Additional tools for gardening.

tools/gardening/lib/src/try.dart

+import 'dart:async';
+
+/// [Try] is similar to Haskell monad, where
+/// a computation may throw an exception.
+/// There is no checking of passing null into
+/// the value, so be mindful.
+class Try<T> {
+  final T _val;
+  final StackTrace _stackTrace;
+  final Exception _err;
+
+  Try.from(this._val)
+      : _err = null,
+        _stackTrace = null;
+
+  Try.fail(this._err, this._stackTrace) : _val = null;
+
+  Try<S> bind<S>(S f(T)) {
+    if (_err != null) {
+      return new Try.fail(_err, _stackTrace);
+    }
+    try {
+      return new Try<S>.from(f(_val));
+    } catch (ex, stackTrace) {
+      return new Try<S>.fail(ex, stackTrace);
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<Try<S>> bindAsync<S>(Future<S> f(T)) async {
+    if (_err != null) {
+      return new Try.fail(_err, _stackTrace);
+    }
+    try {
+      return new Try.from(await f(_val));
+    } catch (ex, stackTrace) {
+      return new Try.fail(ex, stackTrace);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void fold(caseErr(Exception ex, StackTrace st), caseVal(T)) {
+    if (_err != null) {
+      caseErr(_err, _stackTrace);
+    } else {
+      caseVal(_val);
+    }
+  }
+
+  bool get isError => _err != null;
+
+  Exception get error => _err;
+  StackTrace get stackTrace => _stackTrace;
+
+  T get value => _val;
+
+  T getOrDefault(T defval) => _err != null ? defval : _val;
+}
+
+Try<T> tryStart<T>(T action()) {
+  return new Try<int>.from(0).bind<T>((dummy) => action());
+}
+
+Future<Try<T>> tryStartAsync<T>(Future<T> action()) {
+  return new Try<int>.from(0).bindAsync<T>((dummy) => action());
+}