CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Pull Requests

Pull requests are welcome.

1. Fork the repository.
2. Make and test your changes (see Developer Guide below).
3. Run poetry run black sarif to format the code.
4. Run poetry run pylint sarif and check for no new errors or warnings.
5. Raise Pull Request in GitHub.com.

Developer Guide

Prerequisites

• You need Python 3.8 installed.
  • This is the minimum supported version of the tool. Developing with a later version risks introducing type hints such as list[dict] that are not compatible with Python 3.8.
• You need Poetry installed. Run this in an Admin CMD or under sudo:
  • pip install poetry

Initialise Poetry by telling it where Python 3.8 is, e.g.

# Windows - adjust to the path where you have installed Python 3.8.
poetry env use "C:\Python38\python.exe"
# Linux
poetry env use 3.8

This is not necessary if your system Python version is 3.8.

Running locally in Poetry virtualenv

poetry install
poetry run sarif <OPTIONS>

To check that the right versions are being run:

poetry run python --version
poetry run sarif --version
poetry run python -m sarif --version

To see which executable is being run:

# Windows
poetry run cmd /c "where sarif"
# Linux
poetry run which sarif

Update dependency versions

Run poetry update to bump package versions in the poetry.lock file.

Update product version

Change the version = line in pyproject.toml for the new semantic version for your change.

Change the version in sarif/__init__.py as well.

Run unit tests

poetry run pytest

Package using poetry build

Run it on the source code:

poetry build

If you want, you can install the package built locally at system level (outside the Poetry virtual environment):

pip install dist/sarif-*.whl

To remove it again:

pip uninstall sarif-tools

Note that there are two possible levels of installation:

User installation

When you run pip install and pip doesn't have permissions to write to the Python installation's site-packages directory, probably because you are not running as an admin/superuser, the package is installed at "user" level only. You can run it using:

python -m sarif

You cannot run it using the bare command sarif, unless you add your user-level Scripts directory to your PATH. You can see where that is in the output from pip install:

Installing collected packages: sarif
  WARNING: The script sarif.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\yournamehere\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.

System installation

When you run pip install and pip has permissions to write to the Python installation's site-packages directory, and the Python installation's Scripts directory is in your path, then you can run the sarif command without python -m:

sarif

Adding packages from pypi to the project

Add the package and its latest version number (as minimum version) to [tool.poetry.dependencies] in pyproject.toml.

Then run this to update Poetry's lockfile.

poetry update

Adding resource files to the project

Add the file within the sarif directory and it will be installed with the Python source. For example, sarif/operations/templates/sarif_summary.html.