CHANGELOG.md

Version history

We follow Semantic Versions since the 1.0.0 release. Versions before 1.0.0 are 0Ver-based: incremental in minor, bugfixes only are patches. See 0Ver.

0.26.0

Features

• Added mypy>=1.16,<1.18 support
• Added __bool__ to Maybe, only Nothing ever returns False

0.25.0

Features

• A lot of new features added to our hypothesis plugins. It now allows to create custom strategies, better instantiate containers, docouple it from built-in ones, check laws from user-defined interfaces

Bugfixes

• Fixes that UnwrapFailedError was not picklable

0.24.0

Features

• Drop python3.9 support
• Add python3.13 support
• Add support for mypy>=1.12
• Add picky exceptions to future_safe decorator like safe has
• Improve inference of ResultLike objects when exception catching decorator is applied with explicit exception types
• Add picky exceptions to impure_safe decorator like safe has. Issue #1543
• Add partition function to result module. Issue #1905
• Add default_error parameter to returns.converters.maybe_to_result, which provides a default error value for Failure

0.24.1

Features

• Make hypothesis plugin test laws from user-defined interfaces too
• Make hypothesis plugin accept user-defined strategies
• Allow users to override the hypothesis plugin's strategies for types, such as TypeVar and Callable.

Bugfixes

• Add pickling support for UnwrapFailedError exception

0.23.0

Features

• Breaking: Remove success_type and failure_type fields from IOResult, Maybe and Result types

Misc

• Now requires mypy>=1.10
• Adds [check-laws] extra for installation

0.22.0

Features

• Breaking: Drops python3.7 support
• Now requires mypy>=1.5
• Adds trampolines support

0.21.0

Features

• Now requires mypy>=1.4
• Adds [compatible-mypy] extra for installation

0.20.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed HKT to_str example in documentation
• Fixed backward deserialization compatibility for BaseContainer

0.20.0

Features

• Now requires mypy>=1.2

Bugfixes

• Fixes a problem with do-notation and type aliases
• Fixes custom pickle protocol to handle None values gracefully
• Removes broken drylabs.io link in README
• Revises pointfree documentation

0.19.0 aka The Do Notation

Features

• Adds do notation
• Adds attempt decorator

Misc

• Check __slots__ correctness with slotscheck

0.18.0

New Year Release! 🎄

Features

• Now requires typing_extensions>=4.0
• Now requires mypy>=0.930
• Removes plugin for @safe, @maybe, @future, etc. Because we now use ParamSpec type to properly type decorators

Bugfixes

• Fixes __slots__ not being set properly in containers and their base classes
• Fixes patching of containers in pytest plugin not undone after each test

0.17.0

Features

• Enables Pattern Matching support for Result containers
• Enables Pattern Matching support for Maybe container
• Enables Pattern Matching support for IOResult container
• Improves hypothesis plugin, now we detect when type cannot be constructed and give a clear error message
• Adds the option to pass what exceptions @safe will handle

0.16.0

Features

• Makes _Nothing a singleton
• Refactor flow function to be faster

Bugfixes

• Fixes that assert_trace was not catching containers from @safe-wrapped functions

Misc

• Fixes typos in documentation

0.15.0 aka The initial HKT release

Features

• Adds Higher Kinded Types partial support

• Breaking: drops python3.6 support

• Breaking: makes our mypy plugin not optional, but required!

• Breaking: changes all RequiresContext-based type arguments order, previously we used to specify _EnvType as the first type argument, now it is the last one. This is done to respect new HKT rules

• Breaking: renames .rescue to .lash

• Breaking: removes all old interfaces from primitives/interfaces.py, use new typeclasses instead

• Breaking: Maybe is fully reworked to be lawful

• Breaking: removes value_or pointfree method, because it is impossible to express with HKT

• Breaking: removes .value_or, .unwrap, and .failure methods from FutureResult and RequiresContext-based types, because we do require these methods to raise an exception on failure, but these methods were lazy and did not raise the required exception

• Breaking: changes how is_successful is typed: now we allow any Unwrappable interface instances there, including custom ones

• Breaking: changes UnwrapFailedError constructor, now it does accept an Unwrappable instance instead of a BaseContainer

• Breaking: removes .fix method from all containers, also removes fix pointfree function

• Breaking: Removes coalesce function, because it is impossible to properly type it

• Breaking: Removes all Context* based types with .ask() method, use new .ask() methods on the Reader-based containers

• Breaking: Now Future and FutureResult can be awaited multiple times

• Breaking: Removes .unify() method from several containers, use unify() pointfree function instead

• Breaking: Removes .from_iterable method from all containers, instead adds better iterables support, we now have returns.iterables module with Fold helper

• Breaking: Renames property empty to no_args of all RequiresContext-based classes

• Adds new public interfaces: see returns.interfaces

• Adds methods package with several helpful things inside

• Adds FutureSuccess and FutureFailure unit functions to be similar to Result and IOResult

• Adds .swap method to Result, IOResult, FutureResult, and other result based containers

• Adds .modify_env method to all RequiresContext* types

• Adds .rescue to Maybe

• Adds .equals methods to types that can be compared directly: Result, Maybe, IO, IOResult

• Adds missing from_requires_context_future_result to RequiresContext

• Adds .from_optional and .bind_optional to Maybe container

• Adds __slots__ to UnwrapFailedError with halted_container

• Changes flatten to work with KindN and any possible container

• Adds a helper to test traces to our pytest plugin

• Adds cond function to pointfree and methods packages

• Adds compose_result HKT method and pointfree function

• Adds unify HKT pointfree function

• Adds bimap pointfree function

• Adds unwrap_or_failure function to methods package

• Adds collect_trace helper function for better development experience

• Adds hypothesis integration and pre-defined "monad laws as values"

• Adds assert_equal method to our pytest plugin

Bugfixes

• Breaking: fixes serious typing issue and changes how flow works
• Breaking: fixes serious typing issue and changes how pipe works, now it has a hard limit of 20 parameters
• Fixes that RequiresContextFutureResult was not supported by pytest plugin
• Fixes incorrect partial behaviour in an edge case, #618
• Fixes that .apply method of IOResult was working incorrectly, it was returning IOFailure(2) as a result of IOFailure(1).apply(IOFailure(2))
• Fixes bug that safe(tap(...)) was revealing invalid types sometimes

Misc

• Adds a lot of new typetests
• Checks that now all math laws are checked for all types
• Changes docs structure, adds new Interfaces, HKT, and Methods pages
• Changed __str__ method in BaseContainer class to __repr__ method
• Adds Quickstart guide

0.14.0

Features

• Breaking: renames mypy plugin from decorator_plugin to returns_plugin because of a complete rewrite and lots of new features

• Breaking: changes @safe, @impure, impure_safe, @maybe semantics: they do not work with async functions anymore; now you are forced to use Future and its helpers to work with async functions

• Breaking: renames Maybe.new to Maybe.from_value. Because all our other containers support this protocol. Only Maybe was different, sorry for that!

• Breaking: renames .from_success() to .from_value(), there's no need in two separate methods

• Breaking: renames .from_successful_io() to .from_io(), there's no need in two separate methods

• Breaking: renames .from_successful_context() to .from_context(), there's no need in two separate methods

• Breaking: since we now support .apply() method, there's no more need in *_squash converters, they are removed

• Breaking: renamed Instanceable to Applicative

• Breaking: changes .from_io and .from_failed_io of IOResult to return Any instead of NoReturn unfilled type

• Breaking: removes .lift and .lift_* methods from all containers, use map_, bind_result, bind_io, and other pointfree helpers instead

• Breaking: removes @pipeline function. It was a mistake: it does not work with mixed container types, it does not type failures properly, it does not work with IO and Future, it enforces to write imperative code in a functional codebase. Use flow instead

• Adds typed partial and curry mypy plugins!

• Adds typed flow plugin, now it can accept any number of arguments, it now also has excellent type inference

• Adds typed pipe plugin, now it can accept any number of arguments, it now also has good type inference

• Adds managed pipeline function that is useful for working with stateful computations

• Adds typed map_, fix, and alt pointfree functions

• Adds typed bind_result, bind_io, bind_ioresult, bind_context, bind_context_result, bind_future, bind_async, and bind_awaitable pointfree functions

• Adds typed bind_async_future and bind_async_future_result pointfree functions

• Adds typed unify pointfree function

• Adds typed apply pointfree function

• Adds typed value_or pointfree function

• Adds pytest plugin with the ability to tests error handling

• Adds Future container to easily work with async functions

• Adds FutureResult container to easily work with async function that might fail

• Adds RequiresContextFutureResult container

• Adds ReaderFutureResult alias for RequiresContextFutureResult

• Adds RequiresContextFutureResultE and ReaderFutureResultE aliases

• Adds Future, FutureResult and RequiresContextFutureResult support for all existing pointfree functions

• Adds bind_io method to IOResult

• Adds bind_io method to RequiresContextIOResult

• Adds or_else method to Maybe

• Adds .from_io and .from_failed_io to RequiresContextIOResult

• Syncs naming in from_* methods, now all parameters are named inner_value

• Adds not_ composition helper

• Adds flatten support for Future, FutureResult and RequiresContextFutureResult

• Adds __copy__ and __deepcopy__ magic methods to Immutable class

• Speeds up is_successful function

• Makes all Context context helpers abstract, so you cannot create new instances of this class, also adds __slots__ to these classes

• Improves RequiresContext* types with NoDeps where it is logically true

Bugfixes

• Fixes that @safe decorator was generating incorrect signatures for functions with Any
• Fixes that .rescue() of RequiresContextResult was returning Any
• Fixes that .rescue() of RequiresContextIOResult was returning Any
• Fixes that RequiresContextResult and RequiresContextIOResult were not final
• Fixes that ImmutableStateError was not a subclass of AttributeError
• Fixes that IOResult was not showing str representation of wrapped inner_value

Misc

• Replaces pytest-asyncio with anyio plugin, now we test compatibility with any IO stack: asyncio, trio, curio
• Updates lots of dependencies
• Adds lots of new tests
• Updates lots of docs
• Removes "IO marker" name from docs in favor for "IO container", it is not special at all. Why would we call it differently?

0.13.0

Features

• Breaking: renames join to flatten, sorry!

• Breaking: renames box to bind and moves it to returns.pointfree

• Breaking: removes Maybe.rescue and Maybe.fix methods

• Breaking: renames io_squash to squash_io and moves it to returns.converters

• Breaking: moves all interfaces from returns.primitives.container to returns.primitives.interfaces

• Adds rescue pointfree function

• Adds ResultE alias for Result[..., Exception]

• Adds RequiresContext container and Context helper class

• Adds RequiresContext support for bind pointfree function

• Adds RequiresContext support for flatten function

• Adds RequiresContextResult container

• Adds RequiresContextResultE alias

• Adds ReaderResult and ReaderResultE aliases for RequiresContextResult[..., ..., Exception]

• Adds RequiresContextResult support for bind and rescue

• Adds RequiresContextResult support for flatten

• Adds IOResult helper to work better with IO[Result[a, b]]

• Adds IOResultE alias for IOResult[a, Exception]

• Adds IOResult support for bind

• Adds IOResult support for flatten

• Adds IOResult support for @pipeline

• Adds IOResult support for coalesce

• Adds IOResult support for is_successful

• Adds RequiresContextIOResult container

• Adds RequiresContextIOResultE alias

• Adds ReaderIOResult and ReaderIOResultE aliases for RequiresContextIOResult[..., ..., Exception]

• Adds RequiresContextIOResult support for bind and rescue

• Adds RequiresContextIOResult support for flatten

• Adds Result.lift, Maybe.lift, RequiresContext.lift, and RequiresContextResult.lift functions in addition to IO.lift

• Adds Immutable primitive type

• Adds Unitable protocol and .from_success() and .from_failure() methods for all Result related classes

• Adds Instanceable protocol and .from_value() method for IO and RequiresContext

• Adds flow function, which is similar to pipe

• Adds swap converter for Result and IOResult

• Adds squash_context function to squash RequiresContext similar to IO

Bugfixes

• Now Success and Failure (both io and pure) return Any and not NoReturn
• Fixes how flatten works, also adds more tests and docs about Failure case
• Fixes Unwrappable type being parametrized with only one TypeVar
• Changes Success and Failure to return Any instead of NoReturn

Misc

• Updates poetry version in travis
• Improves pipe docs with lambda and Generic problem
• Improves docs in several places
• Now examples in docs tries to be docstests where possible
• Changes how tests are checked with mypy in CI

0.12.0

Features

• Breaking: now @pipeline requires a container type when created: @pipeline(Result) or @pipeline(Maybe)
• Maybe and Result now has success_type and failure_type aliases
• Adds Result.unify utility method for better error type composition
• We now support dry-python/classes as a first-class citizen
• Adds io_squash to squash several IO containers into one container with a tuple inside, currently works with 9 containers max at a time
• Adds untap function which does convert return type to None

Bugfixes

• Fixes that containers were not usable with multiprocessing
• Changes the inheritance order, now BaseContainer is the first child
• Fixes that Nothing had incorrect docstrings

Misc

• Now generated package is protected
• Updates poetry to 1.0

0.11.0

Features

• Breaking: now pipe() does not require argument to be the first value, instead it is required to use: pipe(f1, f2, f3, f4)(value)
• Breaking: dropped everything from returns/__init__.py, because we now have quite a lot of stuff
• Breaking: dropped support of zero argument functions for Nothing.fix
• Breaking: dropped support of zero argument functions for Nothing.rescue
• Maybe now has .failure() to match the same API as Result
• Adds identity function
• Adds tap function
• Now pipe allows to pipe 8 steps
• Adds coalesce_result and coalesce_maybe converters

Bugfixes

• Fixes that code inside .fix and .rescue of Maybe might be called twice

Misc

• Now all methods have doctests
• Updates docs about Success and _Success, Failure and _Failure
• Updates docs about @pipeline
• Typechecks async functions and decorators inside typesafety/ tests

0.10.0

Features

• Breaking: python>=3.7,<=3.7.2 are not supported anymore, because of a bug inside typing module
• Breaking: Now bind does not change the type of an error
• Breaking: Now rescue does not change the type of a value
• Breaking: Renames map_failure to alt
• Adds box() function with the ability to box function for direct container composition like: a -> Container[b] to Container[a] -> Container[b]
• Adds IO.lift() function to lift a -> a to IO[a] -> IO[a]
• Adds pipe() function to pipeline.py
• Adds __hash__() magic methods to all containers

Bugfixes

• Changes Any to NoReturn in Success and Failure
• Now all type parameters in Result, Maybe, and IO are covariant

Misc

• Massive docs rewrite
• Updates mypy version
• Updates wemake-python-styleguide and introduces nitpick
• Updates pytest-plugin-mypy, all tests now use yml

0.9.0

Features

• Provides a bunch of primitive interfaces to write your own containers
• Adds .map_failure() method
• Adds flatten() function to join nested containers

Bugfixes

• Fixes type of Maybe.fix and Maybe.rescue to work with both lambda: 1 and lambda _: 1

Misc

• Improves README

0.8.0

Features

• Reintroduces the Maybe container, typed!
• Introduces converters from one type to another
• Adds mypy plugin to type decorators
• Complete rewrite of Result types
• Partial API change, now Success and Failure are not types, but functions
• New internal types introduced: FixableContainer and ValueUnwrapContainer

Bugfixes

• Fixes issue when you could return IO container from Result.bind
• Fixes @pipeline return type

Misc

• Reapplied all types to .py files
• Improved docs about IO and Container concept
• Adds docs about container composition
• Moves from Alpha to Beta

0.7.0

Features

• Adds IO container
• Adds unsafe module with unsafe functions
• Changes how functions are located inside the project

Bugfixes

• Fixes container type in @pipeline
• Now is_successful is public
• Now raise_exception is public

Misc

• Changes how str() function works for container types
• Total rename to "container" in the source code

Version 0.6.0

Features

• safe and pipeline now supports asyncio
• is_successful now returns Literal types if possible

Version 0.5.0

Features

• Adds compose helper function
• Adds public API to import returns
• Adds raise_exception helper function
• Adds full traceback to .unwrap()

Misc

• Updates multiple dev-dependencies, including mypy
• Now search in the docs is working again
• Relicenses this project to BSD
• Fixes copyright notice in the docs

Version 0.4.0 aka Goodbye, containers!

Features

• Moves all types to .pyi files
• Renames all classes according to new naming pattern
• HUGE improvement of types
• Renames fmap to map
• Renames do_notation to pipeline, moves it to functions.py
• Renames ebind to rescue
• Renames efmap to fix
• Renames container to Container
• Removes Maybe container, since typing does not have NonNullable type

Version 0.3.1

Bugfixes

• Adds py.typed file to be PEP561 compatible

Version 0.3.0, Renamed to returns

The project is renamed to returns and moved to dry-python org.

Features

• Adds .pyi files for all modules, to enable mypy support for 3rd party users

Version 0.2.0

Features

• Adds Maybe container
• Adds immutability and __slots__ to all containers
• Adds methods to work with failures
• Adds safe decorator to convert exceptions to Result container
• Adds is_successful() function to detect if your result is a success
• Adds failure() method to unwrap values from failed containers

Bugfixes

• Changes the type of .bind method for Success container
• Changes how equality works, so now Failure(1) != Success(1)
• Changes how new instances created on unused methods

Misc

• Improves docs

Version 0.1.1

Bugfixes

• Changes how PyPI renders package's page

Misc

• Improves README with new badges and installation steps

Version 0.1.0

Initial release. Featuring only Result and do_notation.