graphql-engine/server/src-lib/Hasura/Base/ErrorMessage.hs
Samir Talwar eab4f75212 An ErrorMessage type, to encapsulate.
This introduces an `ErrorMessage` newtype which wraps `Text` in a manner which is designed to be easy to construct, and difficult to deconstruct.

It provides functionality similar to `Data.Text.Extended`, but designed _only_ for error messages. Error messages are constructed through `fromString`, concatenation, or the `toErrorValue` function, which is designed to be overridden for all meaningful domain types that might show up in an error message. Notably, there are not and should never be instances of `ToErrorValue` for `String`, `Text`, `Int`, etc. This is so that we correctly represent the value in a way that is specific to its type. For example, all `Name` values (from the _graphql-parser-hs_ library) are single-quoted now; no exceptions.

I have mostly had to add `instance ToErrorValue` for various backend types (and also add newtypes where necessary). Some of these are not strictly necessary for this changeset, as I had bigger aspirations when I started. These aspirations have been tempered by trying and failing twice.

As such, in this changeset, I have started by introducing this type to the `parseError` and `parseErrorWith` functions. In the future, I would like to extend this to the `QErr` record and the various `throwError` functions, but this is a much larger task and should probably be done in stages.

For now, `toErrorMessage` and `fromErrorMessage` are provided for conversion to and from `Text`, but the intent is to stop exporting these once all error messages are converted to the new type.

PR-URL: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine-mono/pull/5018
GitOrigin-RevId: 84b37e238992e4312255a87ca44f41af65e2d89a
2022-07-18 20:27:06 +00:00

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-- | Error messages
--
-- This module defines a type for user facing error messages.
--
-- To construct a value of this type, use `toErrorMessage` or the 'IsString' interface,
-- the type class 'ToErrorValue' defined in the "Hasura.Base.ToErrorValue" module,
-- or use the utility functions defined in the "Hasura.Base.ErrorValue" module.
--
-- 'ErrorMessage's can also be composed using the 'Semigroup' interface.
--
-- To fail with an error message in monadic code, use the 'failWithMessage' function.
module Hasura.Base.ErrorMessage
( ErrorMessage,
ErrorMessageOr,
toErrorMessage,
fromErrorMessage,
failWithMessage,
)
where
import Data.Aeson
import Data.String (IsString (..))
import Data.Text qualified as Text
import Hasura.Prelude
-- | 'ErrorMessage' wraps a 'Text' value such that it's easy to build up,
-- but difficult to break apart or extract the underlying text value.
newtype ErrorMessage = ErrorMessage
{ -- | A temporary extractor which will go away once 'ErrorMessage' is pervasive.
fromErrorMessage :: Text
}
deriving newtype (Eq, Semigroup, ToJSON)
-- | A smart constructor for 'ErrorMessage' so that it cannot be deconstructed.
toErrorMessage :: Text -> ErrorMessage
toErrorMessage = ErrorMessage
-- | Fails with the given message.
failWithMessage :: MonadFail m => ErrorMessage -> m ()
failWithMessage = fail . Text.unpack . fromErrorMessage
instance IsString ErrorMessage where
fromString = ErrorMessage . Text.pack
-- | A simple alias to prevent duplication.
type ErrorMessageOr = Either ErrorMessage