// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// This file contains boolean condition tests.
package main
import (
"go/ast"
"go/token"
)
func init() {
register("bool",
"check for mistakes involving boolean operators",
checkBool,
binaryExpr)
}
func checkBool(f *File, n ast.Node) {
e := n.(*ast.BinaryExpr)
var op boolOp
switch e.Op {
case token.LOR:
op = or
case token.LAND:
op = and
default:
return
}
comm := op.commutativeSets(e)
for _, exprs := range comm {
op.checkRedundant(f, exprs)
op.checkSuspect(f, exprs)
}
}
type boolOp struct {
name string
tok token.Token // token corresponding to this operator
badEq token.Token // token corresponding to the equality test that should not be used with this operator
}
var (
or = boolOp{"or", token.LOR, token.NEQ}
and = boolOp{"and", token.LAND, token.EQL}
)
// commutativeSets returns all side effect free sets of
// expressions in e that are connected by op.
// For example, given 'a || b || f() || c || d' with the or op,
// commutativeSets returns {{b, a}, {d, c}}.
func (op boolOp) commutativeSets(e *ast.BinaryExpr) [][]ast.Expr {
exprs := op.split(e)
// Partition the slice of expressions into commutative sets.
i := 0
var sets [][]ast.Expr
for j := 0; j <= len(exprs); j++ {
if j == len(exprs) || hasSideEffects(exprs[j]) {
if i < j {
sets = append(sets, exprs[i:j])
}
i = j + 1
}
}
return sets
}
// checkRedundant checks for expressions of the form
// e && e
// e || e
// Exprs must contain only side effect free expressions.
func (op boolOp) checkRedundant(f *File, exprs []ast.Expr) {
seen := make(map[string]bool)
for _, e := range exprs {
efmt := f.gofmt(e)
if seen[efmt] {
f.Badf(e.Pos(), "redundant %s: %s %s %s", op.name, efmt, op.tok, efmt)
} else {
seen[efmt] = true
}
}
}
// checkSuspect checks for expressions of the form
// x != c1 || x != c2
// x == c1 && x == c2
// where c1 and c2 are constant expressions.
// If c1 and c2 are the same then it's redundant;
// if c1 and c2 are different then it's always true or always false.
// Exprs must contain only side effect free expressions.
func (op boolOp) checkSuspect(f *File, exprs []ast.Expr) {
// seen maps from expressions 'x' to equality expressions 'x != c'.
seen := make(map[string]string)
for _, e := range exprs {
bin, ok := e.(*ast.BinaryExpr)
if !ok || bin.Op != op.badEq {
continue
}
// In order to avoid false positives, restrict to cases
// in which one of the operands is constant. We're then
// interested in the other operand.
// In the rare case in which both operands are constant
// (e.g. runtime.GOOS and "windows"), we'll only catch
// mistakes if the LHS is repeated, which is how most
// code is written.
var x ast.Expr
switch {
case f.pkg.types[bin.Y].Value != nil:
x = bin.X
case f.pkg.types[bin.X].Value != nil:
x = bin.Y
default:
continue
}
// e is of the form 'x != c' or 'x == c'.
xfmt := f.gofmt(x)
efmt := f.gofmt(e)
if prev, found := seen[xfmt]; found {
// checkRedundant handles the case in which efmt == prev.
if efmt != prev {
f.Badf(e.Pos(), "suspect %s: %s %s %s", op.name, efmt, op.tok, prev)
}
} else {
seen[xfmt] = efmt
}
}
}
// hasSideEffects reports whether evaluation of e has side effects.
func hasSideEffects(e ast.Expr) bool {
safe := true
ast.Inspect(e, func(node ast.Node) bool {
switch n := node.(type) {
// Using CallExpr here will catch conversions
// as well as function and method invocations.
// We'll live with the false negatives for now.
case *ast.CallExpr:
safe = false
return false
case *ast.UnaryExpr:
if n.Op == token.ARROW {
safe = false
return false
}
}
return true
})
return !safe
}
// split returns a slice of all subexpressions in e that are connected by op.
// For example, given 'a || (b || c) || d' with the or op,
// split returns []{d, c, b, a}.
func (op boolOp) split(e ast.Expr) (exprs []ast.Expr) {
for {
e = unparen(e)
if b, ok := e.(*ast.BinaryExpr); ok && b.Op == op.tok {
exprs = append(exprs, op.split(b.Y)...)
e = b.X
} else {
exprs = append(exprs, e)
break
}
}
return
}
// unparen returns e with any enclosing parentheses stripped.
func unparen(e ast.Expr) ast.Expr {
for {
p, ok := e.(*ast.ParenExpr)
if !ok {
return e
}
e = p.X
}
}