This night I found a way to avoid pushing the nats State to all the components: now I just have them return NatsCmd along with their model and normal commands, which is what you describe in the first part of your email (I am still working on it).
It makes the API a lot nicer, although the root component still has to apply those NatsCmd to the nats State (which is not too bad compared to before. As for the effect-module approach, I think I will insist on using a non-effect module until I hit some blocking issues solvable only with a effect module, like how to both dispatch a custom message and update my nats State in a single update, which would be needed when a subscription needs to be removed (after a auto-unsub). I will definitely have a look to elmq, thanks for pointing it out! Le 18/05/2017 à 10:46, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss a écrit : > On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 5:02:55 PM UTC+1, Christophe de Vienne wrote: > > The main thing that bothers me is that I will need to pass the > Nats.State to every update function because subscribing requires an > update of the state... And I see no way to avoid that except using an > effect module. > > > So you would rather that your Nats module kept its own state 'private' > and lets users of it send it a message asking to subscribe? > > Suppose your code has 3 update functions and is structured like this: > > Main (top-level update) > - Nats (updates Nats State as websocket conversation progresses) > - MyFunkyApp (does something cool. Needs to subscribe to Nats) > > The TEA pattern that you could use to do this, whilst keeping the Nats > state private, is to use an 'out message' from MyFunkyApp. Then have > some routing in Main, that passes the subscriptions requests to Nats, > where Nats can update its State in private. > > It can be a lot of boilerplate if you have lots of modules using Nats, > so I can see why the effects module approach is appealing. > > === > > I was eating breakfast this morning when it occurred to me that I may > have a solution for you; it is an effects module: > > https://github.com/rupertlssmith/elmq > > If we divide your Nats implementation into two independant (orthogonal) > parts - there is the websockets part, and there is a part relating to > how you plumb this re-usable protocol module into an Elm application. > The 'elmq' effects module could solve the second part for you. This > would mean that you don't need to write your own effects module for this > specific problem as the concept has already been captured by the elmq > effects module. > > === > > Here is an example of using elmq. Authentication is a very common > component of applications and I also felt that it was likely that many > modules in my applications would need to interact with authentication. > In particular, I have quite a few Json web services over HTTP - at any > time one of them may get back a 403 or a 401 and will then need to > update the auth state to say that we are not currently authenticated. > > To avoid all the 'out message' plumbing that would require, I built my > auth module on top of elmq. > > It provides an API, that stuffs event messages onto elmq channels: > > https://github.com/rupertlssmith/elm-auth/blob/master/src/Auth.elm > > And the AuthController is then able to subscribe to these messages, and > privately update its state: > > https://github.com/rupertlssmith/elm-auth/blob/master/src/AuthController.elm#L228 > > So you can see, it is very easy for a module to import the Auth API and > use it, without having to worry about the plumbing needed to update the > authentication state. > > === > > The elmq module was lifted from original code here: > https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-ui > > One limitation of it is that you can only pass the primitive types or a > Json.Encode.Value. Anything else you must provide an Encoder/Decoder for. > > See the readme for elmq for some discussion points around how its API > could be evolved. I would be very interested to hear if you think your > use case fits it, or if you think it needs adapted a little to cater for > your need? Would also be very happy to take suggestions on board and > improve it. > > It is not an official effects module, so you must install it with > elm-github-install. > > If it is useful to you, it might be time to consider making a proposal > on elm-dev to push it towards becoming an official effects module. I > have considered this before, but was not sure if it would be well > received or not - its certainly quite a different way of doing things to > the TEA approach. Also as Elm is single threaded, and this is really an > asynchronous messaging model (like JMS for Java), does it make sense as > a programming model for Elm? On the other hand, its very useful, so why not. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Christophe de Vienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
