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(*ProtoNode).RawData use incorrectly panic instead of returning #90

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Jorropo opened this issue Sep 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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(*ProtoNode).RawData use incorrectly panic instead of returning #90

Jorropo opened this issue Sep 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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Jorropo commented Sep 27, 2022

Where this was found: ipfs/kubo#9297

(*ProtoNode).RawData use incorrectly panics, there are cases where consumers can because of bad options trigger an error.

My dumb first instict would be to make it return ([]byte, error) but AFAIT this is trying to fit an interface so we can't do this.

I guess the alternative is to do the serialisation in the write functions (which do return errors) and save the serialised bytes instead.

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rvagg commented Sep 28, 2022

Gentle approach: #91

Proper approach is to stick an error on that return and accept the breakage. There's going to be a lot of breakage from that, but that might be a price worth paying to get rid of a panic. I'm confident that #91 gets the majority case, but there's things it won't catch (mentioned there), but also if the hasher is just plain broken in some way beyond not just being registered! Should that rightly be classified as a runtime error? 🤷 Maybe a broken hasher should panic?

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rvagg commented Oct 4, 2022

#91 and #92 should address this

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