This adds a meta state store that is preserved between graph switches if
the kind and name match. This is useful so that rapid graph changes
don't necessarily reset their retry count if they've only changed one
resource field.
This makes the tests easier to read and modify without having out of
order numbers. When writing the tests, you'll remember more easily which
section you're erroring in too!
This teaches the compiler to catch entries with duplicate fields, and
duplicate meta entries, because it could be ambiguous to determine which
should take precedence. For example, if you specified `content` to a
file resource twice, this should error. This is known statically, so we
can catch it. If you specified two `Meta:noop` entries, this can also be
caught.
The interesting part happens when you specify one `Meta:noop` entry, and
one `Meta` entry which happens to contain a noop field in the struct.
For this, we actually have to wait until type unification is finished,
and catch the error there. This is because after type unification we
will know the precise type of the struct being passed to `Meta`, and so
we can look at its field names, even if their values aren't yet known
because the graph hasn't run yet.
This adds a giant missing piece of the language: proper function values!
It is lovely to now understand why early programming language designers
didn't implement these, but a joy to now reap the benefits of them. In
adding these, many other changes had to be made to get them to "fit"
correctly. This improved the code and fixed a number of bugs.
Unfortunately this touched many areas of the code, and since I was
learning how to do all of this for the first time, I've squashed most of
my work into a single commit. Some more information:
* This adds over 70 new tests to verify the new functionality.
* Functions, global variables, and classes can all be implemented
natively in mcl and built into core packages.
* A new compiler step called "Ordering" was added. It is called by the
SetScope step, and determines statement ordering and shadowing
precedence formally. It helped remove at least one bug and provided the
additional analysis required to properly capture variables when
implementing function generators and closures.
* The type unification code was improved to handle the new cases.
* Light copying of Node's allowed our function graphs to be more optimal
and share common vertices and edges. For example, if two different
closures capture a variable $x, they'll both use the same copy when
running the function, since the compiler can prove if they're identical.
* Some areas still need improvements, but this is ready for mainstream
testing and use!
I wanted to make sure that the type unification algorithm restricts the
implementation of the class when included, when one of the polymorphic
types is specified with a fixed type. It seems this works! I had the
idea for this test while walking around aimlessly.
The simple type unification algorithm suffered from some serious
performance and memory problems when used with certain code bases. This
adds some crucial optimizations that improve performance drastically.
This quotes printed strings that contain special characters such as
newline. This changes the output of some tests, but makes future tests
that include a raw \n more appropriate.
When include-ing a class, we propagated the scope of the include into
the class instead of using the correct scope that existed when the class
was defined and instead propagating only the include arguments in.
This patch fixes the issue and adds a ton of tests as well. It also
propagates the scope into the include args, in case that is needed, and
adds a test for that as well.
Thanks to Nicolas Charles for the initial bug report.
If you run an import, you only include everything that's part of a
scope. This includes, variables, classes, and functions. Anything else
should cause a compile error. This cleans up the error by adding a
String() method to each Stmt in our AST.
The engine core had some unfortunate bugs that were the result of some
early design errors when I wasn't as familiar with channels. I've
finally rewritten most of the bad parts, and I think it's much more
logical and stable now.
This also simplifies the resource API, since more of the work is done
completely in the engine, and hidden from view.
Lastly, this adds a few new metaparameters and associated code.
There are still some open problems left to solve, but hopefully this
brings us one step closer.
I found a case where we had two missing unification rules. Now fixed in
the previous commits, and including this test to show I'm responsible.
I've added the same test in two locations for redundancy and as an
example.
These weren't yet exposed in mcl. They're now available under the same
Meta namespace as the normal meta param structs. Even though they live
as a separate trait, they should be exposed together for a consistent
interface in mcl. If autoedge or autogroup ever grow additional params,
we can always add: `Meta:autoedge:something` to break it down further.
This adds a core looping construct by allowing a list of names to build
a resource. They'll all have the same parameters, but they'll
intelligently add the correct list of edges that they'd individually
create.
Constructs like these are one reason we do NOT have actual looping
functionality in the language, and it should stay that way.
These two cases should be allowed in our language. This is something
that puppet got wrong, and hopefully this makes writing modules more
sane in mcl, since two modules both depending on a "cowsay" package
won't cause compile errors.
This only checks the language. The de-duplication is done there. We
don't currently have a check for this in the engine. (We should!)
This enables imports in mcl code, and is one of last remaining blockers
to using mgmt. Now we can start writing standalone modules, and adding
standard library functions as needed. There's still lots to do, but this
was a big missing piece. It was much harder to get right than I had
expected, but I think it's solid!
This unfortunately large commit is the result of some wild hacking I've
been doing for the past little while. It's the result of a rebase that
broke many "wip" commits that tracked my private progress, into
something that's not gratuitously messy for our git logs. Since this was
a learning and discovery process for me, I've "erased" the confusing git
history that wouldn't have helped. I'm happy to discuss the dead-ends,
and a small portion of that code was even left in for possible future
use.
This patch includes:
* A change to the cli interface:
You now specify the front-end explicitly, instead of leaving it up to
the front-end to decide when to "activate". For example, instead of:
mgmt run --lang code.mcl
we now do:
mgmt run lang --lang code.mcl
We might rename the --lang flag in the future to avoid the awkward word
repetition. Suggestions welcome, but I'm considering "input". One
side-effect of this change, is that flags which are "engine" specific
now must be specified with "run" before the front-end name. Eg:
mgmt run --tmp-prefix lang --lang code.mcl
instead of putting --tmp-prefix at the end. We also changed the GAPI
slightly, but I've patched all code that used it. This also makes things
consistent with the "deploy" command.
* The deploys are more robust and let you deploy after a run
This has been vastly improved and let's mgmt really run as a smart
engine that can handle different workloads. If you don't want to deploy
when you've started with `run` or if one comes in, you can use the
--no-watch-deploy option to block new deploys.
* The import statement exists and works!
We now have a working `import` statement. Read the docs, and try it out.
I think it's quite elegant how it fits in with `SetScope`. Have a look.
As a result, we now have some built-in functions available in modules.
This also adds the metadata.yaml entry-point for all modules. Have a
look at the examples or the tests. The bulk of the patch is to support
this.
* Improved lang input parsing code:
I re-wrote the parsing that determined what ran when we passed different
things to --lang. Deciding between running an mcl file or raw code is
now handled in a more intelligent, and re-usable way. See the inputs.go
file if you want to have a look. One casualty is that you can't stream
code from stdin *directly* to the front-end, it's encapsulated into a
deploy first. You can still use stdin though! I doubt anyone will notice
this change.
* The scope was extended to include functions and classes:
Go forth and import lovely code. All these exist in scopes now, and can
be re-used!
* Function calls actually use the scope now. Glad I got this sorted out.
* There is import cycle detection for modules!
Yes, this is another dag. I think that's #4. I guess they're useful.
* A ton of tests and new test infra was added!
This should make it much easier to add new tests that run mcl code. Have
a look at TestAstFunc1 to see how to add more of these.
As usual, I'll try to keep these commits smaller in the future!
