Send Beginners mailing list submissions to
beginners@haskell.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beginners
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
beginners-requ...@haskell.org
You can reach the person managing the list at
beginners-ow...@haskell.org
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Beginners digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Design help to add imports to a (Java) template (Hilco Wijbenga)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 13:03:07 -0700
From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com>
To: Haskell Beginners <beginners@haskell.org>
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Design help to add imports to a (Java)
template
Message-ID:
<cae1poi11mzgxe1uyp95r9w_onhgrn0kyaajsohv6hjvppn7...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hi all,
I'm working on a Haskell (Eta) tool to generate Java ADTs.
I have the following definitions:
data Line = Line Int Text [JavaImport] -- The Int represents the
indentation level of this line.
data Template
= None
| One Line
| Many [Line]
| Template (Reader Configuration Template)
I then run it like this (incomplete, I hope you get the idea):
main :: IO ()
main = putStr $ replace (importsGoHereKey `append` "\n") importsAsText
templateAsText
where
config = Configuration (Copyright 2018 "Me") USE_GETTERS
point' = javaClassTemplate point
importsAsText = runReader (mapReader javaImportsToText
(javaImports point')) config
templateAsText = runReader (toText tab point') config
Essentially, I use the template twice: once to extract the Java
imports and once to generate the result Text. Then I replace a magic
string in the result Text with the import code. It works but makes me
sad. ;-)
I will probably pull out the JavaImport list from Line and use
something like State to keep track of the necessary imports. (Now that
I understand Reader, maybe State is no longer a bridge too far.)
My main issue is how to avoid the magic string. I thought about adding
an extra entry to Template [something like Imports ((Set JavaImport)
-> Text or maybe Template)] but then I don't know how to implement
"instance Monoid Template". Similarly if I use something Reader like.
Any design advice or ideas would be appreciated. If it's of any help,
the full code is at [1] (it's tiny). Any and all comments are welcome,
by the way: I'm still a Haskell beginner.
Cheers,
Hilco
[1] https://github.com/hilcode/java-algebraic-data-types
------------------------------
Subject: Digest Footer
_______________________________________________
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@haskell.org
http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beginners
------------------------------
End of Beginners Digest, Vol 121, Issue 1
*****************************************
