nushell/crates/nu-command
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Add merge deep command (#14525)
# Description
This PR adds the `merge deep` command. This allows you to merge nested
records and tables/lists within records together, instead of overwriting
them. The code for `merge` was reworked to support more general merging
of values, so `merge` and `merge deep` use the same underlying code.

`merge deep` mostly works like `merge`, except it recurses into inner
records which exist in both the input and argument rather than just
overwriting. For lists and by extension tables, `merge deep` has a
couple different strategies for merging inner lists, which can be
selected with the `--strategy` flag. These are:

- `table`: Merges tables element-wise, similarly to the merge command.
Non-table lists are not merged.
- `overwrite`: Lists and tables are overwritten with their corresponding
value from the argument, similarly to scalars.
- `append`: Lists and tables in the input are appended with the
corresponding list from the argument.
- `prepend`: Lists and tables in the input are prepended with the
corresponding list from the argument.

This can also be used with the new config changes to write a monolithic
record of _only_ the config values you want to change:
```nushell
# in config file:
const overrides = {
  history: {
    file_format: "sqlite",
    isolation: true
  }
}
# use append strategy for lists, e.g., menus keybindings
$env.config = $env.config | merge deep --strategy=append $overrides

# later, in REPL:
$env.config.history
# => ╭───────────────┬────────╮
# => │ max_size      │ 100000 │
# => │ sync_on_enter │ true   │
# => │ file_format   │ sqlite │
# => │ isolation     │ true   │
# => ╰───────────────┴────────╯
```

<details>
<summary>Performance details</summary>
For those interested, there was less than one standard deviation of
difference in startup time when setting each config item individually
versus using <code>merge deep</code>, so you can use <code>merge
deep</code> in your config at no measurable performance cost. Here's my
results:

My normal config (in 0.101 style, with each `$env.config.[...]` value
updated individually)
```nushell
bench --pretty { ./nu -l -c '' }
# => 45ms 976µs 983ns +/- 455µs 955ns
```

Equivalent config with a single `overrides` record and `merge deep -s
append`:
```nushell
bench --pretty { ./nu -l -c '' }
# => 45ms 587µs 428ns +/- 702µs 944ns
```

</details>

Huge thanks to @Bahex for designing the strategies API and helping
finish up this PR while I was sick ❤️

Related:  #12148

# User-Facing Changes

Adds the `merge deep` command to recursively merge records. For example:

```nushell
{a: {foo: 123 bar: "overwrite me"}, b: [1, 2, 3]} | merge deep {a: {bar: 456, baz: 789}, b: [4, 5, 6]}
# => ╭───┬───────────────╮
# => │   │ ╭─────┬─────╮ │
# => │ a │ │ foo │ 123 │ │
# => │   │ │ bar │ 456 │ │
# => │   │ │ baz │ 789 │ │
# => │   │ ╰─────┴─────╯ │
# => │   │ ╭───┬───╮     │
# => │ b │ │ 0 │ 4 │     │
# => │   │ │ 1 │ 5 │     │
# => │   │ │ 2 │ 6 │     │
# => │   │ ╰───┴───╯     │
# => ╰───┴───────────────╯
```

`merge deep` also has different strategies for merging inner lists and
tables. For example, you can use the `append` strategy to _merge_ the
inner `b` list instead of overwriting it.

```nushell
{a: {foo: 123 bar: "overwrite me"}, b: [1, 2, 3]} | merge deep --strategy=append {a: {bar: 456, baz: 789}, b: [4, 5, 6]}
# => ╭───┬───────────────╮
# => │   │ ╭─────┬─────╮ │
# => │ a │ │ foo │ 123 │ │
# => │   │ │ bar │ 456 │ │
# => │   │ │ baz │ 789 │ │
# => │   │ ╰─────┴─────╯ │
# => │   │ ╭───┬───╮     │
# => │ b │ │ 0 │ 1 │     │
# => │   │ │ 1 │ 2 │     │
# => │   │ │ 2 │ 3 │     │
# => │   │ │ 3 │ 4 │     │
# => │   │ │ 4 │ 5 │     │
# => │   │ │ 5 │ 6 │     │
# => │   │ ╰───┴───╯     │
# => ╰───┴───────────────╯
```

**Note to release notes writers**: Please credit @Bahex for this PR as
well 😄

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Added tests for deep merge

- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`

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Co-authored-by: Bahex <bahey1999@gmail.com>
2024-12-18 06:36:04 -06:00
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src Add merge deep command (#14525) 2024-12-18 06:36:04 -06:00
tests Add merge deep command (#14525) 2024-12-18 06:36:04 -06:00
Cargo.toml term query: refactor, add --beginning flag (#14446) 2024-12-01 20:02:48 -06:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907) 2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00

This crate contains the majority of our commands

We allow ourselves to move some of the commands in nu-command to nu-cmd-* crates as needed.

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