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Improve error formatting

Changes:

* The divider lines are gone. These were in practice a bit confusing,
  in particular with --show-trace or --keep-going, since then there
  were multiple lines, suggesting a start/end which wasn't the case.

* Instead, multi-line error messages are now indented to align with
  the prefix (e.g. "error: ").

* The 'description' field is gone since we weren't really using it.

* 'hint' is renamed to 'msg' since it really wasn't a hint.

* The error is now printed *before* the location info.

* The 'name' field is no longer printed since most of the time it
  wasn't very useful since it was just the name of the exception (like
  EvalError). Ideally in the future this would be a unique, easily
  googleable error ID (like rustc).

* "trace:" is now just "…". This assumes error contexts start with
  something like "while doing X".

Example before:

  error: --- AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nix
  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

       6|
       7|   x = assert false; 1;
        |       ^
       8|

  assertion 'false' failed
  ----------------------------------------------------- show-trace -----------------------------------------------------
  trace: while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'
  at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

     191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
     192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
        |           ^
     193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {

Example after:

  error: assertion 'false' failed

         at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

              6|
              7|   x = assert false; 1;
               |       ^
              8|

         … while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'

         at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

            191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
            192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
               |           ^
            193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2021-01-21 00:27:36 +01:00
parent 259100332f
commit 8d4268d190
31 changed files with 249 additions and 422 deletions

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@ -150,12 +150,7 @@ LocalStore::LocalStore(const Params & params)
struct group * gr = getgrnam(settings.buildUsersGroup.get().c_str());
if (!gr)
logError({
.name = "'build-users-group' not found",
.hint = hintfmt(
"warning: the group '%1%' specified in 'build-users-group' does not exist",
settings.buildUsersGroup)
});
printError("warning: the group '%1%' specified in 'build-users-group' does not exist", settings.buildUsersGroup);
else {
struct stat st;
if (stat(realStoreDir.c_str(), &st))
@ -1403,12 +1398,8 @@ bool LocalStore::verifyStore(bool checkContents, RepairFlag repair)
Path linkPath = linksDir + "/" + link.name;
string hash = hashPath(htSHA256, linkPath).first.to_string(Base32, false);
if (hash != link.name) {
logError({
.name = "Invalid hash",
.hint = hintfmt(
"link '%s' was modified! expected hash '%s', got '%s'",
linkPath, link.name, hash)
});
printError("link '%s' was modified! expected hash '%s', got '%s'",
linkPath, link.name, hash);
if (repair) {
if (unlink(linkPath.c_str()) == 0)
printInfo("removed link '%s'", linkPath);
@ -1441,11 +1432,8 @@ bool LocalStore::verifyStore(bool checkContents, RepairFlag repair)
auto current = hashSink->finish();
if (info->narHash != nullHash && info->narHash != current.first) {
logError({
.name = "Invalid hash - path modified",
.hint = hintfmt("path '%s' was modified! expected hash '%s', got '%s'",
printStorePath(i), info->narHash.to_string(Base32, true), current.first.to_string(Base32, true))
});
printError("path '%s' was modified! expected hash '%s', got '%s'",
printStorePath(i), info->narHash.to_string(Base32, true), current.first.to_string(Base32, true));
if (repair) repairPath(i); else errors = true;
} else {
@ -1496,10 +1484,7 @@ void LocalStore::verifyPath(const Path & pathS, const StringSet & store,
if (!done.insert(pathS).second) return;
if (!isStorePath(pathS)) {
logError({
.name = "Nix path not found",
.hint = hintfmt("path '%s' is not in the Nix store", pathS)
});
printError("path '%s' is not in the Nix store", pathS);
return;
}
@ -1522,10 +1507,7 @@ void LocalStore::verifyPath(const Path & pathS, const StringSet & store,
auto state(_state.lock());
invalidatePath(*state, path);
} else {
logError({
.name = "Missing path with referrers",
.hint = hintfmt("path '%s' disappeared, but it still has valid referrers!", pathS)
});
printError("path '%s' disappeared, but it still has valid referrers!", pathS);
if (repair)
try {
repairPath(path);