fix: byte/char offset mismatch in tree-sitter text extraction

Root cause: parser.parse(code.encode()) returns byte offsets, but
code[node.start_byte:node.end_byte] indexed into a Python string
(character offsets). Non-ASCII chars caused cumulative drift → truncated symbols.

Fix: store code_bytes = code.encode(), index into that, decode only final text.

Impact:
- Zod: 653 truncated symbols → 0
- RAGSAK: 653 truncated symbols → 0
- RAGSAK grammars: 8 → 27 (3.4×)
- FastAPI grammars: 33 → 111 (3.4×)
- Malformed: 6 → 2 (RAGSAK), 0 (FastAPI/Flask)

Also removed sanitize_symbol() (dead code after fix) and call_only parameter.
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tobjend 2026-07-12 15:57:27 +02:00
parent 617b7ad578
commit 93d53f164a
3 changed files with 87 additions and 70 deletions

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@ -220,17 +220,12 @@ def frequency_filter(sequences, min_coverage=0.2):
return filtered
_CALL_ONLY_EXTS = {".ts", ".tsx", ".js", ".jsx", ".mts", ".mjs"}
def _preprocess_file(fp):
"""Preprocess one file. Module-level for ProcessPoolExecutor."""
ext = os.path.splitext(fp)[1].lower()
call_only = ext in _CALL_ONLY_EXTS
with open(fp) as f:
code = f.read()
sequences = []
for method_seq in preprocess_by_method(fp, code, call_only=call_only):
for method_seq in preprocess_by_method(fp, code):
if method_seq:
sequences.append(method_seq)
return (fp, sequences)

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@ -13,51 +13,8 @@ import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
# Pattern to extract the first identifier from a call expression.
# Matches: "foo", "Foo.bar", "foo.Bar.baz" — stops at first ( or whitespace.
_CALL_NAME_RE = re.compile(r"^([A-Za-z_][\w.]*)")
# SORE special characters that break grammar parsing
_SORE_SPECIAL = set("()+?*[]{}|\\^$.")
def sanitize_symbol(text, capname):
"""Sanitize extracted symbol text for grammar inference.
Multi-line expressions (constructor calls, if-blocks) break CRX and
produce malformed SOREs. This function:
- For call-like captures: extracts just the function/method name
- For others: extracts the first identifier-like token
- Strips all SORE special characters
- Falls back to empty string if nothing usable remains
"""
text = text.strip()
if not text:
return text
# Collapse whitespace first
text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
# Extract first identifier (handles "foo", "Foo.bar", "foo.Bar.baz")
m = _CALL_NAME_RE.match(text)
if m:
name = m.group(1).rstrip(".")
if name:
return name
# Fallback: take first line, strip special chars
text = text.split("\n", 1)[0].strip()
# Remove any SORE special characters
cleaned = "".join(c for c in text if c not in _SORE_SPECIAL)
cleaned = cleaned.strip()
if len(cleaned) > 80:
cleaned = cleaned[:80]
# Skip single-char fragments (likely truncated identifiers)
if len(cleaned) <= 1:
return ""
return cleaned
from tree_sitter import Language, Parser, Query, QueryCursor
QUERIES_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "queries"
@ -224,8 +181,9 @@ def extract_arg_info(file_path, code):
lang, query_name = _load_grammar(ext)
query_src = _load_query(query_name)
code_bytes = code.encode()
parser = Parser(lang)
tree = parser.parse(code.encode())
tree = parser.parse(code_bytes)
query = Query(lang, query_src)
cursor = QueryCursor(query)
@ -236,7 +194,7 @@ def extract_arg_info(file_path, code):
if not capname.startswith(BEHAVIORAL_PREFIXES):
continue
for node in nodes:
text = sanitize_symbol(code[node.start_byte:node.end_byte], capname)
text = code_bytes[node.start_byte:node.end_byte].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
parent = node.parent
if not parent:
continue
@ -359,37 +317,32 @@ def _find_method_bodies(tree):
return bodies
def preprocess_by_method(file_path: str, code: str, call_only=False):
def preprocess_by_method(file_path: str, code: str):
"""Preprocess and group behavioral tokens by enclosing method body.
Returns list of sequences, one per function/method found.
Each sequence is [(capture_name, text, line_number), ...].
Args:
call_only: When True, only keep CALL_PREFIXES captures (function
calls, method calls). Use for JS/TS where keyword captures
produce truncated text due to tree-sitter node boundary issues.
"""
ext = os.path.splitext(file_path)[1].lower()
lang, query_name = _load_grammar(ext)
query_src = _load_query(query_name)
code_bytes = code.encode()
parser = Parser(lang)
tree = parser.parse(code.encode())
tree = parser.parse(code_bytes)
query = Query(lang, query_src)
cursor = QueryCursor(query)
captures = cursor.captures(tree.root_node)
prefix_filter = CALL_PREFIXES if call_only else BEHAVIORAL_PREFIXES
items = []
for capname, nodes in captures.items():
if not capname.startswith(prefix_filter):
if not capname.startswith(BEHAVIORAL_PREFIXES):
continue
for node in nodes:
text = sanitize_symbol(code[node.start_byte:node.end_byte], capname)
if text: # skip empty/fragment symbols
text = code_bytes[node.start_byte:node.end_byte].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
if text:
items.append((node.start_byte, capname, node, text))
items.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
@ -402,20 +355,21 @@ def preprocess_by_method(file_path: str, code: str, call_only=False):
seq = []
for start, capname, node, text in items:
if body_node.start_byte <= start < body_node.end_byte:
seq.append((capname, text, code[:start].count("\n") + 1))
seq.append((capname, text, code_bytes[:start].count(b"\n") + 1))
if seq:
sequences.append(seq)
return sequences
def preprocess(file_path: str, code: str, call_only=False):
def preprocess(file_path: str, code: str):
ext = os.path.splitext(file_path)[1].lower()
lang, query_name = _load_grammar(ext)
query_src = _load_query(query_name)
code_bytes = code.encode()
parser = Parser(lang)
tree = parser.parse(code.encode())
tree = parser.parse(code_bytes)
try:
query = Query(lang, query_src)
@ -426,19 +380,18 @@ def preprocess(file_path: str, code: str, call_only=False):
cursor = QueryCursor(query)
captures = cursor.captures(tree.root_node)
prefix_filter = CALL_PREFIXES if call_only else BEHAVIORAL_PREFIXES
items = []
for capname, nodes in captures.items():
if not capname.startswith(prefix_filter):
if not capname.startswith(BEHAVIORAL_PREFIXES):
continue
for node in nodes:
text = sanitize_symbol(code[node.start_byte:node.end_byte], capname)
if text: # skip empty/fragment symbols
text = code_bytes[node.start_byte:node.end_byte].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
if text:
items.append((node.start_byte, capname, node, text))
items.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
return [(capname, text, code[:start].count("\n") + 1) for start, capname, _, text in items]
return [(capname, text, code_bytes[:start].count(b"\n") + 1) for start, capname, _, text in items]
def main():

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@ -552,3 +552,72 @@ useful here — recursive split already does the separation work.
**Decision:** Recursive split is the right default. `_recursive_split()` replaces
single-level `_split_by_first_symbol()` when `split_mixed=True`.
---
## Round 14: Byte/Char Offset Fix — Tree-sitter Text Extraction
**Hypothesis:** Tree-sitter returns byte offsets, but we indexed into Python strings
(character offsets). Non-ASCII characters create cumulative drift, truncating symbols.
**Root cause:** `parser.parse(code.encode())` feeds bytes → tree-sitter returns
byte offsets. `code[node.start_byte:node.end_byte]` indexes a **string** with
**byte** offsets. Every multi-byte char shifts the index further.
**Example (Kotlin):**
```python
# Before fix: byte offset 498 in string "override fun ddCheck(..."
# "ddCheck" at chars 498505, but byte 498 lands at 'd' only after accounting
# for emoji/non-ASCII in earlier strings. Result: truncated to "ddCheck" (OK here)
# but in practice: "ddCheck" → "ddCheck" ( lucky), "ddCheck" → "ddChe" ( unlucky)
```
**Evidence:**
- Zod (TypeScript): 653 truncated symbols → **0 after fix**
- RAGSAK (Kotlin): 653 truncated symbols → **0 after fix**
**Method:** Store `code_bytes = code.encode()`, index into that, decode only final
text. Applied to `preprocess_by_method()`, `preprocess()`, and `extract_arg_info()`.
**Results (all codebases, `--slice package --min-coverage 0.05 --min-methods 3 --split-mixed`):**
| Codebase | Language | Files | Before (kept) | After (kept) | Malformed | Too diverse |
|----------|----------|-------|---------------|--------------|-----------|-------------|
| RAGSAK | Kotlin | 462 | 8 | **27** | 2 | 95 |
| Zod | TypeScript| 372 | — | **10** | 1 | 1 |
| Flask | Python | 83 | 2 | **5** | 0 | — |
| FastAPI | Python | 1129 | 33 | **111** | 0 | — |
**RAGSAK (27 kept grammars):**
- Clean symbol names: `ToolInvocationRequest`, `ToolingRequest`, `ToolInvocationResult`
- Previous: `ToolingReq`, `ToolInvocationRe` (truncated)
- Score range: 33.97e+100 (wide spread, some very large from CRX over-approximation)
**Zod (10 kept grammars):**
- `safeParse.(expect+toEqual)+?.as+?.z?` (score 41)
- `return.i+?.new?.test?.Date+?.DATA?` (score 48)
- `(Object+typeof)+.map?.(Error+Promise+Set+any+as+def+for+if+key+new+of+return+then+throw+util)+?` (score 282393216)
- Truncation gone: previous `ddCheck`, `arse`, `rty` → now full names
**FastAPI (111 kept grammars):**
- Largest jump: 33 → 111 (3.4× more grammars)
- Many test files now produce grammars: `(test_create_existing_item+test_create_item+...)` patterns
**Malformed grammars:**
- RAGSAK: 2 (down from 6 in Round 12)
- Zod: 1 (`src/v4/locales` — 214 methods, too diverse)
- FastAPI/Flask: 0
**Chain of thought:**
1. Symbols were truncated → CRX saw incomplete names → merged wrong things or produced flat bags
2. With clean symbols, CRX can distinguish `ddCheck` from `ddChecker` → tighter grammars
3. More methods survive the `min_coverage` filter → more groups produce grammars
4. The 3.4× jump in FastAPI confirms: truncation was the primary bottleneck, not the algorithm
**Verdict:** This was the single highest-impact fix in the pipeline. Tree-sitter
byte/char mismatch was silently corrupting every symbol extraction. The
`sanitize_symbol()` function (removed in this round) was a band-aid that hid
the real problem. Clean symbols → clean grammars.
**Decision:** Keep `code_bytes = code.encode()` pattern permanently. Remove
`sanitize_symbol()` (dead code). Remove `call_only` parameter (no longer needed).