Back in part 5, we added the ability to attach arbitrary finalizers to pipes. But when those finalizers actually ran was purely mechanical: when any given pipe finished, it would run all upstream finalizers, and then its own. This behavior can sometimes delay the finalization of an upstream pipe, if the downstream pipe stops awaiting but continues running and possibly yielding.

This time, we’ll add the close primitive, which will allow the programmer to indicate that a pipe will never await again. This should possibly be named unsafeClose , because in this implementation, we will not use the type system to enforce this guarantee.

> {-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-} > {-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall #-} > > module PipeClose where > > import Control . Monad . Trans . Free ( FreeT ( .. ) , FreeF ( .. ) , liftF , wrap ) > import Fun ( ( :&: ) ( .. ) , ( :|: ) ( .. ) ) > > import Data . Void ( Void , absurd ) > import Control . Monad ( when , forever ) > import Control . Monad . Trans . Class ( lift ) > import Control . Monad . Trans . Resource ( MonadResource , allocate , release )

Functors

We’ll not add a new functor this time; we’ll just reuse Then to indicate the "rest" of the computation after a pipe closes its input end.

> newtype Then next = Then next -- Identity > newtype Yield o next = Yield o -- Const > newtype Await i next = Await ( i -> next ) -- Fun > data Abort next = Abort -- Empty > newtype Finalize m next = Finalize ( m () ) -- Const > newtype Leftover l next = Leftover l -- Const

> instance Functor Then where > fmap f ( Then next ) = Then ( f next ) > > instance Functor ( Yield o ) where > fmap _f ( Yield o ) = Yield o > > instance Functor ( Await i ) where > fmap f ( Await g ) = Await ( f . g ) > > instance Functor Abort where > fmap _f Abort = Abort > > instance Functor ( Finalize m ) where > fmap _f ( Finalize m ) = Finalize m > > instance Functor ( Leftover l ) where > fmap _f ( Leftover l ) = Leftover l > > pass :: Monad m => m () > pass = return () > > unreachable :: Monad m => m () > unreachable = error "You've reached the unreachable finalizer"

The Pipe type

> type LeftoverThen l = Leftover l :&: Then > type YieldThen o m = Yield o :&: Finalize m :&: Then > type AwaitU i u = Await i :&: Await u :&: Then > type Close = Then

Our PipeF type has certainly grown! Remember when it used to be just Await i :|: YieldThen o ? At least we’re not adding yet another type parameter this time.

> type PipeF l i o u m = YieldThen o m > :|: AwaitU i u > :|: Abort > :|: LeftoverThen l > :|: Close > type Pipe l i o u m r = FreeT ( PipeF l i o u m ) m r > > type Producer o m r = Pipe Void () o () m r > type Consumer l i u m r = Pipe l i Void u m r > type Pipeline m r = Pipe Void () Void () m r

Working with PipeF

We update the lifts, the smart constructors, and pipeCase as usual.

> liftYield :: YieldThen o m next -> PipeF l i o u m next > liftYield = L . L . L . L > > liftAwait :: AwaitU i u next -> PipeF l i o u m next > liftAwait = L . L . L . R > > liftAbort :: Abort next -> PipeF l i o u m next > liftAbort = L . L . R > > liftLeftover :: LeftoverThen l next -> PipeF l i o u m next > liftLeftover = L . R > > liftClose :: Close next -> PipeF l i o u m next > liftClose = R

> yieldF :: o -> m () -> next -> PipeF l i o u m next > yieldF o m next = liftYield $ Yield o :&: Finalize m :&: Then next > > awaitF :: ( i -> next ) -> ( u -> next ) -> next -> PipeF l i o u m next > awaitF f g next = liftAwait $ Await f :&: Await g :&: Then next > > abortF :: PipeF l i o u m next > abortF = liftAbort Abort > > leftoverF :: l -> next -> PipeF l i o u m next > leftoverF l next = liftLeftover $ Leftover l :&: Then next > > closeF :: next -> PipeF l i o u m next > closeF next = liftClose $ Then next

> pipeCase :: FreeF ( PipeF l i o u m ) r next > -> a -- Abort > -> ( r -> a ) -- Return > -> ( next -> a ) -- Close > -> ( l -> next -> a ) -- Leftover > -> ( o -> m () -> next -> a ) -- Yield > -> ( ( i -> next ) -> ( u -> next ) -> next -> a ) -- Await > -> a > pipeCase ( Wrap ( L ( L ( R Abort ) ) ) ) > k _ _ _ _ _ = k > pipeCase ( Return r ) > _ k _ _ _ _ = k r > pipeCase ( Wrap ( R ( Then next ) ) ) > _ _ k _ _ _ = k next > pipeCase ( Wrap ( L ( R ( Leftover l :&: Then next ) ) ) ) > _ _ _ k _ _ = k l next > pipeCase ( Wrap ( L ( L ( L ( L ( Yield o :&: Finalize m :&: Then next ) ) ) ) ) ) > _ _ _ _ k _ = k o m next > pipeCase ( Wrap ( L ( L ( L ( R ( Await f :&: Await g :&: Then next ) ) ) ) ) ) > _ _ _ _ _ k = k f g next

Pipe primitives

We add a new primitive, as usual.

> tryAwait :: Monad m => Pipe l i o u m ( Either ( Maybe u ) i ) > tryAwait = liftF $ awaitF Right ( Left . Just ) ( Left Nothing ) > > yield :: Monad m => o -> Pipe l i o u m () > yield b = liftF $ yieldF b pass () > > abort :: Monad m => Pipe l i o u m r > abort = liftF abortF > > leftover :: Monad m => l -> Pipe l i o u m () > leftover l = liftF $ leftoverF l () > > close :: Monad m => Pipe l i o u m () > close = liftF $ closeF ()

Pipe composition

> ( <+< ) :: Monad m => Pipe Void i' o u' m r -> Pipe l i i' u m u' -> Pipe l i o u m r > p1 <+< p2 = composeWithFinalizer pass p1 p2

> ( <?< ) :: Monad m => Pipe Void i' o u' m r -> Pipe l i i' u m u' -> Pipe l i o u m r > p1 <?< p2 = composeWithFinalizer unreachable p1 p2

Now all uses of pipeCase must have an additional branch for Close .

> composeWithFinalizer :: Monad m => m () > -> Pipe Void i' o u' m r -> Pipe l i i' u m u' -> Pipe l i o u m r > composeWithFinalizer finalizeUpstream p1 p2 = FreeT $ do > x1 <- runFreeT p1 > let p1' = FreeT $ return x1 > runFreeT $ pipeCase x1 > {- Abort -} ( lift finalizeUpstream >> abort ) > {- Return -} ( \ r -> lift finalizeUpstream >> return r ) > {- Close -} ( \ next -> lift finalizeUpstream >> ( wrap $ closeF ( next <+< abort ) ) )

The very reason that we made the Close option was so that the upstream pipe could be finalized early. Once we do that, what do we compose with next ? We could compose it with p2 , but that would be very unsafe, since p2 ‘s finalizers have been run. Imagine if p2 were reading from a file, then we close the file, then ask p2 to keep reading! So instead, we compose with abort. Recall that earlier we asserted that right-composing a Producer with abort was the same as the identity function:

If it is indeed true that the downstream pipe will never await again, then we can rest assured that next <+< abort will behave as we desire.

> {- L-over -} ( \ l _next -> absurd l ) > {- Yield -} ( \ o finalizeDownstream next -> > let ( <*< ) = composeWithFinalizer finalizeUpstream > in wrap $ yieldF o > ( finalizeUpstream >> finalizeDownstream ) > ( next <*< p2 ) ) > {- Await -} ( \ f1 g1 onAbort1 -> FreeT $ do > x2 <- runFreeT p2 > runFreeT $ pipeCase x2 > {- Abort -} ( onAbort1 <+< abort ) -- downstream recovers > {- Return -} ( \ u' -> g1 u' <+< abort ) -- downstream recovers > {- Close -} ( \ next -> wrap $ closeF ( p1' <?< next ) )

Suppose that the upstream pipe close s its input end. If we have reached this point, then the up-upstream finalizers have already been run, so we need not worry about it. Upstream still has control, so we’ll compose next with the unreachable finalizer, as we do for similar situations.

> {- L-over -} ( \ l next -> wrap $ leftoverF l ( p1' <?< next ) ) > {- Yield -} ( \ o newFinalizer next -> > let ( <*< ) = composeWithFinalizer newFinalizer > in f1 o <*< next ) > {- Await -} ( \ f2 g2 onAbort2 -> wrap $ awaitF > ( \ i -> p1' <?< f2 i ) > ( \ u -> p1' <?< g2 u ) > ( p1' <?< onAbort2 ) ) )

> ( >+> ) :: Monad m => Pipe l i i' u m u' -> Pipe Void i' o u' m r -> Pipe l i o u m r > ( >+> ) = flip ( <+< ) > > infixr 9 <+< > infixr 9 >+>

Running a pipeline

At the level of a pipeline, the close operation is meaningless, since it shouldn’t be awaiting anyways. When we runPipe on a Close , therefore, we will simply move on to the next computation.

> runPipe :: Monad m => Pipeline m r -> m ( Maybe r ) > runPipe p = do > e <- runFreeT p > pipeCase e > {- Abort -} ( return Nothing ) > {- Return -} ( \ r -> return $ Just r ) > {- Close -} ( \ next -> runPipe next ) > {- L-over -} ( \ l _next -> absurd l ) > {- Yield -} ( \ o _fin _next -> absurd o ) > {- Await -} ( \ f _g _onAbort -> runPipe $ f () )

Getting rid of leftovers

The adjustment to injectLeftovers is interesting: once we close the input end, what should we do with leftovers? Discard them, since we promised not to look at them? Or keep them, since it doesn’t hurt the upstream pipe if we look at the stuff that we already acquired from it.

> injectLeftovers :: Monad m => Pipe i i o u m r -> Pipe l i o u m r > injectLeftovers = go [] where > go ls p = FreeT $ do > x <- runFreeT p > runFreeT $ pipeCase x > {- Abort -} ( abort ) > {- Return -} ( \ r -> return r ) > {- Close -} ( \ next -> wrap $ closeF ( go [] next ) )

In the name of garbage collection, I say dump them. This is reflected by the recursive call ignoring ls and instead passing in an empty list.

> {- L-over -} ( \ l next -> go ( l : ls ) next ) > {- Yield -} ( \ o fin next -> wrap $ yieldF o fin ( go ls next ) ) > {- Await -} ( \ f g onAbort -> case ls of > [] -> wrap $ awaitF ( go [] . f ) ( go [] . g ) ( go [] onAbort ) > l : ls' -> go ls' ( f l ) )

Adding finalizers to a pipe

Close is always an intermediate step of a pipe (even if the next step is merely return () ), so when revisiting cleanupP , we need only make sure that the cleanup procedures are passed on to the next computation.

> cleanupP :: Monad m => m () -> m () -> m () -> Pipe l i o u m r > -> Pipe l i o u m r > cleanupP abortFinalize selfAbortFinalize returnFinalize = go where > go p = FreeT $ do > x <- runFreeT p > runFreeT $ pipeCase x > {- Abort -} ( lift selfAbortFinalize >> abort ) > {- Return -} ( \ r -> lift returnFinalize >> return r ) > {- Close -} ( \ next -> wrap $ closeF ( go next ) ) > {- L-over -} ( \ l next -> wrap $ leftoverF l ( go next ) ) > {- Yield -} ( \ o finalizeRest next -> wrap $ > yieldF o ( finalizeRest >> abortFinalize ) ( go next ) ) > {- Await -} ( \ f g onAbort -> wrap $ > awaitF ( go . f ) ( go . g ) ( go onAbort ) )

Playing with our new primitive

Here’s a simple example using (essentially) printf debugging to illustrate the code execution path. See if you can guess the output of runPipe $ exampleConsumer <+< exampleProducer before looking at it.

> exampleProducer :: Producer Int IO () > exampleProducer = finallyP ( putStrLn "End producer" ) $ do > lift $ putStrLn "Begin producer" > lift $ putStrLn "Producer yielding" > yield 1 > lift $ putStrLn "Producer done yielding" > pass

> exampleConsumer :: Consumer Void Int () IO () > exampleConsumer = finallyP ( putStrLn "End consumer" ) $ do > lift $ putStrLn "Begin consumer" > lift $ putStrLn "Consumer awaiting" > _ <- await > lift $ putStrLn "Consumer done awaiting" > close > lift $ putStrLn "Consumer continues" > pass

ghci> runPipe $ exampleConsumer <+< exampleProducer Begin consumer Consumer awaiting Begin producer Producer yielding Consumer done awaiting End producer Consumer continues End consumer Just ()

As you can see, close caused the producer’s finalizer to be run immediately. What would the output look like if the consumer didn’t close ?

Safety

Our close primitive gives programmers a convenient way to indicate that a pipe’s upstream should be finalized, but it is completely up to the programmer to make sure that close is used in a safe way, that is, that it is not followed by an await . We gave pipes the behavior of abort ing in such circumstances, which is a decent choice, but can we do better?

Control.Frame from the pipes package provides a different (though similar) implementation of pipes that uses indexed monads to solve this problem. If you close a frame, then it is a type error to await afterwards. This has obvious type-safety benefits, but at the cost of using a relatively new concept that has little syntactic sugar support; see Control.Pipe.Tutorial for details on how this technique works.

Next time

We’ve come a long ways from the simplicity of Control.Pipe. Next time, I’ll take away abort and close , and what we have left will be fairly similar to the current state of Data.Conduit. I’ll guide you through some of the conduit source code and observe which choices were made, and attempt to explain why.

Convenience combinators

> finallyP :: Monad m => m () -> Pipe l i o u m r -> Pipe l i o u m r > finallyP finalize = cleanupP finalize finalize finalize > > catchP :: Monad m => m () -> Pipe l i o u m r -> Pipe l i o u m r > catchP finalize = cleanupP finalize finalize pass > > successP :: Monad m => m () -> Pipe l i o u m r -> Pipe l i o u m r > successP finalize = cleanupP pass pass finalize

> bracketP :: MonadResource m => IO a -> ( a -> IO () ) -> ( a -> Pipe l i o u m r ) > -> Pipe l i o u m r > bracketP create destroy mkPipe = do > ( key , val ) <- lift $ allocate create destroy > finallyP ( release key ) ( mkPipe val )

Some basic pipes

> idMsg :: String -> Pipe l i i u IO u > idMsg str = finallyP ( putStrLn str ) idP > > testPipeR :: Monad m => Pipe Void i o u m r -> m ( Maybe r ) > testPipeR p = runPipe $ ( await >> abort ) <+< p <+< abort > > testPipeL :: Monad m => Pipe Void Int o () m r -> m ( Maybe r ) > testPipeL p = runPipe $ ( await >> await >> abort ) <+< take' 1 <+< p <+< fromList [ 1 .. ] > > testPipe :: Monad m => Pipe Void Int o () m r -> m ( Maybe ( r , [ o ] ) ) > testPipe p = runPipe $ runP <+< p <+< fromList [ 1 .. ] > > take' :: Monad m => Int -> Pipe l i i u m () > take' 0 = pass > take' n = ( await >>= yield ) >> take' ( pred n )

> fromList :: Monad m => [ o ] -> Producer o m () > fromList = mapM_ yield

> awaitE :: Monad m => Pipe l i o u m ( Either u i ) > awaitE = tryAwait >>= \ emx -> case emx of > Left Nothing -> abort > Left ( Just u ) -> return $ Left u > Right i -> return $ Right i > > awaitForever :: Monad m => ( i -> Pipe l i o u m r ) -> Pipe l i o u m u > awaitForever f = go where > go = awaitE >>= \ ex -> case ex of > Left u -> return u > Right i -> f i >> go > > pipe :: Monad m => ( i -> o ) -> Pipe l i o u m u > pipe f = awaitForever $ yield . f > > idP :: Monad m => Pipe l i i u m u > idP = pipe id > > filterP :: Monad m => ( i -> Bool ) -> Pipe l i i u m u > filterP test = awaitForever $ \ x -> when ( test x ) ( yield x ) > > printer :: Show i => Consumer l i u IO u > printer = awaitForever $ lift . print

> runP :: Monad m => Consumer l i u m ( u , [ i ] ) > runP = awaitE >>= \ ex -> case ex of > Left u -> return ( u , [] ) > Right i -> runP >>= \ ~ ( u , is ) -> return ( u , i : is ) > > evalP :: Monad m => Consumer l i u m u > evalP = fst `fmap` runP > > execP :: Monad m => Consumer l i u m [ i ] > execP = snd `fmap` runP > > fold :: Monad m => ( r -> i -> r ) -> r -> Consumer l i u m r > fold f = go where > go r = awaitE >>= \ ex -> case ex of > Left _u -> return r > Right i -> go $! f r i

> await :: Monad m => Pipe l i o u m i > await = awaitE >>= \ ex -> case ex of > Left _u -> abort > Right i -> return i > > oldPipe :: Monad m => ( i -> o ) -> Pipe l i o u m r > oldPipe f = forever $ await >>= yield . f > > oldIdP :: Monad m => Pipe l i i u m r > oldIdP = oldPipe id > > oldFilterP :: Monad m => ( i -> Bool ) -> Pipe l i i u m r > oldFilterP test = forever $ await >>= \ x -> when ( test x ) ( yield x ) > > oldPrinter :: Show i => Consumer l i u IO r > oldPrinter = forever $ await >>= lift . print

You can play with this code for yourself by downloading PipeClose.lhs.