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fix(core): write error-hint shell commands for the platform that prints them (#1164) - #1175
The commands in the gzip, zstd, zip and non-UTF-8 error hints now run as pasted on the platform that printed them, for a path holding a space or an apostrophe. Following one never replaces a file the user already has, and a file name never runs as code.
POSIX builds keep the single quotes and write an apostrophe as '\''. unzip gains -n, and the re-encode runs as (set -C; iconv ... > '<path>.utf8.csv'), so neither replaces an existing file; gunzip -k and zstd -d already refuse to.
Windows builds put the path in double quotes, which cmd.exe and PowerShell both read, and suggest Python, which Windows needs no extra tools for: a python -c gzip one-liner that opens its output with 'xb', python -m zipfile -e <path> <path>.contents (a new directory, since zipfile -e replaces files without asking), and a python -c re-encode that streams with shutil.copyfileobj into a file opened with 'x'. Windows ships no zstd decoder, so the zstd hint stays zstd -d "<path>" there.
On Windows, a path holding $, % or a backtick gets FILE where the path goes, and a sentence saying why: inside double quotes PowerShell runs $(...) and expands $name, and cmd.exe expands %NAME%.
The re-encode hint names latin-1 as ISO-8859-1. libiconv, which macOS and Git for Windows use, refuses iconv -f latin-1 ("conversion from latin-1 unsupported"). It also writes <path>.utf8.csv instead of printing to the terminal, so there is a result to profile.
DataProfilerError::suggestion() for an encoding error now carries the path, the same command as the message.
The commands live in one place, crates/dataprof-core/src/shell_hint.rs, and binary_input.rs and errors.rs both call it.
POSIX: escape an apostrophe as '\''. Shell::quote in shell_hint.rs, unit test posix_quotes_close_and_reopen_around_an_apostrophe.
Windows: double quotes and a command that is there. Shell::Windows in shell_hint.rs, for gzip, zip and re-encoding. zstd has no command that Windows ships, so that hint still needs zstd installed.
A test per hint over a path holding a space and an apostrophe: tests/error_hint_commands.rs and python/tests/test_error_hint_commands.py write a real gzip, zstd, zip and latin-1 file under hint dir/o'brien.*, take the command from the error, run it through sh (POSIX) or both cmd.exe and PowerShell (Windows), and check the bytes it wrote and that they profile. Two more tests in each file: an existing file where the command writes survives, and a file name starting $(New-Item pwned) (Windows) or $(touch pwned) (POSIX) creates no pwned. The zstd case is skipped where zstd is not installed; ubuntu-latest has it.
How it was verified
Per-part reverts, each restored from snapshot bytes, guard run by name. The behaviour guards ran the compiled test binary with PATH cut to System32, PowerShell and the venv's Python, because Git for Windows and WinLibs put unzip, iconv and GNU tar on this machine's PATH, and a fresh Windows does not have them.
every_suggested_command_runs_..., re-encode decoding as cp437
fails: wrote Zⁿrich
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Not discriminated here: the POSIX -n and set -C (the Rust guards run them on Linux CI), and the streaming re-encode (no guard measures memory). I ran the POSIX forms through Git Bash's sh on hint dir/o'brien.*: gunzip -k and unzip -n left an existing file alone, and (set -C; iconv ...) wrote a new output, refused an existing one ("cannot overwrite existing file"), and left noclobber off in the calling shell.
A first version suggested tar -xf for zip on Windows. The behaviour test caught it failing whenever Git for Windows is on PATH: tar then resolves to GNU tar, which reads C: as a remote host ("Cannot connect to C: resolve failed").
$ cargo test --workspace --all-features # 123 test binaries, all ok (first commit)
$ cargo test --test error_hint_commands --test error_contract --test binary_input; cargo test -p dataprof-core --lib # round 1
$ cargo clippy --all --all-targets -- -D warnings
$ cargo fmt --all
$ uv run pytest python/tests -q # 2887 passed, 19 skipped (first commit)
$ uv run pytest python/tests/test_error_hint_commands.py python/tests/test_encoding.py python/tests/test_binary_input.py # round 1, 17 passed
$ uv run ruff format / ruff check / ty check python/
report_diff.py 0.13.1 on the branch build, with two corpus files added (hint o'brien latin1.csv, hint o'brien.csv.gz): the error rows that moved are the binary-input and non-UTF-8 ones, and only in the hint text. On Windows, 0.13.1 prints gunzip -k '...hint o'brien.csv.gz' and iconv -f latin-1 ... '...'; this branch prints the Python commands. The other differences are the generator commit and the JSON float-digit parity from #1166 and #1168, already on master; this PR changes no report value.
Review round 1
Codex, CodeRabbit and Copilot reviewed 06cf15a; fe58080 answers them.
The Windows gzip and zip commands replaced existing files (python -m gzip -d opens its output "wb", zipfile -e overwrites without asking), and the re-encode truncated an existing .utf8.csv on both platforms (Codex, Copilot). Fixed as listed above, with a guard per platform.
A file named $(...) ran as a PowerShell subexpression when the Windows hint was pasted (CodeRabbit). Part F above shows it did, before the fix.
The Windows re-encode read the whole file into memory (CodeRabbit, Copilot); it streams now.
The Rust test wrote its PowerShell script without a BOM, which Windows PowerShell 5.1 reads as ANSI (Copilot); it writes one now, as the Python twin did.
Self-review: the run test only checked that the output profiled to two rows, which mojibake passes; it compares the written bytes now (part J).
Anything reviewers should know
The hint text now depends on the build's platform (cfg!(windows)), so tests/error_contract.rs and python/tests/test_encoding.py look for iconv or python -c by platform.
CPython's python -m gzip -d only takes a .gz name, has no output option (- reads stdin and writes stdout, but PowerShell has no <), and replaces an existing output without asking; compression.zstd (3.14) has no python -m entry point. A -c/--stdout flag and an existence check for the gzip CLI, and a small __main__ for compression.zstd, would give every platform a decompress command that needs no extra install.
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Review comments at @crates/dataprof-core/src/shell_hint.rs:
- Line 33: Update Shell::Windows.quote so suggested PowerShell commands cannot
evaluate expandable-string subexpressions in paths; use PowerShell-safe quoting
distinct from cmd.exe quoting, or decline to produce a pasteable command when
the path cannot be quoted safely.
- Line 80: Update the Windows re-encoding command in the shell hint to copy
decoded input to the UTF-8 output in bounded chunks using shutil.copyfileobj,
opening both files with the existing encoding and newline settings; remove the
whole-file read/write operation.
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Error hints now generate decompression, ZIP extraction, and encoding-conversion commands for the host shell. POSIX paths escape apostrophes, and Windows hints use quoted paths and platform-compatible commands. Rust and Python tests exercise generated commands with paths containing spaces and apostrophes.
A private Shell helper selects the host shell, quotes paths, and builds decompression, extraction, and re-encoding commands.
Use generated commands in error hints crates/dataprof-core/src/binary_input.rs, crates/dataprof-core/src/errors.rs, python/tests/test_encoding.py, python/tests/test_error_hint_commands.py, tests/error_contract.rs, tests/error_hint_commands.rs
Compression and encoding error hints use generated commands. Unit and integration tests check platform-specific guidance and execute suggested commands for paths with spaces and apostrophes.
Issue 371 describes actionable error guidance. This change updates the hints to provide host-shell commands.
Issue 1083 describes missing non-UTF-8 re-encoding guidance. This change provides host-specific re-encoding commands but does not address errors beyond the first MiB.
Issue 810 describes non-UTF-8 errors with an iconv hint. This change uses host-specific re-encoding commands instead.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 06cf1
Error hints now produce pasteable commands for the host shell, which fixes the quoting problems for paths with spaces and apostrophes. Two Windows edge cases remain. A filename containing PowerShell syntax such as $(...) would be evaluated if the hint is pasted into PowerShell. The Windows re-encode command also reads a whole large file into memory. Both affect only the optional hint commands, so the change is mergeable, but the owners should be aware of them.
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Issue #1164 requires hints that run as pasted for any path on the target platform. The implementation satisfies the requested POSIX apostrophe escaping and the Windows space/apostrophe cases. It also …
Make Windows command generation safe for legal paths containing cmd.exe percent-expansion syntax and PowerShell dollar-expansion syntax. Add regression coverage for those path characters in the affected hints.
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The changed production files centralize shell quoting and update the four error hints required by issue #1164. The Rust and Python test changes verify the generated commands and update platform-specif…
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The title "fix(core): write error-hint shell commands for the platform that prints them (#1164)" names the main change: error-hint shell commands (gzip, zstd, zip, non-UTF-8 re-encode) are now written for the platform that prints them. The raw summary and objectives confirm the POSIX apostrophe escaping and Windows-specific commands. The title is specific and concise, though it is a little long at 84 characters and includes an issue number, which is acceptable.
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Issue #1164 requires hints that run as pasted for any path on the target platform. The implementation satisfies the requested POSIX apostrophe escaping and the Windows space/apostrophe cases. It also adds gzip, zstd, zip, and re-encoding coverage. However, Shell::Windows::quote only adds double quotes. The source documents that cmd.exe expands %NAME% and PowerShell expands $name inside these quotes. A legal Windows path containing either form therefore does not run as pasted.
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Make Windows command generation safe for legal paths containing cmd.exe percent-expansion syntax and PowerShell dollar-expansion syntax. Add regression coverage for those path characters in the affected hints.
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Refuse to overwrite an existing decompressed file
On Windows, following this hint when data.csv already exists beside data.csv.gz silently destroys the existing CSV. I checked the local CPython gzip CLI (--help describes -d as “act like gunzip instead of gzip”) and its implementation: gzip.main() opens the destination with builtins.open(arg[:-3], "wb"), without an existence check or confirmation. A reproduction replaced an existing file and exited successfully. Unlike the previous gunzip -k suggestion, this command therefore loses overwrite protection; use a Python command that creates the destination exclusively or otherwise refuses to replace existing data.
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Right, gzip.main() opens arg[:-3] with "wb". Fixed in fe58080: the Windows hint is now a python -c one-liner that opens the output with 'xb', so an existing data.csv makes it fail with FileExistsError and stay untouched. no_suggested_command_replaces_a_file_already_there (Rust and Python) puts a file there and requires its bytes unchanged; with 'wb' restored it fails.
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Review comments at @crates/dataprof-core/src/shell_hint.rs:
- Line 33: Update Shell::Windows.quote so suggested PowerShell commands cannot
evaluate expandable-string subexpressions in paths; use PowerShell-safe quoting
distinct from cmd.exe quoting, or decline to produce a pasteable command when
the path cannot be quoted safely.
- Line 80: Update the Windows re-encoding command in the shell hint to copy
decoded input to the UTF-8 output in bounded chunks using shutil.copyfileobj,
opening both files with the existing encoding and newline settings; remove the
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Fixed in fe58080. Windows extracts into a new <path>.contents directory, and POSIX unzip gets -n, which never overwrites and never stops at a prompt. The existing-file test puts a data.csv in the working directory for both; with the extraction into . restored it fails on Windows.
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Both fixed in fe58080. POSIX: (set -C; iconv ... > '<path>.utf8.csv'); through sh it refuses an existing output ("cannot overwrite existing file") and leaves noclobber off in the calling shell. Windows: copyfileobj into a file opened with 'x'. The latin-1 case joins the existing-file test; with 'w' restored it fails.
Resolve the BinarySignature::suggestion arms against AndreaBozzo#1175: gzip, zstd and zip keep the Shell commands and placeholder note; the Arrow IPC and Feather V1 calls return early and write the path through python_str, which escapes only backslash, double quote and control characters.
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What changed
The commands in the gzip, zstd, zip and non-UTF-8 error hints now run as pasted on the platform that printed them, for a path holding a space or an apostrophe. Following one never replaces a file the user already has, and a file name never runs as code.
'\''.unzipgains-n, and the re-encode runs as(set -C; iconv ... > '<path>.utf8.csv'), so neither replaces an existing file;gunzip -kandzstd -dalready refuse to.python -cgzip one-liner that opens its output with'xb',python -m zipfile -e <path> <path>.contents(a new directory, sincezipfile -ereplaces files without asking), and apython -cre-encode that streams withshutil.copyfileobjinto a file opened with'x'. Windows ships no zstd decoder, so the zstd hint stayszstd -d "<path>"there.$,%or a backtick getsFILEwhere the path goes, and a sentence saying why: inside double quotes PowerShell runs$(...)and expands$name, and cmd.exe expands%NAME%.ISO-8859-1. libiconv, which macOS and Git for Windows use, refusesiconv -f latin-1("conversion from latin-1 unsupported"). It also writes<path>.utf8.csvinstead of printing to the terminal, so there is a result to profile.DataProfilerError::suggestion()for an encoding error now carries the path, the same command as the message.The commands live in one place,
crates/dataprof-core/src/shell_hint.rs, andbinary_input.rsanderrors.rsboth call it.Related issue: Closes #1164
Acceptance criteria
'\''.Shell::quoteinshell_hint.rs, unit testposix_quotes_close_and_reopen_around_an_apostrophe.Shell::Windowsinshell_hint.rs, for gzip, zip and re-encoding. zstd has no command that Windows ships, so that hint still needszstdinstalled.tests/error_hint_commands.rsandpython/tests/test_error_hint_commands.pywrite a real gzip, zstd, zip and latin-1 file underhint dir/o'brien.*, take the command from the error, run it through sh (POSIX) or both cmd.exe and PowerShell (Windows), and check the bytes it wrote and that they profile. Two more tests in each file: an existing file where the command writes survives, and a file name starting$(New-Item pwned)(Windows) or$(touch pwned)(POSIX) creates nopwned. The zstd case is skipped wherezstdis not installed; ubuntu-latest has it.How it was verified
Per-part reverts, each restored from snapshot bytes, guard run by name. The behaviour guards ran the compiled test binary with
PATHcut to System32, PowerShell and the venv's Python, because Git for Windows and WinLibs putunzip,iconvand GNUtaron this machine'sPATH, and a fresh Windows does not have them.shell_hint::tests::posix_quotes_close_and_reopen_around_an_apostropheevery_suggested_command_runs_on_a_path_with_a_space_and_an_apostrophe(cmd, PowerShell)ISO-8859-1shell_hint::tests::latin_1_is_named_as_iconv_knows_itsuggestion()carries the pathevery_suggested_command_runs_...FILEfor$,%, backtick (round 1)a_file_name_holding_a_command_runs_nothingpwned'xb'(round 1)no_suggested_command_replaces_a_file_already_there<path>.contents(round 1)'x'(round 1)every_suggested_command_runs_..., re-encode decoding as cp437ZⁿrichNot discriminated here: the POSIX
-nandset -C(the Rust guards run them on Linux CI), and the streaming re-encode (no guard measures memory). I ran the POSIX forms through Git Bash'sshonhint dir/o'brien.*:gunzip -kandunzip -nleft an existing file alone, and(set -C; iconv ...)wrote a new output, refused an existing one ("cannot overwrite existing file"), and leftnoclobberoff in the calling shell.A first version suggested
tar -xffor zip on Windows. The behaviour test caught it failing whenever Git for Windows is onPATH:tarthen resolves to GNU tar, which readsC:as a remote host ("Cannot connect to C: resolve failed").report_diff.py 0.13.1on the branch build, with two corpus files added (hint o'brien latin1.csv,hint o'brien.csv.gz): the error rows that moved are the binary-input and non-UTF-8 ones, and only in the hint text. On Windows, 0.13.1 printsgunzip -k '...hint o'brien.csv.gz'andiconv -f latin-1 ... '...'; this branch prints the Python commands. The other differences are the generator commit and the JSON float-digit parity from #1166 and #1168, already on master; this PR changes no report value.Review round 1
Codex, CodeRabbit and Copilot reviewed 06cf15a; fe58080 answers them.
python -m gzip -dopens its output"wb",zipfile -eoverwrites without asking), and the re-encode truncated an existing.utf8.csvon both platforms (Codex, Copilot). Fixed as listed above, with a guard per platform.$(...)ran as a PowerShell subexpression when the Windows hint was pasted (CodeRabbit). Part F above shows it did, before the fix.Anything reviewers should know
cfg!(windows)), sotests/error_contract.rsandpython/tests/test_encoding.pylook foriconvorpython -cby platform.binary_input.rs(an Arrow IPC signature). Whichever merges second rebases. Its new suggestions are Python calls with the path as a literal, not shell commands, so they do not needshell_hint.Gaps noticed
export.csvthat is gzip) gets a command that refuses it:gunzipsays "unknown suffix -- ignored", and the Windows one-liner's output name would be the input itself, so'xb'refuses it. Reading compressed input natively (Profile gzip- and zstd-compressed CSV and JSON Lines #892) removes the hint for these; tracked there: Profile gzip- and zstd-compressed CSV and JSON Lines #892 (comment).Upstream openings
python -m gzip -donly takes a.gzname, has no output option (-reads stdin and writes stdout, but PowerShell has no<), and replaces an existing output without asking;compression.zstd(3.14) has nopython -mentry point. A-c/--stdoutflag and an existence check for the gzip CLI, and a small__main__forcompression.zstd, would give every platform a decompress command that needs no extra install.