[Haskell-cafe] First go at reactive programming

[Levi Stephen]

Hi,

Listed below is my first experiment with reactive programming. It is a 
simple web server written using the Data.Reactive[1] library. The 
intended interface is given by the runHttpServer function, so the 
remainder is intended to be internal.

I'd be happy to hear comments on any parts of this, but am particularly 
interested in the following:

1. Is this kind of code what is intended from reactive programming?
2a. I'm not sure about passing the (Handle,...) tuple around. Is there a 
way to avoid this?
2b. I'm not sure of the best place to handle possible socket exceptions
2c. I'd like to be able to pass a function of type Event Request -> 
Event Response to runHttpServer, so that reactive programming could be 
used throughout client code also, but the (Handle,...) tuples seem to be 
getting in the way.
3. I have a feeling there's a clearer way to write responseSend.

Thanks,
Levi

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive

module Main where

import Control.Applicative
import Control.Arrow ((&&&),(>>>))
import Control.Concurrent
import Control.Monad

import Data.Reactive

import Network.BSD
import Network.HTTP
import Network

import System.IO

import Text.XHtml.Strict

type RequestHandler = Request -> Response

main = runHttpServer helloWorldHandler

helloWorldHandler :: RequestHandler
helloWorldHandler _ =  Response (2,0,0) "" [] $ prettyHtml helloWorldDoc

helloWorldDoc = header << thetitle << "Hello World"
            +++ body << h1 << "Hello World"

runHttpServer r = socketServer >>= runE . handleConnection r

socketServer :: IO (Event Handle)
socketServer = withSocketsDo $ do
  (e,snk) <- mkEventShow "Server"
  sock <- listenOn (PortNumber 8080)
  forkIO $ forever $ acceptConnection sock $ snk
  return e

handleConnection :: RequestHandler -> Event Handle -> Event (IO ())
handleConnection r = handleToRequest >>> runRequestHandler r >>> 
responseSend


handleToRequest :: Event Handle -> Event (Handle, IO (Result Request))
handleToRequest e = fmap (id &&& receiveHTTP) e

responseSend :: Event (Handle, IO (Result Response)) -> Event (IO ())
responseSend e = fmap (\(h,rsp) -> rsp >>= either (putStrLn . show) 
(respondHTTP h) >> close h) e

runRequestHandler :: RequestHandler -> Event (Handle, IO (Result 
Request)) -> Event (Handle, IO (Result Response))
runRequestHandler r e = fmap hrToHr e
  where
    rqhdl :: Result Request -> Result Response
    rqhdl rq =  bindE rq (Right . r)
    hrToHr :: (Handle, IO (Result Request)) -> (Handle, IO (Result 
Response))
    hrToHr (h,req) = (h, liftA rqhdl req)

acceptConnection s k = accept s >>= \(h,_,_) -> forkIO $ k h

instance Stream Handle where
  readLine h = hGetLine h >>= \l -> return $ Right $ l ++ "\n"
  readBlock h n = replicateM n (hGetChar h) >>= return . Right
  writeBlock h s = mapM_ (hPutChar h) s >>= return . Right
  close = hClose