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author | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-08 07:09:48 +0100 |
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committer | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-09 04:47:05 -0700 |
commit | 08252967a8c2ab15f3fb8bdfb848f007d4032d50 (patch) | |
tree | 909ec8357654d4d179f0f8e7dfc5d3d623256b46 /tests/unit/libstore/downstream-placeholder.cc | |
parent | d4c738fe4c587c3f09b0fda899f419f2de97ee2f (diff) |
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
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