Make outbox-listener-delivery-required path-aware - #1040
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe outbox delivery lint rule now checks reachable listener code. It excludes dead branches, unreachable statements, unused helpers, and unrelated callbacks while recognizing delivery calls in invoked helpers and supported control-flow constructs. ChangesOutbox delivery path awareness
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fedify-dev#1040 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
codecov flagged the previous commit's reachable-statement walker as under-tested: the if/else, try/catch/finally, switch, and loop branches it added for control-flow traversal had no test exercising them, and the if (true)/else pairing—the mirror of the existing if (false) case—was untested in either direction. Add tests for a delivery call inside a non-literal if branch, inside try/catch/finally, inside a switch case, and inside a for-of loop, plus a regression test for a delivery call left in the dead else branch of if (true). fedify-dev#1040 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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Thanks for taking this on. Could you retarget this to main rather than 2.2-maintenance?
I see why you chose 2.2-maintenance: outbox-listener-delivery-required landed in 2.2.0, so that is the oldest maintenance branch carrying the rule. I don't think this is a bug fix, though.
The change makes the rule report more errors than before. Someone upgrading from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13 would get lint failures in code that passed before, without having changed anything on their side. That's a lot to spring on a patch release. The one lint change we've shipped to maintenance branches so far, #974, went the other way: it removed false positives, so the worst an upgrader saw was some warnings disappearing. ESLint's semver policy draws the same line, where a rule fix that produces more errors is a minor release.
Nothing in #900 marks it as a bug either. It calls the original implementation deliberately simple and frames this as the next step rather than reporting a defect, and the diff adds 187 lines of new reachability analysis, which fits that description.
So main, where the unreleased version is 2.4.0.
Two small things while you're rebasing. Please drop the CHANGES.md edit and keep only the fragment: fragments under changes.d/ are materialized into CHANGES.md at release time, as configured in sacho.toml, so the hand-written section would end up duplicated.
In the fragment itself, could you describe the cases the rule now catches instead of calling this “Fixed”? That would tell users more clearly why they may start seeing new reports.
The rule work itself looks good, and the reverted-fix check in your testing notes was helpful. I'll do a full code review once it's on main.
The rule decided whether an outbox listener delivers a posted activity by scanning the listener's source text for a ctx.sendActivity()/forwardActivity() call, regardless of whether that code actually runs. A call inside an unused nested helper function, behind a statically-dead branch, or inside a callback passed to an unrelated function (e.g. array.map()) was enough to satisfy the check. Add a scan that follows the listener's own reachable control flow — skipping dead branches and code after an unconditional return/throw, and not descending into a nested function's body unless that function is itself called from reachable code — before falling back to the existing text-based pattern matching for the delivery call itself. fedify-dev#900 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
fedify-dev#1040 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
codecov flagged the previous commit's reachable-statement walker as under-tested: the if/else, try/catch/finally, switch, and loop branches it added for control-flow traversal had no test exercising them, and the if (true)/else pairing—the mirror of the existing if (false) case—was untested in either direction. Add tests for a delivery call inside a non-literal if branch, inside try/catch/finally, inside a switch case, and inside a for-of loop, plus a regression test for a delivery call left in the dead else branch of if (true). fedify-dev#1040 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
dahlia pointed out this isn't a safe patch-release change: the rule now reports more errors than before, so someone upgrading a maintenance-branch patch version would see new lint failures in code they didn't touch. fedify-dev#974, the only other lint change shipped to a maintenance branch, went the opposite direction (fewer false positives). Target main instead, where the unreleased version is 2.4.0. Also, per review: drop the hand-written CHANGES.md edit and keep only the changes.d fragment, since sacho materializes fragments into CHANGES.md at release time and a hand-written section would end up duplicated. Reword the fragment from "Fixed" to describe the cases the rule now catches, since this isn't a bug fix. fedify-dev#1040 (review) Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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- Around line 243-245: Update collectReachableStatements to return a completion
status and propagate unconditional exits from compound statements, including if
branches and switch cases. Stop scanning each enclosing statement list when the
selected path cannot continue, while preserving collection of reachable
statements on paths that may fall through.
- Around line 356-359: Update maskNestedFunctions and its shared lint-adapter
usage to retain and scan function expressions or arrow functions that serve as
CallExpression callees, so directly invoked anonymous functions preserve
delivery calls such as ctx.sendActivity. Continue masking anonymous callbacks
passed to unrelated APIs, and apply the same behavior consistently in both
adapters.
- Around line 386-389: Update the helper-call detection around the helpers
collection to strip comments and strings before matching, then test the
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Propagate unconditional exits through compound statements.
collectReachableStatements only stops when the direct child is a ReturnStatement or ThrowStatement. Therefore, if (true) return; does not stop its enclosing block, and a later delivery call remains in the scan source. SwitchStatement also continues collecting statements after a direct return in the same case.
Return a completion status from collectReachableStatements. Stop each enclosing statement list when the selected path exits unconditionally.
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In `@packages/lint/src/rules/outbox-listener-delivery-required.ts` around lines
243 - 245, Update collectReachableStatements to return a completion status and
propagate unconditional exits from compound statements, including if branches
and switch cases. Stop scanning each enclosing statement list when the selected
path cannot continue, while preserving collection of reachable statements on
paths that may fall through.
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Include directly invoked anonymous functions in the delivery scan.
maskNestedFunctions removes every nested function before scanning. Therefore, await (async () => ctx.sendActivity(...))() loses its delivery call and can be reported as missing. Track function expressions and arrow functions used as CallExpression callees, and scan only those bodies. Keep anonymous callbacks passed to unrelated APIs excluded. Apply this shared behavior to both lint adapters.
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In `@packages/lint/src/rules/outbox-listener-delivery-required.ts` around lines
356 - 359, Update maskNestedFunctions and its shared lint-adapter usage to
retain and scan function expressions or arrow functions that serve as
CallExpression callees, so directly invoked anonymous functions preserve
delivery calls such as ctx.sendActivity. Continue masking anonymous callbacks
passed to unrelated APIs, and apply the same behavior consistently in both
adapters.
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Prevent helper-name text from implying a direct call.
The helper regex runs before stripCommentsAndStrings. A named helper such as deliver can therefore be expanded when a reachable statement contains "deliver(", a comment, or obj.deliver(). The rule then accepts a listener without a direct local helper call. This is a narrow lint false negative: it requires a named helper and a matching text collision, and it affects lint acceptance rather than runtime delivery. Strip non-code text before matching and exclude member calls.
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386 - 389, Update the helper-call detection around the helpers collection to
strip comments and strings before matching, then test the resulting callable
code instead of raw code. Ensure the matching pattern excludes member calls such
as obj.deliver(), while still recognizing direct local helper invocations.
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Thanks for the rebase, and for the reverted-fix check in your testing notes. That is the kind of verification I wish more pull requests came with.
I went through the rule closely, and I think the approach needs to be reconsidered before this can land. The inline comments have the reproductions, but they share one cause, so I would rather state it here than leave it spread across seven threads.
Reachability is decided by taking the listener's source text, blanking out nested functions, and re-matching names with regexes. That representation cannot carry the distinctions the rule has to make: whether a callback's result is awaited or returned, whether an identifier is a call or a reference, which scope a name resolves in, or whether a nested exit ends the enclosing statement list. Each gap shows up as a concrete misreport. await Promise.all(recipients.map((inbox) => ctx.sendActivity(…))) is flagged although it delivers; so are inboxes.forEach(deliver), a helper held in an object literal, and a helper that calls a sibling helper. In the other direction, if (true) return; before a delivery call is accepted silently. I checked each case against main, and every false positive is clean there, so these are regressions this PR would introduce.
That is the part I want to be clear about: a lint rule that reports correct code is worse than one that misses cases. Someone whose code is already right cannot act on the report, so they reach for a disable comment, and the rule stops being worth having. That is why I would rather not patch these one at a time.
What I would suggest instead is to decide reachability on the AST. Keep collecting reachable statements as you already do, but when you reach a call expression, resolve its callee to a function node rather than matching a name as text. A local helper becomes a binding you can follow; an immediately invoked function expression becomes a callee that happens to be a function literal; a callback is reachable when the call it is passed to is reachable and its result is awaited or returned. Textual matching is still the right tool for finding sendActivity and forwardActivity and their aliased forms, but structural questions want structural answers. ESLint's scope analysis gives you variable resolution directly, and Deno's lint plugin API exposes enough of the AST for the same walk, so none of this needs type information, which keeps it inside #900's non-goals.
That amounts to a rewrite of what is here, and the history would not help anyone reading it later. If starting from a clean branch is easier, please do: close this one, open a new pull request, and I will keep #900 assigned to you. There is no expectation that you salvage the current commits.
Two things to carry over either way.
The rule's section in docs/manual/lint.md still says the rule fires when “the listener body never calls either delivery method”, with nothing about reachability, dead branches, or how nested helpers and callbacks are treated. This is a user-visible behavior change, and the feature checklist in CONTRIBUTING.md asks for documentation to move with it. The changelog fragment needs the same attention; I left a note on it about wording that does not match the implementation.
Also, please disregard my earlier advice to drop the CHANGES.md edit. That was wrong of me and it broke sacho check. The details are in the comment on the fragment, but the short version is that your original PR had it right.
The reachability idea itself is sound and worth having in the rule. Your tests are well organized and the four regression cases you picked are the right ones. It is the mechanism underneath them that I would like to see change.
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This is the common cause behind most of my other comments, so I'll start here.
maskNestedFunctions() replaces every nested function's source text with ()=>{}, and only a function called by a local name is pulled back in. An anonymous callback is therefore always treated as unreachable, even when its result is awaited immediately. All three of these pass on main and are reported on this branch:
await Promise.all(recipients.map((inbox) => ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity)));
return Promise.all(recipients.map((inbox) => ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity)));
await (async () => { await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity); })();#900 scoped the array.map() case to “when the callback is not awaited or returned”. The implementation cannot honor that qualifier, because it has no way to tell recipients.map(cb) with a discarded result from await Promise.all(recipients.map(cb)). The changelog fragment's “a callback passed to an unrelated function” describes behavior the rule does not actually have, for the same reason.
The deeper problem is deciding reachability by masking source text and re-matching names with regexes. That representation cannot express whether a callback's result is awaited or returned, whether an identifier is a call or a reference, or which scope a name resolves in. My next three comments are all consequences of it, and patching them one at a time will keep producing this class of bug.
I'd suggest moving the reachability decision onto the AST: resolve a call expression's callee to a function node, and ask whether that node is invoked from a reachable position. Textual pattern matching is worth keeping for finding the delivery method name itself, but not for control flow.
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Whether a helper is really called is decided by a \b<name>\s*\( regex, but code has not been through stripCommentsAndStrings() yet, and the pattern cannot separate a call from a reference. It goes wrong in both directions.
False positives, both clean on main:
const deliver = (inbox) => ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity);
inboxes.forEach(deliver); // passed by reference, so `deliver(` never appearsconst $deliver = async () => { await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity); };
await $deliver(); // `\b` cannot match before `$`The $ case already has an answer in this file: boundedName in buildContextExpressionPattern() uses (?<![\w$])…(?![\w$]) for exactly this reason, and matching it here would fix it.
False negatives:
console.log(ctx.identifier /* call deliver() later */); // comment read as a call
await someService.deliver(); // `.` is a word boundary, so the local `deliver` body is pulled inA comment on its own line is harmless, since it belongs to no statement's getText(). Only a comment inside a statement triggers this.
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The recursion descends only into fn.body, and helpers is collected per scope, so from inside one helper its siblings in the same scope are invisible.
async function outer() { await inner(); }
async function inner() { await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity); }
await outer();This passes on main and is reported here. Nesting inner inside outer works, so the rule breaks at the moment someone extracts a second helper alongside the first, which is a hard failure to diagnose from the message alone.
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The VariableDeclarator branch forwards nameHint to decl.init, but this generic walk recurses with collectNestedFunctions(record[key], out) and drops it. A function reached through an object literal therefore gets name: null, is masked, and is never registered as a callable helper.
const handlers = {
deliver: () => ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity),
};
await handlers.deliver();Clean on main, reported here. Method shorthand ({ async deliver() {} }) and methods of a class declared inside the listener behave the same way.
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Lower severity, but worth recording while the approach is being reconsidered.
Control-flow head expressions are never collected. IfStatement recurses into consequent and alternate but skips test; SwitchStatement walks only the case consequents, ignoring discriminant and each case's test; the loop branches walk only body, ignoring init, test, update and right. A delivery call or a helper call in any of those positions is invisible. Given sendActivity()'s return type a delivery call there is unrealistic, but a helper call in a loop or if head is not.
In the other direction, if (false) is treated as dead while the bodies of while (false) and do…while (false) still count. That is a false negative rather than a false positive, so it matches the old behavior and sits outside what #900 asked for, but it makes the dead-branch handling inconsistent.
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Two things here, and the first one is my mistake.
Reverting the CHANGES.md edit was bad advice from me, sorry. sacho.toml sets materialize = true, so the unreleased region of CHANGES.md has to agree with the fragments, and as it stands sacho check fails with “materialized changelog is out of sync with fragments”. That command is part of the check task, which CI runs, so this would fail the build. Please run sacho sync and commit the resulting CHANGES.md alongside the fragment. Your original PR was right to carry both.
The backslash in by Jae-Hyuk-Jang\] was also my error. Sacho generates it, and the same form is already in the released entries, including your #1022 one. Nothing to do there.
Separately, “inside a callback passed to an unrelated function” does not match what the rule does: it also reports callbacks whose result is awaited. Worth rewording once the implementation settles.
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| collectReachableStatements(statement as Node, out); | ||
| if (isUnconditionalExit(statement as Node)) return; |
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CodeRabbit flagged this too, and it is right.
isUnconditionalExit() is consulted only for a direct child of the block, so an exit nested one level down does not stop the enclosing statement list. All of these leave the unreachable delivery call in the scan source, and the rule stays silent:
if (true) return;
await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity);if (activity.id == null) { return; } else { return; }
await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity);switch (kind) {
case "x":
return;
await ctx.sendActivity(sender, inbox, activity); // same case, after the return
}if (true) throw new Error() behaves like the first one.
This sits inside what the PR already claims to handle. There is a passing test for a delivery call after a direct return, so only the nested case leaks, which makes the gap easy to miss. Returning a completion status from collectReachableStatements() and propagating it through if, switch and try is the shape CodeRabbit suggests, and it carries over to whichever approach you settle on.
Its other two comments, on the nested-function masking and on the helper-name regex, overlap with mine. Both are valid, so please fold them into the same rework rather than treating them separately.
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Closing this per your suggestion, and opening a fresh pull request against |
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Closes #900
Background
outbox-listener-delivery-required(@fedify/lint) decided whether a listener delivers a posted activity by scanning the whole listener source as text for actx.sendActivity()/forwardActivity()call, without checking whether that code actually runs.Changes
return/throw, and does not descend into a nested function's body unless that function is itself called from reachable code.return, and a positive case for a helper function that is actually called.Testing
mise run check-each lintmise run test-each lint(Deno and Node.js, 515/515 pass)AI disclosure
This was implemented with Claude Code (
claude-sonnet-5): I described the issue and reviewed the design and results at each step, and Claude Code designed the reachability-based rewrite, implemented it, found and fixed a bug during testing (Deno.lint exposes an AST node's children through prototype getters rather than own enumerable properties, soObject.entries()couldn't see them —for...inwas needed instead), and verified the tests pass in both Deno and Node.js.