Aqua static analysis [$200]

[Krastanov]

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Project: Aqua static analysis [$200]

We run Aqua.jl static analysis during CI for this library, but currently, we have disabled some checks, as they raise too many errors. This bounty is awarded for fixing these issues and enabling these checks. The bounty might require upstreaming some work from here into QuantumInterface.jl or other packages.

Required skills: Generic Julia skills.

Reviewer: Stefan Krastanov

Duration: 1 month

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[Tortar]

Hi @Krastanov, I'd like to take this.

From my experience, ambiguities are not so easy to fix because they can stem from any depending package and be a lot. But I will try to go through them, in one of my packages I took the route to only test the direct ones anyway (https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/Agents.jl/blob/main/test/package_sanity_tests.jl)

[Krastanov]

Hi, @Tortar ! That sounds reasonable. Thanks for taking this on!

[Tortar]

thanks @Krastanov I almost fixed all types piracies except two which elude me: the two apply! methods at https://github.com/QuantumSavory/QuantumSavory.jl/blob/master/src/representations.jl pirate Symbolic because apply! comes from QuantumInterface and Symbolic from SymbolicUtils. Also, the default_repr comes from QuantumSavory, express and UseAsOperation from QuantumSymbolics. So it seems a bit of a mess to solve the piracy to me. Do you have any idea on how to approach these ones?

[Tortar]

I will put piracies=(;treat_as_own=[QuantumSavory.SymbolicUtils.Symbolic]) for now

[Krastanov]

Yeah, these two piracies are unavoidable until significant other work happens, but we should probably guard against more of them happening. Is it possible to check specifically that exactly two piracies are happening and to add a separate @test_broken for the fact the piracies are not zero?

I did not know of treat_as_own, thanks for sharing!

[Tortar]

Yes probably we could add an ad-hoc Aqua tests about piracies which checks the number of piracies in the package...I have to say that the PR I opened now added 4 more piracies related to the Symbolic + apply! combination to solve some ambiguities within the package, they have the same cause of the others so I think it is legit to add them, so I will add an Aqua tests which will print when tests are run that there are still six piracies

[Tortar]

Actually we can probably solve all these piracies by moving apply! from QuantumInterface to QuantumSavory, do you see any problems doing that? I think it will also simplify some other things. Seems possible because actually apply! has zero methods and acquires methods only when extended in QuantumSavory

[Krastanov]

apply! is also used by other packages that do not depend on QuantumSavory, e.g. QuantumOptics, QuantumClifford, and QuantumSymbolics. I do not think we can move it easily (admittedly some of these packages are coupled in unpleasant ways, to an extend because things have evolved pretty organically without having the piracy tests turned on). I recognize it is a bit of a mess (hence the bounty ;)

[Krastanov]

This diagram kinda describes the relationship