Unverified Commit 3e5af839 authored by Robert Hensing's avatar Robert Hensing Committed by GitHub
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lib.types.submodule: Disable check during docs generation (#396907)

parents 0ba0e241 e09cf9f0

lib/tests/misc.nix

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@@ -2830,6 +2830,42 @@ runTests { 
    expected = "unknown";

  };



  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/396849

  "test: submodule definitions aren't unchecked when evaluating submodule documentation" = {

    expr =

      let

        module =

          { lib, ... }:

          {

            options.foo = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.submodule submodule; };

          };



        submodule = {

          options.bar = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.int; };

          config.submoduleWrong = throw "yikes";

        };



        options = (evalModules { modules = [ module ]; }).options;



        renderableOpts = filter (o: !o.internal) (optionAttrSetToDocList options);

        # Evaluate the whole docs

      in

      builtins.deepSeq renderableOpts

        # Return the locations

        (map (o: o.loc) renderableOpts);

    expected = [

      [

        "_module"

        "args"

      ]

      [ "foo" ]

      [

        "foo"

        "bar"

      ]

    ];

  };



  testFreeformOptions = {

    expr =

      let

lib/types.nix

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@@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ let 
      unparenthesize: t:

      if unparenthesize (t.descriptionClass or null) then t.description else "(${t.description})";



    noCheckForDocsModule = {

      # When generating documentation, our goal isn't to check anything.

      # Quite the opposite in fact. Generating docs is somewhat of a

      # challenge, evaluating modules in a *lacking* context. Anything

      # that makes the docs avoid an error is a win.

      config._module.check = lib.mkForce false;

      _file = "<built-in module that disables checks for the purpose of documentation generation>";

    };



    # When adding new types don't forget to document them in

    # nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.section.md!

    types = rec {
@@ -1209,7 +1218,14 @@ let 
        in

        mkOptionType {

          inherit name;

          description = if description != null then description else freeformType.description or name;

          description =

            if description != null then

              description

            else

              let

                docsEval = base.extendModules { modules = [ noCheckForDocsModule ]; };

              in

              docsEval._module.freeformType.description or name;

          check = x: isAttrs x || isFunction x || path.check x;

          merge =

            loc: defs:
@@ -1222,7 +1238,18 @@ let 
          };

          getSubOptions =

            prefix:

            (base.extendModules { inherit prefix; }).options

            let

              docsEval = (

                base.extendModules {

                  inherit prefix;

                  modules = [ noCheckForDocsModule ];

                }

              );

              # Intentionally shadow the freeformType from the possibly *checked*

              # configuration. See `noCheckForDocsModule` comment.

              inherit (docsEval._module) freeformType;

            in

            docsEval.options

            // optionalAttrs (freeformType != null) {

              # Expose the sub options of the freeform type. Note that the option

              # discovery doesn't care about the attribute name used here, so this