Qodo Merge Auto-Generated Best Practices 🚀#409
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Replace the specific focus on early-exit/guard branches with a broader principle: unit tests should aspire to 100% coverage of all normal execution paths and reasonably testable error cases. This reframing provides clearer guidance that PRs should include tests for new code paths and should not reduce overall coverage. Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add detailed guidance explaining the three key aspects of handling critical failures: don't continue after failures, raise exceptions to allow event-level recovery without crashing the entire tool, and ensure sufficient logging context for debugging. This clarifies the balance between resilience and fail-fast behavior. Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add comprehensive explanation of three key principles for exception handling: focus try blocks on single failure points with clear except actions, use specific exception targets with hierarchical exception classes where appropriate, and consider context managers as alternatives. This provides clearer guidance on writing robust exception handling code. Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Remove the pattern about caching stable identifiers versus ORM objects as it is too specific in scope for a general best practices list. The remaining patterns have been renumbered accordingly (Pattern 7 becomes Pattern 6). Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add detailed explanation breaking down the grab-bag pattern into four distinct principles: testing behaviors versus implementation details, understanding unit scope for efficient mocking, maintaining consistent patching patterns across tests, and using readability tricks when Black's formatting creates noise. This clarifies the multiple concerns addressed by this pattern. Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Move the guidance about working around Black's formatting from Pattern 6 (testing) into a new Pattern 7 focused specifically on code readability. This makes it clearer that the Black guidance applies to all code, not just tests. Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
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Looks good (although there is one nit).
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| # Or use a single string that Black won't break | ||
| log.error("Failed to sync %s/%s from %s to JIRA project %s component %s", repo_owner, repo_name, upstream_url, jira_project_key, jira_component) |
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Sadly, Black reformats that back to what you had originally.
If you want to take advantage of it not breaking strings, then the line has to be one string, e.g.,
log.error(
f"Failed to sync {repo_owner}/{repo_owner} from {repo_owner} to JIRA project {jira_project_key} component {jira_component}"
)That's kind of a horrible example (especially since we shouldn't use f-strings in log calls), but it's illustrative.
And, if you want to show breaking strings,
# Or use multiple strings that Black won't touch, but that Python will re-join
log.error(
f"Failed to sync {repo_owner}/{repo_owner} from {repo_owner} to "
f"JIRA project {jira_project_key} component {jira_component}"
)
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When a new PR will be opened in your repository, Qodo Merge will automatically analyze the code changes and provide helpful feedback as comments.
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