nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/dhall-to-nix.nix
Gabriel Gonzalez c791c0fd16 Add a pkgs.dhallToNix utility
This adds a `dhallToNix` utility which compiles expression from the Dhall
configuration language to Nix using Nix's support for "import from derivation".
The main motivation of this compiler is to allow users to carve out small typed
subsets of Nix projects.  Everything in the Dhall language (except `Double`s)
can be translated to Nix in this way, including functions.
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/* `dhallToNix` is a utility function to convert expressions in the Dhall
configuration language to their corresponding Nix expressions.
Example:
dhallToNix "{ foo = 1, bar = True }"
=> { foo = 1; bar = true; }
dhallToNix "λ(x : Bool) x == False"
=> x : x == false
dhallToNix "λ(x : Bool) x == False" false
=> true
See https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-nix/docs/Dhall-Nix.html for
a longer tutorial
Note that this uses "import from derivation", meaning that Nix will perform
a build during the evaluation phase if you use this `dhallToNix` utility
*/
{ stdenv, dhall-nix }:
let
dhallToNix = code :
let
file = builtins.toFile "dhall-expression" code;
drv = stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "dhall-compiled.nix";
buildCommand = ''
dhall-to-nix <<< "${file}" > $out
'';
buildInputs = [ dhall-nix ];
};
in
import "${drv}";
in
dhallToNix