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2022-01-31 r/3723 style: format entire depot with nixpkgs-fmtVincent Ambo1-17/+26
This CL can be used to compare the style of nixpkgs-fmt against other formatters (nixpkgs, alejandra). Change-Id: I87c6abff6bcb546b02ead15ad0405f81e01b6d9e Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/4397 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Reviewed-by: lukegb <lukegb@tvl.fyi> Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de> Reviewed-by: kanepyork <rikingcoding@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> Reviewed-by: cynthia <cynthia@tvl.fyi> Reviewed-by: edef <edef@edef.eu> Reviewed-by: eta <tvl@eta.st> Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
2021-04-20 r/2526 fix(bubblegum): import lib from the new correct placesterni1-1/+1
Since cl/2910 depot has no lib attribute anymore. Import it from the depot fix point via depot.third_party.nixpkgs.lib to avoid passing another argument and enlargening the shebang further. Change-Id: I3c719eba38a5ceb36689ebf0409bd19d4f46a609 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/3050 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2021-04-05 r/2439 feat(web/bubblegum): allow passing status as an intsterni1-4/+4
The whole pass the name of the status as a string thing was mostly born out of an overeager use of yants. It is still very neat especially for common cases like "OK", so we'll keep it, but also allow passing the integer variant of the status as well which probably feels more natural for a lot of people, especially over getting the casing right for "I'm a teapot". Change-Id: I3f012a291447ef385efdd28132292a8b331998c0 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/2850 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2021-04-01 r/2394 feat(web/bubblegum): nix CGI programming frameworksterni1-0/+134
So here is what has been keeping me up at night: At some point I realized that nix actually made a somewhat passable language for CGI programming: * That `builtins.getEnv` exists as one of the impurities of Nix is perfect as environment variables are the main way of communication from the web server to the CGI application. * We can actually read from the filesystem via builtins.readDir and builtins.readFile with bearable overhead if we avoid importing the used paths into the nix store. * Templating and routing are convenient to implement via indented strings and attribute sets respectively. Of course there are obvious limitation: * The overhead of derivations is probably much to great for them to be useful via IfD. * Even without derivations, nix evaluation is very slow to the point were a trivial application takes between 100ms and 400ms to produce a response. * We can't really cause effects other than producing a response which makes it not viable for a lot of applications. There are some ways around this: * With a custom interpreter we could have streaming and multiplexed I/O (using lazy lists emulated via attrsets) to cause such effects, but it would probably perform terribly. * We can use builtins.fetchurl to call other HTTP-based microservices, but only in very limited constraints, i. e. only GET, no headers, and only if the tarball ttl is set to 0 in the global nix.conf. * Terrible error handling capabilities because builtins.tryEval actually doesn't catch a lot of errors. To prove that it actually works, there are some demo applications, which I invite you to run and potentially break horribly: nix-build -A web.bubblegum.examples && ./result # navigate to http://localhost:9000 The setup uses thttpd and executes the nix CGI scripts using users.sterni.nint which automatically passed `depot`, so they can import the cgi library. Change-Id: I3a22a749612211627e5f8301c31ec2e7a872812c Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/2746 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>