Pipes-Safe

pipes-safe builds upon the pipes library to provide exception safety and resource management.

Quick start

• Install the Haskell Platform
• cabal install pipes-safe

The official tutorial is on Hackage.

Features

• Resource Safety: Guarantee finalization using finally, bracket, and more

• Exception Safety: Even against asynchronous exceptions!

• Laziness: Only acquire resources when you need them

• Promptness: Finalize resources early when you are done with them

• Native Exception Handling: Catch and resume from exceptions inside pipes

• No Buy-in: Mix resource-safe pipes with unmanaged pipes using hoist

Outline

Use pipes-safe for production code where you need deterministic and prompt release of resources in the fact of exceptions or premature pipe termination. pipes-safe lets you safely acquire resources and handle exceptions within pipelines.

Development Status

pipes-safe is mostly stable. Research into prompter finalization alternatives will take place in a separate library.

Community Resources

Use the same resources as the core pipes library to learn more, contribute, or request help:

• Haskell wiki page

• Mailing list (Google Group)

How to contribute

• Build derived libraries

• Write pipes-safe tutorials

License (BSD 3-clause)

Copyright (c) 2013 Gabriella Gonzalez All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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• Neither the name of Gabriella Gonzalez nor the names of other contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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