chore(policies): improve error message in policy eval when no branches were executed #2576
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Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <[email protected]>
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| if len(policyEvs) == 0 || policyEvs[0] == nil { | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("no execution branch matched for kind %s", material.MaterialType.String()) | ||
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("no execution branch matched, or all of them were ignored, for kind %s", material.MaterialType.String()) |
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is there any better way we could do this? I mean, is there any way to distinguish them? Maybe we can add some debug logging so if you run eval with debug you get info about if the execution path was ignored or executed?
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That would be ideal, yes. It has implications in the engine, though. Let me check them
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The message was already there, but a bug prevented it from being shown. Check my comment in the PR
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Check the change in policy_develop_eval.go. I noticed that the |
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When policy evaluation result is empty, it might happen that the material didn't match, or that the policy logic (Rego) has set the
ignoreflag totrue(because of missing input parameters or any other criteria).