Chapter Six: Database DSL
The Legend of Selda
Haskell has many database libraries, and there's a recent trend in leveraging the type system to giving increasingly safe database access. Despite the goofy name, Selda is a very robust database DSL, and works equally well for PostgreSQL or SQLite.
The website for Selda is literally
https://selda.link⚔️🛡️🤣We may later switch to Beam, which is more feature rich, has generally faster compilation, and has a clearer tutorial. We switched to Selda due to a bug in a dependency, which has since been fixed.
The flip side of having so much power in a database library is that the types can get pretty out of hand sometimes. This is a trade-off that we make in a number of places throughout the application, and is highly beneficial 98% of the time. Selda uses a lot of constraint aliases to merge multiple constraints into one. GHC or Intero will give you hints with the underlying constraints. We'll touch of a few things to keep in mind below.
MonadSelda
Fission.Storage.Types
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type SeldaPool = Database.Pool (SeldaConnection SQLite)
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newtype Pool = Pool { getPool :: SeldaPool }
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deriving Show
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instance Has DB.Pool cfg => MonadSelda (RIO cfg) where
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type Backend (RIO cfg) = SQLite
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withConnection action = do
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DB.Pool pool <- Config.get
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withResource pool action
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