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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-07-19T14·06+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-07-20T11·33+0200
commit57a30e101b36a064f09619bf4a3f0b8a3fdcdcad (patch)
treea9be7e2f1fc773ee7944d58be9b6593e26a10e88 /src/nix/search.cc
parentfc3568e2633bf3faa234509cfc6034be95f10b6e (diff)
nix search: Ignore top-level eval errors
$NIX_PATH may contain elements that don't evaluate to an attrset (like
"nixos-config"), so ignore those.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix/search.cc')
-rw-r--r--src/nix/search.cc9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/search.cc b/src/nix/search.cc
index 8aac06ad2cd3..970dcb9834b9 100644
--- a/src/nix/search.cc
+++ b/src/nix/search.cc
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
 
         auto jsonOut = json ? std::make_unique<JSONObject>(std::cout, true) : nullptr;
 
+        auto sToplevel = state->symbols.create("_toplevel");
+
         doExpr = [&](Value * v, std::string attrPath, bool toplevel) {
             debug("at attribute ‘%s’", attrPath);
 
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
                         if (j == attrs->end() || !state->forceBool(*j->value, *j->pos)) return;
                     }
 
-                    Bindings::iterator j = v->attrs->find(state->symbols.create("_toplevel"));
+                    Bindings::iterator j = v->attrs->find(sToplevel);
                     bool toplevel2 = j != v->attrs->end() && state->forceBool(*j->value, *j->pos);
 
                     for (auto & i : *v->attrs) {
@@ -134,6 +136,11 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
                 }
 
             } catch (AssertionError & e) {
+            } catch (Error & e) {
+                if (!toplevel) {
+                    e.addPrefix(fmt("While evaluating the attribute ‘%s’:\n", attrPath));
+                    throw;
+                }
             }
         };