Query language attr cannot filter on the name attribute.

[damienmg]

Repro:
bazel query 'attr("name", ".*", //...)'

Result:
an empty set.

Expected:
All rule target

[buchgr]

@damienmg @laszlocsomor It seems to work for me with the current master branch.

Running the command on the "Getting Started" example project gives:

buchgr@buchgr0:~/code/build-java$ bazel query 'attr("name", ".*", //...)'
..........
//src/main/java/com/example/cmdline:runner
//:my-runner
//:my-other-runner
//:greeter

Running the command on the bazel code base also seems to work

buchgr@buchgr0:~/code/bazel$ bazel query 'attr("name", ".*", //...)' | wc -l
1249

[laszlocsomor]

Filtering still doesn't work for me with 0.4.4:

$ ../bazel-0.4.4.exe query '//src:*' | grep "install"
//src:install_base_key_notools
//src:install_base_key-file_notools
//src:install_base_key
//src:install_base_key-file

$ ../bazel-0.4.4.exe query 'attr("name", ".*install.*", "//src:*")'
INFO: Empty results

[buchgr]

@laszlocsomor I can reproduce the bug.Will look...

Also, should bazel query '//src:*' and bazel query 'attr("name", ".*", "//src:*")' be equivalent? I get different result set with 0.4.4.

[laszlocsomor]

They should be different. The first one lists input and output file targets along with rules, the second one should only list rules.

[buchgr]

It seems like a problem accessing the attribute value - it's always the empty string.

While query 'attr("name", ".*", "//src:*")' works, query 'attr("name", ".+", "//src:*")' does not (.* vs .+ in the pattern).