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This is a follow up from https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/7540. Please provide feedback if you have the time! ## Summary This PR lets you use `?` to indicate that a member in a cell path is optional and Nushell should return `null` if that member cannot be accessed. Unlike the previous PR, `?` is now a _postfix_ modifier for cell path members. A cell path of `.foo?.bar` means that `foo` is optional and `bar` is not. `?` does _not_ suppress all errors; it is intended to help in situations where data has "holes", i.e. the data types are correct but something is missing. Type mismatches (like trying to do a string path access on a date) will still fail. ### Record Examples ```bash { foo: 123 }.foo # returns 123 { foo: 123 }.bar # errors { foo: 123 }.bar? # returns null { foo: 123 } | get bar # errors { foo: 123 } | get bar? # returns null { foo: 123 }.bar.baz # errors { foo: 123 }.bar?.baz # errors because `baz` is not present on the result from `bar?` { foo: 123 }.bar.baz? # errors { foo: 123 }.bar?.baz? # returns null ``` ### List Examples ``` 〉[{foo: 1} {foo: 2} {}].foo Error: nu:🐚:column_not_found × Cannot find column ╭─[entry #30:1:1] 1 │ [{foo: 1} {foo: 2} {}].foo · ─┬ ─┬─ · │ ╰── cannot find column 'foo' · ╰── value originates here ╰──── 〉[{foo: 1} {foo: 2} {}].foo? ╭───┬───╮ │ 0 │ 1 │ │ 1 │ 2 │ │ 2 │ │ ╰───┴───╯ 〉[{foo: 1} {foo: 2} {}].foo?.2 | describe nothing 〉[a b c].4? | describe nothing 〉[{foo: 1} {foo: 2} {}] | where foo? == 1 ╭───┬─────╮ │ # │ foo │ ├───┼─────┤ │ 0 │ 1 │ ╰───┴─────╯ ``` # Breaking changes 1. Column names with `?` in them now need to be quoted. 2. The `-i`/`--ignore-errors` flag has been removed from `get` and `select` 1. After this PR, most `get` error handling can be done with `?` and/or `try`/`catch`. 4. Cell path accesses like this no longer work without a `?`: ```bash 〉[{a:1 b:2} {a:3}].b.0 2 ``` We had some clever code that was able to recognize that since we only want row `0`, it's OK if other rows are missing column `b`. I removed that because it's tricky to maintain, and now that query needs to be written like: ```bash 〉[{a:1 b:2} {a:3}].b?.0 2 ``` I think the regression is acceptable for now. I plan to do more work in the future to enable streaming of cell path accesses, and when that happens I'll be able to make `.b.0` work again. |
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nu-protocol
The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.