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home-manager/modules/lib/generators.nix
Robert Helgesson d7d02c3ce8
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/* Functions that generate widespread file
* formats from nix data structures.
*
* They all follow a similar interface:
* generator { config-attrs } data
*
* Tests can be found in ./tests.nix
* Documentation in the manual, #sec-generators
*/
with import <nixpkgs/lib/trivial.nix>;
let
libStr = import <nixpkgs/lib/strings.nix>;
libAttr = import <nixpkgs/lib/attrsets.nix>;
flipMapAttrs = flip libAttr.mapAttrs;
in
rec {
/* Generate a line of key k and value v, separated by
* character sep. If sep appears in k, it is escaped.
* Helper for synaxes with different separators.
*
* mkKeyValueDefault ":" "f:oo" "bar"
* > "f\:oo:bar"
*/
mkKeyValueDefault = sep: k: v:
"${libStr.escape [sep] k}${sep}${toString v}";
/* Generate a key-value-style config file from an attrset.
*
* mkKeyValue is the same as in toINI.
*/
toKeyValue = {
mkKeyValue ? mkKeyValueDefault "="
}: attrs:
let mkLine = k: v: mkKeyValue k v + "\n";
in libStr.concatStrings (libAttr.mapAttrsToList mkLine attrs);
/* Generate an INI-style config file from an
* attrset of sections to an attrset of key-value pairs.
*
* generators.toINI {} {
* foo = { hi = "${pkgs.hello}"; ciao = "bar"; };
* baz = { "also, integers" = 42; };
* }
*
*> [baz]
*> also, integers=42
*>
*> [foo]
*> ciao=bar
*> hi=/nix/store/y93qql1p5ggfnaqjjqhxcw0vqw95rlz0-hello-2.10
*
* The mk* configuration attributes can generically change
* the way sections and key-value strings are generated.
*
* For more examples see the test cases in ./tests.nix.
*/
toINI = {
# apply transformations (e.g. escapes) to section names
mkSectionName ? (name: libStr.escape [ "[" "]" ] name),
# format a setting line from key and value
mkKeyValue ? mkKeyValueDefault "="
}: attrsOfAttrs:
let
# map function to string for each key val
mapAttrsToStringsSep = sep: mapFn: attrs:
libStr.concatStringsSep sep
(libAttr.mapAttrsToList mapFn attrs);
mkSection = sectName: sectValues: ''
[${mkSectionName sectName}]
'' + toKeyValue { inherit mkKeyValue; } sectValues;
in
# map input to ini sections
mapAttrsToStringsSep "\n" mkSection attrsOfAttrs;
/* Generates JSON from an arbitrary (non-function) value.
* For more information see the documentation of the builtin.
*/
toJSON = {}: builtins.toJSON;
/* YAML has been a strict superset of JSON since 1.2, so we
* use toJSON. Before it only had a few differences referring
* to implicit typing rules, so it should work with older
* parsers as well.
*/
toYAML = {}@args: toJSON args;
}