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codeql/javascript/ql/src/Declarations/MixedStaticInstanceThisAccess.ql
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/**
* @name Wrong use of 'this' for static method
* @description A reference to a static method from within an instance method needs to be qualified with the class name, not `this`.
* @kind problem
* @problem.severity error
* @id js/mixed-static-instance-this-access
* @tags correctness
* methods
* @precision high
*/
import javascript
/** Holds if `base` declares or inherits method `m` with the given `name`. */
predicate hasMethod(ClassDefinition base, string name, MethodDefinition m) {
m = base.getMethod(name) or
hasMethod(base.getSuperClassDefinition(), name, m)
}
/**
* Holds if `access` is in`fromMethod`, and it references `toMethod` through `this`,
* where `fromMethod` and `toMethod` are of kind `fromKind` and `toKind`, respectively.
*/
predicate isLocalMethodAccess(
PropAccess access, MethodDefinition fromMethod, string fromKind, MethodDefinition toMethod,
string toKind
) {
hasMethod(fromMethod.getDeclaringClass(), access.getPropertyName(), toMethod) and
access.getEnclosingFunction() = fromMethod.getBody() and
access.getBase() instanceof ThisExpr and
fromKind = getKind(fromMethod) and
toKind = getKind(toMethod)
}
string getKind(MethodDefinition m) {
if m.isStatic() then result = "static" else result = "instance"
}
from
PropAccess access, MethodDefinition fromMethod, MethodDefinition toMethod, string fromKind,
string toKind
where
isLocalMethodAccess(access, fromMethod, fromKind, toMethod, toKind) and
toKind != fromKind and
// exceptions
not (
// the class has a second member with the same name and the right kind
isLocalMethodAccess(access, fromMethod, _, _, fromKind)
or
// there is a dynamically assigned second member with the same name and the right kind
exists(AnalyzedPropertyWrite apw, AbstractClass declaringClass, AbstractValue base |
"static" = fromKind and base = declaringClass
or
"instance" = fromKind and base = TAbstractInstance(declaringClass)
|
declaringClass = TAbstractClass(fromMethod.getDeclaringClass()) and
apw.writes(base, access.getPropertyName(), _)
)
or
// the access is an assignment, probably deliberate
access instanceof LValue
)
select access,
"Access to " + toKind + " method $@ from " + fromKind +
" method $@ is not possible through `this`.", toMethod, toMethod.getName(), fromMethod,
fromMethod.getName()