meiga 0.1.1

A simple, typed and monad-based Result type for Python

meiga

A simple, typed and monad-based Result type for Python.

This package provides a new type for your Python applications, the Result[Type, Type]. This Result type allows to define two subtypes, giving us the option to create useful return types.

This package is based in another solutions from another modern languages as the swift-based Result implementation.

Installation

pip install meiga

Getting Started

meiga is a framework that give us a simpler, clearer way of handling errors in Python. Use it whenever a class method or a function has the possibility of failure.

Consider the following example of a function that tries to extract a String (str) for a given key from a Dict.

from meiga import Result, Error


class NoSuchKey(Error):
    pass


class TypeMismatch(Error):
    pass


def string_from_key(dictionary: dict, key: str) -> Result[str, Error]:
    if key not in dictionary.keys():
        return Result(failure=NoSuchKey())

    value = dictionary[key]
    if not isinstance(value, str):
        return Result(failure=TypeMismatch())

    return Result(success=value)

Result meiga type provides a robust wrapper around the functions. Rather than throw an exception, it returns a Result that either contains the String value for the given key, or an ErrorClass detailing what went wrong.

Result Type

Let's image we have a dictionary that represent a user info data

>>> user_info = {"first_name": "Rosalia", "last_name": "De Castro", "age": 60}

And we try to obtain first_name

>>> result = string_from_key(dictionary=user_info, key="first_name")
Result[status: success | value: Rosalia]

You can check the status of the result

>>> result.is_success
True
>>> result.is_failure
False

If the result is a success you can get the expected value

>>> result.value
Rosalia 

Otherwise, if we try to access an invalid key or a non string value, returned result will be a failure.

>>> result = string_from_key(dictionary=user_info, key="invalid_key")
Result[status: failure | value: NoSuchKey]
>>> result.is_failure
True
>>> result.value
NoSuchKey() // Error 

Or

>>> result = string_from_key(dictionary=user_info, key="age")
Result[status: failure | value: TypeMismatch]
>>> result.is_failure
True
>>> result.value
TypeMismatch() // Error 

Handle Result

This framework also allows a method for handling Result type

When the operations is executed with its happy path, handle function returns the success value, as with result.value.

>>> result = string_from_key(dictionary=user_info, key="first_name")
Result[status: success | value: Rosalia]
>>> first_name = result.handle()
Rosalia

On the other hand, if something wrong happens handle function will raise an Exception (ReturnErrorOnFailure)

Additionally, handle a Result with the meiga decorator allows to return a typed error when a sub-function fails.

from meiga import Result, Error
from meiga.decorators import meiga

@meiga
def handling_result(key: str) -> Result:
    user_info = {"first_name": "Rosalia", "last_name": "De Castro", "age": 60}
    first_name = string_from_key(dictionary=user_info, key=key).handle() 
    # Do whatever with the name
    name = first_name.lower()
    return Result(success=name)

If key is valid success value would be returned. Otherwise, an Error would be returned.

Developers

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements/dev.txt

Test

pip install -e . && pytest

Upload to pip

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
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