refactor(linters): add linting rule to enforce usage of our regEx utility#44690
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refactor(linters): add linting rule to enforce usage of our regEx utility#44690secustor wants to merge 10 commits into
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Adds a custom oxlint rule that flags raw RegExp usage in lib/ production code: any `new RegExp(...)` call and any regex literal that is not the direct first argument of `regEx(...)`. The regEx() helper from lib/util/regex.ts uses the RE2 engine for ReDoS-safe matching and caches compiled patterns. lib/util/regex.ts itself is exempt. The rule is disabled for **/*.spec.ts, test/**, and tools/** via config overrides, because vitest APIs such as expect.stringMatching need bare RegExp instances (a past commit reverted regEx() there). Severity is set to "warn" instead of "error": the repo currently has 197 pre-existing violations (above the agreed mechanical-fix threshold of 80), and a number of them are deliberately RE2-incompatible patterns (lookahead/lookbehind/named backreferences, see TODO renovatebot#12872/renovatebot#12875 markers in e.g. lib/modules/versioning/rez/ pattern.ts and lib/modules/manager/dockerfile/extract.ts) that need per-site judgment before they can be wrapped in regEx() or suppressed with a justified disable comment. No violation fixes are included in this commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # .oxlintrc.json # tools/lint/rules.js
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Burn down all renovate/require-regex-util violations (197): - wrap RE2-compatible regex literals and RegExp constructions in regEx() - rewrite lookaround patterns where behavior is provably preserved: goproxy separator split, sbt-package link extraction, leiningen comment stripping and keyword search, npm GitHub owner validation (unit-count bound replaced by an explicit length check) - keep native RegExp with disable comments where RE2 cannot be used: moo / good-enough-parser lexer patterns (moo rejects RE2 instances), MigrationsService propertyName (matched via isRegExp, which RE2 instances fail), rez named backreferences and lookaheads, GitHub markdown link negative lookbehind, emoji astral-plane matching - drop stale TODO renovatebot#12875 comments for patterns current re2 handles Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite the github massage-markdown-links URL regex to capture an optional `api.` prefix in a named group (skipped in code) instead of relying on a negative lookbehind, so both the base and global variants can use regEx()/RE2 and their two disable comments are removed. Add spec cases for api-prefixed URLs that match the URL shape. Consolidate the four related line disables in rez/pattern.ts (bound and range patterns emulating Python conditional patterns via named backreferences and lookaheads, which RE2 cannot express) into a single block disable/enable pair, matching the treatment of the lexer files. Disable comment count drops from 13 to 8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The [^] -> [\\s\\S] rewrite was only needed for an RE2 wrap that was later reverted; keep the diff minimal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This new rule detects usages of
Regexand/foo/and enforce the usages ofregEx()There has been some smaller fixes and comment removal if they are no longer accurate
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