[ANE-1349] Binary discovery support for whl files by GauravB159 · Pull Request #1750 · fossas/fossa-cli · GitHub

Overview

Given a whl file, we need to identify the dependency that is associated with it. Whl files are zip files that can be unzipped. They all require a “METADATA” file in their dist-info directory.

This PR adds the capability to scan these .whl files on top of our existing binary analysis logic which only supported JAR files separately. One thing to note: JAR file analysis creates user defined deps rather than mvn deps so the logic needed to be extended a bit for .whl files to create pip deps instead of user defined deps.

Acceptance criteria

Scanning a directory with whl files will result in the dependency that corresponds to the whl files being shown in the UI

Testing plan

Automated testing has been added. For manual testing, copying the automated testing fixtures, or downloading any .whl file and running a fossa analyze on it should suffice.

fossa analyze . --experimental-enable-binary-discovery --debug

Risks

Should be low risk since it's extending a feature and it's behind an experimental flag

Metrics

Some logging has been added, if that surfaces in Datadog, we can monitor failures

References

ANE-1349

Checklist

I added tests for this PR's change (or explained in the PR description why tests don't make sense).
If this PR introduced a user-visible change, I added documentation into docs/.
If this PR added docs, I added links as appropriate to the user manual's ToC in docs/README.ms and gave consideration to how discoverable or not my documentation is.
If this change is externally visible, I updated Changelog.md. If this PR did not mark a release, I added my changes into an ## Unreleased section at the top.
If I made changes to .fossa.yml or fossa-deps.{json.yml}, I updated docs/references/files/*.schema.json AND I have updated example files used by fossa init command. You may also need to update these if you have added/removed new dependency type (e.g. pip) or analysis target type (e.g. poetry).
If I made changes to a subcommand's options, I updated docs/references/subcommands/<subcommand>.md.

Walkthrough

The binary discovery pipeline now uses BinaryDiscoveredDep for user and locator dependencies. JAR resolution and raw fingerprinting use the new result type. Source units now include build dependencies and imports for locator results. A new resolver extracts Name, Version, and license data from wheel METADATA files and creates pip dependencies. Tests cover wheel metadata versions older than and equal to 2.4. Documentation and changelog entries describe the support.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 292e8

Wheel scanning can incorrectly associate dependencies when archives contain misleading .dist-info directory names, potentially showing a false pip dependency in the UI. Tighten the directory-name match and add regression coverage before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding binary discovery support for Python wheel files.
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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (10 skipped: 10 unsupported.)
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In `@src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs`:
- Around line 7-34: Use explicit fully qualified Haskell imports and qualify all
affected references. Apply the change in src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs lines
7-34, src/Srclib/Types.hs line 57, src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs lines 8-17 and
27-29, src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Jar.hs line 35,
src/App/Fossa/VSI/DynLinked/Internal/Resolve.hs lines 12-20,
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/WhlSpec.hs lines 5-19, and
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/JarSpec.hs lines 15-18; qualify converter, Srclib,
Types.DepType, production-module, test, and changed imported-module references
as applicable.
- Around line 83-89: Update findDistInfoFolder to match only directory names
that end with the exact “.dist-info” suffix, removing any trailing directory
separator before checking; do not use substring matching that accepts names such
as “.dist-info-backup”. Add a regression fixture containing both a valid
.dist-info directory and a misleading similarly named directory.

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Changelog.md
docs/references/experimental/binary-discovery/README.md
spectrometer.cabal
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Jar.hs
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs
src/App/Fossa/VSI/DynLinked/Internal/Resolve.hs
src/Srclib/Types.hs
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/JarSpec.hs
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/WhlSpec.hs
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/testdata/markupsafe-3.0.3-cp314-cp314t-win_arm64.whl
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/testdata/six-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use fully qualified imports in the changed Haskell modules.

src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs#L7-L34: qualify the imported modules and qualify their references.
src/Srclib/Types.hs#L57-L57: qualify Types.DepType and its references.
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs#L8-L17: qualify the changed imported modules and references.
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs#L27-L29: qualify converter and Srclib type references.
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Jar.hs#L35-L35: qualify Srclib type references.
src/App/Fossa/VSI/DynLinked/Internal/Resolve.hs#L12-L20: qualify the changed imported modules and references.
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/WhlSpec.hs#L5-L19: qualify test and production-module references.
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/JarSpec.hs#L15-L18: qualify Srclib type references.

As per coding guidelines, use “explicit imports qualified with full names in Haskell.”

📍 Affects 7 files

src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs#L7-L34 (this comment)
src/Srclib/Types.hs#L57-L57
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs#L8-L17
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs#L27-L29
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Jar.hs#L35-L35
src/App/Fossa/VSI/DynLinked/Internal/Resolve.hs#L12-L20
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/WhlSpec.hs#L5-L19
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/JarSpec.hs#L15-L18

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In `@src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs` around lines 7 - 34, Use explicit fully
qualified Haskell imports and qualify all affected references. Apply the change
in src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Whl.hs lines 7-34, src/Srclib/Types.hs line 57,
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps.hs lines 8-17 and 27-29,
src/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/Jar.hs line 35,
src/App/Fossa/VSI/DynLinked/Internal/Resolve.hs lines 12-20,
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/WhlSpec.hs lines 5-19, and
test/App/Fossa/BinaryDeps/JarSpec.hs lines 15-18; qualify converter, Srclib,
Types.DepType, production-module, test, and changed imported-module references
as applicable.

Source: Coding guidelines

I think the code is good, but I want to raise one thing.

The dependencies found by this PR don't show their path, and I think this is going to be confusing to a customer. For example, in this screenshot you can see where the jar file is from but not the pip dep:

The only solution that I can think of is to make each .whl file its own source unit and set the OriginPaths field in it. If you do that, then you get the path:

(I did this by just creating some SourceUnits and POSTing them directly to Core. I didn't write any code)

I'm not sure if this is a deal-breaker, but it's definitely a nice to have for this feature

The metadata file contains the readme, which can contain a :. So this will break for any readme that contains a :

An example is the sympy readme: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a2/09/77d55d46fd61b4a135c444fc97158ef34a095e5681d0a6c10b75bf356191/sympy-1.14.0-py3-none-any.whl

If you unzip that, you see lots of lines in sympy-1.14.0.dist-info/METADATA that contain :, and those will become keys

I think the fix is to just send the header to parseMetadata, which is everything before the first blank line

The value can also be multi-line, like this:

License: Copyright (c) 2010 Example
        Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person...
        THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS": WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND

We should probably also parse that properly

The spec for this is apparently RFC 822, which is kind of dense. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-3.2

@spatten We really only care about the Name and Version. Even the License is parsed but it's not really used. So for now, I think it's fine to have this simple parsing. What do you think?

Also for the main comment, adding an individual source unit for each dep is a bit more involved, I'd rather hold off on it for now and see if anyone even uses this feature. We can add it in the future if it's needed.

Both of those decisions make sense to me. Let's ship this :)

…and normal source units

GauravB159 changed the title Binary whl analysis [ANE-1349] Binary discovery support for whl files Aug 20, 2026

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GauravB159 force-pushed the binary-whl-analysis branch from 494b002 to f1e1346 Compare August 24, 2026 18:50

GauravB159 added 13 commits August 24, 2026 16:20

First attempt at wheel file parsing and enumeration

0e6c76d

License detection working, but dep needs to be renamed

f67cd25

Change return type of binary scanning to allow for user defined deps …

7b5fa51

…and normal source units

Add conversion of user defined deps to locator deps

679004f

Allow default value if license is missing

d133021

Add logic to get old license key if new license key does not exist

cd7a5b9

Remove logging

1bff943

Add tests for whl files

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Format

7f91de5

Update tests

420f5db

Update docs

21fd388

Update changelog

edf050f

Switch to checking suffix instead of infix

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GauravB159 force-pushed the binary-whl-analysis branch from f1e1346 to bc91636 Compare August 24, 2026 23:20

GauravB159 merged commit 3cfe2e8 into master Aug 24, 2026
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+              import Control.Algebra (Has)
+              import Control.Carrier.Diagnostics (
+                Diagnostics,
+                ToDiagnostic (renderDiagnostic),
+                context,
+                errCtx,
+                fromMaybeText,
+                recover,
+                warnOnErr,
+               )
+              import Control.Carrier.Finally (runFinally)
+              import Control.Effect.Lift (Lift)
+              import Control.Monad (join)
+              import Data.List (find, isSuffixOf)
+              import Data.Map (Map)
+              import Data.Map qualified as Map
+              import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe)
+              import Data.String.Conversion (ToString (toString), ToText (toText))
+              import Data.Text (Text, isInfixOf)
+              import Data.Text qualified as Text
+              import DepTypes (DepType (PipType))
+              import Discovery.Archive (extractZip, withArchive)
+              import Effect.Logger (Logger, logDebug, pretty, viaShow)
+              import Effect.ReadFS (ReadFS, listDir, readContentsText)
+              import Errata (Errata (..))
+              import Path (Abs, Dir, File, Path, dirname, filename, mkRelFile, (</>))
+              import Path.Extra (renderRelative, tryMakeRelative)
+              import Srclib.Types (BinaryDiscoveredDep (..), SourceUserDefDep (..))

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+                  find (\d -> dirHasSuffix d [".dist-info"]) dirs
+              parseMetadata :: Text -> Map Text Text
+              parseMetadata t = Map.fromList . map strip' . filter' $ map (Text.breakOn ":") (Text.lines t)

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