git-annex/Utility/SimpleProtocol.hs
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{- Simple line-based protocols.
-
- Copyright 2013-2014 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
-
- License: BSD-2-clause
-}
module Utility.SimpleProtocol (
Sendable(..),
Receivable(..),
parseMessage,
Serializable(..),
Parser,
parseFail,
parse0,
parse1,
parse2,
parse3,
ioHandles,
) where
import Data.Char
import GHC.IO.Handle
import Common
-- Messages that can be sent.
class Sendable m where
formatMessage :: m -> [String]
-- Messages that can be received.
class Receivable m where
-- Passed the first word of the message, returns
-- a Parser that can be be fed the rest of the message to generate
-- the value.
parseCommand :: String -> Parser m
parseMessage :: (Receivable m) => String -> Maybe m
parseMessage s = parseCommand command rest
where
(command, rest) = splitWord s
class Serializable a where
serialize :: a -> String
deserialize :: String -> Maybe a
{- Parsing the parameters of messages. Using the right parseN ensures
- that the string is split into exactly the requested number of words,
- which allows the last parameter of a message to contain arbitrary
- whitespace, etc, without needing any special quoting.
-}
type Parser a = String -> Maybe a
parseFail :: Parser a
parseFail _ = Nothing
parse0 :: a -> Parser a
parse0 mk "" = Just mk
parse0 _ _ = Nothing
parse1 :: Serializable p1 => (p1 -> a) -> Parser a
parse1 mk p1 = mk <$> deserialize p1
parse2 :: (Serializable p1, Serializable p2) => (p1 -> p2 -> a) -> Parser a
parse2 mk s = mk <$> deserialize p1 <*> deserialize p2
where
(p1, p2) = splitWord s
parse3 :: (Serializable p1, Serializable p2, Serializable p3) => (p1 -> p2 -> p3 -> a) -> Parser a
parse3 mk s = mk <$> deserialize p1 <*> deserialize p2 <*> deserialize p3
where
(p1, rest) = splitWord s
(p2, p3) = splitWord rest
splitWord :: String -> (String, String)
splitWord = separate isSpace
{- When a program speaks a simple protocol over stdio, any other output
- to stdout (or anything that attempts to read from stdin)
- will mess up the protocol. To avoid that, close stdin, and
- and duplicate stderr to stdout. Return two new handles
- that are duplicates of the original (stdin, stdout). -}
ioHandles :: IO (Handle, Handle)
ioHandles = do
readh <- hDuplicate stdin
writeh <- hDuplicate stdout
nullh <- openFile devNull ReadMode
nullh `hDuplicateTo` stdin
stderr `hDuplicateTo` stdout
return (readh, writeh)