Intro

Classes for accessing and mutating nested data types with corresponding adapter classes for MonadState, MonadReader and MonadError. Inspired by the next level mtl with classy optics talk.

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Internals

Lenses and Prisms from lens are autogenerated with TH by splicing with deepPrisms and deepLenses. The generator recurses into single-field constructors and record fields if there are instances of DeepPrisms or DeepLenses for their parameter types.

Example

For MonadError:

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}

import Cornea (MonadDeepError(throwHoist))
import Control.Monad.Trans.Except (runExceptT)
import Data.DeepPrisms (deepPrisms)

newtype Error = Error String

newtype Inner = Inner Error
deepPrisms ''Inner

data Mid = Mid Inner
deepPrisms ''Mid

newtype Outer = Outer Mid
deepPrisms ''Outer

throwDeep :: MonadDeepError e Inner m => m ()
throwDeep = throwHoist (Inner (Error "boom"))

main :: IO (Either Outer ())
main = runExceptT throwDeep

In main, MonadError Outer IO and DeepPrisms Outer Inner are summoned.

Analogously for MonadState:

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}

import Cornea (MonadDeepState(get, gets, put))
import Control.Monad.Trans.State (execStateT)
import Data.DeepLenses (deepLenses)

newtype S = S Int

newtype Inner = Inner { _innerS :: S }
deepLenses ''Inner

data Mid = Mid { _midInner :: Inner }
deepLenses ''Mid

newtype Outer = Outer { _outerMid :: Mid }
deepLenses ''Outer

stateDeep :: MonadDeepState s Inner m => m ()
stateDeep = do
  (Inner (S a)) <- get
  b <- gets $ \(Inner (S b)) -> b
  put (Inner (S (a + b + 3)))

main :: IO Outer
main = do
  execStateT stateDeep (Outer (Mid (Inner (S 5))))

MonadReader works basically the same as MonadState.