generators: rewrite toSCFG

The former toSCFG implementation had several shortcomings which
did not consider a few possibilities SCFG provides. Details were lined
out in #7465.
The new interface needs more verbosity, but reflects better the
properties of the SCFG format. I also chose to use the names used in the
[Specification].

[Specification]: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/scfg#specification-draft

modules/lib/generators.nix

@@ -211,9 +211,15 @@
   toSCFG =
     { }:
     let
-      inherit (lib) concatStringsSep mapAttrsToList any;
+      inherit (lib) concatStringsSep any;
       inherit (builtins) typeOf replaceStrings elem;
 
+      filterNullDirectives = lib.filter (
+        directive:
+        !(directive ? "params" || directive ? "children")
+        || !(directive.params or [ null ] == [ null ] && directive.children or [ ] == [ ])
+      );
+
       # ListOf String -> String
       indentStrings =
         let
@@ -221,8 +227,8 @@
           # the strings themselves *will* contain newlines, so you need
           # to normalize the list by joining and resplitting them.
           unlines = lib.splitString "\n";
-          lines = lib.concatStringsSep "\n";
-          indentAll = lines: concatStringsSep "\n" (map (x: "	" + x) lines);
+          lines = concatStringsSep "\n";
+          indentAll = lines: concatStringsSep "\n" (map (x: "\t" + x) lines);
         in
         stringsWithNewlines: indentAll (unlines (lines stringsWithNewlines));
 
@@ -256,7 +262,7 @@
         "\\"
         "\r"
         "\n"
-        "	"
+        "\t"
       ];
 
       # OneOf [Int Float String Bool] -> String
@@ -284,7 +290,7 @@
       # Bool -> ListOf (OneOf [Int Float String Bool]) -> String
       toOptParamsString =
         cond: list:
-        lib.optionalString (cond) (
+        lib.optionalString cond (
           lib.pipe list [
             (map literalValueToString)
             (concatStringsSep " ")
@@ -292,65 +298,25 @@
           ]
         );
 
-      # Attrset Conversion
-      # String -> AttrsOf Anything -> String
-      convertAttrsToSCFG =
-        name: attrs:
-        let
-          optParamsString = toOptParamsString (attrs ? "_params") attrs._params;
+      # Directive Conversion
+      # ListOf NameParamChildrenTriplet -> ListOf String
+      convertDirectivesToSCFG =
+        directives:
+        map (
+          directive:
+          (literalValueToString directive.name)
+          + toOptParamsString (directive ? "params" && directive.params != null) directive.params
+          + lib.optionalString (directive ? "children" && directive.children != null) (
+            " "
+            + ''
+              {
+              ${indentStrings (convertDirectivesToSCFG directive.children)}
+              }''
+          )
+        ) (filterNullDirectives directives);
     in
-        ''
-          ${name}${optParamsString} {
-          ${indentStrings (convertToAttrsSCFG' attrs)}
-          }'';
-
-      # Attrset Conversion
-      # AttrsOf Anything -> ListOf String
-      convertToAttrsSCFG' =
-        attrs:
-        mapAttrsToList convertAttributeToSCFG (
-          lib.filterAttrs (name: val: !isNull val && name != "_params") attrs
-        );
-
-      # List Conversion
-      # String -> ListOf (OneOf [Int Float String Bool]) -> String
-      convertListOfFlatAttrsToSCFG =
-        name: list:
-        let
-          optParamsString = toOptParamsString (list != [ ]) list;
-        in
-        "${name}${optParamsString}";
-
-      # Combined Conversion
-      # String -> Anything  -> String
-      convertAttributeToSCFG =
-        name: value:
-        lib.throwIf (name == "") "Directive must not be empty" (
-          let
-            vType = typeOf value;
-          in
-          if
-            elem vType [
-              "int"
-              "float"
-              "bool"
-              "string"
-            ]
-          then
-            "${name} ${literalValueToString value}"
-          else if vType == "set" then
-            convertAttrsToSCFG name value
-          else if vType == "list" then
-            convertListOfFlatAttrsToSCFG name value
-          else
-            throw ''
-              Cannot convert type `(${typeOf value})` to SCFG:
-                ${name} = ${toString value}
-            ''
-        );
-    in
-    attrs:
-    lib.optionalString (attrs != { }) ''
-      ${concatStringsSep "\n" (convertToAttrsSCFG' attrs)}
+    directives:
+    lib.optionalString (directives != [ ]) ''
+      ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (convertDirectivesToSCFG directives)}
     '';
 }

tests/lib/generators/toscfg-empty.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { lib, ... }:
 
 {
-  home.file."toscfg-empty-result.txt".text = lib.hm.generators.toSCFG { } { };
+  home.file."toscfg-empty-result.txt".text = lib.hm.generators.toSCFG { } [ ];
 
   nmt.script = ''
     assertFileContent \

tests/lib/generators/toscfg-example-result.txt

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ dir {
 	blk1 p1 "\"p2\"" {
 		sub1 arg11 arg12
 		sub2 arg21 arg22
+		sub2 arg1 arg2
 		sub3 arg31 arg32 {
-			sub-sub1
+			"sub sub1"
 			sub-sub2 arg321 arg322
 		}
 	}

tests/lib/generators/toscfg-example.nix

@@ -1,35 +1,58 @@
 { lib, ... }:
 
 {
-  home.file."toscfg-example-result.txt".text = lib.hm.generators.toSCFG { } {
-    dir = {
-      blk1 = {
-        _params = [
+  home.file."toscfg-example-result.txt".text = lib.hm.generators.toSCFG { } (
+    lib.singleton {
+      name = "dir";
+      children = lib.singleton {
+        name = "blk1";
+        params = [
           "p1"
           ''"p2"''
         ];
-        sub1 = [
+        children = [
+          {
+            name = "sub1";
+            params = [
               "arg11"
               "arg12"
             ];
-        sub2 = [
+          }
+          {
+            name = "sub2";
+            params = [
               "arg21"
               "arg22"
             ];
-        sub3 = {
-          _params = [
+          }
+          {
+            name = "sub2";
+            params = [
+              "arg1"
+              "arg2"
+            ];
+          }
+          {
+            name = "sub3";
+            params = [
               "arg31"
               "arg32"
             ];
-          sub-sub1 = [ ];
-          sub-sub2 = [
+            children = [
+              { name = "sub sub1"; }
+              {
+                name = "sub-sub2";
+                params = [
                   "arg321"
                   "arg322"
                 ];
+              }
+            ];
+          }
+        ];
       };
-      };
-    };
-  };
+    }
+  );
 
   nmt.script = ''
     assertFileContent \