always re-eval cached failures

This is terrible UX, and frankly an eval failure should be a cache
invalidation anyway.

This removes the CachedEvalError type entirely.

Fixes #223.

Change-Id: I91f8003eabd0ea45003024e96d1de3c7ae8e49d8

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval-cache.cc b/src/libexpr/eval-cache.cc
index 20dd9e0bc..f26e6d724 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval-cache.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval-cache.cc
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Suggestions AttrCursor::getSuggestionsForAttr(Symbol name)
     return Suggestions::bestMatches(strAttrNames, root->state.symbols[name]);
 }
 
-std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::maybeGetAttr(Symbol name, bool forceErrors)
+std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::maybeGetAttr(Symbol name)
 {
     if (root->db) {
         if (!cachedValue)
@@ -487,10 +487,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::maybeGetAttr(Symbol name, bool forceErro
                     if (std::get_if<missing_t>(&attr->second))
                         return nullptr;
                     else if (std::get_if<failed_t>(&attr->second)) {
-                        if (forceErrors)
-                            debug("reevaluating failed cached attribute '%s'", getAttrPathStr(name));
-                        else
-                            throw CachedEvalError(root->state, "cached failure of attribute '%s'", getAttrPathStr(name));
+                        debug("reevaluating failed cached attribute '%s'", getAttrPathStr(name));
                     } else
                         return std::make_shared<AttrCursor>(root,
                             std::make_pair(shared_from_this(), name), nullptr, std::move(attr));
@@ -536,9 +533,9 @@ std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::maybeGetAttr(std::string_view name)
     return maybeGetAttr(root->state.symbols.create(name));
 }
 
-ref<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::getAttr(Symbol name, bool forceErrors)
+ref<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::getAttr(Symbol name)
 {
-    auto p = maybeGetAttr(name, forceErrors);
+    auto p = maybeGetAttr(name);
     if (!p)
         throw Error("attribute '%s' does not exist", getAttrPathStr(name));
     return ref(p);
@@ -549,11 +546,11 @@ ref<AttrCursor> AttrCursor::getAttr(std::string_view name)
     return getAttr(root->state.symbols.create(name));
 }
 
-OrSuggestions<ref<AttrCursor>> AttrCursor::findAlongAttrPath(const std::vector<Symbol> & attrPath, bool force)
+OrSuggestions<ref<AttrCursor>> AttrCursor::findAlongAttrPath(const std::vector<Symbol> & attrPath)
 {
     auto res = shared_from_this();
     for (auto & attr : attrPath) {
-        auto child = res->maybeGetAttr(attr, force);
+        auto child = res->maybeGetAttr(attr);
         if (!child) {
             auto suggestions = res->getSuggestionsForAttr(attr);
             return OrSuggestions<ref<AttrCursor>>::failed(suggestions);
@@ -750,7 +747,7 @@ bool AttrCursor::isDerivation()
 
 StorePath AttrCursor::forceDerivation()
 {
-    auto aDrvPath = getAttr(root->state.sDrvPath, true);
+    auto aDrvPath = getAttr(root->state.sDrvPath);
     auto drvPath = root->state.store->parseStorePath(aDrvPath->getString());
     if (!root->state.store->isValidPath(drvPath) && !settings.readOnlyMode) {
         /* The eval cache contains 'drvPath', but the actual path has