Preparatory refactor for the shared-CFG dataflow migration.
Deprecates the AstNode.getAFlowNode() cached predicate on the public
Python QL API and rewrites all ~140 internal callers across lib/, src/,
test/, and tools/ from `expr.getAFlowNode() = cfgNode` to
`cfgNode.getNode() = expr`, using ControlFlowNode.getNode() which
already exists in Flow.qll.
The predicate itself is preserved (with a deprecation note pointing at
the new pattern) so external users do not experience churn — they can
migrate at their own pace and the AST/CFG hierarchies still get the
intended untangling once the deprecation eventually elapses.
Semantic noop verified by:
- All 361 lib/ + src/ queries compile clean.
- All 122 ControlFlow + PointsTo library-tests pass.
- All 64 dataflow library-tests pass.
- All 113 Variables/Exceptions/Expressions/Statements/Functions/Imports/
Security/CWE-798/ModificationOfParameterWithDefault query-tests pass.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Excluded for now: unnecassary-delete; since the pattern is often intentional to break reference cycles, which the query doesn't account for; so uncertain about its claim of high precision
Fixes the false positive reported in
https://github.com/github/codeql/issues/18910
Adds a new `Annotation` class (subclass of `Expr`) which encompasses all
possible kinds of annotations in Python.
Using this, we look for string literals which are part of an annotation,
and which have the same content as the name of a (potentially) unused
global variable, and in that case we do not produce an alert.
In future, we may want to support inspecting such string literals more
deeply (e.g. to support stuff like "list[unused_var]"), but I think for
now this level of support is sufficient.
