toploop.mli

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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(*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           *)
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(*   Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
(*     en Automatique.                                                    *)
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(*   All rights reserved.  This file is distributed under the terms of    *)
(*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          *)
(*   special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE.          *)
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open Format

(* Accessors for the table of toplevel value bindings.  These functions
   must appear as first and second exported functions in this module.
   (See module Translmod.) *)
val getvalue : string -> Obj.t
val setvalue : string -> Obj.t -> unit

(* Set the load paths, before running anything *)

val set_paths : unit -> unit

(* The interactive toplevel loop *)

val loop : formatter -> unit

(* Read and execute a script from the given file *)

val run_script : formatter -> string -> string array -> bool
        (* true if successful, false if error *)

(* Interface with toplevel directives *)

type directive_fun =
   | Directive_none of (unit -> unit)
   | Directive_string of (string -> unit)
   | Directive_int of (int -> unit)
   | Directive_ident of (Longident.t -> unit)
   | Directive_bool of (bool -> unit)

type directive_info = {
  section: string;
  doc: string;
}

val add_directive : string -> directive_fun -> directive_info -> unit
        (* Add toplevel directive and its documentation.

           @since 4.03 *)

val directive_table : (string, directive_fun) Hashtbl.t
  (* Deprecated: please use [add_directive] instead of inserting
     in this table directly. *)

val directive_info_table : (string, directive_info) Hashtbl.t

val toplevel_env : Env.t ref
        (* Typing environment for the toplevel *)
val initialize_toplevel_env : unit -> unit
        (* Initialize the typing environment for the toplevel *)
val print_exception_outcome : formatter -> exn -> unit
        (* Print an exception resulting from the evaluation of user code. *)
val execute_phrase : bool -> formatter -> Parsetree.toplevel_phrase -> bool
        (* Execute the given toplevel phrase. Return [true] if the
           phrase executed with no errors and [false] otherwise.
           First bool says whether the values and types of the results
           should be printed. Uncaught exceptions are always printed. *)
val preprocess_phrase :
      formatter -> Parsetree.toplevel_phrase ->  Parsetree.toplevel_phrase
        (* Preprocess the given toplevel phrase using regular and ppx
           preprocessors. Return the updated phrase. *)
val use_file : formatter -> string -> bool
val use_silently : formatter -> string -> bool
val mod_use_file : formatter -> string -> bool
        (* Read and execute commands from a file.
           [use_file] prints the types and values of the results.
           [use_silently] does not print them.
           [mod_use_file] wrap the file contents into a module. *)
val eval_module_path: Env.t -> Path.t -> Obj.t
val eval_value_path: Env.t -> Path.t -> Obj.t
val eval_extension_path: Env.t -> Path.t -> Obj.t
val eval_class_path: Env.t -> Path.t -> Obj.t
        (* Return the toplevel object referred to by the given path *)
val record_backtrace : unit -> unit

(* Printing of values *)

val print_value: Env.t -> Obj.t -> formatter -> Types.type_expr -> unit
val print_untyped_exception: formatter -> Obj.t -> unit

type ('a, 'b) gen_printer =
  | Zero of 'b
  | Succ of ('a -> ('a, 'b) gen_printer)

val install_printer :
  Path.t -> Types.type_expr -> (formatter -> Obj.t -> unit) -> unit
val install_generic_printer :
  Path.t -> Path.t ->
  (int -> (int -> Obj.t -> Outcometree.out_value,
           Obj.t -> Outcometree.out_value) gen_printer) -> unit
val install_generic_printer' :
  Path.t -> Path.t -> (formatter -> Obj.t -> unit,
                       formatter -> Obj.t -> unit) gen_printer -> unit
val remove_printer : Path.t -> unit

val max_printer_depth: int ref
val max_printer_steps: int ref

(* Hooks for external parsers and printers *)

val parse_toplevel_phrase : (Lexing.lexbuf -> Parsetree.toplevel_phrase) ref
val parse_use_file : (Lexing.lexbuf -> Parsetree.toplevel_phrase list) ref
val print_location : formatter -> Location.t -> unit
val print_error : formatter -> Location.error -> unit
val print_warning : Location.t -> formatter -> Warnings.t -> unit
val input_name : string ref

val print_out_value :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_value -> unit) ref
val print_out_type :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_type -> unit) ref
val print_out_class_type :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_class_type -> unit) ref
val print_out_module_type :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_module_type -> unit) ref
val print_out_type_extension :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_type_extension -> unit) ref
val print_out_sig_item :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_sig_item -> unit) ref
val print_out_signature :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_sig_item list -> unit) ref
val print_out_phrase :
  (formatter -> Outcometree.out_phrase -> unit) ref

(* Hooks for external line editor *)

val read_interactive_input : (string -> bytes -> int -> int * bool) ref

(* Hooks *)

val toplevel_startup_hook : (unit -> unit) ref

type event = ..
type event +=
  | Startup
  | After_setup
  (* Just after the setup, when the toplevel is ready to evaluate user
     input. This happens before the toplevel has evaluated any kind of
     user input, in particular this happens before loading the
     [.ocamlinit] file. *)

val add_hook : (event -> unit) -> unit
(* Add a function that will be called at key points of the toplevel
   initialization process. *)

val run_hooks : event -> unit
(* Run all the registered hooks. *)

(* Used by Trace module *)

val may_trace : bool ref

(* Misc *)

val override_sys_argv : string array -> unit
(* [override_sys_argv args] replaces the contents of [Sys.argv] by [args]
   and reset [Arg.current] to [0].

   This is called by [run_script] so that [Sys.argv] represents
   "script.ml args..." instead of the full command line:
   "ocamlrun unix.cma ... script.ml args...". *)