CHANGE (CodeAnalyzer): @W-14009441@: create output file when no violations are found

messages/RunOutputProcessor.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 module.exports = {
 	"output": {
 		"engineSummaryTemplate": "Executed %s, found %s violation(s) across %s file(s).",
-		"noViolationsDetected": "Executed engines: %s. No rule violations found.",
 		"sevThresholdSummary": "Rule violations of severity %s or more severe were detected.",
 		"writtenToConsole": "Rule violations were logged to the console.",
 		"writtenToOutFile": "Rule violations were written to %s."

src/lib/formatter/RuleResultRecombinator.ts

@@ -110,12 +110,7 @@ export class RuleResultRecombinator {
 	private static constructXml(results: RuleResult[]): string {
 		let resultXml = ``;
 
-		// If the results were just an empty string, we can return it.
-		if (results.length === 0) {
-			return resultXml;
-		}
-
-		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0].violations.length > 0 && !(results[0].violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined)
+		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0]?.violations.length > 0 && !(results[0]?.violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined)
 
 		let problemCount = 0;
 
@@ -188,10 +183,6 @@ export class RuleResultRecombinator {
 	}
 
 	private static constructJunit(results: RuleResult[]): string {
-		// If there are no results, we can just return an empty string.
-		if (!results || results.length === 0) {
-			return '';
-		}
 
 		// Otherwise, we'll need to start constructing our JUnit XML. To do that, we'll need a map from file names to
 		// lists of the <failure> tags generated from violations found in the corresponding file.
@@ -279,10 +270,6 @@ URL: ${url}`;
 	}
 
 	private static constructTable(results: RuleResult[]): RecombinedData {
-		// If the results were just an empty string, we can return it.
-		if (results.length === 0) {
-			return '';
-		}
 		const columns = this.violationsAreDfa(results)
 			? ['Source Location', 'Sink Location', 'Description', 'Category', 'URL']
 			: ['Location', 'Description', 'Category', 'URL'];
@@ -341,10 +328,6 @@ URL: ${url}`;
 	}
 
 	private static constructJson(results: RuleResult[], verboseViolations = false): string {
-		if (results.length === 0) {
-			return '';
-		}
-
 		if (verboseViolations) {
 			const resultsVerbose = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(results)) as RuleResult[];
 			for (const result of resultsVerbose) {
@@ -363,12 +346,7 @@ URL: ${url}`;
 	}
 
 	private static async constructHtml(results: RuleResult[], verboseViolations = false): Promise<string> {
-		// If the results were just an empty string, we can return it.
-		if (results.length === 0) {
-			return '';
-		}
-
-		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0].violations.length > 0 && !(results[0].violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined);
+		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0]?.violations.length > 0 && !(results[0]?.violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined);
 		const isDfa = this.violationsAreDfa(results);
 
 
@@ -434,12 +412,8 @@ URL: ${url}`;
 	}
 
 	private static async constructCsv(results: RuleResult[]): Promise<string> {
-		// If the results were just an empty list, we can return an empty string
-		if (results.length === 0) {
-			return '';
-		}
 		const isDfa: boolean = this.violationsAreDfa(results);
-		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0].violations.length > 0 && !(results[0].violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined)
+		const normalizeSeverity: boolean = results[0]?.violations.length > 0 && !(results[0]?.violations[0].normalizedSeverity === undefined)
 
 		const csvRows = [];
 		// There will always be columns for the problem counter and the severity.

src/lib/util/RunOutputProcessor.ts

@@ -28,21 +28,11 @@ export class RunOutputProcessor {
 
 
 	public processRunOutput(rrr: RecombinedRuleResults): AnyJson {
-		const {minSev, summaryMap, results} = rrr;
-		// If the results are an empty string, it means no violations were found.
-		if (results === '') {
-			// Build an appropriate message...
-			const msg = messages.getMessage('output.noViolationsDetected', [[...summaryMap.keys()].join(', ')]);
-			// ...log it to the console...
-			this.ux.log(msg);
-			// ...and return it for use with the --json flag.
-			return msg;
-		}
+		const {minSev, results} = rrr;
 
-		// If we actually have violations, there's some stuff we need to do with them. We'll build an array of message parts,
-		// and then log them all at the end.
+		// With the list of violations, we'll build an array of message parts, and then log them all at the end.
 		let msgComponents: string[] = [];
-		// We need a summary of the information we were provided.
+		// We need a summary of the information we were provided (blank/empty if no violations).
 		msgComponents = [...msgComponents, ...this.buildRunSummaryMsgParts(rrr)];
 		// We need to surface the results directly to the user, then add a message describing what we did.
 		msgComponents.push(this.opts.outfile ? this.writeToOutfile(results) : this.writeToConsole(results));

test/commands/scanner/run.filters.test.ts

@@ -19,7 +19,13 @@ describe('scanner:run tests that result in the use of RuleFilters', function ()
 				'--engine', 'eslint-lwc'
 			])
 			.it('LWC Engine Successfully parses LWC code', ctx => {
-				expect(ctx.stdout).to.contain('No rule violations found.');
+				// If there's a summary, then it'll be separated from the CSV by an empty line. Throw it away.
+				const [csv, _] = ctx.stdout.trim().split(/\n\r?\n/);
+
+				// Confirm there are no violations.
+				// Since it's a CSV, the rows themselves are separated by newline characters.
+				// The header should not have any newline characters after it. There should be no violation rows.
+				expect(csv.indexOf('\n')).to.equal(-1, "Should be no violations detected");
 			});
 
 		setupCommandTest

test/commands/scanner/run.severity.test.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ describe('scanner:run', function () {
 					'--severity-threshold', '3'
 				])
 				.it('When no violations are found, no error is thrown', ctx => {
-					expect(ctx.stdout).to.contain(processorMessages.getMessage('output.noViolationsDetected', ['pmd, retire-js']));
+					const output = JSON.parse(ctx.stdout);
+					// There should be no violations (nor any exceptions).
+					expect(output.length).to.equal(0, 'Should be no violations from one engine');
 					expect(ctx.stderr).to.not.contain(processorMessages.getMessage('output.sevThresholdSummary', ['3']), 'Error should not be present');
 				});