John EricsonandRobert Hensing
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`EvalState::mkSingleDerivedPathString` previously contained its own inverse (printing, rather than parsing) in order to validate what was parsed. Now that is pulled out into its own separate function: `EvalState::coerceToSingleDerivedPath`. In additional that pulled out logic is deduplicated with `EvalState::mkOutputString` via `EvalState::mkOutputStringRaw`, which is itself deduplicated (and generalized) with `DownstreamPlaceholder::mkOutputStringRaw`. All these changes make the unit tests simpler. (We would ideally write more unit tests for `mkSingleDerivedPathString` `coerceToSingleDerivedPath` directly, but we cannot yet do that because the IO in reading the store path won't work when the dummy store cannot hold anything. Someday we'll have a proper in-memory store which will work for this.) Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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