nushell/tests
Devyn Cairns f6faf73e02
Allow plugins to set environment variables in their caller's scope (#12204)
# Description

Adds the `AddEnvVar` plugin call, which allows plugins to set
environment variables in the caller's scope. This is the first engine
call that mutates the caller's stack, and opens the door to more
operations like this if needed.

This also comes with an extra benefit: in doing this, I needed to
refactor how context was handled, and I was able to avoid cloning
`EngineInterface` / `Stack` / `Call` in most cases that plugin calls are
used. They now only need to be cloned if the plugin call returns a
stream. The performance increase is welcome (5.5x faster on `inc`!):

```nushell
# Before
> timeit { 1..100 | each { |i| $"2.0.($i)" | inc -p } }
405ms 941µs 952ns
# After
> timeit { 1..100 | each { |i| $"2.0.($i)" | inc -p } }
73ms 68µs 749ns
```

# User-Facing Changes
- New engine call: `add_env_var()`
- Performance enhancement for plugin calls

# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`

# After Submitting
- [x] Document env manipulation in plugins guide
- [x] Document `AddEnvVar` in plugin protocol
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assets/nu_json Remove old nushell/merge engine-q 2022-02-07 14:54:06 -05:00
const_ Fix const string interpolation test (#12038) 2024-03-01 16:35:07 -08:00
eval Exit early when encountering parsing errors (#10213) 2023-09-05 14:36:37 +02:00
fixtures Update tests Playground (#12134) 2024-03-08 20:31:21 -08:00
hooks Auto-expand table based on terminal width (#9934) 2023-08-08 05:47:23 -05:00
modules Evaluate string interpolation at parse time (#11562) 2024-01-22 09:13:48 +02:00
overlays Fix overlay_use_main_not_exported hanging when an external spam command exists (#11261) 2023-12-08 06:08:38 -06:00
parsing Forbid reserved variable names for function arguments (#11169) 2023-11-29 18:29:07 +01:00
path change canonicalize test use a more deeply rooted folder (#10685) 2023-10-11 11:27:25 -05:00
plugin_persistence More robustness improvements to plugin persistence tests (#12185) 2024-03-13 06:43:17 -05:00
plugins Allow plugins to set environment variables in their caller's scope (#12204) 2024-03-15 06:45:45 -05:00
scope add $.extra_usage to modules (#11649) 2024-01-27 17:49:21 +02:00
shell IO and redirection overhaul (#11934) 2024-03-14 15:51:55 -05:00
main.rs Keep plugins persistently running in the background (#12064) 2024-03-09 17:10:22 -06:00