Briefly correct ExceptT mentions into Handler (#693)
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## The `Handler` monad
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At the heart of the handlers is the monad they run in, namely `ExceptT ServantErr IO`
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([haddock documentation for `ExceptT`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)), which is aliased as `Handler`.
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At the heart of the handlers is the monad they run in, namely a newtype `Handler` around `ExceptT ServantErr IO`
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([haddock documentation for `ExceptT`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)).
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One might wonder: why this monad? The answer is that it is the
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simplest monad with the following properties:
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The module [`Control.Monad.Except`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-Monad-Except.html#t:ExceptT)
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from which `ExceptT` comes is worth looking at.
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Perhaps most importantly, `ExceptT` is an instance of `MonadError`, so
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Perhaps most importantly, `ExceptT` and `Handler` are an instances of `MonadError`, so
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`throwError` can be used to return an error from your handler (whereas `return`
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is enough to return a success).
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### Performing IO
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Another important instance from the list above is `MonadIO m => MonadIO
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(ExceptT e m)`.
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Another important instances from the list above are `MonadIO m => MonadIO
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(ExceptT e m)`, and therefore also `MonadIO Handler` as there is `MonadIO IO` instance..
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[`MonadIO`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.4.3.0/docs/Control-Monad-IO-Class.html)
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is a class from the **transformers** package defined as:
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liftIO :: IO a -> m a
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```
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The `IO` monad provides a `MonadIO` instance. Hence for any type
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`e`, `ExceptT e IO` has a `MonadIO` instance. So if you want to run any kind of
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So if you want to run any kind of
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IO computation in your handlers, just use `liftIO`:
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``` haskell
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In the first case, each handler receives the *userid* argument. In the latter,
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the whole `Server` takes the *userid* and has handlers that are just
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computations in `ExceptT`, with no arguments. In other words:
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computations in `Handler`, with no arguments. In other words:
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``` haskell
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server8 :: Server UserAPI3
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Let's start with `readerToHandler'`. We obviously have to run the `Reader`
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computation by supplying it with a `String`, like `"hi"`. We get an `a` out
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from that and can then just `return` it into `ExceptT`. We can then just wrap
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from that and can then just `return` it into `Handler`. We can then just wrap
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that function with the `NT` constructor to make it have the fancier type.
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``` haskell
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