Prism
A Prism
is an optic used to select part of a Sum
type (also known as Coproduct
), e.g. sealed trait
or Enum
.
Prisms
have two type parameters generally called S
and A
: Prism[S, A]
where S
represents the Sum
and A
a part of the Sum
.
Let's take a simplified Json
encoding:
sealed trait Json
case object JNull extends Json
case class JStr(v: String) extends Json
case class JNum(v: Double) extends Json
case class JObj(v: Map[String, Json]) extends Json
We can define a Prism
which only selects Json
elements built with a JStr
constructor by supplying a pair of functions:
getOption: Json => Option[String]
reverseGet (aka apply): String => Json
import monocle.Prism
val jStr = Prism[Json, String]{
case JStr(v) => Some(v)
case _ => None
}(JStr)
It is common to create a Prism
by pattern matching on constructor, so we also added partial
which takes a PartialFunction
:
val jStr = Prism.partial[Json, String]{case JStr(v) => v}(JStr)
We can use the supplied getOption
and apply
methods as constructor and pattern matcher for JStr
:
jStr("hello")
// res0: Json = JStr(v = "hello")
jStr.getOption(JStr("Hello"))
// res1: Option[String] = Some(value = "Hello")
jStr.getOption(JNum(3.2))
// res2: Option[String] = None
A Prism
can be used in a pattern matching position:
def isLongString(json: Json): Boolean = json match {
case jStr(v) => v.length > 100
case _ => false
}
We can also use replace
and modify
to update a Json
only if it is a JStr
:
jStr.replace("Bar")(JStr("Hello"))
// res3: Json = JStr(v = "Bar")
jStr.modify(_.reverse)(JStr("Hello"))
// res4: Json = JStr(v = "olleH")
If we supply another type of Json
, replace
and modify
will be a no operation:
jStr.replace("Bar")(JNum(10))
// res5: Json = JNum(v = 10.0)
jStr.modify(_.reverse)(JNum(10))
// res6: Json = JNum(v = 10.0)
If we care about the success or failure of the update, we can use replaceOption
or modifyOption
:
jStr.modifyOption(_.reverse)(JStr("Hello"))
// res7: Option[Json] = Some(value = JStr(v = "olleH"))
jStr.modifyOption(_.reverse)(JNum(10))
// res8: Option[Json] = None
As all other optics Prisms
compose together:
import monocle.std.double.doubleToInt // Prism[Double, Int] defined in Monocle
val jNum: Prism[Json, Double] = Prism.partial[Json, Double]{case JNum(v) => v}(JNum)
val jInt: Prism[Json, Int] = jNum.andThen(doubleToInt)
jInt(5)
// res9: Json = JNum(v = 5.0)
jInt.getOption(JNum(5.0))
// res10: Option[Int] = Some(value = 5)
jInt.getOption(JNum(5.2))
// res11: Option[Int] = None
jInt.getOption(JStr("Hello"))
// res12: Option[Int] = None
Prism Generation
Generating Prisms
for subclasses is fairly common, so we added a macro to simplify the process. All macros
are defined in a separate module (see modules).
import monocle.macros.GenPrism
val rawJNum: Prism[Json, JNum] = GenPrism[Json, JNum]
rawJNum.getOption(JNum(4.5))
// res13: Option[JNum] = Some(value = JNum(v = 4.5))
rawJNum.getOption(JStr("Hello"))
// res14: Option[JNum] = None
If you want to get a Prism[Json, Double]
instead of a Prism[Json, JNum]
, you can compose GenPrism
with GenIso
(see Iso
documentation):
import monocle.macros.GenIso
val jNum: Prism[Json, Double] = GenPrism[Json, JNum].andThen(GenIso[JNum, Double])
val jNull: Prism[Json, Unit] = GenPrism[Json, JNull.type].andThen(GenIso.unit[JNull.type])
A ticket currently exists to add a macro to merge these two steps together.
Prism Laws
A Prism
must satisfy all properties defined in PrismLaws
from the core
module.
You can check the validity of your own Prisms
using PrismTests
from the law
module.
In particular, a Prism
must verify that getOption
and reverseGet
allow a full round trip if the Prism
matches
i.e. if getOption
returns a Some
.
def partialRoundTripOneWay[S, A](p: Prism[S, A], s: S): Boolean =
p.getOption(s) match {
case None => true // nothing to prove
case Some(a) => p.reverseGet(a) == s
}
def partialRoundTripOtherWay[S, A](p: Prism[S, A], a: A): Boolean =
p.getOption(p.reverseGet(a)) == Some(a)