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Class DataFlow::TypeTracker

A summary of the steps needed to track a value to a given dataflow node.

This can be used to track objects that implement a certain API in order to recognize calls to that API. Note that type-tracking does not by itself provide a source/sink relation, that is, it may determine that a node has a given type, but it won’t determine where that type came from.

It is recommended that all uses of this type are written in the following form, for tracking some type myType:

DataFlow::SourceNode myType(DataFlow::TypeTracker t) {
  t.start() and
  result = < source of myType >
  or
  exists (DataFlow::TypeTracker t2 |
    result = myType(t2).track(t2, t)
  )
}

DataFlow::SourceNode myType() { result = myType(DataFlow::TypeTracker::end()) }

Instead of result = myType(t2).track(t2, t), you can also use the equivalent t = t2.step(myType(t2), result). If you additionally want to track individual intra-procedural steps, use t = t2.smallstep(myCallback(t2), result).

To track values backwards, which can be useful for tracking the type of a callback, use the TypeBackTracker class instead.

Import path

import javascript

Direct supertypes

Fields

Predicates

append

Gets the summary resulting from appending step to this type-tracking summary.

call

Holds if this is the starting point of type tracking when tracking a parameter into a call, but not out of it.

continue

Gets a type tracker that starts where this one has left off to allow continued tracking.

end

Holds if this is the end point of type tracking.

hasCall

INTERNAL. DO NOT USE.

smallstep

Gets the summary that corresponds to having taken a forwards local, heap and/or inter-procedural step from pred to succ.

start

Holds if this is the starting point of type tracking.

startInPromise

Holds if this is the starting point of type tracking, and the initial value is a promise. The type tracking only ends after the value has been extracted from the promise.

startInProp

Holds if this is the starting point of type tracking, and the value starts in the property named propName. The type tracking only ends after the property has been loaded.

step

Gets the summary that corresponds to having taken a forwards heap and/or inter-procedural step from pred to succ.

toString

Gets a textual representation of this summary.

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