# 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" => # second argument needs to be a valid subpath string append /foo /bar => append /foo "" => append /foo "/bar" => append /foo "../bar" => */ 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 on empty string subpath.normalise "" => # error on absolute path subpath.normalise "/foo" => */ 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); }