nixpkgs/lib/path/default.nix
Silvan Mosberger eac2538707 lib.path.append: init
This function can be used to append strings to Nix path values in a
safe way.
2023-01-18 20:17:31 +01:00

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# Functions for working with paths, see ./path.md
{ lib }:
let
inherit (builtins)
isString
isPath
split
match
;
inherit (lib.lists)
length
head
last
genList
elemAt
;
inherit (lib.strings)
concatStringsSep
substring
;
inherit (lib.asserts)
assertMsg
;
inherit (lib.path.subpath)
isValid
;
# Return the reason why a subpath is invalid, or `null` if it's valid
subpathInvalidReason = value:
if ! isString value then
"The given value is of type ${builtins.typeOf value}, but a string was expected"
else if value == "" then
"The given string is empty"
else if substring 0 1 value == "/" then
"The given string \"${value}\" starts with a `/`, representing an absolute path"
# We don't support ".." components, see ./path.md#parent-directory
else if match "(.*/)?\\.\\.(/.*)?" value != null then
"The given string \"${value}\" contains a `..` component, which is not allowed in subpaths"
else null;
# Split and normalise a relative path string into its components.
# Error for ".." components and doesn't include "." components
splitRelPath = path:
let
# Split the string into its parts using regex for efficiency. This regex
# matches patterns like "/", "/./", "/././", with arbitrarily many "/"s
# together. These are the main special cases:
# - Leading "./" gets split into a leading "." part
# - Trailing "/." or "/" get split into a trailing "." or ""
# part respectively
#
# These are the only cases where "." and "" parts can occur
parts = split "/+(\\./+)*" path;
# `split` creates a list of 2 * k + 1 elements, containing the k +
# 1 parts, interleaved with k matches where k is the number of
# (non-overlapping) matches. This calculation here gets the number of parts
# back from the list length
# floor( (2 * k + 1) / 2 ) + 1 == floor( k + 1/2 ) + 1 == k + 1
partCount = length parts / 2 + 1;
# To assemble the final list of components we want to:
# - Skip a potential leading ".", normalising "./foo" to "foo"
# - Skip a potential trailing "." or "", normalising "foo/" and "foo/." to
# "foo". See ./path.md#trailing-slashes
skipStart = if head parts == "." then 1 else 0;
skipEnd = if last parts == "." || last parts == "" then 1 else 0;
# We can now know the length of the result by removing the number of
# skipped parts from the total number
componentCount = partCount - skipEnd - skipStart;
in
# Special case of a single "." path component. Such a case leaves a
# componentCount of -1 due to the skipStart/skipEnd not verifying that
# they don't refer to the same character
if path == "." then []
# Generate the result list directly. This is more efficient than a
# combination of `filter`, `init` and `tail`, because here we don't
# allocate any intermediate lists
else genList (index:
# To get to the element we need to add the number of parts we skip and
# multiply by two due to the interleaved layout of `parts`
elemAt parts ((skipStart + index) * 2)
) componentCount;
# Join relative path components together
joinRelPath = components:
# Always return relative paths with `./` as a prefix (./path.md#leading-dots-for-relative-paths)
"./" +
# An empty string is not a valid relative path, so we need to return a `.` when we have no components
(if components == [] then "." else concatStringsSep "/" components);
in /* No rec! Add dependencies on this file at the top. */ {
/* Append a subpath string to a path.
Like `path + ("/" + string)` but safer, because it errors instead of returning potentially surprising results.
More specifically, it checks that the first argument is a [path value type](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/values.html#type-path"),
and that the second argument is a valid subpath string (see `lib.path.subpath.isValid`).
Type:
append :: Path -> String -> Path
Example:
append /foo "bar/baz"
=> /foo/bar/baz
# subpaths don't need to be normalised
append /foo "./bar//baz/./"
=> /foo/bar/baz
# can append to root directory
append /. "foo/bar"
=> /foo/bar
# first argument needs to be a path value type
append "/foo" "bar"
=> <error>
# second argument needs to be a valid subpath string
append /foo /bar
=> <error>
append /foo ""
=> <error>
append /foo "/bar"
=> <error>
append /foo "../bar"
=> <error>
*/
append =
# The absolute path to append to
path:
# The subpath string to append
subpath:
assert assertMsg (isPath path) ''
lib.path.append: The first argument is of type ${builtins.typeOf path}, but a path was expected'';
assert assertMsg (isValid subpath) ''
lib.path.append: Second argument is not a valid subpath string:
${subpathInvalidReason subpath}'';
path + ("/" + subpath);
/* Whether a value is a valid subpath string.
- The value is a string
- The string is not empty
- The string doesn't start with a `/`
- The string doesn't contain any `..` path components
Type:
subpath.isValid :: String -> Bool
Example:
# Not a string
subpath.isValid null
=> false
# Empty string
subpath.isValid ""
=> false
# Absolute path
subpath.isValid "/foo"
=> false
# Contains a `..` path component
subpath.isValid "../foo"
=> false
# Valid subpath
subpath.isValid "foo/bar"
=> true
# Doesn't need to be normalised
subpath.isValid "./foo//bar/"
=> true
*/
subpath.isValid =
# The value to check
value:
subpathInvalidReason value == null;
/* Normalise a subpath. Throw an error if the subpath isn't valid, see
`lib.path.subpath.isValid`
- Limit repeating `/` to a single one
- Remove redundant `.` components
- Remove trailing `/` and `/.`
- Add leading `./`
Laws:
- Idempotency - normalising multiple times gives the same result:
subpath.normalise (subpath.normalise p) == subpath.normalise p
- Uniqueness - there's only a single normalisation for the paths that lead to the same file system node:
subpath.normalise p != subpath.normalise q -> $(realpath ${p}) != $(realpath ${q})
- Don't change the result when appended to a Nix path value:
base + ("/" + p) == base + ("/" + subpath.normalise p)
- Don't change the path according to `realpath`:
$(realpath ${p}) == $(realpath ${subpath.normalise p})
- Only error on invalid subpaths:
builtins.tryEval (subpath.normalise p)).success == subpath.isValid p
Type:
subpath.normalise :: String -> String
Example:
# limit repeating `/` to a single one
subpath.normalise "foo//bar"
=> "./foo/bar"
# remove redundant `.` components
subpath.normalise "foo/./bar"
=> "./foo/bar"
# add leading `./`
subpath.normalise "foo/bar"
=> "./foo/bar"
# remove trailing `/`
subpath.normalise "foo/bar/"
=> "./foo/bar"
# remove trailing `/.`
subpath.normalise "foo/bar/."
=> "./foo/bar"
# Return the current directory as `./.`
subpath.normalise "."
=> "./."
# error on `..` path components
subpath.normalise "foo/../bar"
=> <error>
# error on empty string
subpath.normalise ""
=> <error>
# error on absolute path
subpath.normalise "/foo"
=> <error>
*/
subpath.normalise =
# The subpath string to normalise
subpath:
assert assertMsg (isValid subpath) ''
lib.path.subpath.normalise: Argument is not a valid subpath string:
${subpathInvalidReason subpath}'';
joinRelPath (splitRelPath subpath);
}