nixpkgs/lib/tests/modules/declaration-positions.nix
Jade Lovelace a1d3882307 nixos/modules: Add declarationPositions
What it does: line and column level *declaration* position information:

$ nix repl .
nix-repl> :p nixosConfigurations.micro.options.environment.systemPackages.declarationPositions
[ { column = 7; file = "/nix/store/24aj3k7fgqv3ly7qkbf98qvphasrw9nb-source/nixos/modules/config/system-path.nix"; line = 63; } ]

Use cases:
- ctags over NixOS options, as will be presented at NixCon 2023 ;)
- improving the documentation pages to go to the exact line of the
  declarations.

Related work:
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65024

  This one does it for all *definitions* rather than declarations, and
  it was not followed through with due to performance worries.
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/208173

  The basis for this change. This change is just a rebase of that one.
  I split it out to add the capability before adding users of it, in
  order to simplify review. However, the ctags script in there is a
  sample user of this feature.

Benchmarks: conducted by evaluating my own reasonably complex NixOS
configuration with the command:
`hyperfine -S none -w 1 -- "nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath"`

```
Benchmark 1: nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath
  Time (mean ± σ):      8.971 s ±  0.254 s    [User: 5.872 s, System: 1.388 s]
  Range (min … max):    8.574 s …  9.327 s    10 runs

Benchmark 1: nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath
  Time (mean ± σ):      8.766 s ±  0.160 s    [User: 5.873 s, System: 1.346 s]
  Range (min … max):    8.496 s …  9.033 s    10 runs
```

Summary of results: it seems to be in the noise, this does not cause any
visible regression in times.
2023-09-08 11:48:40 +02:00

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{ lib, options, ... }:
let discardPositions = lib.mapAttrs (k: v: v);
in
# unsafeGetAttrPos is unspecified best-effort behavior, so we only want to consider this test on an evaluator that satisfies some basic assumptions about this function.
assert builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos "a" { a = true; } != null;
assert builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos "a" (discardPositions { a = true; }) == null;
{
imports = [
{
options.imported.line10 = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.int;
};
# Simulates various patterns of generating modules such as
# programs.firefox.nativeMessagingHosts.ff2mpv. We don't expect to get
# line numbers for these, but we can fall back on knowing the file.
options.generated = discardPositions {
line18 = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.int;
};
};
options.submoduleLine34.extraOptLine23 = lib.mkOption {
default = 1;
type = lib.types.int;
};
}
];
options.nested.nestedLine30 = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.int;
};
options.submoduleLine34 = lib.mkOption {
default = { };
type = lib.types.submoduleWith {
modules = [
({ options, ... }: {
options.submodDeclLine39 = lib.mkOption { };
})
{ freeformType = with lib.types; lazyAttrsOf (uniq unspecified); }
];
};
};
config = {
submoduleLine34.submodDeclLine39 = (options.submoduleLine34.type.getSubOptions [ ]).submodDeclLine39.declarationPositions;
};
}