graphql-engine/server/src-lib/Hasura/RQL/DDL
Auke Booij cdac24c79f server: delete the Cacheable type class in favor of Eq
What is the `Cacheable` type class about?
```haskell
class Eq a => Cacheable a where
  unchanged :: Accesses -> a -> a -> Bool
  default unchanged :: (Generic a, GCacheable (Rep a)) => Accesses -> a -> a -> Bool
  unchanged accesses a b = gunchanged (from a) (from b) accesses
```
Its only method is an alternative to `(==)`. The added value of `unchanged` (and the additional `Accesses` argument) arises _only_ for one type, namely `Dependency`. Indeed, the `Cacheable (Dependency a)` instance is non-trivial, whereas every other `Cacheable` instance is completely boilerplate (and indeed either generated from `Generic`, or simply `unchanged _ = (==)`). The `Cacheable (Dependency a)` instance is the only one where the `Accesses` argument is not just passed onwards.

The only callsite of the `unchanged` method is in the `ArrowCache (Rule m)` method. That is to say that the `Cacheable` type class is used to decide when we can re-use parts of the schema cache between Metadata operations.

So what is the `Cacheable (Dependency a)` instance about? Normally, the output of a `Rule m a b` is re-used when the new input (of type `a`) is equal to the old one. But sometimes, that's too coarse: it might be that a certain `Rule m a b` only depends on a small part of its input of type `a`. A `Dependency` allows us to spell out what parts of `a` are being depended on, and these parts are recorded as values of types `Access a` in the state `Accesses`.

If the input `a` changes, but not in a way that touches the recorded `Accesses`, then the output `b` of that rule can be re-used without recomputing.

So now you understand _why_ we're passing `Accesses` to the `unchanged` method: `unchanged` is an equality check in disguise that just needs some additional context.

But we don't need to pass `Accesses` as a function argument. We can use the `reflection` package to pass it as type-level context. So the core of this PR is that we change the instance declaration from
```haskell
instance (Cacheable a) => Cacheable (Dependency a) where
```
to
```haskell
 instance (Given Accesses, Eq a) => Eq (Dependency a) where
```
and use `(==)` instead of `unchanged`.

If you haven't seen `reflection` before: it's like a `MonadReader`, but it doesn't require a `Monad`.

In order to pass the current `Accesses` value, instead of simply passing the `Accesses` as a function argument, we need to instantiate the `Given Accesses` context. We use the `give` method from the `reflection` package for that.
```haskell
give :: forall r. Accesses -> (Given Accesses => r) -> r

unchanged :: (Given Accesses => Eq a) => Accesses -> a -> a -> Bool
unchanged accesses a b = give accesses (a == b)
```
With these three components in place, we can delete the `Cacheable` type class entirely.

The remainder of this PR is just to remove the `Cacheable` type class and its instances.

PR-URL: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine-mono/pull/6877
GitOrigin-RevId: 7125f5e11d856e7672ab810a23d5bf5ad176e77f
2022-11-21 16:35:37 +00:00
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Metadata ghc 9.2.5 2022-11-15 11:26:42 +00:00
Permission Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
Relationship Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
Schema server: delete the Cacheable type class in favor of Eq 2022-11-21 16:35:37 +00:00
Webhook server: delete the Cacheable type class in favor of Eq 2022-11-21 16:35:37 +00:00
Action.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
ApiLimit.hs Remove RQL/Types.hs 2022-04-27 13:58:47 +00:00
ComputedField.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
CustomTypes.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
DataConnector.hs Add display_name, release_name fields to MD Agent APIs - GDC-626 2022-11-18 04:19:08 +00:00
Endpoint.hs Remove RQL/Types.hs 2022-04-27 13:58:47 +00:00
EventTrigger.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
GraphqlSchemaIntrospection.hs Remove RQL/Types.hs 2022-04-27 13:58:47 +00:00
Headers.hs server: delete the Cacheable type class in favor of Eq 2022-11-21 16:35:37 +00:00
InheritedRoles.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
Metadata.hs server: fix template validation behaviour 2022-11-16 16:37:34 +00:00
Network.hs server: Simplify BuildOutputs 2022-11-15 12:04:13 +00:00
Permission.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
QueryCollection.hs Clean up Hasura.Prelude a bit 2022-10-03 21:50:53 +00:00
QueryTags.hs Replace BackendSourceMetadata type alias with a newtype 2022-08-29 00:59:18 +00:00
Relationship.hs ghc 9.2.5 2022-11-15 11:26:42 +00:00
RemoteRelationship.hs Upgrade Ormolu to v0.5. 2022-11-02 20:55:13 +00:00
ScheduledTrigger.hs Rename get_event_invocations to get_scheduled_event_invocations 2022-11-03 10:23:11 +00:00
Schema.hs Import pg-client-hs as PG 2022-09-20 19:55:51 +00:00
SourceKinds.hs Add display_name, release_name fields to MD Agent APIs - GDC-626 2022-11-18 04:19:08 +00:00