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fix(core): recognize literal Python lazy exports - #3570
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P1 · Lazy exports shadow existing symbols
__getattr__ runs only when normal attribute lookup cannot find the name, but this unconditionally appends every lazy export. For a module that declares Client and also maps Client lazily, the public API reports both bindings even though the declared symbol always wins at runtime. Skip lazy entries whose public name is already published by the module (and preserve the existing filtering behavior).
Checked: The code first adds declared names to out and then unconditionally appends each resolved lazy export, so a matching declared name can be reported twice despite __getattr__ being only a fallback.
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In repowise-dev/repowise#3570, at packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:243: `__getattr__` runs only when normal attribute lookup cannot find the name, but this unconditionally appends every lazy export. For a module that declares `Client` and also maps `Client` lazily, the public API reports both bindings even though the declared symbol always wins at runtime. Skip lazy entries whose public name is already published by the module (and preserve the existing filtering behavior). It goes wrong when: A module declares a real top-level symbol with the same name as a lazy-map key.
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Fixed in f55f608. Lazy entries now yield to names already published by the module, including resolved eager imports and module aliases; deferred imports inside getattr are excluded from that eager binding set. Added regression coverage for declared-name and module-alias collisions. Focused generation/graph/persistence tests pass locally, and the pushed CI run is in progress.
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P2 · Earlier map assignments remain published
The scan collects every literal assignment to a name used by __getattr__, but Python uses the later assignment for subsequent calls. Sequential reassignment therefore publishes stale targets as well as the active target. Track the effective assignment per name, or otherwise discard assignments superseded by a later unconditional assignment.
Checked: _module_lazy_maps appends each literal assignment whose target is loaded by __getattr__, and _lazy_map_from iterates every collected map and emits its entries, so sequential _LAZY assignments publish both the stale and later targets rather than Python's effective later binding.
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In repowise-dev/repowise#3570, at packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:135: The scan collects every literal assignment to a name used by `__getattr__`, but Python uses the later assignment for subsequent calls. Sequential reassignment therefore publishes stale targets as well as the active target. Track the effective assignment per name, or otherwise discard assignments superseded by a later unconditional assignment. It goes wrong when: The same loaded map variable is assigned more than once, such as `_LAZY = {'x': '.a'}` followed later by `_LAZY = {'x': '.b'}`.
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Fixed in f55f608. Literal assignments are tracked by effective binding, so a later assignment replaces an earlier map; a later computed or empty assignment invalidates the earlier literal map. Added regression coverage for sequential and computed rebinding. Focused generation/graph/persistence tests pass locally, and the pushed CI run is in progress.
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P2 · Unrelated dictionaries become exports · Checked: The scanner collects every loaded name from every module-level getattr and treats any literal assignment to such a name as a candidate without examining whether the function uses it for requested-name dispatch, so an unrelated metadata map can produce lazy exports. P2 · Shadowed getattr maps remain published · Checked: The code gathers all module-level getattr definitions and scans each function body, even though Python's later definition replaces earlier ones, allowing maps from an obsolete definition to be considered for publication. Fix with your agent
👀 Suggested reviewers @RaghavChamadiya 📊 See the full report for this PR Settings and updatesUpdated 2026-10-12 12:41 UTC, since the last push: health 8.3 to 8.4, 2 new findings |
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Thanks @z2Ace0107, and welcome. Letting an eager declaration or import win over a same-named lazy entry matches how Python resolves the name (__getattr__ only runs when normal lookup fails), and treating a later computed or empty assignment as wiping out an earlier literal map is the careful choice. The graphify-shaped local map and the module-level _LAZY + __all__ case are both covered, which is what the issue asked for.
Two notes from the bot's summary, neither blocking:
_module_lazy_mapsreads every literal dict assigned to a name__getattr__loads, whether or not the function dispatches on it. That matches the issue's wording ("a dict literal ... thatdef __getattr__reads"), and a false entry still needs its values to resolve to a real module in the repo, so I am fine with it as is.functionscollects every module-leveldef __getattr__, but only the last one is live at runtime. Two top-level definitions of the same name is rare (ruff flags it as F811), so I am not holding this for it. If you want a small follow-up, scanning onlyfunctions[-1]would close it.
I ran it stacked with #3407, #3577, #3537 and #3579, which also touch public API stamping: 15,527 tests across ingestion, analysis, health, generation and dead code pass.
Summary
Repowise's Public API resolver now recognizes conservative literal lazy
exports declared through Python module-level
__getattr__.The change supports relative and absolute module paths, string and two-string
tuple values, annotated assignments, and local literal maps used by
__getattr__.Lazy exports remain fallback bindings: they are skipped when the name is already
published by an eager declaration or import. Imports inside deferred function
bodies do not suppress module-level lazy exports.
Closes #3497
Evidence
public_apigraph flags. Bot review also identified stale map assignmentsand lazy names shadowing eager bindings.
flags, persistence round-trip, and module code excerpts.
git diff --checkpass.f55f60885is pushed to the PR branch.tree-sitter, Structurizr, VS Code, and Web checks; Python 3.11–3.13 checks
are still pending.
Merge Danger
Door: two-way
Blast Radius: core-analysis
The change is limited to static Python Public API inference. It does not
change runtime import behavior. Reverting commit
f55f60885restores theprevious resolver behavior.