# Description
Our `ShellError` at the moment has a `std::mem::size_of<ShellError>` of
136 bytes (on AMD64). As a result `Value` directly storing the struct
also required 136 bytes (thanks to alignment requirements).
This change stores the `Value::Error` `ShellError` on the heap.
Pro:
- Value now needs just 80 bytes
- Should be 1 cacheline less (still at least 2 cachelines)
Con:
- More small heap allocations when dealing with `Value::Error`
- More heap fragmentation
- Potential for additional required memcopies
# Further code changes
Includes a small refactor of `try` due to a type mismatch in its large
match.
# User-Facing Changes
None for regular users.
Plugin authors may have to update their matches on `Value` if they use
`nu-protocol`
Needs benchmarking to see if there is a benefit in real world workloads.
**Update** small improvements in runtime for workloads with high volume
of values. Significant reduction in maximum resident set size, when many
values are held in memory.
# Tests + Formatting
# Description
The `ShellError` enum at the moment is kind of messy.
Many variants are basic tuple structs where you always have to reference
the implementation with its macro invocation to know which field serves
which purpose.
Furthermore we have both variants that are kind of redundant or either
overly broad to be useful for the user to match on or overly specific
with few uses.
So I set out to start fixing the lacking documentation and naming to
make it feasible to critically review the individual usages and fix
those.
Furthermore we can decide to join or split up variants that don't seem
to be fit for purpose.
Feel free to add review comments if you spot inconsistent use of
`ShellError` variants.
- Name fields on `ShellError::OperatorOverflow`
- Name fields on `ShellError::PipelineMismatch`
- Add doc to `ShellError::OnlySupportsThisInputType`
- Name `ShellError::OnlySupportsThisInputType`
- Name field on `ShellError::PipelineEmpty`
- Comment about issues with `TypeMismatch*`
- Fix a few `exp_input_type`s
- Name fields on `ShellError::InvalidRange`
# User-Facing Changes
(None now, end goal more explicit and consistent error messages)
# Tests + Formatting
(No additional tests needed so far)
# Description
_(Thank you for improving Nushell. Please, check our [contributing
guide](../CONTRIBUTING.md) and talk to the core team before making major
changes.)_
I opened this PR to unify the run command method. It's mainly to improve
consistency across the tree.
# User-Facing Changes
None.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
* I was dismayed to discover recently that UnsupportedInput and
TypeMismatch are used *extremely* inconsistently across the codebase.
UnsupportedInput is sometimes used for input type-checks (as per the
name!!), but *also* used for argument type-checks. TypeMismatch is also
used for both.
I thus devised the following standard: input type-checking *only* uses
UnsupportedInput, and argument type-checking *only* uses TypeMismatch.
Moreover, to differentiate them, UnsupportedInput now has *two* error
arrows (spans), one pointing at the command and the other at the input
origin, while TypeMismatch only has the one (because the command should
always be nearby)
* In order to apply that standard, a very large number of
UnsupportedInput uses were changed so that the input's span could be
retrieved and delivered to it.
* Additionally, I noticed many places where **errors are not propagated
correctly**: there are lots of `match` sites which take a Value::Error,
then throw it away and replace it with a new Value::Error with
less/misleading information (such as reporting the error as an
"incorrect type"). I believe that the earliest errors are the most
important, and should always be propagated where possible.
* Also, to standardise one broad subset of UnsupportedInput error
messages, who all used slightly different wordings of "expected
`<type>`, got `<type>`", I created OnlySupportsThisInputType as a
variant of it.
* Finally, a bunch of error sites that had "repeated spans" - i.e. where
an error expected two spans, but `call.head` was given for both - were
fixed to use different spans.
# Example
BEFORE
```
〉20b | str starts-with 'a'
Error: nu:🐚:unsupported_input (link)
× Unsupported input
╭─[entry #31:1:1]
1 │ 20b | str starts-with 'a'
· ┬
· ╰── Input's type is filesize. This command only works with strings.
╰────
〉'a' | math cos
Error: nu:🐚:unsupported_input (link)
× Unsupported input
╭─[entry #33:1:1]
1 │ 'a' | math cos
· ─┬─
· ╰── Only numerical values are supported, input type: String
╰────
〉0x[12] | encode utf8
Error: nu:🐚:unsupported_input (link)
× Unsupported input
╭─[entry #38:1:1]
1 │ 0x[12] | encode utf8
· ───┬──
· ╰── non-string input
╰────
```
AFTER
```
〉20b | str starts-with 'a'
Error: nu:🐚:pipeline_mismatch (link)
× Pipeline mismatch.
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ 20b | str starts-with 'a'
· ┬ ───────┬───────
· │ ╰── only string input data is supported
· ╰── input type: filesize
╰────
〉'a' | math cos
Error: nu:🐚:pipeline_mismatch (link)
× Pipeline mismatch.
╭─[entry #2:1:1]
1 │ 'a' | math cos
· ─┬─ ────┬───
· │ ╰── only numeric input data is supported
· ╰── input type: string
╰────
〉0x[12] | encode utf8
Error: nu:🐚:pipeline_mismatch (link)
× Pipeline mismatch.
╭─[entry #3:1:1]
1 │ 0x[12] | encode utf8
· ───┬── ───┬──
· │ ╰── only string input data is supported
· ╰── input type: binary
╰────
```
# User-Facing Changes
Various error messages suddenly make more sense (i.e. have two arrows
instead of one).
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
