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Maximilian Bosch 81499a0b93
libexpr: print value of what is attempted to be called as function
Low-hanging fruit in the spirit of #9753 and #9754 (means 9999years did
all the hard work already).

This basically prints out what was attempted to be called as function,
i.e.

  map (import <nixpkgs> {}) [ 1 2 3 ]

now gives the following error message:

    error:
           … while calling the 'map' builtin
             at «string»:1:1:
                1| map (import <nixpkgs> {}) [ 1 2 3 ]
                 | ^

           … while evaluating the first argument passed to builtins.map

           error: expected a function but found a set: { _type = "pkgs"; AAAAAASomeThingsFailToEvaluate = «thunk»; AMB-plugins = «thunk»; ArchiSteamFarm = «thunk»; BeatSaberModManager = «thunk»; CHOWTapeModel = «thunk»; ChowCentaur = «thunk»; ChowKick = «thunk»; ChowPhaser = «thunk»; CoinMP = «thunk»;  «18783 attributes elided»}
2024-01-22 22:41:42 +01:00
Rebecca Turner cb7fbd4d83
Print value on type error
Adds the failing value to `value is <TYPE> while a <TYPE> is expected`
error messages.
2024-01-22 08:56:02 -08:00
Robert Hensing 9b7b7a7561 Revert "Print the value in error: cannot coerce messages (#9553)"
This reverts commit f0ac2a35d5.

The request from the sibling PR, which also applies here, was not addressed.
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9554#issuecomment-1845095735
2023-12-09 02:13:32 +01:00
Rebecca Turner f0ac2a35d5
Print the value in error: cannot coerce messages (#9553)
* Print the value in `error: cannot coerce` messages

This extends the `error: cannot coerce a TYPE to a string` message
to print the value that could not be coerced. This helps with debugging
by making it easier to track down where the value is being produced
from, especially in errors with deep or unhelpful stack traces.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-12-08 16:36:57 +00:00
John Ericson 91b6833686 Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-12-01 10:48:58 -05:00
Renamed from src/libexpr/tests/error_traces.cc (Browse further)