feat(config): generate the settings registry from the spec - #864
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds the ChangesConfiguration registry generator
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to This build-time registry generation can miss updates to included specification files after errors, leave generated settings stale, and let malformed names alter emitted Rust; exposing provenance paths as mutable can also undermine rebuild tracking. These bounded correctness and build-readiness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SpecificationFile
participant source
participant RegistryEmitter
participant GeneratedRegistry
SpecificationFile->>source: Parse specification and included files
source->>RegistryEmitter: Pass configuration and registry name
RegistryEmitter->>GeneratedRegistry: Emit metadata, registry, and PropId constants
GeneratedRegistry-->>source: Return generated Rust source
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Both real, and one of them is my own check with a hole in it. A list default on an old name was generated instead of refused. The rename check sat after An empty key generated Two mutations, two dead tests: restoring the AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable. |
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Real, and a good catch on the shape of it: a key that is nothing but separators — So the rule is now "every part of a key needs a letter or a digit in it", which subsumes the empty Mutation: restoring the empty-part-only check fails the test, which now covers AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable. |
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The New in this push, from the same class on #865: a key holding a newline ended its own doc comment, and Mutation: dropping the AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable. |
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35-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueCorrect the item count in the comment.
The
portsdefault is80 443, which is two numbers. The comment says three.Proposed fix
- // A list default is a child node in the spec and stays typed all the way here: three numbers, - // not three strings. + // A list default is a child node in the spec and stays typed all the way here: two numbers, + // not two strings.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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145-153: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider a temp directory that is removed even when the test fails.
The directory name derives from the process id, and
remove_dir_allruns only on the success path. A failing assertion leaves the directory behind, and a later run with the same process id then reads a pre-existinghk.toml. The write overwrites the file, so this does not corrupt the assertions today.If
tempfileis available as a dev-dependency, usetempfile::tempdir()so the directory is removed on drop.Also applies to: 184-184
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In `@config-build/src/emit.rs`:
- Around line 35-41: Update the generated header formatting in the writeln! call
within emit.rs to pass name through the existing one_line helper before
interpolating it, ensuring filenames or source_of_spec names cannot introduce
newlines into the comment.
In `@config-build/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 57-58: Update usage::Spec::parse_file to report every recursively
resolved include path through its API, including paths encountered before a read
or parse failure. In the caller around source(spec), emit a
cargo::rerun-if-changed directive for each reported path before propagating the
parse error, while preserving the existing error propagation behavior.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@config-build/tests/generated.rs`:
- Around line 35-37: Update the comment above the ports assertion to state that
the default contains two numbers, matching the existing values 80 and 443; leave
the assertion unchanged.
- Around line 145-153: Update the test setup around the temporary directory and
generated config path to use tempfile::tempdir() when available, retaining the
TempDir guard for the test’s lifetime so cleanup occurs on failure and drop;
remove the process-id-based directory creation and any manual success-path
cleanup while preserving the existing hk.toml contents and assertions.
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| out, | ||
| "// @generated by usage-config-build from `{name}`. Do not edit.\n\ | ||
| //\n\ | ||
| // Every setting this CLI has, as consts: there is no second declaration of a setting to\n\ | ||
| // keep in step with this one, which is the drift this file exists to remove." | ||
| ); |
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Sanitize the generated-from name.
Line 37 writes name into a line comment without newline handling. A newline in a filename or source_of_spec name ends that comment and makes following text generated Rust code. Apply one_line(name) before writing the header.
Proposed fix
let _ = writeln!(
out,
- "// `@generated` by usage-config-build from `{name}`. Do not edit.\n\
+ "// `@generated` by usage-config-build from `{}`. Do not edit.\n\
//\n\
// Every setting this CLI has, as consts: there is no second declaration of a setting to\n\
- // keep in step with this one, which is the drift this file exists to remove."
+ // keep in step with this one, which is the drift this file exists to remove.",
+ one_line(name),
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| let _ = writeln!( | |
| out, | |
| "// @generated by usage-config-build from `{name}`. Do not edit.\n\ | |
| //\n\ | |
| // Every setting this CLI has, as consts: there is no second declaration of a setting to\n\ | |
| // keep in step with this one, which is the drift this file exists to remove." | |
| ); | |
| let _ = writeln!( | |
| out, | |
| "// @generated by usage-config-build from `{}`. Do not edit.\n\ | |
| //\n\ | |
| // Every setting this CLI has, as consts: there is no second declaration of a setting to\n\ | |
| // keep in step with this one, which is the drift this file exists to remove.", | |
| one_line(name), | |
| ); |
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In `@config-build/src/emit.rs` around lines 35 - 41, Update the generated header
formatting in the writeln! call within emit.rs to pass name through the existing
one_line helper before interpolating it, ensuring filenames or source_of_spec
names cannot introduce newlines into the comment.
| println!("cargo::rerun-if-changed={}", spec.display()); | ||
| let source = source(spec)?; |
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"let other = Self::parse_file_with_metadata_inference(&file, false)?" in spec,
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Track all resolved include paths.
usage::Spec::parse_file resolves includes recursively, but it does not expose the resolved paths. Extend its API to report each path when discovered, including paths whose read or parse fails. Emit a Cargo rerun directive for every reported path before propagating the parse error. Otherwise, changes to an included file do not rebuild the registry.
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In `@config-build/src/lib.rs` around lines 57 - 58, Update usage::Spec::parse_file
to report every recursively resolved include path through its API, including
paths encountered before a read or parse failure. In the caller around
source(spec), emit a cargo::rerun-if-changed directive for each reported path
before propagating the parse error, while preserving the existing error
propagation behavior.
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This one I had left unaddressed — my sweep filters comments by "newer than my last reply", and replying
The parser now records what it read: Test: a two-file fixture where the settings live in the included file — Also here, from #865's finding about generated names: AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable. |
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/src/spec/mod.rs`:
- Around line 44-53: Make the sources field in Spec private to prevent callers
from mutating parser-owned provenance, add a public read-only sources(&self)
accessor returning a slice, and update config-build/src/lib.rs to use the
accessor instead of direct field access.
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| /// Every file this spec was read from: its own path, then each `include`, recursively. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// What a build script has to watch. A generator that watches only the file it was pointed at | ||
| /// rebuilds nothing when an included file changes — and `include` is how a CLI with many | ||
| /// settings keeps them in a file of their own, so that is the file most likely to be edited. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// Not serialized: it is where the spec came from rather than part of what it says, and `usage g | ||
| /// json` describes the latter. | ||
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| pub sources: Vec<PathBuf>, |
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Rust Reference #[non_exhaustive] struct external construction struct literal
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In Rust, the #[non_exhaustive] attribute on a struct prevents it from being constructed via a struct literal (including struct update syntax) from outside of the crate where it is defined [1][2]. This restriction is in place to ensure backwards compatibility [3][4]. If a struct could be initialized using a literal from an external crate, adding a new field to that struct in a future version of the defining crate would become a breaking change, as all existing external code using the literal would fail to compile due to the missing field [3][4]. Key points regarding this behavior include: 1. Restriction: Outside the defining crate, you cannot use struct expression syntax (e.g., MyStruct { field1: val }) or functional record update syntax (e.g.,..old_struct) to construct an instance of the non-exhaustive struct [1][5][2]. 2. Scope: This limitation applies specifically to the crate boundary. Inside the crate where the struct is defined, the #[non_exhaustive] attribute is essentially ignored for construction purposes, allowing developers to create instances as usual [3]. 3. Alternative: Because of this, developers typically provide a constructor function (e.g., new) or implement the Default trait within the defining crate to allow external users to create instances of the struct [3][6]. 4. Matching: Similarly, when pattern matching on a non-exhaustive struct outside the defining crate, you must include a wildcard (..) in the pattern to account for potential future fields [1][2][4]. This design choice ensures that library authors can add new fields to a public struct without breaking downstream code [3][4].
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- 1: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/type_system.html
- 2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/attributes/type_system.html
- 3: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2008-non-exhaustive.html
- 4: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/the-non-exhaustive-attr/124725
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66715273/why-doesnt-the-struct-update-syntax-work-on-non-exhaustive-structs
- 6: https://swatinem.de/blog/frufru-1/
Make sources private and expose a read-only accessor.
Spec is #[non_exhaustive], so this field does not break external struct literals. A public sources field still lets callers modify parser-owned provenance used for file watching. Add pub fn sources(&self) -> &[PathBuf] and update config-build/src/lib.rs.
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In `@lib/src/spec/mod.rs` around lines 44 - 53, Make the sources field in Spec
private to prevent callers from mutating parser-owned provenance, add a public
read-only sources(&self) accessor returning a slice, and update
config-build/src/lib.rs to use the accessor instead of direct field access.
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The join between the two files every CLI in the fleet keeps in step by hand. A spec's `config` block is read here, at build time, and what comes out is `const` — so a setting that is declared is a setting that resolves, and there is no second declaration to forget. Types, defaults, merge policy, scope, named parsers, environment variables in precedence order, bindings, hide, deprecation and renames all cross over. Ids are emitted as consts, because a `PropId` *is* the index into the table: reading a setting costs no lookup, and a typo in a key is a compile error rather than a `None` at run time. A build script is where strictness belongs — the alternative is a warning on every run of a shipped binary for a mistake only the spec's author can fix — so a registry that cannot mean what it says is refused: a `renamed_to` naming a setting that is not there, renames that form a cycle, an old name carrying a default its replacement lacks, a `parse` nobody implements, a `map` keyed by something a config file cannot spell, two keys whose consts collide. All of them at once, because an author fixing a registry wants the list. The generated registry for the fixture spec is checked in and `include!`d by the tests, so `cargo test` compiles it: a generator can be tested by comparing strings, and a string that looks like Rust is not Rust.
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Two more; one real, one I am declining. Two defaults at once — real, and I had asserted the opposite in a comment. The comment said the
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The other half of the codegen: the struct a CLI's own code reads. #864 emits the registry resolution needs; this emits what the code needs, and between them they remove the thing the fleet writes by hand — pitchfork's ~330 lines of key↔field match arms, written twice (once for `get`, once for `set`), with five settings still unreachable from its own `settings get`. ```rust let resolved = usage_config::resolve(SETTINGS_REGISTRY, layers)?; let settings = Settings::read(&resolved)?; // typed, and every failure at once println!("{}", settings.task.output); ``` ## The decisions worth reviewing **Dotted keys are nested structs.** `settings.task.output` is how the setting reads in the file, so there is no reason for the code to spell it differently. Each group gets its own struct (`SettingsTask`), named rather than inferred. **A field is `Option<T>` exactly when the resolution can come back with nothing** — no declared default, or `option<T>`. So a setting with a default is the value itself, with nothing to unwrap, and there is no run-time failure for a shape the spec permits. `Fold::required` is still what reads those fields, and its `Missing` arm is what makes the `expect` in generated code honest: `required` returns `None` only when it has recorded an error, and `finish` has already turned any error into a return. **An old name is not a field.** Every read of a renamed key folds into the setting that replaced it, so a field for it would be a second name for one value — `config set old.key` writing somewhere nothing reads is the pitchfork bug in miniature. **Types**: `bool`, `i64`, `u64`, `f64`, `String`, `PathBuf`, `Vec<T>` (for `list` *and* `set` — the merge already dropped duplicates, and order is the meaning for a `PATH`), `BTreeMap<String, T>`, and `usage_config::Value` where the spec declined to say (`object`, a union, a name usage does not know). `url` and `duration` read as text: what makes a string a URL is what the CLI does with it, and the crate that owns the duration type owns its spelling — inventing one here would put a dependency in every adopter's binary for a value some only ever print. ## Refused - **A key that is both a setting and a group** — `python` beside `python.compile`: one field name with two things to be, a value and a table. The spec can say it; no struct can hold it. - **The four keywords Rust cannot spell** (`self`, `crate`, `super`, `Self`). Every other keyword is fine: `type` and `match` are unremarkable names for settings, written `r#type` and `r#match` — for the field *and* for the local the reader binds it to, which is what `let match: Option<String>` taught me when the golden file stopped compiling. ## Verification The generated file is checked in and `include!`d, so `cargo test` compiles it: every field asserted below has to exist with that type or the test target does not build. 19 tests. Four mutations — allowing the value-and-table collision, allowing an unspellable keyword, dropping raw identifiers, and letting an alias become a field — each killing the right test. `SettingsPartial` and `runtime_defaults` are deliberately not here. They need the opposite direction — a typed value turned back into layer entries — which is its own mechanism and its own PR, not a struct with `Option`s on it. *AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable.* <!-- CURSOR_SUMMARY --> --- > [!NOTE] > **Medium Risk** > Touches generated API surface and config read paths for every CLI adopter; validation is strong but mistakes in codegen would compile and misread settings at runtime. > > **Overview** > **Extends usage-config-build** so generated `settings.rs` includes not only the registry and `prop::*` ids but also a nested **`Settings`** type (dotted keys → nested structs), **`Settings::read(&Resolved)`** that reads every field via `fold` and reports all errors at once, and field typing rules (`Option` when there is no default or the spec uses `option<T>`, skip `renamed_to` keys, `r#` for Rust keywords). > > **New `config-build/src/settings.rs`** implements the tree builder, Rust type mapping (`list`/`set` → `Vec`, maps → `BTreeMap`, open types → `usage_config::Value`), and **build-time refusals** for ambiguous shapes (setting vs group under one prefix, colliding field/struct names from `-`/`_` or case, unspellable keywords, `read_*` locals to avoid shadowing `fold`). > > **`usage_config`** gains **`FromValue for Value`** so generated union/`object` fields can read without inventing narrower types. > > Tests and golden output cover the `match` keyword setting, struct reads from files, coercion errors, and the new refusal cases. > > <sup>Reviewed by [Cursor Bugbot](https://cursor.com/bugbot) for commit b0ddb74. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure [here](https://www.cursor.com/dashboard/bugbot).</sup> <!-- /CURSOR_SUMMARY -->
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The join. Every CLI in the fleet declares its settings in one file and resolves them in another,
and the two are kept in step by hand — which is why hk declares eighteen
sources.clibindings andreads five, pitchfork generates five settings its own
settings getcannot reach, and fnox's docsdescribe a layer that does not exist. A spec's
configblock is read here, at build time, and whatcomes out is
const. There is no second declaration to forget.What crosses over: types (including
list<>/set<>/map<>/option<>nesting, with a union or aname usage does not know becoming
Ty::Any— the runtime's word for "the spec has said usagecannot decide what belongs here"), typed defaults including list defaults, merge policy, scope,
named parsers, environment variables in precedence order, custom-source bindings,
hide,deprecation notices and renames.
Ids are consts.
pub const JOBS: PropId = PropId(4)— aPropIdis the index into thetable, so reading a setting costs no lookup, and a typo in a key is a compile error instead of a
Noneat run time. The risk of emitting indices is that being wrong is silent (every read answersabout a different setting), so a test walks the whole registry and checks each key is where the
registry says it is.
What it refuses
A build script is where strictness belongs: the alternative to refusing a declaration that cannot
mean what it says is a warning on every run of a shipped binary, for a mistake only the spec's
author can fix.
renamed_tonaming a setting that is not therelookupgives up and answersNone, making both settings unreachable rather than wrongparsenobody implementsmap<int, …>task.outputandtask_output— a compile error in a file the author did not writeAll of them at once, rather than the first: fixing a registry should not be a sequence of builds.
Verification
The generated registry for the fixture spec
— one of everything, modelled on hk's own — is checked in and
include!d by the tests, socargo testcompiles it and every assertion runs against the registry that compilation produced. Agenerator can be tested by comparing strings, and a string that looks like Rust is not Rust. One
test regenerates and diffs against the checked-in file, so a change to the emitter that is not
regenerated fails; the file is checked in precisely so a human reads that diff.
15 tests. Seven mutations, each disabling one refusal or altering the emitter, each killing the
right test. Clippy clean workspace-wide with
--all-features --all-targets,cargo fmt --checkclean.
Stacked on #862 for
Fold/FromValue, which the end-to-end test reads values through. The typedSettingsstruct is the next PR — this one stops at the registry, which is the part the runtimealready consumes.
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Note
Medium Risk
New build-time codegen path and stricter spec validation; runtime impact is limited to adopters’ build scripts, but mistakes in generated registries would affect every settings read for those CLIs.
Overview
Adds
usage-config-build, a build-time crate that turns a usage spec’sconfigblock intoconstusage_config::RegistryRust (includingSETTINGS_PROPS,SETTINGS_REGISTRY, andprop::*PropIdconstants).generate/generate_towritesettings.rs, emitcargo::rerun-if-changedfor the spec and every included file, and skip writes when output is unchanged.source/watchedsupport checked-in golden output and custom build scripts. The emitter maps types, defaults, merge/scope, parsers, envs, bindings, deprecation/renames, and refuses invalid specs (bad renames, cycles, unknown parsers, non-string map keys, colliding const names, etc.) with all errors at once.usage-lib:Specgains a skipped-serializesourceslist (root + merged includes) so generators watch the right files.Tests: hk-style fixture, golden
settings.rs, integration tests that compile and resolve the generated registry, and refusal/golden-drift coverage plus agenexample to refresh the golden file.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 540f280. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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