typelevel / typelevel/cats

Add attemptT variant accepting a partial function

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Description

I sometimes find myself trying to recover some Throwables as Left in EitherT. It gets noisy:

val doSomething: IO[Foo] = ???
val doSomething0: EitherT[IO, MyError, Foo] =
  EitherT(
    doSomething.map(_.asRight).recover {
      case e: IOException => MyError(e).asLeft
      case e: SQLException => MyError(e).asLeft
    }
  )

It would be nice to have a combinator that would encapsulate this pattern:

doSomething.attemptPartialT {
  case e: IOException => MyError(e)
  case e: SQLException => MyError(e)
}

We can also have an Either version of it, as a more general version of attemptNarrow.

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Research direction

Start by locating the existing attemptNarrow implementation and the EitherT APIs involved in the example. Compare how the proposed partial-function forms should relate to those entry points, then add coverage for the IOException and SQLException cases and verify that unmatched Throwables retain the expected behavior.

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Tech stack
scala
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tooling
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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