nushell/crates/nu-protocol
Douglas 72d50cf8b7
Convert Path to list in main and preserve case (#14764)
# Description

Fixes multiple issues related to `ENV_CONVERSION` and
path-conversion-to-list.

* #14681 removed some calls to `convert_env_values()`, but we found that
this caused `nu -n` to no longer convert the path properly.
* `ENV_CONVERSIONS` have apparently never preserved case, meaning a
conversion with a key of `foo` would not update `$env.FOO` but rather
create a new environment variable with a different case.
* There was a partial code-path that attempted to solve this for `PATH`,
but it only worked for `PATH` and `Path`.
* `convert_env_values()`, which handled `ENV_CONVERSIONS` was called in
multiple places in the startup depending on flags.

This PR:

* Refactors the startup to handle the conversion in `main()` rather than
in each potential startup path
* Updates `get_env_var_insensitive()` functions added in #14390 to
return the name of the environment variable with its original case. This
allows code that updates environment variables to preserve the case.
* Makes use of the updated function in `ENV_CONVERSIONS` to preserve the
case of any updated environment variables. The `ENV_CONVERSION` key
itself is still case **insensitive**.
* Makes use of the updated function to preserve the case of the `PATH`
environment variable (normally handled separately, regardless of whether
or not there was an `ENV_CONVERSION` for it).

## Before

`env_convert_values` was run:

* Before the user `env.nu` ran, which included `nu -c <commandstring>`
and `nu <script.nu>`
* Before the REPL loaded, which included `nu -n`

## After

`env_convert_values` always runs once in `main()` before any config file
is processed or the REPL is started

# User-Facing Changes

Bug fixes

# Tests + Formatting

- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`

Added additional tests to prevent future regression.

# After Submitting

There is additional cleanup that should probably be done in
`convert_env_values()`. This function previously handled
`ENV_CONVERSIONS`, but there is no longer any need for this since
`convert_env_vars()` runs whenever `$env.ENV_CONVERSIONS` changes now.

This means that the only relevant task in the old `convert_env_values()`
is to convert the `PATH` to a list, and ensure that it is a list of
strings. It's still calling the `from_string` conversion on every
variable (just once) even though there are no `ENV_CONVERSIONS` at this
point.

Leaving that to another PR though, while we get the core issue fixed
with this one.
2025-01-10 10:18:44 -06:00
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src Convert Path to list in main and preserve case (#14764) 2025-01-10 10:18:44 -06:00
tests Add auto option for config.use_ansi_coloring (#14647) 2024-12-26 11:00:01 -06:00
Cargo.toml Add bytes split command (#14652) 2024-12-25 07:04:43 -06:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

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.