Handling malformed log items in log file

pkgs/unified_analytics/lib/src/event.dart

@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ final class Event {
   /// [transitiveFileUniqueCount] - the number of unique files reachable from
   ///     the files in each analysis context.
   ///
-  /// [transitiveFileUniqueLineCount] - the number of lines in the unique.
-  ///     transitive files
+  /// [transitiveFileUniqueLineCount] - the number of lines in the unique
+  ///     transitive files.
   Event.contextStructure({
     required int contextsFromBothFiles,
     required int contextsFromOptionsFiles,

pkgs/unified_analytics/lib/src/log_handler.dart

@@ -183,8 +183,19 @@ class LogHandler {
     // removed later through `whereType<LogItem>`
     final records = logFile
         .readAsLinesSync()
-        .map((String e) =>
-            LogItem.fromRecord(jsonDecode(e) as Map<String, Object?>))
+        .map((String e) {
+          // TODO: eliasyishak, once https://github.com/dart-lang/tools/issues/167
+          //  has landed ensure we are sending an event for each error
+          //  with helpful messages
+          try {
+            return LogItem.fromRecord(jsonDecode(e) as Map<String, Object?>);
+          } on FormatException {
+            return null;
+            // ignore: avoid_catching_errors
+          } on TypeError {
+            return null;
+          }
+        })
         .whereType<LogItem>()
         .toList();
 

pkgs/unified_analytics/test/log_handler_test.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2023, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'package:file/file.dart';
+import 'package:file/memory.dart';
+import 'package:path/path.dart' as p;
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+
+import 'package:unified_analytics/src/constants.dart';
+import 'package:unified_analytics/src/enums.dart';
+import 'package:unified_analytics/unified_analytics.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  late Analytics analytics;
+  late Directory homeDirectory;
+  late FileSystem fs;
+  late File logFile;
+
+  final testEvent = Event.hotReloadTime(timeMs: 10);
+
+  setUp(() {
+    fs = MemoryFileSystem.test(style: FileSystemStyle.posix);
+    homeDirectory = fs.directory('home');
+    logFile = fs.file(p.join(
+      homeDirectory.path,
+      kDartToolDirectoryName,
+      kLogFileName,
+    ));
+
+    // Create the initialization analytics instance to onboard the tool
+    final initializationAnalytics = Analytics.test(
+      tool: DashTool.flutterTool,
+      homeDirectory: homeDirectory,
+      measurementId: 'measurementId',
+      apiSecret: 'apiSecret',
+      dartVersion: 'dartVersion',
+      fs: fs,
+      platform: DevicePlatform.macos,
+    );
+    initializationAnalytics.clientShowedMessage();
+
+    // This instance is free to send events since the instance above
+    // has confirmed that the client has shown the message
+    analytics = Analytics.test(
+      tool: DashTool.flutterTool,
+      homeDirectory: homeDirectory,
+      measurementId: 'measurementId',
+      apiSecret: 'apiSecret',
+      dartVersion: 'dartVersion',
+      fs: fs,
+      platform: DevicePlatform.macos,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test('Ensure that log file is created', () {
+    expect(logFile.existsSync(), true);
+  });
+
+  test('LogFileStats is null before events are sent', () {
+    expect(analytics.logFileStats(), isNull);
+  });
+
+  test('LogFileStats returns valid response after sent events', () async {
+    final countOfEventsToSend = 10;
+
+    for (var i = 0; i < countOfEventsToSend; i++) {
+      await analytics.send(testEvent);
+    }
+
+    expect(analytics.logFileStats(), isNotNull);
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length, countOfEventsToSend);
+    expect(analytics.logFileStats()!.recordCount, countOfEventsToSend);
+  });
+
+  test('The only record in the log file is malformed', () {
+    // Write invalid json for the only log record
+    logFile.writeAsStringSync('{{\n');
+
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length, 1);
+    expect(logFileStats, isNull,
+        reason: 'Null should be returned since only '
+            'one record is in there and it is malformed');
+  });
+
+  test('The first record is malformed, but rest are valid', () async {
+    // Write invalid json for the only log record
+    logFile.writeAsStringSync('{{\n');
+
+    final countOfEventsToSend = 10;
+
+    for (var i = 0; i < countOfEventsToSend; i++) {
+      await analytics.send(testEvent);
+    }
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length, countOfEventsToSend + 1);
+    expect(logFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(logFileStats!.recordCount, countOfEventsToSend);
+  });
+
+  test('Several records are malformed', () async {
+    final countOfMalformedRecords = 4;
+    for (var i = 0; i < countOfMalformedRecords; i++) {
+      final currentContents = logFile.readAsStringSync();
+      logFile.writeAsStringSync('$currentContents{{\n');
+    }
+
+    final countOfEventsToSend = 10;
+
+    for (var i = 0; i < countOfEventsToSend; i++) {
+      await analytics.send(testEvent);
+    }
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length,
+        countOfEventsToSend + countOfMalformedRecords);
+    expect(logFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(logFileStats!.recordCount, countOfEventsToSend);
+  });
+
+  test('Valid json but invalid keys', () {
+    // The second line here is missing the "events" top level
+    // key which should cause an error for that record only
+    //
+    // Important to note that this won't actually cause a FormatException
+    // like the other malformed records, instead the LogItem.fromRecord
+    // constructor will return null if all the keys are not available
+    final contents = '''
+{"client_id":"fe4a035b-bba8-4d4b-a651-ea213e9b8a2c","events":[{"name":"lint_usage_count","params":{"count":1,"name":"prefer_final_fields"}}],"user_properties":{"session_id":{"value":1695147041117},"flutter_channel":{"value":null},"host":{"value":"macOS"},"flutter_version":{"value":"3.14.0-14.0.pre.303"},"dart_version":{"value":"3.2.0-140.0.dev"},"analytics_pkg_version":{"value":"3.1.0"},"tool":{"value":"vscode-plugins"},"local_time":{"value":"2023-09-19 14:44:11.528153 -0400"}}}
+{"client_id":"fe4a035b-bba8-4d4b-a651-ea213e9b8a2c","WRONG_EVENT_KEY":[{"name":"lint_usage_count","params":{"count":1,"name":"prefer_for_elements_to_map_fromIterable"}}],"user_properties":{"session_id":{"value":1695147041117},"flutter_channel":{"value":null},"host":{"value":"macOS"},"flutter_version":{"value":"3.14.0-14.0.pre.303"},"dart_version":{"value":"3.2.0-140.0.dev"},"analytics_pkg_version":{"value":"3.1.0"},"tool":{"value":"vscode-plugins"},"local_time":{"value":"2023-09-19 14:44:11.565549 -0400"}}}
+{"client_id":"fe4a035b-bba8-4d4b-a651-ea213e9b8a2c","events":[{"name":"lint_usage_count","params":{"count":1,"name":"prefer_function_declarations_over_variables"}}],"user_properties":{"session_id":{"value":1695147041117},"flutter_channel":{"value":null},"host":{"value":"macOS"},"flutter_version":{"value":"3.14.0-14.0.pre.303"},"dart_version":{"value":"3.2.0-140.0.dev"},"analytics_pkg_version":{"value":"3.1.0"},"tool":{"value":"vscode-plugins"},"local_time":{"value":"2023-09-19 14:44:11.589338 -0400"}}}
+''';
+    logFile.writeAsStringSync(contents);
+
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length, 3);
+    expect(logFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(logFileStats!.recordCount, 2);
+  });
+
+  test('Malformed record gets phased out after several events', () async {
+    // Write invalid json for the only log record
+    logFile.writeAsStringSync('{{\n');
+
+    // Send the max number of events minus one so that we have
+    // one malformed record on top of the logs and the rest
+    // are valid log records
+    for (var i = 0; i < kLogFileLength - 1; i++) {
+      await analytics.send(testEvent);
+    }
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync().length, kLogFileLength);
+    expect(logFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(logFileStats!.recordCount, kLogFileLength - 1,
+        reason: 'The first record should be malformed');
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync()[0].trim(), '{{');
+
+    // Sending one more event should flush out the malformed record
+    await analytics.send(testEvent);
+
+    final secondLogFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+    expect(secondLogFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(secondLogFileStats!.recordCount, kLogFileLength);
+    expect(logFile.readAsLinesSync()[0].trim(), isNot('{{'));
+  });
+
+  test('Catching cast errors for each log record silently', () async {
+    // Write a json array to the log file which will cause
+    // a cast error when parsing each line
+    logFile.writeAsStringSync('[{}, 1, 2, 3]\n');
+
+    final logFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+    expect(logFileStats, isNull);
+
+    // Ensure it will work as expected after writing correct logs
+    final countOfEventsToSend = 10;
+    for (var i = 0; i < countOfEventsToSend; i++) {
+      await analytics.send(testEvent);
+    }
+    final secondLogFileStats = analytics.logFileStats();
+
+    expect(secondLogFileStats, isNotNull);
+    expect(secondLogFileStats!.recordCount, countOfEventsToSend);
+  });
+}