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This required some thought for how to model that we're interested in subclasses
of `fabric.group.Group`, and not so much that class itself. Some thoughts:
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After initially using this in `module Group`
/** A reference to a subclass of `fabric.group.Group` */
abstract class SubclassRef extends DataFlow::Node { }
private class SubclassInstantiation extends SubclassInstanceSource, DataFlow::CfgNode {
override CallNode node;
SubclassInstantiation() { node.getFunction() = any(SubclassRef ref).asCfgNode() }
}
with this in `module SerialGroup` and `module ThreadingGroup`:
class ClassRef extends DataFlow::Node, fabric::group::Group::SubclassRef {
ClassRef() { this = classRef(DataFlow::TypeTracker::end()) }
}
I wasn't too much of fan of that approach. Since we probably need the `SubclassInstanceSource` anyway, and don't really have a specific use for `SubclassRef`, I just went with concrete (QL) subclasses of `SubclassInstanceSource` in each of the modules for the Python subclasses.
I really don't know what the best approach is, so I'm very open to suggestions. I think we'll really have to flesh this out for handling Django responses, since we're interested in the fact that some subclasses provide default values for the content-type, and keeping track of that is important for XSS (since there is no XSS if response is `text/plain`)