domaindriven

name	domaindriven
description	Help users build applications with the domaindriven Haskell event sourcing library

You are an expert in the domaindriven Haskell library. Follow these patterns exactly.

Architecture

Synchronous event sourcing with Effectful effects and Servant APIs.

Dependencies: domaindriven-core (persistence backends), domaindriven (Effectful API layer), shape-coerce (event migration).

Core Pattern

File layout

• Types.hs — ID newtypes, enumerations, entity records
• Event.hs — Hierarchical event types
• Model.hs — Model type, emptyCrmModel, Domain type alias
• EventHandler.hs — applyEvent with optics-based dispatch
• Command.hs — Request body types (one per mutation endpoint)
• Api.hs — Servant API types with FieldNameAsPath
• Server.hs — Handlers, Effects alias, withX helpers, event wrappers
• Main.hs — Entry point, backend creation, effect stack wiring

For larger apps, split Api.hs and Server.hs by sub-domain (e.g. Api/Books.hs, Server/Books.hs).

Running example: Library with Books

All patterns below use a Library/Book domain — a Map BookId Book inside a Library model, with hierarchical events and nested API with Captures.

-- 1. Domain triple
type LibraryDomain = Domain LibraryModel LibraryEvent NoIndex

-- 2. Model as Map (the natural pattern for entity collections)
data LibraryModel = LibraryModel
    { books :: Map BookId Book
    }
    deriving stock (Show, Eq, Generic)

emptyLibraryModel :: LibraryModel
emptyLibraryModel = LibraryModel mempty

-- 3. Hierarchical events with entity IDs (see event-design.md)
data LibraryEvent
    = BookEvent { bookId :: BookId, bookEvent :: BookEvent }
    deriving (Generic, ToJSON, FromJSON)

data BookEvent
    = BookAdded { title :: Text, author :: Text }
    | BookRemoved
    | TitleChanged { title :: Text }
    deriving (Generic, ToJSON, FromJSON)

-- 4. Apply events with optics (see event-design.md for full dispatch)
applyEvent :: LibraryModel -> Stored LibraryEvent -> LibraryModel
applyEvent model (Stored (BookEvent{bookId = bid, bookEvent = be}) _ _) =
    applyBookEvent bid be model

applyBookEvent :: BookId -> BookEvent -> LibraryModel -> LibraryModel
applyBookEvent bid ev model = case ev of
    BookAdded{title, author} ->
        model & #books % at bid .~ Just Book{bookId = bid, title, author}
    BookRemoved ->
        model & #books % at bid .~ Nothing
    TitleChanged{title} ->
        model & #books % ix bid % #title .~ title

-- 5. Create backend
-- Testing:
backend <- createForgetful applyEvent emptyLibraryModel
-- Production:
pool <- simplePool' connectInfo
backend <- postgresWriteModel pool eventTable applyEvent emptyLibraryModel

-- 6. Handlers use withX pattern + Effects alias (see handler-patterns.md)
-- 7. Wire effect stack (see app-wiring.md)

Commands

Commands are request-body types — what the client wants to happen. They are separate from events (what did happen). Define one per mutation endpoint in Command.hs:

data CreateBook = CreateBook { title :: Text, author :: Text }
    deriving stock (Generic, Show)
    deriving anyclass (FromJSON, ToJSON)

newtype ChangeTitle = ChangeTitle { title :: Text }
    deriving stock (Generic, Show)
    deriving anyclass (FromJSON, ToJSON)

Use newtype for single-field commands, data for multi-field.

Event Design

Keep events small (one fact per event), use hierarchical sum-of-sums for the top-level event type, and put events in a separate package for migration safety. See event-design.md for principles, optics-based dispatch, and the optics cheat sheet.

Key Types

data Stored a = Stored
    { storedEvent     :: a
    , storedTimestamp :: UTCTime
    , storedUUID      :: UUID
    }

data Domain (model :: Type) (event :: Type) (index :: Type) = Domain

data NoIndex = NoIndex
newtype Indexed = Indexed Text

-- Backend polymorphism (in domaindriven-core):
data AnyWriteModel model event index
    = forall p. (WriteModel p, Model p ~ model, Event p ~ event, Index p ~ index)
    => AnyWriteModel p

data Aggregate (domain :: Type) :: Effect where
    RunTransactionI
        :: DomainIndex domain
        -> (DomainModel domain -> Eff es (DomainModel domain -> a, [DomainEvent domain]))
        -> Aggregate domain (Eff es) a

data Projection domain :: Effect where
    GetModelI    :: DomainIndex domain -> Projection domain m (DomainModel domain)
    GetEventListI :: DomainIndex domain -> Projection domain m [Stored (DomainEvent domain)]

Transaction Conventions

Each endpoint should use a single runTransaction call unless there's a strong reason not to. The Postgres backend holds an exclusive advisory lock for the entire transaction, making the read-validate-emit cycle atomic — no other request can interleave.

When to split: If the endpoint must do time-consuming work (e.g. external API calls) that would hold the lock too long, do the slow part outside runTransaction, then call runTransaction to emit events.

Return Convention

The callback returns (Model -> a, [Event]):

• First element extracts return value from the updated model (after events applied)
• const () when nothing to return, id to return whole model, (.someField) for a field
• Important: the returnFn is a pure function — no Eff effects available. Use pure lookup helpers here (see handler-patterns.md).

Indexed Aggregates

Use runTransactionI and getModelI with an index:

type MyDomain = Domain MyModel MyEvent Indexed
increase :: Indexed -> Eff es Int
increase idx = runTransactionI idx \model -> pure ((.counter), [Increased])

Servant Integration

FieldNameAsPath basics

FieldNameAsPath derives URL paths from record field names. Each field name becomes a path segment automatically:

data CounterAPI mode = CounterAPI
    { get      :: mode :- Get '[JSON] Int       -- GET  /get
    , increase :: mode :- Post '[JSON] Int      -- POST /increase
    , decrease :: mode :- Post '[JSON] Int      -- POST /decrease
    } deriving Generic

instance ApiTagFromLabel CounterAPI

Serve with:

serve (Proxy @(FieldNameAsPathApi CounterAPI))
    $ hoistServer (Proxy @(FieldNameAsPathApi CounterAPI)) runEffectStack
    $ FieldNameAsPathServer counterHandler

Nested APIs with Captures

For real applications, nest API records using Capture + FieldNameAsPathApi. Use list/create plus a resource-named capture field at collection levels, and get for single-entity retrieval. Field names in API record types are record selectors inside a named type — they do not clash with Prelude, so no trailing underscores are needed.

-- Collection level: /books
data BooksApi mode = BooksApi
    { list   :: mode :- Get '[JSON] [Book]
    , create :: mode :- ReqBody '[JSON] CreateBook :> Post '[JSON] Book
    , book   :: mode :- Capture "bookId" BookId :> FieldNameAsPathApi BookApi
    } deriving stock Generic

instance ApiTagFromLabel BooksApi

-- Entity level: /books/{bookId}/...
data BookApi mode = BookApi
    { get         :: mode :- Get '[JSON] Book
    , changeTitle :: mode :- ReqBody '[JSON] ChangeTitle :> Post '[JSON] Book
    , remove      :: mode :- Delete '[JSON] NoContent
    , chapters    :: mode :- FieldNameAsPathApi ChaptersApi   -- nest further
    } deriving stock Generic

instance ApiTagFromLabel BookApi

Nested capture fields become URL path segments, so name them after the resource (book, chapter, …) — never a generic word like detail, which would produce meaningless URLs like /detail/{bookId}/....

Each nested level needs its own instance ApiTagFromLabel. The handler nesting mirrors the API type:

booksServer :: Effects es => BooksApi (AsServerT (Eff es))
booksServer = BooksApi
    { list   = Map.elems . (.books) <$> getModel @LibraryDomain
    , create = \cmd -> ...
    , book   = \bid -> FieldNameAsPathServer $ bookServer bid
    }

bookServer :: Effects es => BookId -> BookApi (AsServerT (Eff es))
bookServer bid = BookApi
    { get         = getModel @LibraryDomain >>= lookupBook bid
    , changeTitle = \cmd -> withBook bid \_book ->
          pure [wrapBookE bid TitleChanged{title = cmd.title}]
    , remove      = ...
    , chapters    = FieldNameAsPathServer $ chaptersServer bid
    }

Auth Headers

When an API needs auth, declare the header as required at the API type level so handlers receive a non-Maybe token. Reject missing or invalid credentials at the API boundary (throwing 401 there), not deep in business logic — otherwise Maybe Token propagates through every handler and 401 handling leaks into domain code.

Handler Patterns

See handler-patterns.md for:

• withX entity handler pattern (base + composed child versions)
• Lookup helpers (Eff + Pure variants)
• setField helper for generic field updates
• Event wrapping helpers
• Create with optional events
• Validation (validateNotBlank, blankToNothing)

Application Wiring

See app-wiring.md for:

• Effects type alias with qualified Effectful.:>
• Effect stack ordering (type list vs interpreter chain)
• AnyWriteModel backend polymorphism
• Config and runEffectStack
• Testing with createForgetful
• Multiple domains
• Bootstrap / seed data

Event Migration (Postgres)

Use shape-coerce for migrations. Let the compiler guide you:

1. First, try just shapeCoerce. If the old and new event types are structurally identical (same constructor names, same fields), it works automatically via Generics.

2. If the types differ, the compiler will tell you exactly what doesn't match. Write a manual ShapeCoercible instance:

instance ShapeCoercible V1.CounterEvent V2.CounterEvent where
    shapeCoerce = \case
        V1.CounterIncreased -> V2.CounterIncreasedBy 1
        V1.CounterDecreased -> V2.CounterDecreasedBy 1

3. Wire it into the migration chain:

eventTable :: EventTable
eventTable = MigrateUsing myMigration $ InitialVersion "my_events"

myMigration :: EventMigration
myMigration prev next conn = migrate1to1 @NoIndex conn prev next shapeCoerce

For multi-package project setup with compile-time migration safety, see project-setup.md.

Imports

import DomainDriven                                        -- re-exports Aggregate, Projection, interpreters, Stored, NoIndex, AnyWriteModel
import DomainDriven.FieldNameAsPath (ApiTagFromLabel, FieldNameAsPathApi, FieldNameAsPathServer(..))
import DomainDriven.Persistance.Class (mkId)               -- UUID generation
import DomainDriven.Persistance.ForgetfulInMemory (createForgetful)  -- testing backend
import DomainDriven.Persistance.Postgres (postgresWriteModel, simplePool')  -- production backend

-- Effectful (qualified to avoid Servant collision):
import Effectful hiding ((:>))
import Effectful qualified
import Effectful.Error.Static (Error, runErrorNoCallStack, throwError)
import Effectful.Reader.Static qualified as Reader          -- for Config pattern

-- Servant:
import Servant hiding (throwError)
import Servant qualified
import Servant.Server.Generic (AsServerT)

-- Optics (for applyEvent):
import Optics.Core (at, ix, (%))
import Optics.Operators ((.~))
import Data.Function ((&))