[Haskell-beginners] "Phantom" function?
Baa
aquagnu at gmail.com
Fri Sep 15 09:40:46 UTC 2017
Hello, List. I'm trying to write function like this:
type VerifyJson a = IO Bool
isRight :: FromJSON a => FilePath -> VerifyJson a
isRight testbed = do
js <- readFile testbed
return $ isJust (decode js) <<<<< ERROR IS HERE !
So I get error:
60 23 error error:
• Could not deduce (FromJSON a0) arising from a use of ‘decode’
from the context: FromJSON a
bound by the type signature for:
isRight :: FromJSON a => FilePath -> VerifyJson a
at /home/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/.stack-work/intero/intero7476qP4.hs:57:1-46
The type variable ‘a0’ is ambiguous
These potential instances exist:
instance FromJSON DotNetTime
-- Defined in ‘aeson-1.0.2.1:Data.Aeson.Types.FromJSON’
instance FromJSON Value
-- Defined in ‘aeson-1.0.2.1:Data.Aeson.Types.FromJSON’
instance (FromJSON a, FromJSON b) => FromJSON (Either a b)
-- Defined in ‘aeson-1.0.2.1:Data.Aeson.Types.FromJSON’
...plus 25 others
...plus 52 instances involving out-of-scope types
(use -fprint-potential-instances to see them all)
• In the first argument of ‘MB.isJust’, namely ‘(decode js)’
In the second argument of ‘($)’, namely ‘MB.isJust (decode js)’
In a stmt of a 'do' block: return $ MB.isJust (decode js) (intero)
Is it possible to write such (phantom?;)) function? Sure, I can make workaround like:
class FromJSON a => VerifyJson a where
isRight :: FilePath -> IO Bool
isRight testbed = do
js <- readFile testbed
return $ MB.isJust (decode js::Maybe a)
but in this case I must declare instances for all verificating types (right?), like:
instance VerifyJson MyType
But idea was to minimize `isRight` users code...
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Best regards, Paul
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