{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} {-# LANGUAGE DeriveLift #-} {-| Dig metadata out of the description of your project. This uses the evil /Template Haskell/ to run code at compile time that parses the /.cabal/ file for your Haskell project and extracts various meaningful fields. -} module Core.Program.Metadata ( Version {-* Splice -} , fromPackage {-* Internals -} , versionNumberFrom , projectNameFrom , projectSynopsisFrom ) where import qualified Data.List as List import Data.String import Distribution.Types.GenericPackageDescription (GenericPackageDescription, packageDescription) import Distribution.Types.PackageDescription (synopsis, package) import Distribution.Types.PackageId (pkgName, pkgVersion) import Distribution.Types.PackageName (unPackageName) import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parsec (readGenericPackageDescription) import Distribution.Pretty (prettyShow) import Distribution.Verbosity (normal) import Language.Haskell.TH (Q, runIO) import Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax (Lift, Exp(..)) import System.Directory (listDirectory) {-| Information about the version number of this piece of software and other related metadata related to the project it was built from. This is supplied to your program when you call 'Core.Program.Execute.configure'. This value is used if the user requests it by specifying the @--version@ option on the command-line. Simply providing an overloaded string literal such as version @\"1.0\"@ will give you a 'Version' with that value: @ \{\-\# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings \#\-\} main :: 'IO' () main = do context <- 'Core.Program.Execute.configure' \"1.0\" 'Core.Program.Execute.None' ('Core.Program.Arguments.simple' ... @ For more complex usage you can populate a 'Version' object using the 'fromPackage' splice below. You can then call various accessors like 'versionNumberFrom' to access individual fields. -} data Version = Version { projectNameFrom :: String , projectSynopsisFrom :: String , versionNumberFrom :: String } deriving (Show, Lift) emptyVersion :: Version emptyVersion = Version "" "" "0" instance IsString Version where fromString x = emptyVersion { versionNumberFrom = x } {-| This is a splice which includes key built-time metadata, including the number from the version field from your project's /.cabal/ file (as written by hand or generated from /package.yaml/). While we generally discourage the use of Template Haskell by beginners (there are more important things to learn first) it is a way to execute code at compile time and that is what what we need in order to have the version number extracted from the /.cabal/ file rather than requiring the user to specify (and synchronize) it in multiple places. To use this, enable the Template Haskell language extension in your /Main.hs/ file. Then use the special @$( ... )@ \"insert splice here\" syntax that extension provides to get a 'Version' object with the desired metadata about your project: @ \{\-\# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell \#\-\} version :: 'Version' version = $('fromPackage') main :: 'IO' () main = do context <- 'Core.Program.Execute.configure' version 'Core.Program.Execute.None' ('Core.Program.Arguments.simple' ... @ (this wraps the extensive machinery in the __Cabal__ library, notably 'PackageDescription'. Using Template Haskell slows down compilation of this file, but the upside of this technique is that it avoids linking the Haskell build machinery into your executable, saving you about 10 MB in the size of the resultant binary) -} fromPackage :: Q Exp fromPackage = do generic <- readCabalFile let desc = packageDescription generic version = Version { projectNameFrom = unPackageName . pkgName . package $ desc , projectSynopsisFrom = synopsis desc , versionNumberFrom = prettyShow . pkgVersion . package $ desc } -- I would have preferred -- -- let e = AppE (VarE ... -- return e -- -- but that's not happening. So more voodoo TH nonsense instead. [e|version|] {- Locate the .cabal file in the present working directory (assumed to be the build root) and use the **Cabal** library to parse the few bits we need out of it. -} findCabalFile :: IO FilePath findCabalFile = do files <- listDirectory "." let found = List.find (List.isSuffixOf ".cabal") files case found of Just file -> return file Nothing -> error "No .cabal file found" readCabalFile :: Q GenericPackageDescription readCabalFile = runIO $ do -- Find .cabal file file <- findCabalFile -- Parse .cabal file desc <- readGenericPackageDescription normal file -- pass to calling program return desc