From a6b455bbaecb42679e5d1ade51433d62ee21bd03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Nicolas B. Pierron" <nicolas.b.pierron@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 22:44:04 +0200
Subject: NixOS modules: Add error context on module arguments evaluation.

---
 lib/modules.nix | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/modules.nix')

diff --git a/lib/modules.nix b/lib/modules.nix
index 73dbdd371f61..ea600127617b 100644
--- a/lib/modules.nix
+++ b/lib/modules.nix
@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ rec {
     let
       toClosureList = file: parentKey: imap (n: x:
         if isAttrs x || isFunction x then
-          unifyModuleSyntax file "${parentKey}:anon-${toString n}" (unpackSubmodule applyIfFunction x args)
+          let key = "${parentKey}:anon-${toString n}"; in
+          unifyModuleSyntax file key (unpackSubmodule (applyIfFunction key) x args)
         else
-          unifyModuleSyntax (toString x) (toString x) (applyIfFunction (import x) args));
+          let file = toString x; key = toString x; in
+          unifyModuleSyntax file key (applyIfFunction key (import x) args));
     in
       builtins.genericClosure {
         startSet = toClosureList unknownModule "" modules;
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ rec {
         config = removeAttrs m ["key" "_file" "require" "imports"];
       };
 
-  applyIfFunction = f: arg@{ config, options, lib, ... }: if isFunction f then
+  applyIfFunction = key: f: args@{ config, options, lib, ... }: if isFunction f then
     let
       # Module arguments are resolved in a strict manner when attribute set
       # deconstruction is used.  As the arguments are now defined with the
@@ -137,11 +139,18 @@ rec {
       # not their values.  The values are forwarding the result of the
       # evaluation of the option.
       requiredArgs = builtins.attrNames (builtins.functionArgs f);
+      context = name: ''while evaluating the module argument `${name}' in "${key}":'';
       extraArgs = builtins.listToAttrs (map (name: {
         inherit name;
-        value = config._module.args.${name};
+        value = addErrorContext (context name)
+          (args.${name} or config._module.args.${name});
       }) requiredArgs);
-    in f (extraArgs // arg)
+
+      # Note: we append in the opposite order such that we can add an error
+      # context on the explicited arguments of "args" too. This update
+      # operator is used to make the "args@{ ... }: with args.lib;" notation
+      # works.
+    in f (args // extraArgs)
   else
     f;
 
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