[web-devel] update of the screencast Blog Example error

4 Apr 2011

      I was trying to run the screencast blog 2 example in Yesod 0.7, but I 
get the following error:

blog2.hs:11:8:
     No instance for (PersistEntity [Database.Persist.Base.EntityDef])
       arising from a use of `mkToForm'
     Possible fix:
       add an instance declaration for
       (PersistEntity [Database.Persist.Base.EntityDef])
     In the expression: mkToForm
     In the first argument of `share', namely
       `[mkToForm, mkPersist, mkMigrate "migrateAll"]'
     In the expression:
       share
         [mkToForm, mkPersist, mkMigrate "migrateAll"]
         [Database.Persist.Base.EntityDef
            "Entry"
            []
            [("title", "String", []), ("day", "Day", ["Desc"]), ....]
            []
            []]

Following is the code:

{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies, QuasiQuotes, GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, 
TemplateHaskell, MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
import Yesod
import Yesod.Helpers.Crud
import Database.Persist
import Database.Persist.Sqlite
import Database.Persist.TH
import Data.Time (Day)
import Network.Wai.Middleware.Debug (debug)
import Network.Wai.Handler.Warp (run)

share [mkToForm, mkPersist, mkMigrate "migrateAll"] [persist|
Entry
     title String
     day Day Desc
     content Html
     deriving
|]

-- Necesary for CRUD
instance Item Entry where
     itemTitle = entryTitle

data Blog = Blog { pool :: ConnectionPool }

type EntryCrud = Crud Blog Entry

mkYesod "Blog" [parseRoutes|
/               RootR  GET
/entry/#EntryId EntryR GET
-- Subsite
/admin          AdminR EntryCrud defaultCrud
|]

instance Yesod Blog where
     approot _ = "http://localhost:3000"

instance YesodPersist Blog where
     type YesodDB Blog = SqlPersist
     runDB db = liftIOHandler $ fmap pool getYesod >>= runSqlPool db

getRootR = do
         entries <- runDB $ selectList [] [EntryDayDesc] 0 0
         defaultLayout $ do
             setTitle $ string "Yesod Blog Tutorial Homepage"
             [hamlet|
<h1> Archive
<ul>
     $forall entry <- entries
<li>
<a href="@{EntryR (fst entry)}">#{entryTitle (snd entry)}
<p>
<a href="@{AdminR CrudListR}">Admin
|]

getEntryR entryid = do
     entry <- runDB $ get404 entryid
     defaultLayout $ do
         setTitle $ string $ entryTitle entry
         [hamlet|
<h1> #{entryTitle entry}
<h2> #{show (entryDay entry)}
#{entryContent entry}
|]

withBlog :: (Application -> IO a) -> IO a
withBlog f = withSqlitePool "blog.db3" 8 $ \pool -> do
     flip runSqlPool pool $ do
         (runMigration migrateAll)
         insert $ Entry "First Entry" (read "2011-04-04")
                $ preEscapedString "<h3>First Entry</h3>"
     let h = Blog pool
     toWaiApp h >>= f

main = withBlog $ run 3000 . debug

[web-devel] update of the screencast Blog Example error

Francisco Jose CHAVES ALONSO