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.
Previously some of these were accessing such fields through a subclass
of the declaring class. That creates an unnecessary extra inter-class
dependency lower in the type hierarchy than necessary.
Also, suppress this warning in an automated test input where the
indirect static accesses are explicitly intentional.
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.
In each of these cases, the constructor directly or indirectly has
side effects that we want to keep, even if the object itself is not
retained and used by eht code that invokes `new`.
We used to use junit.framework.Assert for test assertions, and that
class reports failures by throwing
junit.framework.AssertionFailedError. However, junit.framework.Assert
is obsoleted by org.junit.Assert, and we've already replaced the
former with the latter. org.junit.Assert reports failures by throwing
java.lang.AssertionError, so that's what we need to expect in our
testing infrastructure.
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
Ben Liblit
Julian Dolby
Julian Dolby
Juergen Graf
Manu Sridharan
Manu Sridharan