the foldl is equivalent to a zip with concat. list concatenation in nix
is an O(n) operation, which makes this operation extremely inefficient
when large numbers of modules are involved.
this change reduces the number of list elements by 7 million on the
system used to write this, total memory spent on lists by 58MB, and
total memory allocated on the GC heap by almost 100MB (with a similar
reduction in GC heap size). it's also slightly faster.
mkDerivedConfig : Option a -> (a -> Definition b) -> Definition b
Create config definitions with the same priority as the definition of another option.
This should be used for option definitions where one option sets the value of another as a convenience.
For instance a config file could be set with a `text` or `source` option, where text translates to a `source`
value using `mkDerivedConfig options.text (pkgs.writeText "filename.conf")`.
It takes care of setting the right priority using `mkOverride`.
recursiveUpdate does not produce an attrset until it has evaluated
both its arguments to weak head normal form.
nix-repl> lib.recursiveUpdate (throw "a") (throw "b")
error: b
nix-repl> lib.recursiveUpdate (throw "a") {}
error: a
The message I originally implemented here was to catch a mixup of
`config' and `options' in a `types.submodule'[1]. However it looks
rather weird for a wrongly declared top-level option.
So I decided to throw
error: The option `foo' does not exist. Definition values:
- In `<unknown-file>':
{
bar = {
_type = "option";
type = {
_type = "option-type";
...
It seems as you're trying to declare an option by placing it into `config' rather than `options'!
for an expression like
with import ./lib;
evalModules {
modules = [
{
foo.bar = mkOption {
type = types.str;
};
}
];
}
[1] fa30c9abed
so the underlaying use case of the preceding commit is so
generic, that we gain a lot in reasoning to give it an
appropriate name.
As the comment states:
image media needs to override host config short of mkForce
Previously, an option of type
attrsOf string
wouldn't throw a deprecation warning, even though the string type is
deprecated. This was because the deprecation warning trigger only looked
at the type of the option itself, not any of its subtypes.
This commit fixes this, causing each of the types deprecationMessages to
trigger for the option. This relies on the subtypes mkOptionType
attribute introduced in 26607a5a2e06653fec453c83d063cdfc4b59185f
I recently wrote some Nix code where I wrongly set a value to an option
which wasn't an actual option, but an attr-set of options. The mistake I
made can be demonstrated with an expression like this:
{
foo = { lib, pkgs, config, ... }: with lib; {
options.foo.bar.baz = mkOption {
type = types.str;
};
config.foo.bar = 23;
};
}
While it wasn't too hard to find the cause of the mistake for me, it was
necessary to have some practice in reading stack traces from the module
system since the eval-error I got was not very helpful:
error: --- TypeError --------------------------------------------------------- nix-build
at: (323:25) in file: /nix/store/3nm31brdz95pj8gch5gms6xwqh0xx55c-source/lib/modules.nix
322| foldl' (acc: module:
323| acc // (mapAttrs (n: v:
| ^
324| (acc.${n} or []) ++ f module v
value is an integer while a set was expected
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
I figured that such an error can be fairly confusing for someone who's
new to NixOS, so I decided to catch this case in th `byName` function in
`lib/modules.nix` by checking if the value to map through is an actual
attr-set. If not, a different error will be thrown.
For renames like
mkAliasOptionModule [ "services" "compton" ] [ "services" "picom" ]
where the target is an option set (like services.picom) instead of a single
option (like services.picom.enable), previously the renamed option type
was unset, leading to it being `types.unspecified`.
This changes it to be `types.submodule {}` instead, which makes more
sense.
Previously the .enable option was used to encode the condition as well,
which lead to some oddness:
- In order to encode an assertion, one had to invert it
- To disable a check, one had to mkForce it
By introducing a separate .check option this is solved because:
- It can be used to encode assertions
- Disabling is done separately with .enable option, whose default can be
overridden without a mkForce
Previously this option was thought to be necessary to avoid infinite
recursion, but it actually isn't, since the check evaluation isn't fed
back into the module fixed-point.
This implements assertions/warnings supported by the module system directly,
instead of just being a NixOS option (see
nixos/modules/misc/assertions.nix).
This has the following benefits:
- It allows cleanly redoing the user interface. The new
implementation specifically allows disabling assertions or
converting them to warnings instead.
- Assertions/warnings can now be thrown easily from within
submodules, which previously wasn't possible and needed workarounds.
Nix can perform static scope checking, but whenever code is inside
a `with` expression, the analysis breaks down, because it can't
know statically what's in the attribute set whose attributes were
brought into scope. In those cases, Nix has to assume that
everything works out.
Except it doesnt. Removing `with` from lib/ revealed an undefined
variable in an error message.
If that doesn't convince you that we're better off without `with`,
I can tell you that this PR results in a 3% evaluation performance
improvement because Nix can look up local variables by index.
This adds up with applications like the module system.
Furthermore, removing `with` makes the binding site of each
variable obvious, which helps with comprehension.
