TraceHash hashes your exceptions into exception signatures that formalize the intuitive notion of "exception sameness": exceptions with the same signature are normally considered "the same" (e.g. when filing bug reports).
tracehash.stackTraceHash(exception)
// will produce something like
// "SOE-b33ffcec6a101750802bcebecae59e6a657145aa"
// or "IOOBE-1b4035e1d5b6023ecd1ef2673278057b5a3bb44c"Say you are fuzzing a Java application, and find an AssertionError:
java.lang.AssertionError: assertion failed: position error: position not set for Ident(<error>) # 5299
at scala.Predef$.assert(Predef.scala:219)
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.check$1(Positioned.scala:179)
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.$anonfun$checkPos$4(Positioned.scala:203)
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.$anonfun$checkPos$4$adapted(Positioned.scala:203)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:389)
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.check$1(Positioned.scala:203)
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.checkPos(Positioned.scala:216)
....If the same AssertionError happens with a different input file, the two errors are probably related, and you should only file one issue for both of them. But what exactly do we mean by "same error"? What algorithm should we
use to compare different exception traces?
Should we compare the entire stacktrace? No, folklore and experience tells us that only the last few stacktrace entries are important.
Should we compare exception messages? Unless we can inspect the code generating messages, we don't know which parts of the message stay constant and which depend on a particular fuzzer input or change non-deterministically.
Should we compare line numbers? If someone changes one of the files appearing in the stacktrace without fixing the error, line numbers might change, but the error won't. Therefore, we should not take line numbers into account.
Should we compare file names? File names are less important than class names, especially in Scala, where a single file can contain multiple classes.
TraceHash would simplify the above exception down to:
java.lang.AssertionError
at scala.Predef$.assert
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.check$1
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.$anonfun$checkPos$4
at dotty.tools.dotc.ast.Positioned.$anonfun$checkPos$4$adapted
at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreachand then hash it using SHA-1.
Special care needs to be taken to simplify StackOverflowException,
such as:
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.Types$TypeProxy.superType(Types.scala:1460)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:182)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:178)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:182)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:178)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:182)We can see that this stacktrace consists of a repeating fragment of length 11:
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:182)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:192)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1(TypeApplications.scala:178)
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track(Stats.scala:35)
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension(TypeApplications.scala:171)and a prefix of length 1:
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.Types$TypeProxy.superType(Types.scala:1460)Clearly, the prefix is not important, only the repeating fragment is.
Note that looking at the very end of a StackOveflowException stacktrace, we can not tell how the repeating fragment started. For instance, let's imagine that our stacktrace ends in d b a b c a b c a b c. We can not tell if the repeating fragment is a b c or b c a or c a b. In order to produce consistent signatures, TraceHash sorts all possible options in lexicographic order.
TraceHash would simplify the above exception stacktrace down to (modulo possible reordering of the entries as explained above):
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.$anonfun$typeParams$extension$1
at dotty.tools.dotc.util.Stats$.track
at dotty.tools.dotc.core.TypeApplications$.typeParams$extension