The previous description "string" is misleading in the full options
manual pages; they are actually concatenated strings, with a specific
character.
The empty string version ("types.string") has been special-cased to
provide a better message.
Assigning a list of 10 or more elements to an option having the type
`loaOf a` produces a configuration value that is not honoring the
order of the original list. This commit fixes this and a related issue
arising when 10 or more lists are merged into this type of option.
Without this change
(coercedTo str toInt int).check "foo"
would evaluate to true, even though
(coercedTo str toInt int).merge {} [{ value = "foo"; }]
will throw an error because "foo" can't be coerced to an int.
This file doesn't evaluate in 32-bit versions of Nix because the integer
type is a signed 32-bit integer there, so 4294967296 causes an 'invalid
integer' error. I see no other way around than commenting this out :(
(s32 could be made to work by tweaking the expressions a bit, but didn't
do that for now since it'd be asymmetric to have s32 but no u32).
This does break the API of being able to import any lib file and get
its libs, however I'm not sure people did this.
I made this while exploring being able to swap out docFn with a stub
in #2305, to avoid functor performance problems. I don't know if that
is going to move forward (or if it is a problem or not,) but after
doing all this work figured I'd put it up anyway :)
Two notable advantages to this approach:
1. when a lib inherits another lib's functions, it doesn't
automatically get put in to the scope of lib
2. when a lib implements a new obscure functions, it doesn't
automatically get put in to the scope of lib
Using the test script (later in this commit) I got the following diff
on the API:
+ diff master fixed-lib
11764a11765,11766
> .types.defaultFunctor
> .types.defaultTypeMerge
11774a11777,11778
> .types.isOptionType
> .types.isType
11781a11786
> .types.mkOptionType
11788a11794
> .types.setType
11795a11802
> .types.types
This means that this commit _adds_ to the API, however I can't find a
way to fix these last remaining discrepancies. At least none are
_removed_.
Test script (run with nix-repl in the PATH):
#!/bin/sh
set -eux
repl() {
suff=${1:-}
echo "(import ./lib)$suff" \
| nix-repl 2>&1
}
attrs_to_check() {
repl "${1:-}" \
| tr ';' $'\n' \
| grep "\.\.\." \
| cut -d' ' -f2 \
| sed -e "s/^/${1:-}./" \
| sort
}
summ() {
repl "${1:-}" \
| tr ' ' $'\n' \
| sort \
| uniq
}
deep_summ() {
suff="${1:-}"
depth="${2:-4}"
depth=$((depth - 1))
summ "$suff"
for attr in $(attrs_to_check "$suff" | grep -v "types.types"); do
if [ $depth -eq 0 ]; then
summ "$attr" | sed -e "s/^/$attr./"
else
deep_summ "$attr" "$depth" | sed -e "s/^/$attr./"
fi
done
}
(
cd nixpkgs
#git add .
#git commit -m "Auto-commit, sorry" || true
git checkout fixed-lib
deep_summ > ../fixed-lib
git checkout master
deep_summ > ../master
)
if diff master fixed-lib; then
echo "SHALLOW MATCH!"
fi
(
cd nixpkgs
git checkout fixed-lib
repl .types
)
* lib: introduce imap0, imap1
For historical reasons, imap starts counting at 1 and it's not
consistent with the rest of the lib.
So for now we split imap into imap0 that starts counting at zero and
imap1 that starts counting at 1. And imap is marked as deprecated.
See c71e2d4235 (commitcomment-21873221)
* replace uses of lib.imap
* lib: move imap to deprecated.nix
The old forms presumably predates, or were made in ignorance of,
`let inherit`. This way is better style as the scoping as more lexical,
something which Nix can (or might already!) take advantage of.
Nix style seems to have settled on not using spaces between bound
variable names and the lambda : so I also tried to make those somewhat
more consistent throughout.
If an option value is not a list, you now get
The option value `bla' in `file.nix' is not a list.
rather than
value is a string while a list was expected, at .../nixpkgs/lib/lists.nix:49:56
This reverts commit 0f0805b, because @nbp had concerns about whether
this would be a good idea and pointed out problems with this.
We currently do not have a case where "either" is used in conjunction
with submodules, but I'm reverting it anyway to prevent people from
adding options using that type in that way.
This is now being reviewed in #14053.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
So far the "either" type only handled "flat" types, so you couldn't do
something like:
type = either int (submodule {
options = ...;
});
Not only caused this the submodule's options not being checked but also
not show up in the documentation.
This was something we stumbled on with #13916.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @edolstra
- Enforce that an option declaration has a "defaultText" if and only if the
type of the option derives from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig"
and if a "default" attribute is defined.
- Enforce that the value of the "example" attribute is wrapped with "literalExample"
if the type of the option derives from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig".
- Warn if a "defaultText" is defined in an option declaration if the type of
the option does not derive from "package", "packageSet" or "nixpkgsConfig".
- Warn if no "type" is defined in an option declaration.
Nobody seems to have noticed this (except @Profpatsch) that options with
a "package" type do not get included in the manual.
So debugging this was a bit more involving because while generating the
manual there is an optionList' attribute built from the collected
attributes of all the option declarations.
Up to that point everything is fine except if it comes to
builtins.toXML, where attributes with { type = "derivation" } won't get
included, for example see here:
nix-repl> builtins.toXML { type = "derivation"; foo = "bar"; }
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>\n<expr>\n <derivation>
<repeated />\n </derivation>\n</expr>\n"
nix-repl> builtins.toXML { type = "somethingelse"; foo = "bar"; }
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>\n<expr>\n <attrs>
<attr name=\"foo\">\n <string value=\"bar\" />\n </attr>
<attr name=\"type\">\n <string value=\"somethingelse\" />
</attr>\n </attrs>\n</expr>\n"
The following function in libexpr/eval.cc (Nix) is responsible for toXML
dropping the attributes:
bool EvalState::isDerivation(Value & v)
{
if (v.type != tAttrs) return false;
Bindings::iterator i = v.attrs->find(sType);
if (i == v.attrs->end()) return false;
forceValue(*i->value);
if (i->value->type != tString) return false;
return strcmp(i->value->string.s, "derivation") == 0;
}
So I've renamed this now to "package" which is not only more consistent
with the option type but also shouldn't cause similar issues anymore.
Tested this on base of b60ceea, because building the dependencies on
recent libc/staging changes on master took too long.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Reported-by: Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>
This improves error messages when a set or a list is used where a path
was expected. For an example, if you used a package set (as opposed to a
single package) in systemPackages before this commit, the error was:
```
cannot coerce a list to a string, at "/home/nixpkgs/lib/types.nix":103:37
```
Now, the error message reads:
```
The option value `environment.systemPackages' in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' is not a list of paths.
```
For example, this allows writing
nix.package = /nix/store/786mlvhd17xvcp2r4jmmay6jj4wj6b7f-nix-1.10pre4206_896428c;
Also, document types.package in the manual.
