Non-printable characters in symbols should be properly escaped

[armanbilge]

Code like this:

    if (buffer.startsWith(Shared.`\r\n`.toArray)) {

https://github.com/http4s/http4s/blob/f9533ec5b499c277f915c7f275be5fdb3af20fac/ember-core/shared/src/main/scala/org/http4s/ember/core/ChunkedEncoding.scala#L123

Generates a scoverage.coverage like this:

30
/workspace/http4s/ember-core/shared/src/main/scala/org/http4s/ember/core/ChunkedEncoding.scala
org.http4s.ember.core
ChunkedEncoding
Object
org.http4s.ember.core.ChunkedEncoding
go
2366
2372
72
org.http4s.ember.core.Shared.

Select
false
0
false
Shared.



Which makes great sadness like this:

[error] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: For input string: "Select"
[error]         at scala.collection.immutable.StringLike.parseBoolean(StringLike.scala:327)
[error]         at scala.collection.immutable.StringLike.toBoolean(StringLike.scala:289)
[error]         at scala.collection.immutable.StringLike.toBoolean$(StringLike.scala:289)
[error]         at scala.collection.immutable.StringOps.toBoolean(StringOps.scala:33)
[error]         at scoverage.Serializer$.toStatement$1(Serializer.scala:115)
[error]         at scoverage.Serializer$.deserialize(Serializer.scala:144)
[error]         at scoverage.Serializer$.deserialize(Serializer.scala:89)
[error]         at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.loadCoverage(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:318)
[error]         at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.$anonfun$coverageReport0$1(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:148)
[error]         at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.$anonfun$coverageReport0$1$adapted(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:139)

[armanbilge]

I can make a PR to fix this. Is this data format specced anywhere?

[armanbilge]

Also, I can't really grasp whether this is an issue with newlines in particular, or backslashes in general 🤔

[ckipp01]

I can make a PR to fix this. Is this data format specced anywhere?

It's versioned and sort of defined in here, since it needs to both deserialize 2 stuff that this plugin created and also 3 that was generated by the Scala 3 compiler.

https://github.com/scoverage/scalac-scoverage-plugin/blob/7eba8e1fda8ba63b3299c6d0328d65ebd7181f35/serializer/src/main/scala/scoverage/serialize/Serializer.scala#L62-L86

[armanbilge]

since it needs to both deserialize 2 stuff that this plugin created and also 3 that was generated by the Scala 3 compiler.

Hum, I'm confused about this. It seems to only be capable of deserializing v3, if I understanding correctly. https://github.com/scoverage/scalac-scoverage-plugin/blob/7eba8e1fda8ba63b3299c6d0328d65ebd7181f35/serializer/src/main/scala/scoverage/serialize/Serializer.scala#L169-L173

[ckipp01]

Hum, I'm confused about this. It seems to only be capable of deserializing v3, if I understanding correctly.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Yes, only V3. By 2, I mean Scala 2 coverage and Scala 3 coverage.

[TheElectronWill]

Also, I can't really grasp whether this is an issue with newlines in particular, or backslashes in general 🤔

The parser excepts the name to be on one line, because it uses new lines as a value separator, so I'd say that newlines are the biggest problem. Any character should be fine, as long as it doesn't break this expectation. Are there other characters that mess up lines? I know that unicode can be weird sometimes 😄

[armanbilge]

Thanks, I think you are right! I was wondering whether if you define a method:

def `\n` = ???

whether the symbol should be a "newline" instead of \\n backslash-n. But I guess the compiler determines that.

Are there other characters that mess up lines? I know that unicode can be weird sometimes

Not sure tbh. I think JSON has a similar restriction and these are the characters they escape.

https://github.com/circe/circe/blob/92ab397a45f08c685bcb41527321b18db4e48c68/modules/core/shared/src/main/scala/io/circe/Printer.scala#L322-L331

[TheElectronWill]

Thanks, I think you are right! I was wondering whether if you define a method:

def `\n` = ???

whether the symbol should be a "newline" instead of \\n backslash-n. But I guess the compiler determines that.

A quick test with scalac (dotty version) shows that the compiler keeps \n as a newline (it even shows up as a real newline in the trees with -Vprint:all :smile:) and escape it (fortunately!) when producing bytecode. The def gets compiled to:

public Nothing$ $u000A() {
    return Predef$.MODULE$.$qmark$qmark$qmark();
}

[TheElectronWill]

edit: for scoverage, we should escape it to \\n (i.e. write two chars: \ and n), it's simpler. Of course it means that all \ must now be escaped. All like JSON

[armanbilge]

Yes, I think we should follow JSON here 👍