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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`.
This commit is contained in:
Rebecca Turner 2024-01-22 17:08:29 -08:00
parent c62c21e29a
commit c6a89c1a16
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#pragma once
#include <algorithm>
#include "error.hh"
#include "pos-idx.hh"
namespace nix {
struct Env;
struct Expr;
struct Value;
class EvalState;
template<class T>
class EvalErrorBuilder;
class EvalError : public Error
{
template<class T>
friend class EvalErrorBuilder;
public:
EvalState & state;
EvalError(EvalState & state, ErrorInfo && errorInfo)
: Error(errorInfo)
, state(state)
{
}
template<typename... Args>
explicit EvalError(EvalState & state, const std::string & formatString, const Args &... formatArgs)
: Error(formatString, formatArgs...)
, state(state)
{
}
};
MakeError(ParseError, Error);
MakeError(AssertionError, EvalError);
MakeError(ThrownError, AssertionError);
MakeError(Abort, EvalError);
MakeError(TypeError, EvalError);
MakeError(UndefinedVarError, EvalError);
MakeError(MissingArgumentError, EvalError);
MakeError(CachedEvalError, EvalError);
MakeError(InfiniteRecursionError, EvalError);
struct InvalidPathError : public EvalError
{
public:
Path path;
InvalidPathError(EvalState & state, const Path & path)
: EvalError(state, "path '%s' is not valid", path)
{
}
};
template<class T>
class EvalErrorBuilder final
{
friend class EvalState;
template<typename... Args>
explicit EvalErrorBuilder(EvalState & state, const Args &... args)
: error(T(state, args...))
{
}
public:
T error;
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & withExitStatus(unsigned int exitStatus);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & atPos(PosIdx pos);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & atPos(Value & value, PosIdx fallback = noPos);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & withTrace(PosIdx pos, const std::string_view text);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & withFrameTrace(PosIdx pos, const std::string_view text);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & withSuggestions(Suggestions & s);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & withFrame(const Env & e, const Expr & ex);
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> & addTrace(PosIdx pos, hintformat hint, bool frame = false);
template<typename... Args>
[[nodiscard, gnu::noinline]] EvalErrorBuilder<T> &
addTrace(PosIdx pos, std::string_view formatString, const Args &... formatArgs);
[[gnu::noinline, gnu::noreturn]] void debugThrow();
};
/**
* The size needed to allocate any `EvalErrorBuilder<T>`.
*
* The list of classes here needs to be kept in sync with the list of `template
* class` declarations in `eval-error.cc`.
*
* This is used by `EvalState` to preallocate a buffer of sufficient size for
* any `EvalErrorBuilder<T>` to avoid allocating while evaluating Nix code.
*/
constexpr size_t EVAL_ERROR_BUILDER_SIZE = std::max({
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<EvalError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<AssertionError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<ThrownError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<Abort>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<TypeError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<UndefinedVarError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<MissingArgumentError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<InfiniteRecursionError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<CachedEvalError>),
sizeof(EvalErrorBuilder<InvalidPathError>),
});
}