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libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable
The new error-format is pretty nice from a UX point-of-view, however
it's fairly hard to parse the output e.g. for editor plugins such as
vim-ale[1] that use `nix-instantiate --parse` to determine syntax errors in
Nix expression files.

This patch extends the `internal-json` logger by adding the fields
`line`, `column` and `file` to easily locate an error in a file and the
field `raw_msg` which contains the error-message itself without
code-lines and additional helpers.

An exemplary output may look like this:

```
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix-instantiate ~/test.nix --log-format minimal
{"action":"msg","column":1,"file":"/home/ma27/test.nix","level":0,"line":4,"raw_msg":"syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting $end","msg":"<full error-msg with code-lines etc>"}
```

[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
.github add temp CI job to test syspolicy impact 2020-07-08 20:10:22 -05:00
config update config/config.{sub,guess} 2018-08-13 20:00:17 +00:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs Move call-flake.nix into libexpr 2020-03-11 17:04:51 +01:00
doc/manual libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable 2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers upload-release.pl: Update latest-release branch 2020-07-08 17:01:20 +02:00
misc Fix completion script install name 2020-06-04 13:37:37 +02:00
mk Shorten the path to the test root 2020-07-03 09:20:01 +02:00
nix-rust make check: Run unit tests 2020-05-08 11:49:40 +02:00
perl Remove 'accessor' from addToStore() 2020-07-13 18:31:19 +02:00
scripts Add newline to profile sourcing line #3393 2020-07-18 10:24:22 -05:00
src libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable 2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
tests Test relative store paths 2020-07-17 15:50:53 -04:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Add src/libutil/tests/libutil-tests to .gitignore 2020-06-04 21:05:41 +00:00
.version Bump version 2019-09-04 15:59:33 +02:00
bootstrap.sh
configure.ac Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-05-28 12:55:24 +02:00
COPYING
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2020-06-09 11:24:06 +02:00
flake.nix Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-06-17 10:26:52 +02:00
local.mk Remove global -I flags 2020-03-30 15:30:19 +02:00
Makefile Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-06-17 10:26:52 +02:00
Makefile.config.in fix make's impurity on /bin/sh 2020-07-18 08:05:36 +01:00
precompiled-headers.h precompiled-headers.h: Don't include our own headers 2020-05-04 22:40:02 +02:00
README.md README: improve development docs 2020-07-20 15:46:28 +01:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

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