Summary:
- Add `Nullsafe` annotation as a general mechanism to specify
type-checking behaviour for nullsafe.
- Document annotation params and provide usage examples with
explanations.
- Add tests to demonstrate the behaviour with different type-checking
modes.
No implementation is added. This diff serves as an RFC to hash out the
details before I dive into code.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D19578329
fbshipit-source-id: b1a9f6162
Summary:
In practice, condition redundant is extremely noisy and low-signal
warning (hence it is turned off by default).
This diff does minor tweaks, without the intention to change anything
substantially:
1/ Change severity to advice
2/ Change "is" to "might be"
3/ Describe the reason in case the origin comes from a method.
The short term motivation is to use 3/ for specific use-case: running nullsafe on codebase and
identify most suspicious functions (that are not annotated by often
compared with null).
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19553571
fbshipit-source-id: 2b43ea0af
Summary: We were lacking this kind of test where one interface refines the nullability of the other.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D19514245
fbshipit-source-id: fa3e781f3
Summary:
This is a common enough case to make error message specific.
Also let's ensure it's modelled.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19431899
fbshipit-source-id: f34459cb3
Summary:
The previous diff changes the message for params case, this one handles
return.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19430706
fbshipit-source-id: f897f0e56
Summary:
As suggested by Ilya, the current message can be improved in a way that
it can contain more clear action. I also added artempyanykh's explanation at the
end of message to provide an additional justification from common sense
perspective.
But most importantly, the previous message was missing a space which is
eye bleeding, how come haven't I noticed this before, I can't stand it
OMG.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19430271
fbshipit-source-id: dd31f7adb
Summary: This diff implements this for Field Not Initialized check
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19393989
fbshipit-source-id: cf60e8d53
Summary:
This diff does it for nullable dereference and assignment violations
rules which happen under NullsafeStrict case.
Follow up are to make the same for inheritance and field initializer
violations.
Possible follow up includes making error message more specific and
articulare this this is a nullsafe strict mode.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D19392916
fbshipit-source-id: 2554ac7a7
Summary:
Previously, _override resolution_ considered only the number of
arguments. This led to many FPs in nullsafe's _Inconsistent Subclass
Annotation_ check.
Current version also checks that argument types match. However, we
still don't handle type parameters and erasure, so in this sense the
rules are incomplete.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis, mityal
Differential Revision: D19393201
fbshipit-source-id: a0c75b8dd
Summary:
Java treats switch on nullables in a non-obvious way (throws an NPE
surprise) so lets have a decidated test exactly for this.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D19371280
fbshipit-source-id: d9867b6d6
Summary:
Old versions of sawja/javalib got the line numbers slightly wrong. The workaround was to do a regexp search in the source file for the right line.
My understanding is that this is no longer necessary. This diff removes it.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D19033415
fbshipit-source-id: 2da19d66d
Summary:
According to Java semantics, they are always non-null.
Internally they are represented as static fields, so they have
DeclaredNonnull nullability, which means NullsafeStrict mode would
refuse to use them without strictification.
Lets teach nullsafe that these guys are non-nullables.
See also FN in test case.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D19024547
fbshipit-source-id: 8c120fa50
Summary:
Now we point to the root cause of the problem, and also provide
actionable way to solve the issue
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18575650
fbshipit-source-id: ba4884fe1
Summary:
Two goals:
1. Be less assertive when speaking about third party code (it might be
written with different conventions).
2. Point to third party signatures folder so the users know how to
proceed
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18571514
fbshipit-source-id: 854d6e746
Summary:
1/ We now support messaging for third-party: show file name and line
number
2/ We did not show information about internal models in case of param
calls
3/ Small change: we don't specify "modelTables.ml" anymore: no need to
expose implementation details
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18569790
fbshipit-source-id: 28586c8ff
Summary:
Whole bunch of changes aimed to make error messages more clear and
concise.
1/ Wording and language is unified. We make errors sound more like a
type system violations, rather than linter reccomendations.
Particularly, we refrain from saying things like "may be null" - this is
a linter-style statement that may provoke discussions (what if the
developer knows it can not be null in this particular case).
Instead, we refer to declared nullability and nullability of actual values. This way, it is more clear that this is not a heuristic, this is how rules of a type-system work.
2/ Additionally, we drop things like field class in places when the
context should be clear by who looks at the error. We expect the user
sees the code and the error caption. So e.g. we don't repeat the word "field"
twice.
3/ In cases when we are able to retrieve formal param name, we include it for
usability.
4/ For Field not initialized error, we refer to Initializer methods:
this is a non-obvious but important nullsafe feature.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18569762
fbshipit-source-id: 9221d7102
Summary:
It make the message bit less heavy, and also it is kind of obvious that
it is origin.
In follow up diffs we will change the text so it is hopefully even more
obvious.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18527695
fbshipit-source-id: a305d547b
Summary:
1. We don't want to teach the users to ignore noise origin because
sometimes we are going to render something useful for them.
2. It just looks not cool.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18527694
fbshipit-source-id: 0ea248122
Summary: Follow ups will include error messaging that makes the choice clear
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18347664
fbshipit-source-id: b6f005726
Summary:
In this diff, we just load the info from the storage. Next diff will be
actually using this information to infer nullability.
`ThirdPartyAnnotationGlobalRepo.get_repo` will be used in the next diff,
hence #skipdeadcode
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D18347647
fbshipit-source-id: 82a9223c6
Summary:
Primitive types are not annotated. Because of that, we used to implicitly derive
`DeclaredNonnull` type for them. This worked fine, but this leads to errors in Strict mode, which does
not believe DeclaredNonnull type.
Now lets offifically teach nullsafe that primitive types are
non-nullable.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D18114623
fbshipit-source-id: 227217931
Summary:
The wrong function was used when we tried to see if the class is
annotated with NullsafeStrict. This made it work only for non-static
methods.
Now we use the proper way.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D18113848
fbshipit-source-id: 02b7555be
Summary:
This is the first take on strict mode semantics.
The main invariant of strict mode is the following:
If the function passes `NullsafeStrict` check and its return value is
NOT annotated as Nullable, then the function does not indeed return
nulls, subject to unsoundness issues (which should either be fixed, or
should rarely happen in practice).
This invariant helps the caller in two ways:
1. Dangerous usages of non strict functions are visible, so the caller is enforced to check them (via assertions or conditions), or strictify them.
2. When the function is strict, the caller does not need to worry about
being defensive.
Biggest known issues so far:
1. Condition redundant and over-annotated warnings don't fully
respect strict mode, and this leads to stupid false positives. (There is
so much more stupid false positives in condition redundant anyway, so
not particularly a big deal for now).
2. Error reporting is not specific to mode. (E.g. we don't distinct real nullables and non-trusted non-nulls, which can be misleading). To be
improved as a follow up.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17978166
fbshipit-source-id: d6146ad71
Summary:
This is an intermediate nullability type powering future Strict mode.
See the next diff.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17977909
fbshipit-source-id: 2d5ab66d4
Summary:
The current usage has several issues reducing code maintainability and
readability:
1. Null_field_access was misleading: it was used for checking accesing
to arrays as well!
2. But actually, when checking access to array via `length`, we sometimes
pretended it is a field access (hence very tricky code in rendering the
error).
3. "Call receiver consistency" is unclear name, was not obvious that it is all about
calling a method in an object.
Let's also consolidate code.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17789618
fbshipit-source-id: 9b0f58c9c
Summary:
Turns out, we did not have such a test in place.
Known issue: we report over-annotated warnings for each fields N times,
one per constructor, which is wrong.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17574791
fbshipit-source-id: def992691
Summary:
This continues work for eliminating Annot.Item.t from Nullsafe low-level
code.
The introduced function `from_nullsafe_type` is called when we infer
initial type of the equation based on the function or field formal signature.
Before that, we did it via reading the annotation directly, which
complicates the logic and making introducing Unknown nullability tricky.
## Clarifying the semantics of PropagatesNullable
This diff also clarifies (and changes) the behavior of PropagatesNullable params.
Previously, if the return value of a function that has PropagatesNullable params was
annotated as Nullable, nullsafe was effectively ignoring PropagatesNullable effect.
This is especially bad because one can add Nullable annotation based on the logic "if the function can return `null`, it should be annotated with Nullable`.
In the new design, there is no possibility for such a misuse: the code that
applies the rule "any param is PropagatesNullable hence the return
value is nullable even if not explicitly annotated" lives in NullsafeType.ml, so
this will be automatically taken into account.
Meaning that now we implicitly deduce Nullable annotation for the return value, and providing it explicitly as an alternative that does not change the effect.
In the future, we might consider annotating the return value with `Nullable` explicit.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D17479157
fbshipit-source-id: 66c2c8777
Summary:
D17397144 adds dedicated tests for condition redundant.
We also have tests for overannotated methods.
This makes these test cases redundant. Let's not pollute the results.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17398757
fbshipit-source-id: 10f6beeca
Summary:
This will simplify modifying functionality around this type of error.
Also rename the file for clarity.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D17397144
fbshipit-source-id: 552215243
Summary:
Get rid of helper class `C`, normal Object serves the same goal well
Don't return values from a function, focus only on nullable
dereferences.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17314569
fbshipit-source-id: d70e66b5f
Summary:
1. Split into 3 subclasses for 3 major set of features we test
2. Document a known FP
3. More clear names
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17285902
fbshipit-source-id: 66e3b5668
Summary:
Let's consolidate "positive" and "negative" cased together by adding an example
of not annotated class as a source of "negative" cases.
Also join the case with modelled methods to the same class.
Reviewed By: jberdine
Differential Revision: D17284101
fbshipit-source-id: e15e60691
Summary:
There are currently plenty of ways to suppress the warning, including Inject, Initializer, and SuppressFieldNotInitialized annotations.
This one (annotating field with Nonnull) is counter-intuitive and does not align with gradual nullsafe
semantics we are working on.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17281702
fbshipit-source-id: 132e1b687
Summary: let's always have positive and negative case for each feature we test
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D17206785
fbshipit-source-id: 5791ace48
Summary:
1. Let's move it to the file dedicated to this particular warning.
2. Make it more general (Activity was just a particular case) and describe in comments what it really does.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D17205919
fbshipit-source-id: 82bf5e9bd
Summary:
1. Remove boilerplate with builder that uses builder initializer; it
demostates a usecase but it is not really relevant for the test so it
distracts attention.
Instead, describe the usecase in the comment
2. Add good and bad cases so it is obvious what exactly do we test.
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17204969
fbshipit-source-id: 005ea078b
Summary:
Let's combine with the one that tests a very similar thing for known
cleanup methods
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D17204206
fbshipit-source-id: dbdbde903
Summary:
1. Remove manipulations with "shadowed" fields and abstract class, I don't believe they produced high quality signal (and no related warnings in the test output).
2. For each failure case provide corresponding success case and the
reverse
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17203240
fbshipit-source-id: c809857ed
Summary:
1. Let's make the intention of the test more visible, also let's provide an example
when the error does occur.
2. `onDestroy` silence "field not nullable" warnigs not only for `View`, but for any objects, so let's use `String` (as an example of a trivial object) instead.
Original diff that introduced the test: D10024458
Reviewed By: artempyanykh
Differential Revision: D17202839
fbshipit-source-id: 037d937e4
Summary:
See motivation below.
This diff is dealing with FieldNotNullable:
- move not relevant subclasses into dedicated classes and files
- modify the tests so they comply with the standards below
--Motivation--
Gradual mode we are going to introduce is an invasive change in how Infer
treats nullability semantics.
In order to make the change in a controllable way, we need the tests to comply with the
following standards and conventions.
1. For each code peace where we expect a bug to happen, the there should be
corresponding (minimally different from above) peace of code where we expect a bug to NOT happen. (This is to ensure bug is happening for exact reason we think it is happening).
2. Conversely: for each peace of code where we expect a bug to be NOT
present, there shuold be a peace of code where the bug IS happening.
(Otherwise there can be too many reasons for a bug NOT to happen).
3. Convention: end corresponding methods IsOK and IsBUG correspondingly.
4. Keep code examples as small as possible.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D17183222
fbshipit-source-id: 83d03e67f
Summary:
In next diff, we are going to introduce a new mode of nullsafe
(gradual). For testing, we are going to employ the strategy used by jvillard
for Pulse.
In this diff we split tests into two subfolders, one for the default and one for the gradual
mode.
We are planning to make the gradual mode default eventually. For that, most
new features will make sense for gradual mode, and we will mostly evolve
tests for that mode.
As for 'default' mode, we need to preserve tests mostly to ensure we don't introduce
regressions.
Occasionally, we might make changes that make sense for both modes, in
this (expected relatively rare) cases we will make changes to both set
of tests.
An alternative strategy would be to have two sets of issues.exp files,
one for gradual and one for default mode. This has an advantage of each
java file to be always tested twice, but disadvantage is that it will be
harder to write meaningful test code so that it makes sense for both
modes simultaneously.
Reviewed By: ngorogiannis
Differential Revision: D17156724
fbshipit-source-id: a92a9208f
Artem Pianykh
Mitya Lyubarskiy
Nikos Gorogiannis