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DOL007 fired on for model in auditory_models(): because it keyed on the attribute name rather than on what the loop iterates. It now gates on the loop source, so a loop whose iterable looks like a call is out of scope.

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking, restores expected behaviour)
  • Feature (non-breaking, adds a capability)
  • Breaking change (existing users have to update config or code)
  • Docs / README / comments only (no runtime effect)
  • Internal refactor (no behaviour change, no public API change)
  • Dependency bump
  • CI / build / tooling

Test plan

node --test test/rules/queryset.test.js — 19/19 green, and npx tsc -p ./ clean.

The regression tests assert both directions, because the first attempt at this fix silenced real findings. Against the pre-fix rule these fail on assertions:

  • for model in auditory_models(): model.objects.filter(...), model.Meta, and except model.DoesNotExist: — all previously reported, now silent.
  • for order in Order.objects.all(): print(order.CUSTOMER.name) — an ALL-CAPS ForeignKey attribute, and p.X. Both must still report; an earlier name-based attempt had silenced them.

Deleting the source gate turns the first group red while the second stays green, so the two halves are pinned independently.

Worth stating plainly, since it is a real cost: for obj in self.get_queryset(): and for p in recent(): no longer report. A line-oriented rule cannot tell what a helper returns, so any call-shaped source is skipped. Loops over a plain list still report — k_entries = ["a","b"]; for e in k_entries: print(e.upper) produces a finding — because the predicate looks at the source's shape, not its runtime type.

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  • I ran the full test suite locally — ran the rule's own suite and tsc, not the full Python + TypeScript suites; CI ran green on a fork (13 jobs)
  • I added or updated tests that cover the change (bugfixes should get a regression test)
  • If the change is user-facing I updated the CHANGELOG under ## [Unreleased]
  • If the change touches the MCP tool contract — not touched
  • If this is a breaking change I called it out — not breaking; the behaviour change is the narrowing described above

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Closes #72

The docs and the ## [Unreleased] entry describe the predicate in its own terms. I first wrote them as a comparison against the nplusone analyzer's scope and had to remove that: the two disagree in more directions than a sentence carries, so anything I said about the comparison kept being false in some case. docs/rules/DOL007.md and the changelog now state only what this rule does, which is checkable from mayIterateQuerySet alone.

Generated by Kimi K3 (implementation, testing), Claude Opus 5 (implementation, review, testing)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved DOL007 detection for loops over Django QuerySets and recognized queryset chains.
    • Reduced false positives from unrelated function calls and helper-returned values.
    • Continued support for bare names, dotted attributes, model classes, and uppercase relations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance explaining which loop expressions are included in DOL007 analysis.

Nitjsefnie and others added 5 commits August 14, 2026 18:34
DOL007 fired on loops over model *classes* (e.g. apps.get_models())
reading a plain class attribute like `model.ANONYMISE_AFTER`. That is
an in-memory MRO lookup, not a query, and select_related() /
prefetch_related() have nothing to act on. Skip attribute names in
UPPER_SNAKE_CASE, which denote class-level constants rather than
fields or relations.

Fixes FROWNINGdev#72

Co-Authored-By: Kimi K3 <noreply@kimi.com>
The previous commit skipped UPPER_SNAKE attribute names. That keyed on
the wrong thing twice over: FROWNINGdev#72 is about the loop *source* — a loop over
model classes — so `model.objects.filter(...)`, `model.Meta` and
`except model.DoesNotExist:` in the reporter's own sweep still reported
an N+1, while `order.CUSTOMER` on a real queryset stopped reporting,
because Django permits uppercase field names.

Gate the loop head instead: a chain is in scope only when it roots at
`<Model>.objects.…` or begins with a queryset-producing method. This is
the scope gate the CLI's nplusone analyzer already applies in
`_process_loop` (cli/django_orm_lens/query_analyzer.py), and loops over
ranges, lists and model classes drop out together.

A bare name (`for user in users:`) keeps its current behaviour — it
names no call, so it is evidence neither way, and the AST binding
tracker the CLI resolves it with has no line-oriented equivalent.

Fixes FROWNINGdev#72

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-call boundary

The two implementations gate loop sources with the same shape but do not
agree in every case: the nplusone analyzer resolves helper returns (so
`for p in recent():` and `for o in self.get_queryset():` still report
there), while the line-oriented rule cannot; and a bare name
(`for user in users:`) reports here but only there when the AST binding
tracker has bound the name. Say so in the changelog and the rule doc
instead of claiming agreement.

Also pin the boundary with a test: helper-call loop sources produce no
DOL007 finding.

Co-Authored-By: Kimi K3 <noreply@kimi.com>
…y show

The correction in the previous commit traded one wrong claim for another:
it said a bare-name loop head reports in the extension and not in the CLI.
Running both engines over one probe file shows `users = User.objects.all()`
followed by `for u in users:` — the idiom that sentence names — reported by
both, because the analyzer's tracker binds the name to that chain.

The divergence is narrower: only a bare name the tracker cannot bind to a
queryset — a parameter, an import, or a name assigned anything else, a
helper call included even when the helper returns a queryset — reports in
the rule and not in the analyzer. The changelog entry and the rule doc now
say that, and the "mirrors the source gate" comment in src/rules/queryset.ts,
which restated the old claim a third time, says it too.

DOL007.md also explained the skipped helper call by saying such loops
"iterate ranges, lists or model classes", contradicting the paragraph above
it: a helper call is skipped because the call name is no evidence and
resolving it needs an AST this rule does not have. Both lines now say what
they mean, with the missed helper-call N+1 named as the cost.

Comment and prose only; no rule logic changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DOL007 scope prose compared the rule against the CLI's N+1 analyzer.
Every version of that comparison has been wrong about some case, because
the two engines differ in more places than a paragraph can carry.

Drop the comparison everywhere it appears in this change — the changelog
entry, the DOL007 rule page, the `QS_SOURCE_METHODS` and
`mayIterateQuerySet` docblocks, the DOL007 docblock, and a test comment —
and state the predicate instead: a loop source containing no `(` is in
scope; one that does is in scope only when the text before that first `(`
is `<Model>.objects.<method>` or a dotted chain ending in a
queryset-producing method. Every remaining sentence is checkable by
reading `mayIterateQuerySet`.

Prose only. No behaviour changes, no tests added or removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DOL007 now gates loop analysis on recognized queryset-producing sources. It skips arbitrary calls and model-class iteration while preserving bare names, dotted attributes, and valid queryset chains. Documentation, changelog entries, and regression tests describe and verify the behavior.

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DOL007 queryset source gating

Layer / File(s) Summary
QuerySet source classification
src/rules/queryset.ts, docs/rules/DOL007.md, CHANGELOG.md
DOL007 recognizes bare expressions, dotted chains, manager methods, and known queryset methods. It skips unrelated call expressions and documents the classification rules.
Regression coverage
test/rules/queryset.test.js
Tests cover model classes, class attributes, valid queryset relations and chains, non-queryset calls, helper calls, and bare-name sources.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d8d2e

The change can still miss DOL007 findings for common QuerySet loops using chained calls or select_related()/prefetch_related(), so affected code may pass without the intended warning. Merge should wait until these supported QuerySet sources are handled and covered by regression tests.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main DOL007 change: gating findings on the loop source instead of the accessed attribute name.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses issue #72 by suppressing findings for helper-call loop sources while preserving queryset and valid attribute-access detection.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, documentation, and changelog changes all support the DOL007 scope and issue #72 objectives.
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In `@src/rules/queryset.ts`:
- Around line 75-83: Update RE_FOR_LOOP_HEAD and the loop-head matching flow so
chained QuerySet calls such as qs.filter(...).order_by(...) reach
mayIterateQuerySet and are recognized as iterable sources, while preserving
existing initial-call and .all() behavior. Add a regression case covering a
chained filter(...).order_by(...) QuerySet in a for loop and confirming DOL007
is reported.
- Around line 38-53: Add select_related and prefetch_related to the
QS_SOURCE_METHODS set so mayIterateQuerySet recognizes variable-rooted calls as
QuerySet sources, and add regression cases covering loops using both methods to
preserve DOL007 detection.
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Nitjsefnie and others added 2 commits August 14, 2026 20:30
…p source

The loop-source gate listed fourteen method names, so a chain rooted on a
variable and ending in `select_related`, `prefetch_related`, `union`,
`intersection`, `difference`, `alias`, `dates`, `datetimes`, `extra`,
`select_for_update` or `raw` was read as a non-queryset source and the loop
was skipped entirely. A chain rooted on a manager was unaffected, because
`<Model>.objects.<method>` is matched by its own branch — so
`for post in User.objects.select_related("author"):` was still reported
while `for post in qs.select_related("author"):` was not.

Add the missing names. The new test pins the whole set rather than the two
cases that surfaced it, so the list cannot silently shrink again, and the
rule doc's enumeration is updated to match the set it describes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… to a review

The comment explained the test by pointing at the review round that
prompted it, which tells a later reader nothing about the rule. State the
invariant the test pins instead.

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Thanks — the first one was real and is fixed in 2a195ba.

select_related / prefetch_related: a genuine regression from this PR. for x in qs.select_related(...) reported at the merge base 866ffe6 and went silent here. The same root cause dropped eleven QuerySet-returning methods off a variable, not the two named, so the fix restores the whole set and the test pins all of them rather than the two.

One consequence worth flagging: dates, datetimes and raw are in that restored set, and iterating qs.dates(...) yields date objects, so restoring them also restores a false positive that existed before this PR. I restored rather than quietly narrowing — dropping them is a real behaviour decision and shouldn't be made by omission inside a bugfix.

Chained calls (qs.filter(...).order_by(...)): not introduced here, so I've left it. RE_FOR_LOOP_HEAD is byte-identical at the merge base and on this branch and is absent from this PR's diff, and running DOL007 over that exact line at both commits returns no finding at either. It looks like a genuine gap — any two-call chain is invisible to the rule — but it predates this change, so it belongs in its own issue rather than growing this one. Happy to file it if you'd like.

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