Re: One of the new buzz phrases is "Event-Sourcing"; is Haskell suitable for this?
Alberto G. Corona <agocorona <at> gmail.com>
2012-09-30 17:15:03 GMT
Hi,Marcelo,
No. .Acid state is explcitly managed by the process by means of state management primitives
In Control.Workflow the state is managed in a implicit way.
It is a monad transformer mainly is designed for wrapping IO computations.
the lifting primitive, step, store the intermediate result and recover the application state.
in acid state the process choose what to write in the state
in workflow the state written is the complete state of the process.
See the example in the documentation. the process ,
import Control.Workflow
import Control.Concurrent(threadDelay)
import System.IO (hFlush,stdout)
mcount n= do
step $ do
putStr (show n ++ " ")
hFlush stdout
threadDelay 1000000
mcount (n+1)
return () -- to disambiguate the return type
main=
exec1 "count" $ mcount (0 :: Int)
>>> runghc demos\sequence.hs
>0 1 2 3
>CTRL-C Pressed
>>> runghc demos\sequence.hs
>3 4 5 6 7
>CTRL-C Pressed
>>> runghc demos\sequence.hs
>7 8 9 10 11
...
in subsequent executions the process start to execute IO computations from the last point logged:
As the documentation says
some side effect can be re-executed after recovery if the log is not complete. This may happen after an unexpected shutdown (in this case Contro-C has been pressed) or due to an asynchronous log writing policy. (see syncWrite) (writing is cached).
Althoug this is not event sourcing, The logging and recovery facilities can be used for even sourcing.
Alberto
2012/9/30 Marcelo Sousa
<dipython <at> gmail.com>Hi,
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Alberto G. Corona <
agocorona <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> It´´s a very iteresting concept.
>
> The Workflow Monad transformer [1], in Control.Workflow perform
> logging and recovery of application istate from the log created.
> It has no implementation of roll-back or limited recovery upto a
> point, but this is easy to implement.
Is Control.Workflow similar with acid-state with respect to the way
you recovery the current state?
> It also has many inspection and synchronization primitives. It has
> been used also for translating the log of a program and recovering the
> state in another machine. The log can be pretty-printed for
> debugging.
Can you "somehow" recover impure (IO) computations?
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Workflow
Regards,
Marcelo
--
Alberto.
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