Base.Or_errorSourceType for tracking errors in an Error.t. This is a specialization of the Result type, where the Error constructor carries an Error.t.
A common idiom is to wrap a function that is not implemented on all platforms, e.g.,
val do_something_linux_specific : (unit -> unit) Or_error.tSerialization and comparison of an Error force the error's lazy message.
Applicative functions don't have quite the same semantics as Applicative.Of_Monad(Or_error) would give -- apply (Error e1) (Error e2) returns the combination of e1 and e2, whereas it would only return e1 if it were defined using bind.
include Applicative.S_local with type 'a t := 'a tinclude Invariant.S1 with type 'a t := 'a tinclude Monad.S_local with type 'a t := 'a tt >>= f returns a computation that sequences the computations represented by two monad elements. The resulting computation first does t to yield a value v, and then runs the computation returned by f v.
ignore_m t is map t ~f:(fun _ -> ()). ignore_m used to be called ignore, but we decided that was a bad name, because it shadowed the widely used Stdlib.ignore. Some monads still do let ignore = ignore_m for historical reasons.
Like all, but ensures that every monadic value in the list produces a unit value, all of which are discarded rather than being collected into a list.
These are convenient to have in scope when programming with a monad:
try_with f catches exceptions thrown by f and returns them in the Result.t as an Error.t. try_with_join is like try_with, except that f can throw exceptions or return an Error directly, without ending up with a nested error; it is equivalent to Result.join (try_with f).
ok t returns None if t is an Error, and otherwise returns the contents of the Ok constructor.
ok_exn t throws an exception if t is an Error, and otherwise returns the contents of the Ok constructor.
of_exn ?backtrace exn is Error (Error.of_exn ?backtrace exn).
of_exn_result ?backtrace (Ok a) = Ok a
of_exn_result ?backtrace (Error exn) = of_exn ?backtrace exn
of_option t returns Ok 'a if t is Some 'a, and otherwise returns the supplied error as Error error
error is a wrapper around Error.create:
error ?strict message a sexp_of_a
= Error (Error.create ?strict message a sexp_of_a)As with Error.create, sexp_of_a a is lazily computed when the info is converted to a sexp. So, if a is mutated in the time between the call to create and the sexp conversion, those mutations will be reflected in the sexp. Use ~strict:() to force sexp_of_a a to be computed immediately.
errorf format arg1 arg2 ... is Error (sprintf format arg1 arg2 ...). Note that it calculates the string eagerly, so when performance matters you may want to use error instead.
tag_s_lazy is like tag with a lazy sexp tag.
tag_arg is like tag, with a tag that has a sexpable argument.
For marking a given value as unimplemented. Typically combined with conditional compilation, where on some platforms the function is defined normally, and on some platforms it is defined as unimplemented. The supplied string should be the name of the function that is unimplemented.
combine_errors ts returns Ok if every element in ts is Ok, else it returns Error with all the errors in ts. More precisely:
combine_errors [Ok a1; ...; Ok an] = Ok [a1; ...; an] combine_errors [...; Error e1; ...; Error en; ...]
= Error (Error.of_list [e1; ...; en]) combine_errors_unit ts returns Ok if every element in ts is Ok (), else it returns Error with all the errors in ts, like combine_errors.
filter_ok_at_least_one ts returns all values in ts that are Ok if there is at least one, otherwise it returns the same error as combine_errors ts.
find_ok ts returns the first value in ts that is Ok, otherwise it returns the same error as combine_errors ts.