Add `pkgs.lib.renderOptions`

This adds a new utility to intelligently convert Nix records to
command line options to reduce boilerplate for simple use cases and to
also reduce the likelihood of malformed command lines

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tests/misc.nix b/lib/tests/misc.nix
index b064faa1e1ba..a5f191410e54 100644
--- a/lib/tests/misc.nix
+++ b/lib/tests/misc.nix
@@ -441,4 +441,20 @@ runTests {
     expected  = "«foo»";
   };
 
+  testRenderOptions = {
+    expr =
+       renderOptions
+         { foo = "A";
+
+           bar = 1;
+
+           baz = null;
+
+           qux = true;
+
+           v = true;
+         };
+
+    expected = " --bar '1' --foo 'A' --qux -v";
+  };
 }