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[cmd] Fix FP annotations in the case of local-remote diffs #3956

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Source code suppressions seem to work funny (meaning: really buggy) in the context of diffs. An earlier PR, #3944 fixed a similar issue in the local-local diff case: we forgot to take source code suppressions into account for the baseline set.

The issue is somewhat worse for local-remote and remote-local diffs, as discussed in issue #3884.

As a feature, this should be comically simple: calculate the set of outstanding reports from the "baseline" and the "new" sets. Suppose these sets are called O(baseline) and O(new). Then, calculating diffs should be this easy:

  • NEW: O(new) - O(baseline)
  • RESOLVED: O(baseline) - O(new)
  • UNRESOLVED: The intersection of O(baseline) and O(new)

But, for historical and performance reasons, the way we do this is far, far more convoluted. We use two API calls: getDiffResultsHash and getRunResults.

We use the former call to send the list of bug reports (and more specifically, only the bug hashes of those reports) we have locally to the server, and it returns a set of hashes found on the server, ideally those that would be present in the diff set. We constantly change and adjust these sets of hashes with review status rules, source code suppressions, and after some juggling, we ask for the actual report objects (as opposed to simple hashes) via getRunResults.

Looking at get_diff_local_dir_remote_run in cmd_line_client.py, the implementation is super complicated, and its hard to judge whether we truly need this much complexity for something that theoretically so simple.

Fixing the specific bug of not handling source code suppressions well could be done, on a high level from two approaches: fixing up the API calls on the server side to not return the the hashes that shouldn't be present in the final result, or patch the client to filter them out.

This patch presents the client-only approach. Here is my argument for it.

We already branch out for older client versions within (#3746), so it would be a chore to fix this for both client versions. You can argue whether fixing this only for later client versions is okay (thats a fair argument), but I think its fair to ask users to upgrade their client if its starts misbehaving. After all, the tool doesn't break, it just work a little funny (meaning: really buggy), which it already does for the local-local case that had to be fixed client side.

ANYWAYS.

The fix is simple: filter for unreviewed and confirmed reports before calling getRunResults. I added new tests for tags just to be sure that it doesn't break anything unrelated, but their behaviour didn't change as a result of this patch.

Source code suppressions seem to work funny (meaning: really buggy) in
the context of diffs. An earlier PR, Ericsson#3944 fixed a similar issue in the
local-local diff case: we forgot to take source code suppressions into
account for the baseline set.

The issue is somewhat worse for local-remote and remote-local diffs, as
discussed in issue Ericsson#3884.

As a feature, this should be comically simple: calculate the set of
outstanding reports from the "baseline" and the "new" sets. Suppose
these sets are called O(baseline) and O(new). Then, calculating diffs
should be this easy:

* NEW: O(new) - O(baseline)
* RESOLVED: O(baseline) - O(new)
* UNRESOLVED: The intersection of O(baseline) and O(new)

But, for historical and performance reasons, the way we do this is far,
far more convoluted. We use two API calls: `getDiffResultsHash` and
`getRunResults`.

We use the former call to send the list of bug reports (and more
specifically, only the bug hashes of those reports) we have locally to
the server, and it returns a set of hashes found on the server, ideally
those that would be present in the diff set. We constantly change and
adjust these sets of hashes with review status rules, source code
suppressions, and after some juggling, we ask for the actual report
objects (as opposed to simple hashes) via `getRunResults`.

Looking at `get_diff_local_dir_remote_run` in `cmd_line_client.py`, the
implementation is super complicated, and its hard to judge whether we
truly need this much complexity for something that theoretically so
simple.

Fixing the specific bug of not handling source code suppressions well
could be done, on a high level from two approaches: fixing up the API
calls on the server side to not return the the hashes that shouldn't be
present in the final result, or patch the client to filter them out.

This patch presents the client-only approach. Here is my argument for
it.

We already branch out for older client versions within (Ericsson#3746), so it
would be a chore to fix this for both client versions. You can argue
whether fixing this only for later client versions is okay (thats a fair
argument), but I think its fair to ask users to upgrade their client if
its starts misbehaving. After all, the tool doesn't break, it just work
a little funny (meaning: really buggy), which it already does for the
local-local case that had to be fixed client side.

ANYWAYS.

The fix is simple: filter for unreviewed and confirmed reports before
calling `getRunResults`. I added new tests for tags just to be sure that
it doesn't break anything unrelated, but their behaviour didn't change
as a result of this patch.
@Szelethus Szelethus added CLI 💻 Related to the command-line interface, such as the cmd, store, etc. commands bugfix 🔨 labels Jul 13, 2023
@Szelethus Szelethus added this to the release 6.23.0 milestone Jul 13, 2023
@bruntib bruntib merged commit f0c4ff5 into Ericsson:master Jul 25, 2023
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