Custom instances of HStream impossible to write
- Langage dominant
- Haskell
- Étoiles
- 186
- Forks
- 59
- Métriques de merge des PR
- Aucune PR mergée en 30 j
Description
It would be nice to be able to have an instance of [`HStream`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.19/docs/Network-TCP.html#t:HStream) that allows to stream without using lazy I/O; in particular, an instance that would allow us to close the connection when we no longer want the rest of the response body.
However, in order to define a custom type with a corresponding `HStream` instance one needs to provide, amongst other things, implementations of
``` haskell
openStream :: String -> Int -> IO (HandleStream bufType)
close :: HandleStream bufType -> IO ()
```
For the implementation of `openStream` we can use
``` haskell
openTCPConnection :: BufferType ty => String -> Int -> IO (HandleStream ty)
```
However, for the implementation of `close` we are stuck; there is no function analogous to `openTCPConnection` that allows us to close a `HandleStream`.
Although we have
``` haskell
hstreamToConnection :: HandleStream String -> Connection
```
and there is a [`Stream`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.19/docs/Network-Stream.html#t:Stream) instance for [`Connection`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.19/docs/Network-TCP.html#t:Connection), `hstreamToConnection` works _only_ for `HandleStream String`, so that doesn't help either.
Finally, the [`HandleStream`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.19/docs/Network-TCP.html#t:HandleStream) type is completely opaque (it does not even satisfy `Functor`) so we cannot define a `HStream` instance for one `bufType` in terms of the `HStream` instance for another. If we had _some_ way of defining new instances in terms of old instances (for instance, reuse the instance for lazy bytestrings, but somehow retain a handle to the corresponding `HandleStream` so that we can close it explicitly) that would be great.
Guide de contribution
Aucun guide de contribution indexé pour ce dépôt
Piste de recherche
Commencez par HStream, HandleStream, openStream, close et openTCPConnection dans Network.TCP, puis examinez hstreamToConnection et Connection dans Network.Stream. Déterminez une API permettant aux instances HStream personnalisées de fermer leur HandleStream sans I/O paresseuse ni dépendre de la conversion spécifique à String. Le travail est terminé lorsqu’un type de tampon personnalisé peut définir un nettoyage explicite de la connexion.
Rédigé par le modèle d'indexation à partir du texte de l'issue.
Évaluation
- Stack technique
- haskell
- Domaine
- networking
- Type d'issue
- Fonctionnalité
- Difficulté
- 5/5
- Temps estimé
- Plus d'une semaine
- Activité
- À l'abandon
- Clarté
- Plutôt claire
- Accessibilité débutants
- 25/100