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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-17 15:40:06 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-17 15:40:06 +0200
commit2cf0ea0dbbd5a43a62dadb81948ee29898585dd7 (patch)
tree742b2ea6f4f270f93dd1f0b2acda4ba14a5f806d
parent8aaaae38a37f806a62284c6bce116586d8b66b87 (diff)
downloadguix-2cf0ea0dbbd5a43a62dadb81948ee29898585dd7.tar.gz
gexp: Gracefully handle printing of gexps with spliced references.
* guix/gexp.scm (write-gexp): Wrap 'write' call in
  'false-if-exception'.
* tests/gexp.scm ("printer", "printer vs. ungexp-splicing"): New tests.
-rw-r--r--guix/gexp.scm7
-rw-r--r--tests/gexp.scm18
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index 260118affa..c9f6cbe99a 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@
 (define (write-gexp gexp port)
   "Write GEXP on PORT."
   (display "#<gexp " port)
-  (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port)
+
+  ;; Try to write the underlying sexp.  Now, this trick doesn't work when
+  ;; doing things like (ungexp-splicing (gexp ())) because GEXP's procedure
+  ;; tries to use 'append' on that, which fails with wrong-type-arg.
+  (false-if-exception
+   (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port))
   (format port " ~a>"
           (number->string (object-address gexp) 16)))
 
diff --git a/tests/gexp.scm b/tests/gexp.scm
index b0ff1019e6..6d4885e44e 100644
--- a/tests/gexp.scm
+++ b/tests/gexp.scm
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-64)
   #:use-module (rnrs io ports)
   #:use-module (ice-9 match)
+  #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
   #:use-module (ice-9 popen))
 
 ;; Test the (guix gexp) module.
@@ -247,6 +248,23 @@
       (return (and (zero? (close-pipe pipe))
                    (= (expt n 2) (string->number str)))))))
 
+(test-assert "printer"
+  (string-match "^#<gexp \\(string-append .*#<package coreutils.*\
+ \"/bin/uname\"\\) [[:xdigit:]]+>$"
+                (with-output-to-string
+                  (lambda ()
+                    (write
+                     (gexp (string-append (ungexp coreutils)
+                                          "/bin/uname")))))))
+
+(test-assert "printer vs. ungexp-splicing"
+  (string-match "^#<gexp .* [[:xdigit:]]+>$"
+                (with-output-to-string
+                  (lambda ()
+                    ;; #~(begin #$@#~())
+                    (write
+                     (gexp (begin (ungexp-splicing (gexp ())))))))))
+
 (test-equal "sugar"
   '(gexp (foo (ungexp bar) (ungexp baz "out")
               (ungexp (chbouib 42))