Pipes

Use pipes to create elegant streaming programs within Haskell. Build streaming components and connect them them together to process both events and data.

Libraries

Pipes is the official Hackage category for the pipes ecosystem.

pipes

The pipes package is the core library which emphasizes:

• Elegance and Simplicity
• Speed
• Lightweight dependencies

The pipes library offers many unique features not available in other streaming libraries:

• Bidirectional streams
• Extension framework
• Elegant ListT interconversions
• Correctness proofs for the entire library

Read the official pipes tutorial to learn more.

Source code hosted on GitHub

pipes-safe

The pipes-safe package adds resource management and exception safety to the pipes ecosystem. pipes-safe offers many high-level features such as:

• Complete exception safety, including asynchronous exceptions
• Termination safety
• Resources are freed in reverse order of acquisition

Additionally, pipes-safe is the only streaming library that provides truly native exception handling, allowing you to seamlessly handle exceptions and resume uninterrupted streaming.

Read the official pipes-safe tutorial to learn more.

Source code hosted on GitHub

pipes-concurrency

The pipes-concurrency package adds powerful and light-weight concurrency primitives to the pipes ecosystem. Use these primitives to:

• Build reactive event-driven programs
• Merge and split streams
• Communicate between multiple concurrent pipelines
• Manage multiple resources simultaneously

The pipes-concurrency library offers several features unavailable in other streaming libraries such as:

• Deadlock safety
• Cyclic communication graphs
• Dynamically changing graph topologies

Read the official pipes-concurrency tutorial to learn more.

Source code hosted on GitHub

Community-contributed libraries

pipes-attoparsec

The pipes-attoparsec library converts attoparsec parsers to pipes for high-performance lazy parsing.

Source code hosted on GitHub

pipes-network

The pipes-network library converts server and client sockets to pipes to seamlessly stream data over any network.

Source code hosted on GitHub

pipes-zlib

The pipes-zlib enables compression and decompression of strict ByteString streams using the zlib codec.

Source code hosted on GitHub

Announcements

• pipes-1.0.0: The original announcement, which first introduced the concept of unifying sources and sinks and transducers into a single Category.

• pipes-2.0.0: The introduction of Frames, later deprecated in favor of pipes-safe.

• pipes-2.1.0: Transition of Frames to indexed monads, later deprecated in favor of pipes-safe.

• pipes-2.3.0: The introduction of bidirectional Proxies, which evolved into modern pipes.

• pipes-2.4.0: The release of the proxy transformer extension system.

• pipes-2.5.0: Major performance improvements.

• pipes-3.0.0: Major API simplification and consolidation.

• pipes-safe-1.0.0: Resource safety and exception management

• pipes-3.2.0: ListT integration, Codensity proxy transformer, and ArrowChoice primitives.

• pipes-concurrency-1.0.0: Concurrency support for pipes

• pipes-zlib-0.2.0.0: Zlib compression/decompression support for pipes

Upcoming libraries

• pipes-parse: Parsing support for the pipes ecosystem

• pipes-string: Bytestring and Text support

• pipes-free: Pipe suspension and single-stepping pipes

• pipes-network-tls: TLS-secured alternative to pipes-network