dhall

A configuration language guaranteed to terminate

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LTS Haskell 22.39:1.42.1@rev:1
Stackage Nightly 2023-12-26:1.42.1
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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Gabriel Gonzalez
Maintained by [email protected]
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Module documentation for 1.19.1

Dhall is an explicitly typed configuration language that is not Turing complete. Despite being Turing incomplete, Dhall is a real programming language with a type-checker and evaluator.

Use this library to parse, type-check, evaluate, and pretty-print the Dhall configuration language. This package also includes an executable which type-checks a Dhall file and reduces the file to a fully evaluated normal form.

Read Dhall.Tutorial to learn how to use this library

Changes

1.19.1

1.19.0

1.18.0

1.17.0

1.16.1

  • Fix test failure due to missing test data file

1.16.0

1.15.1

1.15.0

1.14.0

1.13.1

  • Increase upper bound on ansi-terminal and megaparsec

1.13.0

1.12.0

1.11.1

1.11.0

1.10.0

1.9.1

1.9.0

1.8.2

  • Add typeWithA for type-checking custom Embedded values
  • Fix dhall{,-*} executables to ignore ambient locale and use UTF8
  • Increase upper bound on tasty dependency

1.8.1

  • dhall executable can now format output using --pretty
  • Improved Unicode suppport on Windows

1.8.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE TO LANGUAGE: Add support for import integrity checks
    • In practice, the likelihood of this breaking code in the wild is astronomically low
    • This would only break code of the form sha256:aaa...aaa (i.e. a variabled named sha256 with a type annotation for a type with a name 64 characters long drawn from the first 6 characters of the alphabet)
  • BUG FIX: Fix parsing of single quotes in single-quoted strings
  • BUG FIX: Fix superfluous parentheses introduced by dhall-format
  • New dhall-hash executable
    • This goes hand-in-hand with the added support for integrity checks since the executable lets you compute the current hash of an import

1.7.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE TO LANGUAGE: Update parser to match standardized grammar
    • Trailing commas and bars no longer supported for union and record literals
    • Paths no longer permit commas
    • URL grammar is now RFC-compliant
    • Environment variables can now be quoted to support full range of POSIX-compliant names
    • Text literals support full set of JSON escape sequences (such as \u2192)
  • BREAKING CHANGE TO LANGUAGE: Single quoted strings strip leading newlines
  • BUG FIX: Fixed type-checking infinite loops due to non-type-checked variables in context
  • BUG FIX: Fixed type-checking bug due to missing context when type-checking certain expressions
  • BUG FIX: Fixed type-checking bug due to off-by-one errors in name shadowing logic
  • New dhall-format executable to automatically format code
  • Performance optimizations to Natural/fold and List/fold
  • Improved parsing performance (over 3x faster)
  • Union literals can now specify the set value anywhere in the literal
    • i.e. < A : Integer | B = False | C : Text >
  • New Inject instance for ()
  • Several tutorial fixes and improvements

1.6.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE API: Drop support for GHC 7.*
  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE API: Add support for customizing Dhall import
    • This is a breaking change because this changes the type of loadWith
  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE API: Add field to UnboundVariable error containing
  • BUG FIX: Fix parsing single quotes in string literals the name of the unbound variable
  • Add List/concatMap to the Prelude
  • You can now derive Inject and Interpret for types with unlabeled fields
  • Add new instances for Interpret:
    • []
    • (,)
  • Add new instance for Inject
    • [], Data.Set.Set, Data.Sequence.Seq
    • (,)
    • Int, Word8, Word16, Word32, Word64
  • Add Eq instance for Src

1.5.1

  • Increase upper bound on vector and optparse-generic

1.5.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Add list concatenation operator: (#)
    • This is a breaking change because it adds a new constructor to the Expr type which breaks exhaustive pattern matches
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Add Interpret support for lazy Text
    • This is a breaking change because it renames text to strictText
  • Add Interpret instance for decoding (a limited subset of) Dhall functions
  • Dhall no longer requires Template Haskell to compile
    • This helps with cross-compilation
  • Add rawInput utility for decoding a Haskell value from the Expr type
  • Add loadWith/normalizeWith utilities for normalizing/importing modules with a custom context
  • Export Type constructor

1.4.2

  • Fix missing Prelude files in package archive uploaded to Hackage

1.4.1

  • Fix missing tests/Tutorial.hs module in package archive uploaded to Hackage

1.4.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE LANGUAGE AND API: You can now supply custom headers for URL imports with the new using keyword
    • This is a breaking change to the language because this adds a new reserved using keyword
    • This is a breaking change to the API because this adds a new field to the URL constructor to store optional custom headers
  • BUG FIX: : is no longer a disallowed path character
    • This was breaking URL imports with a port
  • BUG FIX: If you import a home-anchored path (i.e. ~/foo) and that imports a relative path (like ./bar), then the canonical path of the relative import should be home-anchored (i.e. ~/bar). However, there was a bug that made lose the home anchor (i.e. ./foo/bar), which this release fixes likely fail due to no longer being home-anchored (i.e. `./foob
  • Add support for string interpolation
  • merge no longer requires a type annotation if you are merging at least one alternative
  • Expanded Prelude
    • ./Prelude/Optional/all
    • ./Prelude/Optional/any
    • ./Prelude/Optional/filter
    • ./Prelude/Optional/length
    • ./Prelude/Optional/null
    • ./Prelude/Text/concatMap
    • ./Prelude/Text/concatMapSep
    • ./Prelude/Text/concatSep
  • Rearrange detailed error messages to put summary information at the bottom of the message

1.3.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE API: Add support for new primitives, specifically:
    • (//) - Right-biased and shallow record merge
    • Optional/build (now a built-in in order to support build/fold fusion)
    • Natural/show
    • Integer/show
    • Double/show
    • Natural/toInteger
    • These all add new constructors to the Expr type, which would break exhaustive pattern matches
  • BREAKING CHANGE TO THE LANGUAGE: Imported paths and URLs no longer support the characters: “()[]{}<>:”
    • This reduces the number of cases where you have to add a space after imports
    • Note that this does not exclude the : in the URL scheme (i.e. http://)
  • Increase connection timeout for imports
  • Variable names now allow the - character for all but the first character
  • You can now escape identifiers with backticks
    • This lets you name identifiers so that they don’t conflict with reserved key words
    • This is most useful when converting Dhall to other file formats (like JSON) where you might need to emit a field that conflicts with one of Dhall’s reserved keywords
  • New --version flag for the dhall executable

1.2.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Add support for customizing derived Interpret instances
    • This is a breaking change to the Dhall library API since this changes the signature of the Interpret class by replacing the auto method with a more general autoWith method. This autoWith now takes an InterpretOptions argument that lets you customize derived field and constuctor names
    • In practice user programs that use the common path will be unaffected by this change
    • This is not a breaking change to the Dhall language
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Type annotations now bind more tightly than lambda abstraction

    • This is a breaking change to the Dhall language. An expression like this:

      λ(x : A) → y : B

      … used to parenthesized implicitly as:

      (λ(x : A) → y) : T

      … but is now parenthesized implicitly as:

      λ(x : A) → (y : T)

      This is now consistent with Haskell’s precedence and also consistent with the precedence of List and Optional type annotations

    • This change affects programs with an expression like this:

      -- Assuming that `y : B`
λ(x : A) → y : A → B

      The above program would type-check before this change but not type-check after this change. You would you need to fix the above program by either changing the type signature to annotate just the type of y like this:

      λ(x : A) → y : B

      … or by adding explicit parentheses like this:

      (λ(x : A) → y) : A → B

    • This is not a breaking change to the Dhall library API

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Add support for importing a path’s contents as raw Text by adding as Text after the import

    • This is a breaking change to the Dhall language

    • This is technically a breaking change, but is extremely unlikely to affect you program. This only changes the behavior of old programs that had an expression of the form:

      /some/imported/function as Text

      … where /some/imported/function is an imported function being applied to two arguments, the first of which is a bound variable named as and the second of which is the type Text

    • This is not a breaking change to the Dhall library API

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Add support for importing environment variables using env:VAR syntax

    • This is a breaking change to the Dhall library API since it adds a new Path constructor

    • This also technically a breaking change to the Dhall language but extremely unlikely to affect your program. This only changes the behavior of old programs that had an expression of the form:

      env:VAR

      … where env was the name of a bound variable and :VAR was a type annotation without spaces around the type annotation operator

      After this change the program would be interpreted as an import of the contents for the environment variable named VAR

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Support importing paths relative to home directory using ~/some/path syntax
    • This is a breaking change to the Dhall library API since it adds a new field to the File constructor indicating whether or not the imported path is relative to the home directory
    • This is not a breaking change to the Dhall language and the new syntax does not override any old syntax
  • Permit trailing commas and bars in record/union syntax
  • Improve location information for parsing errors

1.1.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Non-empty lists no longer require a type annotation
    • This is a breaking change to the Haskell library, not the Dhall language
    • This change does not break existing Dhall programs
    • The Expr type was modified in a non-backwards-compatible way
  • Add new exprA parser
  • Add new InvalidType exception if input fails on an invalid Type
  • Improve documentation and tutorial

1.0.2

  • Add support for Nix-style “double single-quote” multi-line string literals
  • Add isNormalized
  • Improve documentation and tutorial
  • Build against wider range of http-client versions

1.0.1

  • Initial release

1.0.0

  • Accidental premature upload to Hackage. This release was blacklisted