Add builtins.hashFile

For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.

With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.

9 files changed, 39 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index 0fb5261b384c..a87639a075a5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -705,6 +705,19 @@ builtins.genList (x: x * x) 5
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id='builtin-hashFile'>
+    <term><function>builtins.hashFile</function>
+    <replaceable>type</replaceable> <replaceable>p</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Return a base-16 representation of the
+    cryptographic hash of the file at path <replaceable>p</replaceable>.  The
+    hash algorithm specified by <replaceable>type</replaceable> must
+    be one of <literal>"md5"</literal>, <literal>"sha1"</literal>,
+    <literal>"sha256"</literal> or <literal>"sha512"</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
   <varlistentry xml:id='builtin-head'>
     <term><function>builtins.head</function>
     <replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 39073725e9c4..06f577f36fce 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -923,6 +923,20 @@ static void prim_findFile(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Va
     mkPath(v, state.checkSourcePath(state.findFile(searchPath, path, pos)).c_str());
 }
 
+/* Return the cryptographic hash of a file in base-16. */
+static void prim_hashFile(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value & v)
+{
+    string type = state.forceStringNoCtx(*args[0], pos);
+    HashType ht = parseHashType(type);
+    if (ht == htUnknown)
+      throw Error(format("unknown hash type '%1%', at %2%") % type % pos);
+
+    PathSet context; // discarded
+    Path p = state.coerceToPath(pos, *args[1], context);
+
+    mkString(v, hashFile(ht, state.checkSourcePath(p)).to_string(Base16, false), context);
+}
+
 /* Read a directory (without . or ..) */
 static void prim_readDir(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value & v)
 {
@@ -2202,6 +2216,7 @@ void EvalState::createBaseEnv()
     addPrimOp("__readFile", 1, prim_readFile);
     addPrimOp("__readDir", 1, prim_readDir);
     addPrimOp("__findFile", 2, prim_findFile);
+    addPrimOp("__hashFile", 2, prim_hashFile);
 
     // Creating files
     addPrimOp("__toXML", 1, prim_toXML);
diff --git a/tests/lang/binary-data b/tests/lang/binary-data
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..06d740502001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/binary-data
Binary files differdiff --git a/tests/lang/eval-fail-hashfile-missing.nix b/tests/lang/eval-fail-hashfile-missing.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42fb1ec7ed8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-fail-hashfile-missing.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+let
+  paths = [ ./this-file-is-definitely-not-there-7392097 "/and/neither/is/this/37293620" ];
+in
+  builtins.concatLists (map (hash: map (builtins.hashFile hash) paths) ["md5" "sha1" "sha256" "sha512"])
+
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.exp
index d720a082ddb3..e69de29bb2d1 100644
--- a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.exp
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.exp
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-[ "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" "6c69ee7f211c640419d5366cc076ae46" "bb3438fbabd460ea6dbd27d153e2233b" "da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709" "cd54e8568c1b37cf1e5badb0779bcbf382212189" "6d12e10b1d331dad210e47fd25d4f260802b7e77" "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855" "900a4469df00ccbfd0c145c6d1e4b7953dd0afafadd7534e3a4019e8d38fc663" "ad0387b3bd8652f730ca46d25f9c170af0fd589f42e7f23f5a9e6412d97d7e56" "cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e" "9d0886f8c6b389398a16257bc79780fab9831c7fc11c8ab07fa732cb7b348feade382f92617c9c5305fefba0af02ab5fd39a587d330997ff5bd0db19f7666653" "21644b72aa259e5a588cd3afbafb1d4310f4889680f6c83b9d531596a5a284f34dbebff409d23bcc86aee6bad10c891606f075c6f4755cb536da27db5693f3a7" ]
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff1e8293ef22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.exp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[ "d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00" "0f343b0931126a20f133d67c2b018a3b" "f1d2d2f924e986ac86fdf7b36c94bcdf32beec15" "60cacbf3d72e1e7834203da608037b1bf83b40e8" "b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c" "5f70bf18a086007016e948b04aed3b82103a36bea41755b6cddfaf10ace3c6ef" "0cf9180a764aba863a67b6d72f0918bc131c6772642cb2dce5a34f0a702f9470ddc2bf125c12198b1995c233c34b4afd346c54a2334c350a948a51b6e8b4e6b6" "8efb4f73c5655351c444eb109230c556d39e2c7624e9c11abc9e3fb4b9b9254218cc5085b454a9698d085cfa92198491f07a723be4574adc70617b73eb0b6461" ]
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aff5a1856814
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashfile.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+let
+  paths = [ ./data ./binary-data ];
+in
+  builtins.concatLists (map (hash: map (builtins.hashFile hash) paths) ["md5" "sha1" "sha256" "sha512"])
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashstring.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashstring.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d720a082ddb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashstring.exp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[ "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" "6c69ee7f211c640419d5366cc076ae46" "bb3438fbabd460ea6dbd27d153e2233b" "da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709" "cd54e8568c1b37cf1e5badb0779bcbf382212189" "6d12e10b1d331dad210e47fd25d4f260802b7e77" "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855" "900a4469df00ccbfd0c145c6d1e4b7953dd0afafadd7534e3a4019e8d38fc663" "ad0387b3bd8652f730ca46d25f9c170af0fd589f42e7f23f5a9e6412d97d7e56" "cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e" "9d0886f8c6b389398a16257bc79780fab9831c7fc11c8ab07fa732cb7b348feade382f92617c9c5305fefba0af02ab5fd39a587d330997ff5bd0db19f7666653" "21644b72aa259e5a588cd3afbafb1d4310f4889680f6c83b9d531596a5a284f34dbebff409d23bcc86aee6bad10c891606f075c6f4755cb536da27db5693f3a7" ]
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashstring.nix
index b0f62b245ca8..b0f62b245ca8 100644
--- a/tests/lang/eval-okay-hash.nix
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-hashstring.nix