1.19.0

Added

• Support for noreturn routines, introduced in Delphi 13.
• Support for unmanaged generic constraint, introduced in Delphi 13.
• Support for interface generic constraint, introduced in Delphi 13.
• Support for NameOf intrinsic, introduced in Delphi 13.
• Support for implicit Self in Initialize and Finalize operators, introduced in Delphi 13.
• Support for DCCARM64EC toolchain, introduced in Delphi 13.1.
• NoreturnContract analysis rule, which flags noreturn routines that return normally.
• Full support for the HIGHCHARUNICODE compiler directive.
• Support for the DCC_CodePage property in dproj files.
• sonar.delphi.codePage property to specify the code page that will be used to interpret ANSI data.

Changed

• The ANSI encoding configured by sonar.delphi.codePage or inferred from DCC_CodePage is now preferred over the system encoding when parsing source files.
• Metrics are no longer reported on test sources.
• Duplications are no longer reported on test sources.
• Coverage data is no longer reported on test sources.

Fixed

• The configured sonar.sourceEncoding was never used for search path units.
• Quick fixes removing too much surrounding code in RedundantInherited.

1.18.3

Fixed

• Stack overflow on alias types that reference their containing type.

1.18.2

Fixed

• Parsing errors on qualified name references within exports sections.

1.18.1

Added

• excludedTypes rule property to the ObjectPassedAsInterface rule.

Changed

• Exclude common non-ref-counted interface implementations by default in ObjectPassedAsInterface.
• Handle property references in ObjectPassedAsInterface (in addition to variables/fields).

Fixed

• Inaccurate type comparisons between class and interface types, where class-to-class upcasts were not always preferred over class-to-interface upcasts.
• False-positives around qualified name references in ObjectPassedAsInterface.

1.18.0

Added

• ObjectPassedAsInterface analysis rule, which detects object references that are passed directly as an interface to a routine.
• TooManyDefaultParameters analysis rule, which flags routines with an excessive number of default parameters.

Changed

• EmptyBlock now ignores all empty blocks containing an explanatory comment.
• TooManyParameters now flags routine declarations instead of implementations, improving support for methods that are virtual, abstract, or on an interface.

1.17.2

Fixed

• Ambiguous type comparisons from variants to real types.

1.17.1

Fixed

• Inaccurate handling of variant conversions, which resulted in overload resolution failures.

1.17.0

Added

• Support for the AtomicCmpExchange128 intrinsic routine.
• Support for the GetTypeKind intrinsic routine.
• Support for the OpenString intrinsic type.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getTypeParameters method.
• API: InterfaceTypeNode::getGuidExpression method.
• API: AttributeNode::getExpression method.
• API: IntrinsicType.OPENSTRING enum value.

Changed

• Issue locations no longer span the entire routine declaration in RoutineName.
• Improve type modeling around the VarArg* intrinsic routines.

Deprecated

• API: InterfaceGuidNode node type.
• API: InterfaceTypeNode::getGuid method, use getGuidExpression instead.
• API: DelphiTokenType.GUID, as the associated InterfaceGuidNode is no longer parsed.

Fixed

• Name resolution failures on generic routine invocations where later type parameters are constrained by earlier type parameters.
• Type resolution failures on property attribute lists.
• Type resolution failures on implementation-local routine attribute lists.
• Type resolution failures on as casts where the type is returned from a routine invocation.
• Inaccurate type resolution when calling a constructor on a class reference type.
• Grammar ambiguity causing attributes to be misinterpreted as interface GUIDs.
• Failure to resolve invocations of System.IsManagedType where a value is passed.

1.16.0

Added

• Support for MSBuild item and item metadata expressions in project files.
• Debug logging for name resolution failures (enabled with sonar-scanner -X).
• ExhaustiveEnumCase analysis rule, which flags case statements that do not handle all values in an enumeration.
• IterationPastHighBound analysis rule, which flags for loops that iterate past the end of the collection.
• ExplicitBitwiseNot analysis rule, which flags potentially incorrect bitwise not operations.
• API: EnumeratorOccurrence type.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getEnumeratorOccurrence method.
• API: TypeOfTypeNode::getTypeReferenceNode method.
• API: NameReferenceNode::getFirstName method.
• API: DelphiTokenType.TYPE_CONSTRAINT token type.
• API: ConstraintNode node type.
• API: ClassConstraintNode node type.
• API: ConstructorConstraintNode node type.
• API: RecordConstraintNode node type.
• API: TypeConstraintNode node type.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getConstraintNodes method.
• API: TypeParameterType::constraintItems method.
• API: Constraint type.
• API: Constraint.ClassConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.ConstructorConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.RecordConstraint type.
• API: Constraint.TypeConstraint type.

Changed

• Detect tab-indented multiline strings in TabulationCharacter.
• Improve support for evaluating name references in compiler directive expressions.
• Improve overload resolution in cases involving generic type parameter constraints.
• Improve handling for MSBuild properties, items, and conditional evaluation.
• Perform best-effort name resolution of arguments to unresolved routines or array properties, which improves analysis quality in cases where symbol information is incomplete.

Deprecated

• API: ForInStatementNode::getGetEnumeratorDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getMoveNextDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: ForInStatementNode::getCurrentDeclaration method, get the declaration through getEnumeratorOccurrence instead.
• API: TypeParameterNode::getTypeConstraintNodes method, use getConstraintNodes instead.
• API: TypeParameterType::constraints method, use constraintItems instead.

Fixed

• False positives on enumerable method GetEnumerator in UnusedRoutine.
• False positives on enumerator method MoveNext in UnusedRoutine.
• False positives on enumerator property Current in UnusedProperty.
• False positives on enums that are never referenced by name (but have used values) in UnusedType.
• Name resolution failures in legacy initialization sections referencing the implementation section.
• Name resolution failures when accessing ancestors of enclosing types from nested type methods.
• Name resolution failures on invocations of methods with generic open array parameters.
• Name resolution failures around Create calls on types with constructor constraints.
• Name resolution failures on read, write, and stored specifiers of indexed properties.
• Name resolution failures on routine references assigned to a var/const declaration.
• Name resolution failures on routine references in constant arrays.
• Type resolution failures on array expressions nested within multidimensional constant arrays.
• Incorrect file position calculation for multiline string tokens.
• Analysis errors around type of type declarations.

1.15.0

Added

• ParsingError analysis rule, which flags files where parsing failures occurred.
• Support for the WEAK_NATIVEINT symbol, which is defined from Delphi 12 onward.
• Support for undocumented intrinsics usable within varargs routines:
  • VarArgStart
  • VarArgGetValue
  • VarArgCopy
  • VarArgEnd

Changed

• Exclude types annotated with attributes in UnusedType.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within include files.
• Improve reporting of parsing failures occurring within compiler directives.

Deprecated

• API: SwitchDirective.SwitchKind.TYPEADDRESS enum member, use TYPEDADDRESS instead.

Fixed

• Exceptions from empty structures (e.g., if) in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce and RedundantJump.
• False positives from case statements in LoopExecutingAtMostOnce.
• False positives from nested finally-except blocks in RedundantJump.
• False positives around wrapped type declarations in VisibilityKeywordIndentation.
• False negatives around inline var and const in PlatformDependentTruncation.
• Trailing whitespace within comments not recognized in TrailingWhitespace.
• Overload resolution failures on the variant overload of the Copy intrinsic.
• Several compiler directives were not being recognized:
  • E
  • F
  • K
  • N
  • S
  • ALLOWBIND
  • ALLOWISOLATION
  • HIGHENTROPYVA
  • HIGHCHARUNICODE
  • LARGEADDRESSAWARE
  • MAXPAGESIZE
  • NXCOMPAT
  • SONAME
  • SOPREFIX
  • SOSUFFIX
  • SOVERSION
  • STACKCHECKS
  • STRINGCHECKS
  • TSAWARE
  • TYPEDADDRESS