Sævar Berg
The first question is, I think, to be solved with enumeratees but I can't really grok how. Let's say I have an iteratee that consumes all input. Is it possible to implement an enumeratee or something else to stick between the enumerator and the iteratee to basically modify the input to the iteratee to only be a part of the input?
Yes, this is an enumeratee. An enumeratee is neither a data producder nor a consumer. It is an iteratee, which feeds another iteratee with input based on its own input, so it acts like a kind of map operation.
enumFile "someFile" && printFileLines -- prints file with prepended line numbers enumFile "someFile" ?? onlyGet10Lines && printFileLines -- print only 10 lines
In fact an enumeratee can split the input stream into lines. Another one can zip the stream with a list. A final one can take 10 lines from the stream. The code would look like this (in the 'enumerator' package): enumFile "myFile.txt" $$ lines =$ zipWithList [1..] =$ take 10 =$ printLines where lines :: Monad m => Enumeratee Text Text m b zipWithList :: Monad m => [a'] -> Enumeratee a (a, a') m b take :: Monad m => Int -> Enumeratee a a m b printLines :: MonadIO m => Iteratee (Int, Text) m () This is how I would do it.
The second question could actually have an application in the server I'm writing. I was wondering if it was possible to write iteratees/enumerators that would only generate/consume when a certain something was the next chunk to be processed?
You want concurrent iteratees here. As far as I know in the 'enumerator' package there is no builtin way to do it (you may be luckier in the 'iteratee' package, but I don't know). However, I think it should be possible to write a 'concurrent' function, if the iteratees in question all have the same input type: concurrent :: Monad m => [Step a m b] -> Iteratee a m [b] A version, which doesn't collect the results is probably much easier to write: concurrent_ :: Monad m => [Step a m b] -> Iteratee a m () Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/