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| author | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-08 03:05:47 +0100 |
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| committer | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-09 03:50:06 +0100 |
| commit | 512c1f05c37c612347dd1fda4771a09744a1a3cd (patch) | |
| tree | 9ae77da1a45060b12520326b426efc5014a51c0b /tests/functional/lang | |
| parent | 0e8f505f666d9b0714840e4fe878e6aece918908 (diff) | |
Unify and refactor value printing
Previously, there were two mostly-identical value printers -- one in
`libexpr/eval.cc` (which didn't force values) and one in
`libcmd/repl.cc` (which did force values and also printed ANSI color
codes).
This PR unifies both of these printers into `print.cc` and provides a
`PrintOptions` struct for controlling the output, which allows for
toggling whether values are forced, whether repeated values are tracked,
and whether ANSI color codes are displayed.
Additionally, `PrintOptions` allows tuning the maximum number of
attributes, list items, and bytes in a string that will be displayed;
this makes it ideal for contexts where printing too much output (e.g.
all of Nixpkgs) is distracting. (As requested by @roberth in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9554#issuecomment-1845095735)
Please read the tests for example output.
Future work:
- It would be nice to provide this function as a builtin, perhaps
`builtins.toStringDebug` -- a printing function that never fails would
be useful when debugging Nix code.
- It would be nice to support customizing `PrintOptions` members on the
command line, e.g. `--option to-string-max-attrs 1000`.
(cherry picked from commit 0fa08b451682fb3311fe58112ff05c4fe5bee3a4, )
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Restore ambiguous value printer for `nix-instantiate`
The Nix team has requested that this output format remain unchanged.
I've added a warning to the man page explaining that `nix-instantiate
--eval` output will not parse correctly in many situations.
(cherry picked from commit df84dd4d8dd3fd6381ac2ca3064432ab31a16b79)
Change-Id: I7cca6b4b53cd0642f2d49af657d5676a8554c9f8
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/functional/lang')
5 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-print.err.exp b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-print.err.exp index 3fc99be3e..80aa17c6e 100644 --- a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-print.err.exp +++ b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-print.err.exp @@ -1 +1 @@ -trace: [ <CODE> ] +trace: [ «thunk» ] diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.exp b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.exp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d21e6db6b --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.exp @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[ { } { } ] diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.nix b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.nix new file mode 100644 index 000000000..030a3b85c --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-attrs.nix @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +# Tests that empty attribute sets are not printed as `«repeated»`. +[ {} {} ] diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.exp b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.exp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..701fc7e20 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.exp @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[ [ ] [ ] ] diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.nix b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.nix new file mode 100644 index 000000000..376c51be8 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/functional/lang/eval-okay-repeated-empty-list.nix @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[ [] [] ] |