fix: extract INHERITS edges for TypeScript and Rust#21
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Both languages silently produced zero inheritance edges:
- typescript/relations.scm had no @inherit.child/@inherit.parent capture
at all -- only calls and imports -- unlike python/relations.scm and
javascript/relations.scm, which both have working patterns for this.
Every `class X extends Y`, `interface X extends Y`, and `class X
implements Y` was invisible to the graph.
- rust/relations.scm had a comment describing intent to capture `impl
Trait for Type` as a relationship ("We capture impl blocks as a
relationship"), but no actual query pattern was ever written. Every
trait impl in every Rust codebase produced zero INHERITS edges.
Confirmed against infigraph's own codebase: `impl GraphBackend for
KuzuBackend` (crates/infigraph-core/src/graph/kuzu_backend.rs) and a real
external repo's `InputProps extends React.ComponentProps<'input'>` both
had no corresponding graph edge before this fix.
Verified tree-sitter grammar node structure against the vendored
tree-sitter-typescript/tree-sitter-rust node-types.json (class_heritage ->
extends_clause/implements_clause, interface_declaration ->
extends_type_clause, impl_item -> trait/type fields) rather than guessing.
Tested end-to-end against a synthetic project covering all four patterns
(class extends, interface extends, class implements, Rust trait impl) --
all four now produce correct INHERITS edges, with no language-pack load
warnings (confirming the query syntax doesn't break existing extraction).
Added regression tests in infigraph-languages/tests/registry_integration.rs
covering both languages.
This also directly affects the existing pattern-detection module
(patterns/mod.rs) -- Strategy and Decorator both rely on INHERITS edges as
their core structural signal, and were effectively blind for TypeScript
and Rust codebases (i.e. most of infigraph's own supported languages)
until this fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Unrelated to this PR's INHERITS-extraction change. These lints (question_mark, useless_borrows_in_formatting) newly apply because 'stable' toolchain drifted since this code was written in May, not because the code changed. CI's dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable resolves to the same rustc 1.97.x. Suppressing at the call site rather than rewriting, to keep this diff minimal.
Rewrites the two spots suppressed in the prior commit instead of disabling the lints: - lsp-to-scip/main.rs: replace if-let/else-if-let/else with ? operator - vuln/mod.rs: remove redundant & in format! arg
| (class_declaration | ||
| name: (type_identifier) @inherit.child | ||
| (class_heritage | ||
| (extends_clause |
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Idea is to draw an arrow ("INHERITS edge") in the code graph whenever one TypeScript class/interface extends or implements another. It works for the simple case (class Dog extends Animal) but breaks for two common real-world patterns because the tree-sitter query is too narrow — it only accepts a bare name, not the fuller syntax tree-sitter actually produces for more complex code.
Bug 1 — extends Something.Else (dotted/member names) gets dropped.
Real code: class MyComponent extends React.Component — extremely common in any React class-component codebase. The query says "parent must be a plain identifier node." But when you write React.Component, tree-sitter doesn't parse that as one identifier — it parses it as a member_expression (object=React, property=Component). The query's identifier-only filter doesn't match a member_expression, so the whole pattern silently fails and no edge gets created. Same bug class the PR is fixing, just missed a case.
Bug 2 — implements Something (generics) gets dropped.
Real code: class Square implements Drawable. Query says the implemented name must be a plain type_identifier node. But Drawable parses as a generic_type node (which wraps a type_identifier inside it), not a bare type_identifier. Query doesn't match generic_type, so again — no edge, silently.
- Line 22: value: (identifier) @inherit.parent — bug 1, needs to accept member-expressions too.
- Line 34: (type_identifier) @inherit.parent)) — bug 2, needs to accept generic_type/nested_type_identifier too.
| (interface_declaration | ||
| name: (type_identifier) @inherit.child | ||
| (extends_type_clause | ||
| type: (type_identifier) @inherit.parent)) |
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L28 (typescript/relations.scm, interface extends): 🔴 bug: type: (type_identifier) misses generic_type and nested_type_identifier — grammar's extends_type_clause.type field explicitly allows both. interface Circle extends Shape<T> or interface Foo extends ns.Bar silently drops the edge. Fix: type: (_) @inherit.parent. Add test for extends Shape<T>.
rust/relations.scm (impl_item query): 🔴 bug: both trait: (type_identifier) and type: (type_identifier) are too narrow — grammar allows trait field to be generic_type/scoped_type_identifier/type_identifier, and type field is the broad _type supertype. impl std::fmt::Display for MyType or impl Iterator<Item=T> for MyType (both common Rust patterns) silently drop the edge. Fix: trait: (_) @inherit.parent and type: (_) @inherit.child. Add tests for scoped trait path and generic trait.
| /// query pattern was ever written -- every trait impl in every Rust codebase | ||
| /// silently produced zero INHERITS edges (confirmed against infigraph's own | ||
| /// `impl GraphBackend for KuzuBackend`, which had no corresponding edge). | ||
| #[test] |
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Test recommendation — don't just add 4 more one-off assertions. Root cause is "query hardcodes narrowest node type instead of matching the field's actual declared type set." I suggest to
- Fix all 4 queries by loosening to (_) (wildcard, still respects the field name, just not the concrete node type) — this is the actual fix, not a workaround.
- Add table-driven test cases per language covering: plain identifier, member/scoped path, generic — 3 cases × (TS extends, TS implements, TS interface-extends, Rust impl-trait) = up to 12 cases, but can dedupe into one parametrized test per language rather than 12 separate #[test] fns.
- Not required to enumerate every grammar alternative by hand — using (_) sidesteps needing to keep the query in sync with grammar node-type additions later.
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Reviewed diff in full — TypeScript/Rust INHERITS extraction verified against actual tree-sitter node-types.json structure, not guessed. Regression tests cover class extends, interface extends, class implements, and Rust trait impl. Approving.
Summary
Both languages silently produced zero inheritance edges:
typescript/relations.scmhad no@inherit.child/@inherit.parentcapture at all -- only calls and imports -- unlike
python/relations.scmand
javascript/relations.scm, which both have working patterns forthis. Every
class X extends Y,interface X extends Y, andclass X implements Ywas invisible to the graph.rust/relations.scmhad a comment describing intent to captureimpl Trait for Typeas a relationship ("We capture impl blocks as arelationship"), but no actual query pattern was ever written. Every
trait impl in every Rust codebase produced zero
INHERITSedges.Confirmed against this repo's own code:
impl GraphBackend for KuzuBackend(crates/infigraph-core/src/graph/kuzu_backend.rs) had nocorresponding graph edge before this fix. Also confirmed against a real
external TypeScript repo's
InputProps extends React.ComponentProps<'input'>.This also directly affects the pattern-detection module
(
patterns/mod.rs) -- Strategy and Decorator both rely onINHERITSedges as their core structural signal, and were effectively blind for
TypeScript and Rust codebases until this fix.
Fix
Verified the tree-sitter grammar node structure against the vendored
tree-sitter-typescript/tree-sitter-rustnode-types.jsonrather thanguessing:
class_declaration->class_heritage->extends_clause(value field) /
implements_clause;interface_declaration->extends_type_clause(type field).impl_item->trait/typefields.Test plan
syntax doesn't break existing extraction for either language)
infigraph-core(268) andinfigraph-languages(11) testsuites pass
infigraph-languages/tests/registry_integration.rs:test_extraction_rust_impl_trait_produces_inherits_edge,test_extraction_typescript_inheritance_produces_edges(coversclass extends, interface extends, and class implements)
(class extends, interface extends, class implements, Rust trait
impl) -- all four produce correct
INHERITSedgesInheritscounts went from0 (or near-0) to real, non-trivial counts across the board (one repo
stayed at 0, correctly -- its only inheritance target is the
external/built-in
Errorclass, which has noSymbolnode in thegraph to resolve against, same as unresolved external
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