An mtl-style typeclass and transformer for persistent.

monad-persist

This module provides an mtl-style MonadPersist typeclass for persistent, as well as a PersistT monad transformer that implements it. This makes it easier to use persistent in an arbitrary monad transformer stack, rather than one that must be ReaderT over MonadIO.

import Control.Monad.Logger (runNoLoggingT)
import Control.Monad.Persist
import Data.Text (Text)
import Database.Persist.Sqlite (withSqliteConn)
import Database.Persist.TH

share [mkPersist sqlSettings, mkMigrate "migrateAll"] [persistLowerCase|
User
  name Text
  email Text

  UniqueEmail email

  deriving Eq Show
|]


ghci> runNoLoggingT $ withSqliteConn ":memory:" $ \conn -> flip runSqlPersistT conn $ do
        runMigration migrateAll
        insert_ User { userName = "Alyssa", userEmail = "[email protected]" }
        users <- selectList [] []
        return (users :: [Entity User])

Migrating: CREATE TABLE "user"("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,"name" VARCHAR NOT NULL,"email" VARCHAR NOT NULL,CONSTRAINT "unique_email" UNIQUE ("email"))
[Entity {entityKey = UserKey {unUserKey = SqlBackendKey {unSqlBackendKey = 1}}, entityVal = User {userName = "Alyssa", userEmail = "[email protected]"}}]

For more information, see the documentation on Hackage.