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✅ Fix Incomplete Patterns and Enable Strict Pattern Checking

This PR addresses issue #2291 by converting -Wincomplete-patterns warnings to compile-time errors and fixing all incomplete patterns in the IHP framework.

🎯 Problem Statement

IHP had -Wincomplete-patterns as a warning, which was easily overlooked. This led to incomplete pattern matches in the codebase (ValidateField.hs and MigrationGenerator.hs as shown in the issue screenshots), which could cause runtime errors if new constructors are added.

✨ Solution

  1. Changed Makefile.dist: -fwarn-incomplete-patterns-Werror=incomplete-patterns for app code
  2. Added to cabal files: Added -Werror=incomplete-patterns to ihp.cabal and ihp-ide.cabal for framework code
  3. Fixed all incomplete patterns in IHP framework code
  4. Added documentation for consumers to override if needed

📝 Detailed Changes

1. ValidateField.hs

Fixed: Missing FailureHtml case in withCustomErrorMessage

case validator value of
    Failure _ -> Failure errorMessage
    FailureHtml _ -> FailureHtml errorMessage  -- ← Added + preserves HTML type
    Success -> Success

2. MigrationGenerator.hs

Fixed 7 partial pattern matches by converting (Just x) = bindings to proper case expressions with error handling.

3. CSSFramework.hs (NEW)

Fixed: Missing UrlInput case in bootstrap4's styledFormField function (line 464)

UrlInput -> styledTextFormField cssFramework "url" formField validationResult

4. Makefile.dist

Changed from -fwarn-incomplete-patterns to -Werror=incomplete-patterns with documentation.

5. ihp.cabal & ihp-ide.cabal

Added to shared-properties section:

ghc-options:
    -Werror=incomplete-patterns
    -Werror=missing-fields

This ensures the framework code itself is checked during CI builds, not just consumer applications.


🔧 How Consumers Can Override

Option 1 - Per-module basis:

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wno-error=incomplete-patterns #-}
module MyModule where

Option 2 - Project-wide in Makefile:

GHC_EXTENSIONS+= -Wno-error=incomplete-patterns

✅ Testing & Verification

  • Fixed all incomplete patterns from issue screenshots
  • Added flag to cabal files so CI catches incomplete patterns in framework code
  • Fixed UrlInput incomplete pattern revealed by CI
  • Verified flag works with test compilation
  • All error messages include function context for debugging

📊 Impact

Files changed: 6

  • ihp/IHP/ValidationSupport/ValidateField.hs: Fixed FailureHtml pattern
  • ihp-ide/IHP/IDE/CodeGen/MigrationGenerator.hs: Fixed 7 partial patterns
  • ihp/IHP/View/CSSFramework.hs: Fixed UrlInput pattern
  • ihp-ide/data/lib/IHP/Makefile.dist: Changed flag for app code
  • ihp/ihp.cabal: Added flag for framework builds
  • ihp-ide/ihp-ide.cabal: Added flag for IDE framework builds

Net result: Both framework and applications now catch incomplete patterns at compile-time! 🎉

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Be more strict and prevent incomplete patterns</issue_title>
<issue_description>Currently, we have the -Wincomplete-patterns flag, which results in easily overlooked warnings.
Can we convert this to a compiler error instead?</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Also, suggest a way how consumers (using IHP), could enable/ disable this flag. But the goal is for IHP to be warning free</agent_instructions>

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@mpscholten In the framework code itself or inside the project's app code? @amitaibu In the framework code, a couple of examples:

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@amitaibu But would be useful to have it on the app code as well @mpscholten For the IHP code itself this then should be done together with https://github.com//issues/1640 @amitaibu Great.

Is it possible meanwhile to have an error just for the app code?</comment_new>
<comment_new>@mpscholten
Yes 👍 should be possible. I'd keep this issue open actually, otherwise we might forget about this</comment_new>


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Copilot AI and others added 3 commits December 12, 2025 17:40
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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Convert incomplete patterns warning to error Convert incomplete pattern warnings to compile-time errors Dec 12, 2025
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@copilot, see commit d189469 - CI returns passing, but I'd expect it to fail, as I've removed a required pattern-matching case.

Added the flag to both ihp.cabal and ihp-ide.cabal in the shared-properties
section so that incomplete patterns are caught during CI builds of the
framework itself, not just in consumer applications.

Also restored the FailureHtml pattern that was removed in testing.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 16, 2025

@copilot, see commit d189469 - CI returns passing, but I'd expect it to fail, as I've removed a required patt...

You're right - the flag was only in Makefile.dist (for app code) but not in the cabal files used to build the framework itself during CI.

Fixed in commit 110d575 by adding -Werror=incomplete-patterns to both ihp.cabal and ihp-ide.cabal. Also restored the FailureHtml pattern that was removed during testing.

Now CI will catch incomplete patterns in both framework code and app code.

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> [32 of 82] Compiling IHP.View.CSSFramework ( IHP/View/CSSFramework.hs, dist/build/IHP/View/CSSFramework.o, dist/build/IHP/View/CSSFramework.dyn_o )
> 
> IHP/View/CSSFramework.hs:465:31: error: [GHC-62161] [-Wincomplete-patterns, Werror=incomplete-patterns]
>     Pattern match(es) are non-exhaustive
>     In a case alternative:
>         Patterns of type ‘InputType’ not matched: UrlInput
>     |
> 465 |                 renderInner = case formField.fieldType of
>     |                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^...

Added missing UrlInput case to the second pattern match in bootstrap4's
styledFormField function. This was revealed by the -Werror=incomplete-patterns
flag added to the cabal files.

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Copilot AI commented Dec 17, 2025

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Fixed in commit 4dad393. Added the missing UrlInput case to the pattern match in IHP/View/CSSFramework.hs line 464.

The first occurrence of this pattern (line 66) already had the UrlInput case, but the second one (bootstrap4's implementation) was missing it.

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