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# HLint configuration file
# https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint
# Run `hlint --default` to see the example configuration file.
##########################

# WARNING: These need to be synced with the default-extensions field
# in the cabal file.
- arguments: [-XGHC2021, -XOverloadedRecordDot]

# Ignore some builtin hints

# often functions are more readable with explicit arguments
- ignore: { name: Eta reduce }

# these redundancy warnings are just completely irrelevant
- ignore: { name: Redundant bracket }
- ignore: { name: Move brackets to avoid $ }
- ignore: { name: Redundant $ }
- ignore: { name: Redundant do }
- ignore: { name: Redundant multi-way if }

# allow case-matching on bool, because why not
- ignore: { name: Use if }

# hlint cannot distinguish actual newtypes from data types
# that accidentally have only one field
# (but might have more in the future).
# Since it’s a mostly irrelevant runtime optimization, we don’t care.
- ignore: { name: Use newtype instead of data }

# these lead to harder-to-read/more implicit code
- ignore: { name: Use fmap }
- ignore: { name: Use <$> }
- ignore: { name: Use tuple-section }
- ignore: { name: Use forM_ }
- ignore: { name: Functor law }
# fst and snd are usually a code smell and should be explicit matches, _naming the ignored side.
- ignore: { name: Use fst }
- ignore: { name: Use snd }
- ignore: { name: Use fromMaybe }
- ignore: { name: Use const }
- ignore: { name: Replace case with maybe }
- ignore: { name: Replace case with fromMaybe }
- ignore: { name: Avoid lambda }
- ignore: { name: Avoid lambda using `infix` }
- ignore: { name: Use curry }
- ignore: { name: Use uncurry }
- ignore: { name: Use first }
- ignore: { name: Redundant first }
- ignore: { name: Use second }
- ignore: { name: Use bimap }
# just use `not x`
- ignore: { name: Use unless }
- ignore: { name: Redundant <&> }

# list comprehensions are a seldomly used part of the Haskell language
# and they introduce syntactic overhead that is usually not worth the conciseness
- ignore: { name: Use list comprehension }

# Seems to be buggy in cases
- ignore: { name: Use section }

# multiple maps in a row are usually used for clarity,
# and the compiler will optimize them away, thank you very much.
- ignore: { name: Use map once }
- ignore: { name: Fuse foldr/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse_/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse/<$> }

# this is silly, why would I use a special function if I can just (heh) `== Nothing`
- ignore: { name: Use isNothing }

# The duplication heuristic is not very smart
# and more annoying than helpful.
# see https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint/issues/1009
- ignore: { name: Reduce duplication }

# Stops the pattern match trick
- ignore: { name: Use record patterns }
- ignore: { name: Use null }
- ignore: { name: Use uncurry }

# we don’t want void, see below
- ignore: { name: Use void }

- functions:
    # disallow Enum instance functions, they are partial
    - name: Prelude.succ
      within: [Relude.Extra.Enum]
      message: "Dangerous, will fail for highest element"
    - name: Prelude.pred
      within: [Relude.Extra.Enum]
      message: "Dangerous, will fail for lowest element"
    - name: Prelude.toEnum
      within: []
      message: "Extremely partial"
    - name: Prelude.fromEnum
      within: []
      message: "Dangerous for most uses"
    - name: Prelude.enumFrom
      within: []
    - name: Prelude.enumFromThen
      within: []
    - name: Prelude.enumFromThenTo
      within: []
    - name: Prelude.oundedEnumFrom
      within: []
    - name: Prelude.boundedEnumFromThen
      within: []

    - name: Text.Read.readMaybe
      within:
        # The BSON ObjectId depends on Read for parsing
        - Milkmap.Milkmap
        - Milkmap.FieldData.Value
      message: "`readMaybe` is probably not what you want for parsing values, please use the `FieldParser` module."

    # `void` discards its argument and is polymorphic,
    # thus making it brittle in the face of code changes.
    # (see https://tech.freckle.com/2020/09/23/void-is-a-smell/)
    # Use an explicit `_ <- …` instead.
    - name: Data.Functor.void
      within: []
      message: "`void` leads to bugs. Use an explicit `_ <- …` instead"

    - name: Data.Foldable.length
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "`Data.Foldable.length` is dangerous to use, because it also works on types you wouldn’t expect, like `length (3,4) == 1` and `length (Just 2) == 1`. Use the `length` function for your specific type instead, for example `List.length` or `Map.length`."

    - name: Prelude.length
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "`Prelude.length` is dangerous to use, because it also works on types you wouldn’t expect, like `length (3,4) == 1` and `length (Just 2) == 1`. Use the `length` function for your specific type instead, for example `List.length` or `Map.length`."

    # Using an explicit lambda with its argument “underscored”
    # is more clear in every case.
    # e.g. `const True` => `\_request -> True`
    # shows the reader that the ignored argument was a request.
    - name: Prelude.const
      within: []
      message: "Replace `const` with an explicit lambda with type annotation for code clarity and type safety, e.g.: `const True` => `\\(_ :: Request) -> True`. If you really don’t want to spell out the type (which might lead to bugs!), you can also use something like `\_request -> True`."

    - name: Data.List.nub
      within: []
      message: "O(n²), use `Data.Containers.ListUtils.nubOrd"

    - name: Prelude.maximum
      within: []
      message: "`maximum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `maximum1`"

    - name: Data.List.maximum
      within: []
      message: "`maximum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `maximum1`"

    - name: Prelude.minimum
      within: []
      message: "`minimum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `minimum1`"

    - name: Data.List.minimum
      within: []
      message: "`minimum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `minimum1`"

    - name: Data.Foldable.maximum
      within: []
      message: "`maximum` crashes on empty foldable stucture; use Foldable1 and `maximum1`."

    - name: Data.Foldable.minimum
      within: []
      message: "`minimum` crashes on empty foldable stucture; use Foldable1 and `minimum1`."

    # Using prelude functions instead of stdlib functions

    - name: "Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `textToBytesUtf8`"

    - name: "Data.Text.Lazy.Encoding.encodeUtf8"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `textToBytesUtf8Lazy`"

    - name: "Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8'"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `bytesToTextUtf8`"

    - name: "Data.Text.Encoding.Lazy.decodeUtf8'"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `bytesToTextUtf8Lazy`"

    - name: "Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Either check for errors with `bytesToTextUtf8`, decode leniently with unicode replacement characters with `bytesToTextUtf8Lenient` or use the crashing version `bytesToTextUtf8Unsafe` (discouraged)."

    - name: "Data.Text.Encoding.Lazy.decodeUtf8"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Either check for errors with `bytesToTextUtf8Lazy`, decode leniently with unicode replacement characters with `bytesToTextUtf8LenientLazy` or use the crashing version `bytesToTextUtf8UnsafeLazy` (discouraged)."

    - name: "Data.Text.Lazy.toStrict"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `toStrict`"

    - name: "Data.Text.Lazy.fromStrict"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `toLazy`"

    - name: "Data.ByteString.Lazy.toStrict"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `toStrictBytes`"

    - name: "Data.ByteString.Lazy.fromStrict"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `toLazyBytes`"

    - name: "Data.Text.unpack"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `textToString`"

    - name: "Data.Text.pack"
      within: ["MyPrelude"]
      message: "Use `stringToText`"

    - name: "Data.Maybe.listToMaybe"
      within: []
      message: |
        `listToMaybe`` throws away everything but the first element of a list (it is essentially `safeHead`).
        If that is what you want, please use a pattern match like

        ```
        case xs of
          [] -> …
          (x:_) -> …
        ```

    - name: "Data.List.head"
      within: []
      message: |
        `List.head` fails on an empty list. I didn’t think I have to say this, but please use a pattern match on the list, like:

        ```
        case xs of
          [] -> … error handling …
          (x:_) -> …
        ```

        Also think about why the rest of the list should be ignored.

    - name: "Prelude.head"
      within: []
      message: |
        `List.head` fails on an empty list. I didn’t think I have to say this, but please use a pattern match on the list, like.

        ```
        case xs of
          [] -> … error handling …
          (x:_) -> …
        ```

        Also think about why the rest of the list should be ignored.

    - name: "Data.Maybe.fromJust"
      within: []
      message: |
        `Maybe.fromJust` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.

        In case you actually want to throw an error on an empty list,
        please add an error message, like so:

        ```
        myMaybe & annotate "my error message" & unwrapError
        ```

        If you are in `IO`, use `unwrapIOError` instead,
        or throw a monad-specific error.

    - name: "Data.Either.fromLeft"
      within: []
      message: |
        `Either.fromLeft` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.

    - name: "Data.Either.fromRight"
      within: []
      message: |
        `Either.fromRight` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.

# Make restricted functions into an error if found
- error: { name: "Avoid restricted function, see comment in .hlint.yaml" }

# Some functions that have (more modern) aliases.
# They are not dangerous per se,
# but we want to make it easier to read our code so we should
# make sure we don’t use too many things that are renames.

- hint:
    lhs: "undefined"
    rhs: "todo"
    note: "`undefined` is a silent error, `todo` will display a warning as long as it exists in the code."

- hint:
    lhs: "return"
    rhs: "pure"
    note: "Use `pure` from `Applicative` instead, it’s the exact same function."

- hint:
    lhs: "mapM"
    rhs: "traverse"
    note: "Use `traverse` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."

- hint:
    lhs: "mapM_"
    rhs: "traverse_"
    note: "Use `traverse_` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."

- hint:
    lhs: "forM"
    rhs: "for"
    note: "Use `for` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."

- hint:
    lhs: "forM_"
    rhs: "for_"
    note: "Use `for_` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."

- hint:
    lhs: "stringToText (show x)"
    rhs: "showToText x"

- hint:
    lhs: "Data.Set.toList (Data.Set.fromList x)"
    rhs: "List.nubOrd x"
    note: "`nubOrd` removes duplicate elements from a list."

- modules:
    # Disallowed Modules
    - name: Data.Map
      within: []
      message: "Lazy maps leak space, use `import Data.Map.Strict as Map` instead"
    - name: Control.Monad.Writer
      within: []
      message: "Lazy writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"
    - name: Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Lazy
      within: []
      message: "Lazy writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"
    - name: Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Strict
      within: []
      message: "Even strict writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"

    # Qualified module imports
    - { name: Data.Map.Strict, as: Map }
    - { name: Data.HashMap.Strict, as: HashMap }
    - { name: Data.Set, as: Set }
    - { name: Data.ByteString.Char8, as: Char8 }
    - { name: Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8, as: Char8.Lazy }
    - { name: Data.Text, as: Text }
    - { name: Data.Vector, as: Vector }
    - { name: Data.Vault.Lazy, as: Vault }
    - { name: Data.Aeson, as: Json }
    - { name: Data.Aeson.Types, as: Json }
    - { name: Data.Aeson.BetterErrors as Json }