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31 changes: 23 additions & 8 deletions config/src/env.rs
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::ffi::OsStr;

use crate::layer::{Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, LayerOutput, Warning};
use crate::layer::{Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, LayerOutput, Warning, WarningKind};
use crate::registry::PropId;
use crate::source::{Origin, SourceKind};

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -133,13 +133,16 @@ impl Layer for EnvLayer {
for (id, set_as, raw) in candidates {
let origin = Origin::new(SourceKind::ENV, set_as);
if let Some(first) = read_by {
out.warn(Warning::at(
format!(
"{set_as} was not read: {first} also sets {}",
registry.get(target).key
),
origin,
));
out.warn(
Warning::at(
format!(
"{set_as} was not read: {first} also sets {}",
registry.get(target).key
),
origin,
)
.of(WarningKind::NotRead),
);
continue;
}
match ctx.entry(id, raw, origin) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -388,6 +391,18 @@ mod tests {
.any(|w| w.starts_with("HK_THREADS was not read: HK_CONCURRENCY also sets jobs")),
"{warnings:?}"
);
// Three kinds at once, which is what living through a rename actually produces: the name
// that was passed over, and — for the one that *was* read — that it is deprecated and what
// it was read as. A variable passed over is its own sort of thing: nothing is wrong with the
// value, and a `--strict` mode that stops for a bad one should not stop for this.
assert_eq!(
resolved.warnings.iter().map(|w| w.kind).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
vec![
WarningKind::NotRead,
WarningKind::Deprecated,
WarningKind::Renamed
]
);

// And the current name still beats both of them.
let layer = env(&[
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91 changes: 79 additions & 12 deletions config/src/layer.rs
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Expand Up @@ -42,27 +42,77 @@ impl Entry {
/// Returned rather than printed. mise queues these until its logging is up, and a library
/// that writes to stderr on its own cannot be used by anything that has an opinion about
/// output.
///
/// Built through [`Warning::new`] or [`Warning::at`] rather than as a literal: this has gained a
/// field once already, and a warning is something a layer *reports* rather than a shape anything
/// downstream should be pattern-matched against exhaustively. Reading the fields, and matching with
/// `..`, are unaffected.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct Warning {
pub message: String,
/// Where the value that caused it came from, when there was one.
pub origin: Option<Origin>,
/// What sort of thing happened, for a caller that wants to treat them differently.
pub kind: WarningKind,
}
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echo "== Warning definition and constructors =="
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echo "== Warning exports and uses across the repository =="
rg -n -C 2 --glob '*.rs' '\bWarning\b|layer::Warning|config::.*Warning' .

echo "== Package metadata and release documentation =="
for f in config/Cargo.toml Cargo.toml CHANGELOG.md README.md; do
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Release Warning.kind in a major version.

usage-config is currently version 5.1.0. Warning is public and re-exported with public fields, so external struct literals are supported. Adding required kind breaks those literals.

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In `@config/src/layer.rs` around lines 50 - 52, Remove the newly required public
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/// The kinds of thing a resolution has to say.
///
/// The message is for a person and its wording is nobody's contract; this is what a *program* can
/// act on. mise wants its deprecations queued and printed once its logging is up while a bad value
/// goes to stderr immediately; a `--strict` mode wants to exit on anything but a deprecation; the
/// conformance corpus wants to pin what happened without pinning how it was worded, since that is a
/// quality-of-implementation concern and differs between implementations by design.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum WarningKind {
/// A key no setting declares. A config file written for a newer binary read by an older one.
UnknownSetting,
/// A value the declared type cannot read.
WrongType,
/// A value the declared `choice` nodes do not allow.
NotAllowed,
/// A place that may not set this setting: a `scope="global"` setting from a checkout.
OutOfScope,
/// A setting whose spec says not to use it any more.
Deprecated,
/// A value that arrived under an old name and was read as the setting that replaced it.
Renamed,
/// A value that was passed over because another name for the same setting won.
NotRead,
/// Something a layer of the CLI's own says, which this crate has no name for.
#[default]
Other,
}

impl Warning {
/// A warning of no particular kind, which is what a custom layer's own complaints are.
pub fn new(message: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
Self {
message: message.into(),
origin: None,
kind: WarningKind::Other,
}
}

/// The same, about a value that came from somewhere nameable.
pub fn at(message: impl Into<String>, origin: Origin) -> Self {
Self {
message: message.into(),
origin: Some(origin),
kind: WarningKind::Other,
}
}

/// This warning, classified.
///
/// Chained rather than an argument so the two constructors keep reading as they did, and so a
/// layer that has nothing useful to say about the kind is not made to invent one.
pub fn of(mut self, kind: WarningKind) -> Self {
self.kind = kind;
self
}
}

/// What a layer found.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -186,7 +236,8 @@ impl LayerCtx {
Err(Warning::at(
format!("{key} expected {} but has `{}`", err.expected, err.found),
origin,
))
)
.of(WarningKind::WrongType))
}
}
}
Expand All @@ -203,14 +254,17 @@ impl LayerCtx {
fn refused(&self, id: PropId, value: &Value, key: &str, origin: &Origin) -> Option<Warning> {
let meta = self.registry.get(id);
let refused = meta.refuses(value)?;
Some(Warning::at(
format!(
"{key} expected one of {} but has `{}`",
meta.allowed(),
crate::value::shown(refused)
),
origin.clone(),
))
Some(
Warning::at(
format!(
"{key} expected one of {} but has `{}`",
meta.allowed(),
crate::value::shown(refused)
),
origin.clone(),
)
.of(WarningKind::NotAllowed),
)
}

/// An entry for a dotted key, which is what a layer reading a file has in hand.
Expand All @@ -221,7 +275,8 @@ impl LayerCtx {
/// do, and the reason a deprecated key in somebody's config file gets reported at all.
pub fn entry_for_key(&self, key: &str, raw: &str, origin: Origin) -> Result<Entry, Warning> {
let Some(found) = self.prop(key) else {
return Err(Warning::at(format!("unknown setting `{key}`"), origin));
return Err(Warning::at(format!("unknown setting `{key}`"), origin)
.of(WarningKind::UnknownSetting));
};
let mut entry = self.entry(found.id, raw, origin)?;
// `lookup` already folded, so `entry` had nothing left to fold and nothing to report;
Expand All @@ -244,7 +299,8 @@ impl LayerCtx {
origin: Origin,
) -> Result<Entry, Warning> {
let Some(found) = self.prop(key) else {
return Err(Warning::at(format!("unknown setting `{key}`"), origin));
return Err(Warning::at(format!("unknown setting `{key}`"), origin)
.of(WarningKind::UnknownSetting));
};
let meta = self.registry.get(found.id);
match meta.ty.coerce(value) {
Expand All @@ -266,7 +322,8 @@ impl LayerCtx {
err.found
),
origin,
)),
)
.of(WarningKind::WrongType)),
}
}
}
Expand All @@ -282,6 +339,7 @@ pub trait Layer {

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::WarningKind;
use super::*;
use crate::registry::PropMeta;
use crate::ty::{Parser, Ty};
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -348,6 +406,15 @@ mod tests {
warning.message,
"stash expected one of git, patch-file, none but has `svn`"
);
// Which is a different sort of thing from a value of the wrong *type*, and a caller that
// treats them differently needs to be able to tell.
assert_eq!(warning.kind, WarningKind::NotAllowed);
assert_eq!(
ctx.entry_for_key("jobs", "lots", origin.clone())
.expect_err("not a number")
.kind,
WarningKind::WrongType
);
// And a value that is one of them is just a value.
assert_eq!(
ctx.entry_for_key("stash", "git", origin.clone())
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion config/src/lib.rs
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Expand Up @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub use env::EnvLayer;
pub use explain::explain;
#[cfg(any(feature = "toml", feature = "json"))]
pub use files::{FileLayer, Format};
pub use layer::{Entry, Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, LayerOutput, Warning};
pub use layer::{Entry, Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, LayerOutput, Warning, WarningKind};
pub use read::{Fold, FromValue, ReadError, ReadErrorKind, ReadErrors};
pub use registry::{Lookup, Merge, PropId, PropMeta, Registry, Scope};
pub use resolve::{resolve, Layers, Resolved};
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Expand Up @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

use std::collections::BTreeMap;

use crate::layer::{Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, Warning};
use crate::layer::{Layer, LayerCtx, LayerError, Warning, WarningKind};
use crate::registry::{Merge, PropId, Registry, Scope};
use crate::source::{Origin, SourceKind, Trust};
use crate::value::Value;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -189,24 +189,30 @@ pub fn resolve(registry: Registry, layers: Layers<'_>) -> Result<Resolved, Layer
// rename, `written.key` is the *replacement's* name, so a refused value was
// reported under a key that does not appear in the file the user would go and
// edit.
resolved.warnings.push(Warning::at(
format!("{written_key} {refusal}"),
entry.origin,
));
resolved.warnings.push(
Warning::at(format!("{written_key} {refusal}"), entry.origin)
.of(WarningKind::OutOfScope),
);
continue;
}
if let Some(why) = as_written.deprecated {
resolved.warnings.push(Warning::at(
format!("{written_key} is deprecated: {why}"),
entry.origin.clone(),
));
resolved.warnings.push(
Warning::at(
format!("{written_key} is deprecated: {why}"),
entry.origin.clone(),
)
.of(WarningKind::Deprecated),
);
}
if written_key != meta.key {
// Both names: the key the user wrote, and the one it was read as.
resolved.warnings.push(Warning::at(
format!("{written_key} was read as {}", meta.key),
entry.origin.clone(),
));
resolved.warnings.push(
Warning::at(
format!("{written_key} was read as {}", meta.key),
entry.origin.clone(),
)
.of(WarningKind::Renamed),
);
}
let index = prop.index();
let merged = match meta.merge {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -384,6 +390,60 @@ mod tests {
];
const REGISTRY: Registry = Registry::new(PROPS);

#[test]
fn every_warning_says_what_sort_of_thing_it_is() {
// The message is for a person and its wording is nobody's contract. This is what a program
// acts on: mise queues its deprecations until logging is up while a bad value goes to stderr
// at once, a `--strict` mode exits on everything but a deprecation, and the conformance
// corpus pins what happened without pinning how it was said.
let ctx = LayerCtx::new(REGISTRY);
let file = Origin::file("hk.toml", FileScope::Project);

// Every kind this crate produces, from the place that produces it.
let unknown = ctx
.entry_for_key("nonesuch", "1", file.clone())
.expect_err("no such setting");
assert_eq!(unknown.kind, WarningKind::UnknownSetting);
let wrong = ctx
.entry_for_key("jobs", "lots", file.clone())
.expect_err("not a number");
assert_eq!(wrong.kind, WarningKind::WrongType);
let shaped = ctx
.entry_from_value("jobs", Value::from("lots"), file.clone())
.expect_err("still not a number");
assert_eq!(shaped.kind, WarningKind::WrongType);

// And the three the *merge* adds, which no layer can know about on its own: whether a place
// is allowed to set a setting, and what its name turned out to mean.
let layer = Fixed {
kind: SourceKind::FILE,
entries: vec![
Entry::new(id("trusted"), Value::Bool(true), file.clone()),
// The *unfolded* id, which is what a layer reading `Registry::ids` hands over —
// `lookup` folds a rename, so going through it could not reproduce the case.
Entry::new(raw_id("renamed_jobs"), Value::Int(8), file),
],
};
let resolved = resolve(REGISTRY, Layers::new().then(&layer)).expect("resolves");
let kinds: Vec<WarningKind> = resolved.warnings.iter().map(|w| w.kind).collect();
assert_eq!(
kinds,
vec![
WarningKind::OutOfScope,
WarningKind::Deprecated,
WarningKind::Renamed
],
"{:?}",
resolved.warnings
);

// A layer of the CLI's own says whatever it likes, and is not made to invent a kind for it.
assert_eq!(
Warning::new("the git config could not be read").kind,
WarningKind::Other
);
}

/// A layer holding whatever a test hands it.
struct Fixed {
kind: SourceKind,
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