EffectFn{N} means, a curried function which accepts N arguments and performs some effects. The first type argument is the row of effects, which works exactly the same way as in Effect. The last type argument is the return type. All other arguments are the actual function's arguments.
• runEffectFn{N} takes an EffectFn of N arguments, and converts it into the normal PureScript form: a curried function which returns an Effect action.
• mkEffectFn{N} is the inverse of runEffectFn{N}. It can be useful for callbacks.

data EffectFn1 :: Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn2 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn3 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn4 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn5 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn6 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn7 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn8 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn9 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

data EffectFn10 :: Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type -> Type

mkEffectFn1 :: forall a r. (a -> Effect r) -> EffectFn1 a r

mkEffectFn2 :: forall a b r. (a -> b -> Effect r) -> EffectFn2 a b r

mkEffectFn3 :: forall a b c r. (a -> b -> c -> Effect r) -> EffectFn3 a b c r

mkEffectFn4 :: forall a b c d r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> Effect r) -> EffectFn4 a b c d r

mkEffectFn5 :: forall a b c d e r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> Effect r) -> EffectFn5 a b c d e r

mkEffectFn6 :: forall a b c d e f r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> Effect r) -> EffectFn6 a b c d e f r

mkEffectFn7 :: forall a b c d e f g r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> Effect r) -> EffectFn7 a b c d e f g r

mkEffectFn8 :: forall a b c d e f g h r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> Effect r) -> EffectFn8 a b c d e f g h r

mkEffectFn9 :: forall a b c d e f g h i r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> i -> Effect r) -> EffectFn9 a b c d e f g h i r

mkEffectFn10 :: forall a b c d e f g h i j r. (a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> i -> j -> Effect r) -> EffectFn10 a b c d e f g h i j r

runEffectFn1 :: forall a r. EffectFn1 a r -> a -> Effect r

runEffectFn2 :: forall a b r. EffectFn2 a b r -> a -> b -> Effect r

runEffectFn3 :: forall a b c r. EffectFn3 a b c r -> a -> b -> c -> Effect r

runEffectFn4 :: forall a b c d r. EffectFn4 a b c d r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> Effect r

runEffectFn5 :: forall a b c d e r. EffectFn5 a b c d e r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> Effect r

runEffectFn6 :: forall a b c d e f r. EffectFn6 a b c d e f r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> Effect r

runEffectFn7 :: forall a b c d e f g r. EffectFn7 a b c d e f g r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> Effect r

runEffectFn8 :: forall a b c d e f g h r. EffectFn8 a b c d e f g h r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> Effect r

runEffectFn9 :: forall a b c d e f g h i r. EffectFn9 a b c d e f g h i r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> i -> Effect r

runEffectFn10 :: forall a b c d e f g h i j r. EffectFn10 a b c d e f g h i j r -> a -> b -> c -> d -> e -> f -> g -> h -> i -> j -> Effect r