I wish to fold a list of Writer Monad from cats to one big writer without running them. for example:
import cats.data.Writer
import cats.instances.vector._
import cats.instances.list._
import cats.instances.tuple._
import cats.Foldable
val result = for {
i <- Writer(Vector("hello"), Vector(1))
j <- Writer(Vector("bye"), Vector(2))
} yield j
val result2 = for {
x <- Writer(Vector("hi"), Vector(33))
y <- Writer(Vector("ciao"), Vector(55))
} yield y
val l = List(result, result2)
val result3 = for {
t <- result
z <- result2
} yield z // Success !!!
val l = List(result, result2)
// Logically:
// val result3 = for {
// r <- l
// o <- r
// } yield o
// But will not compile without Monad Transformer
// With run
val l1: List[(Vector[String], Vector[Int])] = l.map(_.run)
val result5 = Foldable[List].combineAll(l1)
I believe there must be a functional construct for such combination without running the Writers
You can skip right to result5
by using Vector
so you have the same container type and then using l.sequence.map(_.flatten)
Check out the Traverse typeclass, because as the saying goes "Its always Traverse".
import cats.data.{Writer, WriterT}
import cats.instances.vector._
import cats.instances.list._
import cats.instances.tuple._
import cats.{Foldable, Id}
import cats.implicits._
val result = for {
i <- Writer(Vector("hello"), Vector(1))
j <- Writer(Vector("bye"), Vector(2))
} yield j
val result2 = for {
x <- Writer(Vector("hi"), Vector(33))
y <- Writer(Vector("ciao"), Vector(55))
} yield y
val l = Vector(result, result2)
val result3 = for {
t <- result
z <- result2
} yield z // Success !!!
// val l = List(result, result2) -- this is a duplicate
val result5: WriterT[Id, Vector[String], Vector[Int]] = l.sequence.map(_.flatten)
result5
will have the value:
WriterT((Vector(hello, bye, hi, ciao),Vector(2, 55)))