From 52248b1c2786f7aa98109d47ee12f527bd202b12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Bereknyei <tomberek@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:03:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: notation to refer to no attribute search prefix

An attrPath prefix of "." indicates no need to try default attrPath prefixes. For example 1nixpkgs#legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ERROR` searches through

```
trying flake output attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ERROR'
using cached attrset attribute ''
trying flake output attribute 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ERROR'
using cached attrset attribute 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux'
trying flake output attribute 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ERROR'
using cached attrset attribute 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux'
```

And there is no way to specify that one does not want the automatic
search behavior. Now one can specify
`nixpkgs#.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ERROR` to only refer to the rooted
attribute path without any default injection of attribute search path or
system.
---
 src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc |  5 +++++
 src/libcmd/installables.cc      | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc b/src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc
index 4074da06d72..2f428cb7e4b 100644
--- a/src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc
+++ b/src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ namespace nix {
 std::vector<std::string> InstallableFlake::getActualAttrPaths()
 {
     std::vector<std::string> res;
+    if (attrPaths.size() == 1 && attrPaths.front().starts_with(".")){
+        attrPaths.front().erase(0,1);
+        res.push_back(attrPaths.front());
+        return res;
+    }
 
     for (auto & prefix : prefixes)
         res.push_back(prefix + *attrPaths.begin());
diff --git a/src/libcmd/installables.cc b/src/libcmd/installables.cc
index eb19030847d..01c01441c9f 100644
--- a/src/libcmd/installables.cc
+++ b/src/libcmd/installables.cc
@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
             completionType = ctAttrs;
 
             auto fragment = prefix.substr(hash + 1);
+            std::string prefixRoot = "";
+            if (fragment.starts_with(".")){
+                fragment = fragment.substr(1);
+                prefixRoot = ".";
+            }
             auto flakeRefS = std::string(prefix.substr(0, hash));
             auto flakeRef = parseFlakeRef(expandTilde(flakeRefS), absPath("."));
 
@@ -309,6 +314,9 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
 
             auto root = evalCache->getRoot();
 
+            if (prefixRoot == "."){
+                attrPathPrefixes.clear();
+            }
             /* Complete 'fragment' relative to all the
                attrpath prefixes as well as the root of the
                flake. */
@@ -333,7 +341,7 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
                         auto attrPath2 = (*attr)->getAttrPath(attr2);
                         /* Strip the attrpath prefix. */
                         attrPath2.erase(attrPath2.begin(), attrPath2.begin() + attrPathPrefix.size());
-                        completions->add(flakeRefS + "#" + concatStringsSep(".", evalState->symbols.resolve(attrPath2)));
+                        completions->add(flakeRefS + "#" + prefixRoot + concatStringsSep(".", evalState->symbols.resolve(attrPath2)));
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -344,7 +352,7 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
                 for (auto & attrPath : defaultFlakeAttrPaths) {
                     auto attr = root->findAlongAttrPath(parseAttrPath(*evalState, attrPath));
                     if (!attr) continue;
-                    completions->add(flakeRefS + "#");
+                    completions->add(flakeRefS + "#" + prefixRoot);
                 }
             }
         }