# repowise-dev/repowise#3570: Review required. 7 new health notes, 1 high. Health of changed files 8.8 to 8.4.

Review before merge: Unrelated dictionaries become exports (P2, public_api.py).

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3 files changed, 0 changed contracts (0 callers outside the PR), 1 finding resolved.
Change risk: riskier than 70% of this repository's commits (raw 9.2 of 10 on a cross-repository scale; it measures diff size and spread, not danger).

## Act on first

- `public_api.py:119` AI review (see "Findings"): loads causes every literal dictionary assigned to a loaded name to be treated as a lazy-export map, without checking that __getattr__ dispatches on that map.
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py` lines 87, 110, 145, 214, 290: 5 × high complex method (see "Findings").

## Fix prompt

1. Address the AI review points under "Findings" and "AI review".
2. Fix or justify the 7 findings under "Findings", in the order listed.
3. No measured test map; run the suite covering the changed files.

## Findings

- `public_api.py:119` P2 AI review, new: `loads` causes every literal dictionary assigned to a loaded name to be treated as a lazy-export map, without checking that `__getattr__` dispatches on that map. For example, `_METADATA = {'version': ('pkg.version', 'VERSION')}` used only while handling `__version__` publishes a nonexistent `version` attribute. Restrict candidates to dictionaries used in the requested-name dispatch (for example, membership or lookup keyed by the `name` parameter).
- `public_api.py:112` P2 AI review, new: The scanner collects maps from every module-level `__getattr__` definition, but Python's later definition replaces the earlier one. With one function mapping `old` and a later function mapping `new`, both names are published even though only `new` can be resolved at runtime. Analyze only the last effective `__getattr__` definition.
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:214-277` high complex method: published has cyclomatic complexity 19 (new)
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:87-107` medium complex method: _literal_lazy_map has cyclomatic complexity 9 (new)
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:110-142` medium complex method: _module_lazy_maps has cyclomatic complexity 13 (new)
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:145-177` medium complex method: _lazy_map_from has cyclomatic complexity 13 (new)
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:290-310` medium complex method: _forwarded has cyclomatic complexity 11 (new)
- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py:145-177` medium nested complexity: _lazy_map_from nests 4 levels deep (new)
- `tests/unit/generation/test_package_public_api.py:274-317` medium dry violation: 41% of file duplicated; worst clone shares 44 lines with tests/unit/generation/test_package_public_api.py (new)

## AI review

Posted by gpt-5.6-luna (deep review), verbatim:

Begin posted review

> **P2 · Unrelated dictionaries become exports** · **`public_api.py:119`**  
> `loads` causes every literal dictionary assigned to a loaded name to be treated as a lazy-export map, without checking that `__getattr__` dispatches on that map. For example, `_METADATA = {'version': ('pkg.version', 'VERSION')}` used only while handling `__version__` publishes a nonexistent `version` attribute. Restrict candidates to dictionaries used in the requested-name dispatch (for example, membership or lookup keyed by the `name` parameter).
>
> Checked: The scanner collects every loaded name from every module-level __getattr__ and treats any literal assignment to such a name as a candidate without examining whether the function uses it for requested-name dispatch, so an unrelated metadata map can produce lazy exports.
>
> **P2 · Shadowed __getattr__ maps remain published** · **`public_api.py:112`**  
> The scanner collects maps from every module-level `__getattr__` definition, but Python's later definition replaces the earlier one. With one function mapping `old` and a later function mapping `new`, both names are published even though only `new` can be resolved at runtime. Analyze only the last effective `__getattr__` definition.
>
> Checked: The code gathers all module-level __getattr__ definitions and scans each function body, even though Python's later definition replaces earlier ones, allowing maps from an obsolete definition to be considered for publication.

End posted review

## Pull request

- Pull request: https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/pull/3570 (open, by z2Ace0107)
- Title: "fix(core): recognize literal Python lazy exports"
- Head commit: `f55f608853dd17bfcdad67ab371fe161811198aa`
- Analysed: 2026-10-12T12:41:01.201716+00:00 at `f55f608`

## What changed

3 files changed, 371 lines added; 18 contracts changed, none in a way that breaks a caller.

| File | Health | Tests reach | New health notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py` | 7.7 to 6.8 | unknown | 6 |
| `tests/unit/generation/test_package_public_api.py` | 9.8 to 9.5 | test file | 1 |
| `tests/unit/analysis/test_public_api_flag.py` | 9.8 to 10.0 | test file | 0 |

- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py`: refactor: Flatten the control flow.
- `tests/unit/generation/test_package_public_api.py`: refactor: De-duplicate the clone.
- `tests/unit/analysis/test_public_api_flag.py`: resolved: dry violation

## Evidence

### Checks

- Coverage: Waiting for this PR's CI to upload a report (the repo's last report arrived 2026-10-13 10:20 UTC), so changed lines are not measured yet.
- Security: No new findings on changed lines.
- Scanned the changed lines at `f55f608`.
- Doc drift: No drift in docs this PR edits.

### Earlier commits that made these files worse (of the last 97 compared)

- `packages/core/src/repowise/core/analysis/public_api.py`: `def8bac` "feat(refactoring): warn when a plan changes a symbol a package exports (#3485)", 2026-10-11: medium complex method in `public_symbols`, low complex conditional in `export_roots`

### AI review: seen and set aside

Disagree with one and it is worth raising yourself.

- This change added, in published in public_api.py (lines 214-277): published has cyclomatic complexity 19. Set aside: Complexity is maintainability feedback, not a demonstrated correctness defect.
- This change added, in _lazy_map_from in public_api.py (lines 145-177): _lazy_map_from nests 4 levels deep. Set aside: Nesting complexity alone does not show an incorrect result.
- This change added, in _literal_lazy_map in public_api.py (lines 87-107): _literal_lazy_map has cyclomatic complexity 9. Set aside: Cyclomatic complexity alone does not show an incorrect result.
- This change added, in _module_lazy_maps in public_api.py (lines 110-142): _module_lazy_maps has cyclomatic complexity 13. Set aside: Cyclomatic complexity alone does not show an incorrect result.
- This change added, in _lazy_map_from in public_api.py (lines 145-177): _lazy_map_from has cyclomatic complexity 13. Set aside: Cyclomatic complexity alone does not show an incorrect result.
- This change added, in _forwarded in public_api.py (lines 290-310): _forwarded has cyclomatic complexity 11. Set aside: Cyclomatic complexity alone does not show an incorrect result.
- This change added, in a test file, in test_package_public_api.py (lines 274-317): 41% of file duplicated; worst clone shares 44 lines with tests/unit/generation/test_package_public_api.py. Set aside: Duplication is not a correctness, data, security, or performance defect established by the diff.
- public_api.py scored 7.7 before this change and 6.76 after, so it got worse. It gained: nested complexity, complex method. Set aside: The score change is a maintainability signal without a concrete failing input.
- test_package_public_api.py scored 9.85 before this change and 9.5 after, so it got worse. It gained: dry violation. Set aside: Test duplication does not establish a production defect.
- test_public_api_flag.py scored 9.85 before this change and 10.0 after, so it got better. It resolved: dry violation. Set aside: The score improvement is unrelated to correctness.
- By size and spread this diff is bigger than 70% of this repository's recent commits. That is shape, not danger. Set aside: Diff size and spread do not establish a defect.