In general, my approach was to try to eliminate each unused parameter
using Eclipse's "Change Method Signature" refactoring. That did not
always succeed: a parameter may be unused in some base class method,
but then be used in subclass's override of that method. In cases
where refactoring to eliminate a parameter failed, I instead annotated
the parameter with '@SuppressWarnings("unused")' to silence the
warning.
Note: this group of changes creates a significant risk of
incompatibility for third-party WALA code. Some removed parameters
change externally-visible APIs. Furthermore, these changes do not
necessarily lead to Java compilation errors. For example, suppose
third-party code subclasses a WALA class or interface, overrides a
method, but does not annotate that method as @Override. Removing a
parameter means that the third-party method no longer overrides. This
can quietly change code behavior without compile-time errors or
warnings. This is exactly why one should use @Override wherever
possible, but we cannot guarantee that third-party WALA users have
done that.
Unnecessary "throws" declarations tend to cascade. If foo() calls
bar() and bar() falsely declares that it might throw IOException, that
often leads a programmer to declare that foo() might throw IOException
as well. Fixing the bar() throws declaration then reveals that we can
fix the foo() throws declaration too. By the time we reach a fixed
point with cleaning these up, we have removed roughly 320 unnecessary
throws declarations.
In a few cases, this cleanup even lets us remove entire "try
... catch" statements where the only thing being caught was an
exception that we now statically know cannot be thrown. Nice!
In Eclipse project configurations, upgrade any future such shenanigans
from warnings to errors. Now that we've fixed this, we don't want it
coming back again.
There is a potential drawback to this change. Conceivably some public
WALA API entry point might have declared that it could throw some
exception merely to reserve the *option* of throwing that exception in
third-party code that subclasses and overrides the API entry point in
question. I have no idea whether this is a significant concern in
practice, though.
I have *not* upgraded this problem to be treated as an error in the
future. Unfortunately Eclipse uses a single configuration setting for
both unnecessary semicolons and also for empty control-flow statements
like `while (p) ;`. I'm not convinced that it's worth rewriting all
instances of the latter into `while (p) { }`. So this is just going
to stay as a warning for now.
There are two such diagnostics: one for collection methods and one for
equals(). See
<https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/jdt.php#unlikely-argument-types>
for more information about these two new diagnostics.
For each of these diagnostics, I've set the severity level to
"warning" in projects that have some instances of the suspicious code,
or to "error" in projects that have no instances of the suspicious
code.
The additional diagnostics are ones that were previously being
ignored, but which we seem to have been ignoring by default rather
than as a conscious choice.
For diagnostics of which we currently have *zero* instances, treat
these as errors rather than merely warnings. The intent is to
permanently lock out future regressions of things we've completely
fixed. In the future, whenever we fix the last instance of a given
warning in a given Eclipse project, we should also promote that
diagnostic to an error to keep things clean into the future.
If a method is private, there's no risk that a subclass elsewhere
might be overriding it and depending on dynamic dispatch to choose the
right implementation. So all of these private methods can safely be
declared static without risk of regression in either WALA code or
unseen third-party code.
The "potentially" qualifier is here because these methods are visible
outside the WALA source tree. These methods may seem OK to be static
based on the code we have here, but we have no way of knowing whether
third-party code expected to be able to subclass and override. I'm
going to play it safe and assume that we want to allow that.
Note that we are still allowing Eclipse warnings about methods that
can *definitely* be declared static; a different configuration option
controls these. For private methods, final methods, and methods in
final classes, if the code seems static-safe based on what we have
here, then that's good enough: we don't need to worry about
third-party overrides.
Specifically, these are all warnings of the form "The
'javacProjectSettings' build entry should be set when there are project
specific compiler settings".
Specifically, we're turning off Eclipse warnings about missing version
constraints on required bundles ("Require-Bundle"), exported
packages ("Export-Package"), and imported packages ("Import-Package").
We're not turning these off absolutely everywhere, though: only in
packages where one or more such warnings were actually being reported.
So if a given package was already providing all version constraints
for, say, package imports, then we've kept that warning on in that
package.
Honestly I don't entirely understand the practical implications of
these warnings. However, there were 355 of them across many WALA
subprojects. I take this as evidence that the WALA developers do not
consider these version constraints to be important. Therefore, we may
as well stop warning about something we have no intention of fixing.
That being said, if we *do* want to fix some or all of these, I
welcome any advice on what those fixes should look like. I am rather
ignorant about all things OSGi.
Manu requested that we use this approach instead of adding
`@SuppressWarnings("unused")` at each affected catch block. That
seems reasonable to me, given the large number of such warnings and
the lack of likely harm from ignoring such caught exceptions.
These changes turn off Eclipse warnings for Javadoc tags without
descriptions. In some subprojects, we turn these off entirely. In
others, leave on missing-descrption checks for "@return" tags only.
We don't turn this warning off in all projects. Rather, we turn it
off only in projects that were producing at least one such warning.
In other words, if a project was already completely "clean" with
respect to this warning, then we leave this warning enabled for that
project.
Turning off these warnings is a partial declaration of Javadoc
bankruptcy. In an ideal world, we would enable and fix all of these
warnings. However, there are 576 of them. Apparently the WALA team's
implicit coding style says that omitting descriptions is OK. If
there's no intent to systematically add descriptions, then we may as
well turn off these warnings so that we can see other warnings that we
may want to fix.
In the cases addressed here, the caught exception was being "handled"
by throwing some new exception. Instead of discarding the old
exception, pass it to the new exception's constructor to indicate the
original cause of the newly-created exception. This practice, called
"exception chaining", can often be useful in debugging.
The assert will throw AssertionError if it finds a bad argument,
unless the code is running without assertion checking enabled. The
"if" will throw an IllegalArgumentException if it finds the same bad
argument, and that check is always enabled. Better to be consistent
in what exception is used to report a bad argument. Since the "if" is
always active, let's go with that and remove the redundant,
not-always-active assert.
This fixes 33 out of 37 Eclipse "Potential resource leak: '...' may
not be closed" warnings. It also fixes 3 out of 37 Eclipse "Resource
'...' should be managed by try-with-resource" warnings, although that
was not the main focus of this effort.
The remaining 4 warnings about potential resource leaks all involve a
leaked JarFile instance that is passed to a JarFileModule constructor
call. JarFileModile never attempts to close its underlying JarFile;
this code is written as though JarFile cleanup were the caller's
responsibility. However, the JarFile often cannot be closed by the
code that creates the JarFileModule either, since the JarFile needs to
remain open while the JarFileModule is in use, and some of these
JarFileModules stay around beyond the lifetime of the code that
created them. Truly fixing this would essentially require making
JarFileModule implement Closeable, which in turn would probably
require that Module implement Closeable, which in turn would require
changes to lots of code that deals with Module instances to arrange
for them to be properly closed. That's more invasive than I'm
prepared to take on right now.
Instead, rely on Java's ability to infer type parameters in many
contexts. This removes 665 Eclipse warnings.
Note: a few of these changes are to files under "test" subdirectories.
Presumably those are files that serve as test inputs rather than being
part of WALA code proper. As far as I can tell, these changes do not
break any WALA tests. But if any of those tests were specifically
intended to exercise WALA on code with non-inferred generic type
parameters, then I really should be leaving those alone.
Previously, the various Eclipse projects' Java configurations used
mixtures of 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8. Many were internally inconsistent,
such as requiring 1.7 in "MANIFEST.MF" but 1.6 in the Eclipse JDT
build preferences. The Travis-CI configuration tests against both 1.7
and 1.8, but does not test against 1.6.
Across all projects, the most common version was 1.7. So I'm going to
assume that 1.7 is the intended build target. This commit makes 1.7
the selected version nearly everywhere.
"com.ibm.wala.core.testdata" is the one exception. This specific
project uses a few features only found in 1.8, such as lambda
expressions. Previously, "com.ibm.wala.core.testdata" used 1.7 in
some aspects of its configuration but 1.8 in others. Now it
consistently targets 1.8. I wish this one project didn't need to be
inconsistent with the rest of WALA, but at least now it's consistent
with itself.
(Personally, I'd be happy to target 1.8 only. But my impression
across all of these configuration files is that the WALA developers
still want to be compatible with 1.7. If that is no longer a
requirement, let me know and I will adjust these changes accordingly
to target 1.8 only.)
This change eliminates 11 "There is no 'jre.compilation.profile' build
entry and the project has Java compliance preferences set" warnings
and 13 "The JRE container on the classpath is not a perfect match to
the 'JavaSE-1.7' execution environment" warnings. However, it also
adds 450 "Redundant specification of type arguments <...>" warnings
and 17 "Resource '...' should be managed by try-with-resource"
warnings. So this seems like a net step backward in my wish to reduce
WALA warnings. However, those new warnings concern Java 1.7 language
features that we were not previously using to good effect in projects
that targeted 1.6. If we all agree that we can now target 1.7
instead, then we can use these helpful features as the newly-added
warnings suggest. So I call that a step in the right direction.
I think the "target/p2artifacts.xml" and "target/p2content.xml" files
are generated by Maven. They are well-formed XML but Eclipse's XML
validator legitimately warns that they lack grammar constraints.
Since we're not maintaining the tool that creates these files, we are
not in a position to do anything about that. Therefore, we may as
well exclude these from validation entirely. That way we can
more-clearly recognize warnings that we *can* do something about.
Eclipse validation warns about invalid HTML content in all
Maven-generated "target/site/dependency-convergence.html" files. The
warnings are legitimate: these HTML files are indeed invalid.
However, we don't maintain the tool that generates these files, so we
are not in a position to fix them. Better, therefore, to suppress
these warnings so that we can notice and fix other problems over which
we do have control.
In general, the WALA code base is not really ready for nullness
checking. It would be nice if we got there some day, but I'm not
planning to take that on now or any time soon. Until then, it's not
useful to warn about missing @NonNullByDefault declarations on WALA
packages.
See also older commit 7b6811b.
Eclipse Mars Service Release 2 finds 45 potential null pointer accesses
across WALA's various Eclipse projects. Eclipse ignores these by
default, but any individual user may have changed their personal Eclipse
configuration to treat them as warnings or errors. Thus, some people
will find that the code builds while others find that it fails. Better
to explicitly use a known-good configuration.
In the long run someone should inspect these cases one-by-one and fix
them where appropriate. But that is probably better managed as part of a
larger effort to tidy up nulls in WALA. I'm not planning to take that on
now or any time soon, though, so this is a better setup for now.
now, for me, code works using e44 with maven
dalvik tests refactored for mobile version with android dev tools
IDE tests Eclipse metadata fixed to make e44 work for me
new android entrypoint to fix failure in new droidbench tests
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.rhino.test/harness-src/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/test/TestPrototypeCallGraphShapeRhino.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test/harness-src/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/test/TestPrototypeCallGraphShape.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test.data/examples-src/pages/prototype.html
work (not yet finished) on fixes to property accesses for JavaScript:
com.ibm.wala.cast/source/java/com/ibm/wala/cast/ipa/callgraph/AstSSAPropagationCallGraphBuilder.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.java/src/com/ibm/wala/cast/java/ipa/callgraph/AstJavaSSAPropagationCallGraphBuilder.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/ipa/callgraph/JSSSAPropagationCallGraphBuilder.java
currently unused tests to remind me to fix bugs:
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test/harness-src/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/test/TestSimpleCallGraphShape.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test.data/examples-src/tests/loops.js
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test.data/examples-src/tests/primitive_strings.js
fixes to exception handler code generation in JavaScript:
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.rhino/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/translator/RhinoToAstTranslator.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test.data/examples-src/tests/try.js
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test/harness-src/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/test/TestSimpleCallGraphShape.java
fixes to make the system build on both juno and luna
com.ibm.wala.cast.js.test.data/pom.xml
pom.xml
targets/e42/e42.target
targets/e44/e44.target
targets/pom.xml
com.ibm.wala.core.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
com.ibm.wala.dalvik.test/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
com.ibm.wala.ide.jdt.test/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
com.ibm.wala.ide.jdt/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/java/translator/jdt/FakeExceptionTypeBinding.java
com.ibm.wala.ide.jdt/source/com/ibm/wala/ide/util/JavaEclipseProjectPath.java
com.ibm.wala.ide.jsdt.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
com.ibm.wala.ide.jsdt.tests/src/com/ibm/wala/ide/jsdt/tests/AbstractJSProjectScopeTest.java
com.ibm.wala.ide/src/com/ibm/wala/ide/util/EclipseProjectPath.java
com.ibm.wala.ide/src/com/ibm/wala/ide/util/ProgressMonitorDelegate.java
beginnings of "pointer analysis" on top of field-based analysis
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/callgraph/fieldbased/flowgraph/FlowGraph.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/callgraph/fieldbased/flowgraph/vertices/PropVertex.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/callgraph/fieldbased/flowgraph/vertices/RetVertex.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/callgraph/fieldbased/flowgraph/vertices/VarVertex.java
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/callgraph/fieldbased/flowgraph/vertices/VertexFactory.java
com.ibm.wala.core/src/com/ibm/wala/ipa/callgraph/propagation/PointerAnalysis.java
com.ibm.wala.core/src/com/ibm/wala/ipa/callgraph/propagation/cfa/ExceptionReturnValueKey.java
fixes for crashes in correlartion tracking
com.ibm.wala.cast.js/source/com/ibm/wala/cast/js/ipa/callgraph/correlations/extraction/ClosureExtractor.java
fixes for Dalvik IR generation
com.ibm.wala.core/src/com/ibm/wala/cfg/BytecodeCFG.java
com.ibm.wala.core/src/com/ibm/wala/cfg/ShrikeCFG.java
com.ibm.wala.core/src/com/ibm/wala/ssa/SSACFG.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik.test/source/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/drivers/APKCallGraphDriver.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik.test/source/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/test/callGraph/JVMLDalvikComparison.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik/src/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/classLoader/DexCFG.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik/src/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/dex/instructions/UnaryOperation.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik/src/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/ssa/AbstractIntRegisterMachine.java
com.ibm.wala.dalvik/src/com/ibm/wala/dalvik/ssa/DexSSABuilder.java
fixes to stack map generation when instrumenting for Java 7
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrike/cg/DynamicCallGraph.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeBT/ConstantInstruction.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeBT/analysis/Analyzer.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeBT/analysis/ClassHierarchy.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeBT/analysis/Verifier.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeBT/shrikeCT/ClassInstrumenter.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeCT/StackMapConstants.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeCT/StackMapTableReader.java
com.ibm.wala.shrike/src/com/ibm/wala/shrikeCT/StackMapTableWriter.java
Removing this dependence allows our Getting Started instructions to still work.
It requires some minor code duplication, but otherwise we'd have to change a
bunch of documentation.
Specifically, rewrite ProgressMaster to not depend on Eclipse, and move
to com.ibm.wala.util. Now, we can use timeout-based code in packages
without introducing an Eclipse dependency.
added DFS path find that finds all paths in sequence rather than just one
moved the WalaException out of warnings subpackage
git-svn-id: https://wala.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wala/trunk@4257 f5eafffb-2e1d-0410-98e4-8ec43c5233c4
cleanup of how JDT analysis engines work, to make using the JDT front end more modular
bug foxes to JavaScript handling, most notably fixing scoping of functions
git-svn-id: https://wala.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wala/trunk@4123 f5eafffb-2e1d-0410-98e4-8ec43c5233c4