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Transactional Effects in Scala

Composing effects with rollbacks in case of failure

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Introduction

This post was inspired by a StackOverflow answer for the question Compose Futures with Recovery in Scala: Is it possible to compose Futures in a manner where, if one of them fails, a previous Future's execution result will be rolled back via some function?

The Problem

The case with Future can be generalized to some effect F[_], so we can say: How can we compose effects F[_] in a manner where, if one of them fails, the previous F[_] execution result will be rolled back via some function? This behavior is similar to what we know as a Transaction.

Solution

For the code solution below cats-effect version 2.3.1 used. The final solution can look like this:

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/**
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 * Transactional effect provide possibility to recover effect execution result if it failed, but still return failed
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 * result.
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 *
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 * @tparam F surrounding effect type
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 */
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class TransactionEffect[F[_], E](underlying: F[E], rollback: PartialFunction[Throwable, F[Unit]])
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                                (implicit F: FlatMap[F], ME: MonadError[F, Throwable]) {
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  /*
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   * Here goes syntax trick - in for-comprehension will be invoked `flatMap` of this wrapper and not of underlying effect.
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   */
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  def flatMap[S](f: E => F[S]): F[S] = {
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    F.flatMap(underlying)(f).recoverWith {
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      case exception: Throwable =>
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        val failure: F[S] = ME.raiseError[S](exception)
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        rollback.lift(exception).fold(failure)(recoverEffect => F.flatMap(recoverEffect)(_ => failure))
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    }
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  }
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}
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object TransactionEffect {
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  /**
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   * Provides syntax sugar over [[TransactionEffect]] wrapper.
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   */
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  implicit class TransactionEffectSyntax[F[_], E](underling: F[E])
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                                                 (implicit F: FlatMap[F], AE: MonadError[F, Throwable]){
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    def rollbackWith(rollback: PartialFunction[Throwable, F[Unit]]): TransactionEffect[F, E] = {
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      new TransactionEffect[F, E](underling, rollback)
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    }
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  }
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}



And small demo:

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object TransactionEffectDemo extends IOApp {
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  import TransactionEffect._
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  override def run(args: List[String]): IO[ExitCode] = {
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    for {
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      _ <- IO.delay(println("A executed")).rollbackWith {
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        case _: Throwable => IO.delay(println("A recovered"))
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      }
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      _ <- IO.delay(println("B executed")).rollbackWith {
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        case _: Throwable => IO.delay(println("B recovered"))
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      }
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      _ <- IO.raiseError(new Exception("C failed"))
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    } yield ExitCode.Success
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  }
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}



Which will print out the next output (made shorter for the sake of the example):

A executed
B executed
B recovered
A recovered
java.lang.Exception: C failed

Also, you can play with demo in Scatie: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/W8qmBrVQRx6izAVo3Q9yvg

Real-Life Usage

If an application is written in the pure Functional Programming paradigm, ideally it should not have any side effects that it needs to "roll-back" in case of another effect failure. But this approach can be useful when, for instance, the app stores documents in more than one database, e.g. Mongo and Elasticsearch, and removes the document from the main MongoDB if storing in Elasticsearch failed.

Thank you for your attention and hope it will be helpful!

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