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
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Maximilian Bosch 2020-07-21 23:38:18 +02:00
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@ -106,7 +106,14 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>internal-json</term>
<listitem><para>Outputs the logs in a structured manner. NOTE: the json schema is not guarantees to be stable between releases.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Outputs the logs in a structured manner.</para>
<warning>
<para>
While the schema itself is relatively stable, the format of the error-messages (namely of the <literal>msg</literal>-field) can change between several releases.
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>bar</term>

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@ -184,6 +184,33 @@ struct JSONLogger : Logger {
json["action"] = "msg";
json["level"] = ei.level;
json["msg"] = oss.str();
json["raw_msg"] = ei.hint->str();
if (ei.errPos.has_value() && (*ei.errPos)) {
json["line"] = ei.errPos->line;
json["column"] = ei.errPos->column;
json["file"] = ei.errPos->file;
} else {
json["line"] = nullptr;
json["column"] = nullptr;
json["file"] = nullptr;
}
if (loggerSettings.showTrace.get() && !ei.traces.empty()) {
nlohmann::json traces = nlohmann::json::array();
for (auto iter = ei.traces.rbegin(); iter != ei.traces.rend(); ++iter) {
nlohmann::json stackFrame;
stackFrame["raw_msg"] = iter->hint.str();
if (iter->pos.has_value() && (*iter->pos)) {
stackFrame["line"] = iter->pos->line;
stackFrame["column"] = iter->pos->column;
stackFrame["file"] = iter->pos->file;
}
traces.push_back(stackFrame);
}
json["trace"] = traces;
}
write(json);
}

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@ -34,6 +34,24 @@ namespace nix {
}
}
TEST(logEI, jsonOutput) {
SymbolTable testTable;
auto problem_file = testTable.create("random.nix");
testing::internal::CaptureStderr();
makeJSONLogger(*logger)->logEI({
.name = "error name",
.description = "error without any code lines.",
.hint = hintfmt("this hint has %1% templated %2%!!",
"yellow",
"values"),
.errPos = Pos(foFile, problem_file, 02, 13)
});
auto str = testing::internal::GetCapturedStderr();
ASSERT_STREQ(str.c_str(), "\x1B[31;1merror:\x1B[0m\x1B[34;1m --- SysError --- error-unit-test\x1B[0m\nopening file '\x1B[33;1mrandom.nix\x1B[0m': \x1B[33;1mNo such file or directory\x1B[0m\n@nix {\"action\":\"msg\",\"column\":13,\"file\":\"random.nix\",\"level\":0,\"line\":2,\"msg\":\"\\u001b[31;1merror:\\u001b[0m\\u001b[34;1m --- error name --- error-unit-test\\u001b[0m\\n\\u001b[34;1mat: \\u001b[33;1m(2:13)\\u001b[34;1m in file: \\u001b[0mrandom.nix\\n\\nerror without any code lines.\\n\\nthis hint has \\u001b[33;1myellow\\u001b[0m templated \\u001b[33;1mvalues\\u001b[0m!!\",\"raw_msg\":\"this hint has \\u001b[33;1myellow\\u001b[0m templated \\u001b[33;1mvalues\\u001b[0m!!\"}\n");
}
TEST(logEI, appendingHintsToPreviousError) {
MakeError(TestError, Error);