libexpr: Support structured error classes

While preparing PRs like #9753, I've had to change error messages in
dozens of code paths. It would be nice if instead of

    EvalError("expected 'boolean' but found '%1%'", showType(v))

we could write

    TypeError(v, "boolean")

or similar. Then, changing the error message could be a mechanical
refactor with the compiler pointing out places the constructor needs to
be changed, rather than the error-prone process of grepping through the
codebase. Structured errors would also help prevent the "same" error
from having multiple slightly different messages, and could be a first
step towards error codes / an error index.

This PR reworks the exception infrastructure in `libexpr` to
support exception types with different constructor signatures than
`BaseError`. Actually refactoring the exceptions to use structured data
will come in a future PR (this one is big enough already, as it has to
touch every exception in `libexpr`).

The core design is in `eval-error.hh`. Generally, errors like this:

    state.error("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
      .debugThrow<TypeError>()

are transformed like this:

    state.error<TypeError>("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
      .debugThrow()

The type annotation has moved from `ErrorBuilder::debugThrow` to
`EvalState::error`.

(cherry picked from commit c6a89c1a1659b31694c0fbcd21d78a6dd521c732)
Change-Id: Iced91ba4e00ca9e801518071fb43798936cbd05a

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tests/unit/libexpr/error_traces.cc b/tests/unit/libexpr/error_traces.cc
index c3e88d95e..7649fa587 100644
--- a/tests/unit/libexpr/error_traces.cc
+++ b/tests/unit/libexpr/error_traces.cc
@@ -12,33 +12,33 @@ namespace nix {
 
     TEST_F(ErrorTraceTest, TraceBuilder) {
         ASSERT_THROW(
-            state.error("Not much").debugThrow<EvalError>(),
+            state.error<EvalError>("puppy").debugThrow(),
             EvalError
         );
 
         ASSERT_THROW(
-            state.error("Not much").withTrace(noPos, "No more").debugThrow<EvalError>(),
+            state.error<EvalError>("puppy").withTrace(noPos, "doggy").debugThrow(),
             EvalError
         );
 
         ASSERT_THROW(
             try {
                 try {
-                    state.error("Not much").withTrace(noPos, "No more").debugThrow<EvalError>();
+                    state.error<EvalError>("puppy").withTrace(noPos, "doggy").debugThrow();
                 } catch (Error & e) {
-                    e.addTrace(state.positions[noPos], "Something", "");
+                    e.addTrace(state.positions[noPos], "beans", "");
                     throw;
                 }
             } catch (BaseError & e) {
                 ASSERT_EQ(PrintToString(e.info().msg),
-                          PrintToString(hintfmt("Not much")));
+                          PrintToString(hintfmt("puppy")));
                 auto trace = e.info().traces.rbegin();
                 ASSERT_EQ(e.info().traces.size(), 2);
                 ASSERT_EQ(PrintToString(trace->hint),
-                          PrintToString(hintfmt("No more")));
+                          PrintToString(hintfmt("doggy")));
                 trace++;
                 ASSERT_EQ(PrintToString(trace->hint),
-                          PrintToString(hintfmt("Something")));
+                          PrintToString(hintfmt("beans")));
                 throw;
             }
             , EvalError
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ namespace nix {
 
     TEST_F(ErrorTraceTest, NestedThrows) {
         try {
-            state.error("Not much").withTrace(noPos, "No more").debugThrow<EvalError>();
+            state.error<EvalError>("puppy").withTrace(noPos, "doggy").debugThrow();
         } catch (BaseError & e) {
             try {
-                state.error("Not much more").debugThrow<EvalError>();
+                state.error<EvalError>("beans").debugThrow();
             } catch (Error & e2) {
-                e.addTrace(state.positions[noPos], "Something", "");
+                e.addTrace(state.positions[noPos], "beans2", "");
                 //e2.addTrace(state.positions[noPos], "Something", "");
                 ASSERT_TRUE(e.info().traces.size() == 2);
                 ASSERT_TRUE(e2.info().traces.size() == 0);