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Finishes implementing https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10598,
which asks for a spread operator in lists, in records, and when calling
commands.
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This PR will allow spreading arguments to commands (both internal and
external). It will also deprecate spreading arguments automatically when
passing to external commands.
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- Users will be able to use `...` to spread arguments to custom/builtin
commands that have rest parameters or allow unknown arguments, or to any
external command
- If a custom command doesn't have a rest parameter and it doesn't allow
unknown arguments either, the spread operator will not be allowed
- Passing lists to external commands without `...` will work for now but
will cause a deprecation warning saying that it'll stop working in 0.91
(is 2 versions enough time?)
Here's a function to help with demonstrating some behavior:
```nushell
> def foo [ a, b, c?, d?, ...rest ] { [$a $b $c $d $rest] | to nuon }
```
You can pass a list of arguments to fill in the `rest` parameter using
`...`:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 4 ...[5 6]
[1, 2, 3, 4, [5, 6]]
```
If you don't use `...`, the list `[5 6]` will be treated as a single
argument:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 4 [5 6] # Note the double [[]]
[1, 2, 3, 4, [[5, 6]]]
```
You can omit optional parameters before the spread arguments:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 ...[4 5] # d is omitted here
[1, 2, 3, null, [4, 5]]
```
If you have multiple lists, you can spread them all:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 ...[4 5] 6 7 ...[8] ...[]
[1, 2, 3, null, [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
```
Here's the kind of error you get when you try to spread arguments to a
command with no rest parameter:
And this is the warning you get when you pass a list to an external now
(without `...`):
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Added tests to cover the following cases:
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
(unexpected spread argument error)
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
*but* there's also a missing positional argument (missing positional
error)
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
but does allow unknown arguments, such as `exec` (allowed)
- Spreading a list literal containing arguments of the wrong type (parse
error)
- Spreading a non-list value, both to internal and external commands
- Having named arguments in the middle of rest arguments
- `explain`ing a command call that spreads its arguments
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# Examples
Suppose you have multiple tables:
```nushell
let people = [[id name age]; [0 alice 100] [1 bob 200] [2 eve 300]]
let evil_twins = [[id name age]; [0 ecila 100] [-1 bob 200] [-2 eve 300]]
```
Maybe you often find yourself needing to merge multiple tables and want
a utility to do that. You could write a function like this:
```nushell
def merge_all [ ...tables ] { $tables | reduce { |it, acc| $acc | merge $it } }
```
Then you can use it like this:
```nushell
> merge_all ...([$people $evil_twins] | each { |$it| $it | select name age })
╭───┬───────┬─────╮
│ # │ name │ age │
├───┼───────┼─────┤
│ 0 │ ecila │ 100 │
│ 1 │ bob │ 200 │
│ 2 │ eve │ 300 │
╰───┴───────┴─────╯
```
Except they had duplicate columns, so now you first want to suffix every
column with a number to tell you which table the column came from. You
can make a command for that:
```nushell
def select_and_merge [ --cols: list<string>, ...tables ] {
let renamed_tables = $tables
| enumerate
| each { |it|
$it.item | select $cols | rename ...($cols | each { |col| $col + ($it.index | into string) })
};
merge_all ...$renamed_tables
}
```
And call it like this:
```nushell
> select_and_merge --cols [name age] $people $evil_twins
╭───┬───────┬──────┬───────┬──────╮
│ # │ name0 │ age0 │ name1 │ age1 │
├───┼───────┼──────┼───────┼──────┤
│ 0 │ alice │ 100 │ ecila │ 100 │
│ 1 │ bob │ 200 │ bob │ 200 │
│ 2 │ eve │ 300 │ eve │ 300 │
╰───┴───────┴──────┴───────┴──────╯
```
---
Suppose someone's made a command to search for APT packages:
```nushell
# The main command
def search-pkgs [
--install # Whether to install any packages it finds
log_level: int # Pretend it's a good idea to make this a required positional parameter
exclude?: list<string> # Packages to exclude
repositories?: list<string> # Which repositories to look in (searches in all if not given)
...pkgs # Package names to search for
] {
{ install: $install, log_level: $log_level, exclude: ($exclude | to nuon), repositories: ($repositories | to nuon), pkgs: ($pkgs | to nuon) }
}
```
It has a lot of parameters to configure it, so you might make your own
helper commands to wrap around it for specific cases. Here's one
example:
```nushell
# Only look for packages locally
def search-pkgs-local [
--install # Whether to install any packages it finds
log_level: int
exclude?: list<string> # Packages to exclude
...pkgs # Package names to search for
] {
# All required and optional positional parameters are given
search-pkgs --install=$install $log_level [] ["<local URI or something>"] ...$pkgs
}
```
And you can run it like this:
```nushell
> search-pkgs-local --install=false 5 ...["python2.7" "vim"]
╭──────────────┬──────────────────────────────╮
│ install │ false │
│ log_level │ 5 │
│ exclude │ [] │
│ repositories │ ["<local URI or something>"] │
│ pkgs │ ["python2.7", vim] │
╰──────────────┴──────────────────────────────╯
```
One thing I realized when writing this was that if we decide to not
allow passing optional arguments using the spread operator, then you can
(mis?)use the spread operator to skip optional parameters. Here, I
didn't want to give `exclude` explicitly, so I used a spread operator to
pass the packages to install. Without it, I would've needed to do
`search-pkgs-local --install=false 5 [] "python2.7" "vim"` (explicitly
pass `[]` (or `null`, in the general case) to `exclude`). There are
probably more idiomatic ways to do this, but I just thought it was
something interesting.
If you're a virologist of the [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/350/) kind,
another helper command you might make is this:
```nushell
# Install any packages it finds
def live-dangerously [ ...pkgs ] {
# One optional argument was given (exclude), while another was not (repositories)
search-pkgs 0 [] ...$pkgs --install # Flags can go after spread arguments
}
```
Running it:
```nushell
> live-dangerously "git" "*vi*" # *vi* because I don't feel like typing out vim and neovim
╭──────────────┬─────────────╮
│ install │ true │
│ log_level │ 0 │
│ exclude │ [] │
│ repositories │ null │
│ pkgs │ [git, *vi*] │
╰──────────────┴─────────────╯
```
Here's an example that uses the spread operator more than once within
the same command call:
```nushell
let extras = [ chrome firefox python java git ]
def search-pkgs-curated [ ...pkgs ] {
(search-pkgs
1
[emacs]
["example.com", "foo.com"]
vim # A must for everyone!
...($pkgs | filter { |p| not ($p | str contains "*") }) # Remove packages with globs
python # Good tool to have
...$extras
--install=false
python3) # I forget, did I already put Python in extras?
}
```
Running it:
```nushell
> search-pkgs-curated "git" "*vi*"
╭──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ install │ false │
│ log_level │ 1 │
│ exclude │ [emacs] │
│ repositories │ [example.com, foo.com] │
│ pkgs │ [vim, git, python, chrome, firefox, python, java, git, "python3"] │
╰──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```
# Description
Fixes: #10450
This pr differentiating between `--x: bool` and `--x`
Here are examples which demostrate difference between them:
```nushell
def a [--x: bool] { $x };
a --x # not allowed, you need to parse a value to the flag.
a # it's allowed, and the value of `$x` is false, which behaves the same to `def a [--x] { $x }; a`
```
For boolean flag with default value, it works a little bit different to
#10450 mentioned:
```nushell
def foo [--option: bool = false] { $option }
foo # output false
foo --option # not allowed, you need to parse a value to the flag.
foo --option true # output true
```
# User-Facing Changes
After the pr, the following code is not allowed:
```nushell
def a [--x: bool] { $x }; a --x
```
Instead, you have to pass a value to flag `--x` like `a --x false`. But
bare flag works in the same way as before.
## Update: one more breaking change to help on #7260
```
def foo [--option: bool] { $option == null }
foo
```
After the pr, if we don't use a boolean flag, the value will be `null`
instead of `true`. Because here `--option: bool` is treated as a flag
rather than a switch
---------
Co-authored-by: amtoine <stevan.antoine@gmail.com>
# Description
Fixes: #10410
So the following script is possible:
```nushell
def a [b: any = null] { let b = ($b | default "default_b"); }
a "given_b"
```
## About the change
When parsing signature, and nushell meets something like `a: any`, it
force the parser to treat `a` as `any` type. This is what
`arg_explicit_type` means, it's only set when we goes into
`ParseMode::TypeMode`, and it will be reset to `false` if the token goes
to next argument.
so, when we have something like this: `def a [b: any = null] { $b }`,
the type of `$b` won't be overwritten.
But if we have something like this: `def a [b = null] { $b }`, the type
of `$b` is not annotated, so we make it to be `nothing`(which is the
type of null)
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This PR is related to **Tests: clean up unnecessary use of cwd,
pipeline(), etc.
[#8670](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8670)**
- Removed the `r#"..."#` raw string literal syntax, which is unnecessary
when there are no special characters that need quoting from the tests
that use the `nu!` macro.
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# Description
This adds input/output types to custom commands. These are input/output
pairs that related an input type to an output type.
For example (a single int-to-int input/output pair):
```
def foo []: int -> int { ... }
```
You can also have multiple input/output pairs:
```
def bar []: [int -> string, string -> list<string>] { ... }
```
These types are checked during definition time in the parser. If the
block does not match the type, the user will get a parser error.
This `:` to begin the input/output signatures should immediately follow
the argument signature as shown above.
The PR also improves type parsing by re-using the shape parser. The
shape parser is now the canonical way to parse types/shapes in user
code.
This PR also splits `extern` into `extern`/`extern-wrapped` because of
the parser limitation that a multi-span argument (which Signature now
is) can't precede an optional argument. `extern-wrapped` now takes the
required block that was previously optional.
# User-Facing Changes
The change to `extern` to split into `extern` and `extern-wrapped` is a
breaking change.
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# Description
closes#8934
this pr improves the diagnostic emitted when the name and parameters of
either `def`, `def-env` or `extern` are not separated by a space
```nu
Error:
× no space between name and parameters
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ def err[] {}
· ▲
· ╰── expected space
╰────
help: consider adding a space between the `def` command's name and its parameters
```
from
```nu
Error: nu::parser::missing_positional
× Missing required positional argument.
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ def err[] {}
╰────
help: Usage: def <def_name> <params> <body>
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Besseling <jelle@pingiun.com>
# Description
Extends the `extern` syntax to allow commands that accept raw arguments.
This is mainly added to allow wrapper type scripts for external
commands.
This is an example on how this can be used:
```nushell
extern foo [...rest] {
print ($rest | str join ',' )
}
foo --bar baz -- -q -u -x
# => --bar,baz,--,-q,-u,-x
```
(It's only possible to accept a single ...varargs argument in the
signature)
# User-Facing Changes
No breaking changes, just extra possibilities.
# Tests + Formatting
Added a test for this new behaviour and ran the toolkit pr checker
# After Submitting
This is advanced functionality but it should be documented, I will open
a new PR on the book for that
Co-authored-by: Jelle Besseling <jelle@bigbridge.nl>
this pr refines #8270 and closes#8109
# description
examples:
the original syntax is okay
```nu
def okay [nums: list] {} # the type of list will be list<any>
```
empty annotations are allowed in any variation
the last two may be caught by a future formatter,
but do not affect `nu` code currently
```nu
def okay [nums: list<>] {} # okay
def okay [nums: list< >] {} # weird but also okay
def okay [nums: list<
>] {} # also weird but okay
```
types are allowed (See [notes](#notes) below)
```nu
def okay [nums: list<int>] {} # `test [a b c]` will throw an error
def okay [nums: list< int > {} # any amount of space within the angle brackets is okay
def err [nums: list <int>] {} # this is not okay, `nums` and `<int>` will be parsed as
# two separate params,
```
nested annotations are allowed in many variations
```nu
def okay [items: list<list<int>>] {}
def okay [items: list<list>] {}
```
any unterminated annotation is caught
```nu
Error: nu::parser::unexpected_eof
× Unexpected end of code.
╭─[source:1:1]
1 │ def err [nums: list<int] {}
· ▲
· ╰── expected closing >
╰────
```
unknown types are flagged
```nu
Error: nu::parser::unknown_type
× Unknown type.
╭─[source:1:1]
1 │ def err [nums: list<str>] {}
· ─┬─
· ╰── unknown type
╰────
Error: nu::parser::unknown_type
× Unknown type.
╭─[source:1:1]
1 │ def err [nums: list<int, string>] {}
· ─────┬─────
· ╰── unknown type
╰────
```
# notes
the error message for mismatched types in not as intuitive
```nu
Error: nu::parser::parse_mismatch
× Parse mismatch during operation.
╭─[source:1:1]
1 │ def err [nums: list<int>] {}; err [a b c]
· ┬
· ╰── expected int
╰────
```
it should be something like this
```nu
Error: nu::parser::parse_mismatch
× Parse mismatch during operation.
╭─[source:1:1]
1 │ def err [nums: list<int>] {}; err [a b c]
· ──┬──
· ╰── expected list<int>
╰────
```
this is currently not implemented
# Description
This adds back support for parens around params, eg `def foo (x: int) {
... }`
# User-Facing Changes
returns to the original support before the recent parser refactor
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clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
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# Description
This PR fixes a bug where a default list in a custom command parameter
wasn't being accepted. The reason was because it was comparing specific
types of list like `list<any>` != `list<string>`. So, this PR attempts
to fix that.
### Before
```
> def f [param: list = [one]] { echo $param }
Error: nu::parser::assignment_mismatch (link)
× Default value wrong type
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ def f [param: list = [one]] { echo $param }
· ──┬──
· ╰── default value not list<any>
╰────
```
### After
```
> def f [param: list = [one]] {echo $param}
> f
╭───┬─────╮
│ 0 │ one │
╰───┴─────╯
```
closes#8092
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# Description
Closes#7273.
Also slightly edits/tidies up parser.rs.
# User-Facing Changes
`^` is now forbidden in `def` and `def-env` command names. EDIT: also
`alias`.
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# Description
Prevent a situation where a `def` can't be run due to a poor choice of
name. Related: #6335. Hashtags, numbers and filesizes are no longer
allowed. `alias` check has been moved because previously `alias 123`
would be caught but `alias "123"` would be permitted.
# User-Facing Changes
Some definitions can no longer be made, but because they couldn't be run
previously anyway, it doesn't really matter.
# Tests + Formatting
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PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
* start working on source-env
* WIP
* Get most tests working, still one to go
* Fix file-relative paths; Report parser error
* Fix merge conflicts; Restore source as deprecated
* Tests: Use source-env; Remove redundant tests
* Fmt
* Respect hidden env vars
* Fix file-relative eval for source-env
* Add file-relative eval to "overlay use"
* Use FILE_PWD only in source-env and "overlay use"
* Ignore new tests for now
This will be another issue
* Throw an error if setting FILE_PWD manually
* Fix source-related test failures
* Fix nu-check to respect FILE_PWD
* Fix corrupted spans in source-env shell errors
* Fix up some references to old source
* Remove deprecation message
* Re-introduce deleted tests
Co-authored-by: kubouch <kubouch@gmail.com>
* move commands, futures.rs, script.rs, utils
* move over maybe_print_errors
* add nu_command crate references to nu_cli
* in commands.rs open up to pub mod from pub(crate)
* nu-cli, nu-command, and nu tests are now passing
* cargo fmt
* clean up nu-cli/src/prelude.rs
* code cleanup
* for some reason lex.rs was not formatted, may be causing my error
* remove mod completion from lib.rs which was not being used along with quickcheck macros
* add in allow unused imports
* comment out one failing external test; comment out one failing internal test
* revert commenting out failing tests; something else might be going on; someone with a windows machine should check and see what is going on with these failing windows tests
* Update Cargo.toml
Extend the optional features to nu-command
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Turner <jonathandturner@users.noreply.github.com>
