# Rust Review Report

**Branch**: feature/192-wave-3c-ast-sparse-ngram -> main
**PR**: #269
**Date**: 2026-06-03 12:29

## Scope

Focus: Rust idioms / safety on the Wave 3c AST sparse n-gram extraction module
(`extract.rs`), plus the pre-existing clippy fixes scattered across `*_tests.rs`.
Verified against: `cargo clippy -p rskim-search --all-targets -- -D warnings` →
**0 warnings, 0 errors**. Edition 2024, rustc 1.96.0.

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## Issues in Your Changes (BLOCKING)

None. No CRITICAL or HIGH issues in the changed lines. The core extraction
function is clippy-clean, correctly bounded in production, well-documented, and
the DI split (`extract_ast_ngrams_with_weights` + `extract_ast_ngrams`) follows
the project convention.

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## Issues in Code You Touched (Should Fix)

### MEDIUM

**`#[allow(clippy::collapsible_if)]` (×3) suppress live warnings — adopt let-chains instead** — Confidence: 88%
- `extract.rs:139`, `extract.rs:161`, `extract.rs:173`
- Problem: I empirically confirmed these attributes are **not dead** — removing
  one and re-running `cargo clippy -p rskim-search --lib` produces a real
  default-on `collapsible_if` warning suggesting the let-chain collapse, e.g.:
  ```
  help: collapse nested if block
  161 ~ if let Some(p) = parent
  162 ~     && p != 0 && node.kind_id != 0 {
  ```
  Edition 2024 + rustc 1.96 makes `if let ... && cond` (let-chains) **stable**,
  and clippy now flags the two-level form. So the question "warranted or
  restructure?" resolves to: the code is fighting an idiom that the toolchain
  now actively recommends. The prior commit (30f6838) deleted the long comments
  that justified keeping them explicit, leaving bare `#[allow]` with no rationale
  — which is the weakest form (a future reader sees suppression without reason).
- Why it matters: ADR-001 / the project's "zero-warnings, clippy-clean" standard
  favor adopting the idiom over suppressing it. Per-statement `#[allow]` is the
  documented escape hatch only when the lint is a genuine false positive; here it
  is a true positive on a now-stable language feature. The three blocks collapse
  cleanly and read *better* as let-chains because each is genuinely a single
  guarded condition:
- Fix (gap-fill, lines 139–146):
  ```rust
  if let Some(p) = prev_depth
      && node.depth > p + 1
  {
      for slot in &mut ancestors[usize::from(p + 1)..d] {
          *slot = None;
      }
  }
  ```
  Fix (bigram, lines 161–169):
  ```rust
  if let Some(p) = parent
      && p != 0
      && node.kind_id != 0
  {
      let key = AstBigram::encode(p, node.kind_id);
      let entry = bigram_map.entry(key).or_insert((bigram_weight(key), 0));
      entry.1 += 1;
  }
  ```
  Fix (trigram, lines 173–181):
  ```rust
  if let (Some(gp), Some(p)) = (grandparent, parent)
      && gp != 0
      && p != 0
      && node.kind_id != 0
  {
      let key = AstTrigram::encode(gp, p, node.kind_id);
      let entry = trigram_map.entry(key).or_insert((trigram_weight(key), 0));
      entry.1 += 1;
  }
  ```
  All three eliminate the `#[allow]` and pass `clippy -D warnings`. If the team
  prefers to keep the two-level form for readability, that is a defensible style
  call — but then each `#[allow]` should carry a one-line `// reason:` comment
  (the prior commit removed those), otherwise the suppression is unexplained.

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## Pre-existing Issues (Not Blocking)

None beyond the above. The depth-overflow edge case below is technically in your
new code but is bounded away in all production paths; recorded as a Suggestion.

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## Suggestions (Lower Confidence)

- **`p + 1` can overflow `u16` on hostile/synthetic input** - `extract.rs:141`
  (Confidence: 72%) — `extract_ast_ngrams_with_weights` is a public API and
  `LinearNode { kind_id, depth }` has `pub` fields, no `#[non_exhaustive]`, and
  derives `Default` — so an external caller can pass `depth: u16::MAX`. When
  `prev_depth == u16::MAX`, `node.depth > p + 1` evaluates `p + 1`, overflowing
  in debug (panic) / wrapping to 0 in release (silently mis-triggering gap-fill
  `ancestors[0..d]`). Production is safe — `AstWalkConfig::DEFAULT_MAX_DEPTH = 500`
  caps real depths — so this is theoretical, hence a suggestion not a block.
  Cheap hardening: `if node.depth > p.saturating_add(1)` (matches the
  `checked_sub` discipline already used two lines later for parent/grandparent
  resolution, making the over/underflow handling symmetric). The KNOWLEDGE.md
  gotcha at line 375–378 asserts "no underflow risk" for the *low* end via
  `checked_sub`; this is the mirror-image *high* end, not covered there.

- **Infallible return type is justified — no action needed** - `extract.rs:105`
  (Confidence: N/A, design confirmation) — Re: the brief's "always use Result"
  question. Returning `AstNgramSet` directly (not `Result`) is correct here: the
  function is genuinely total. With the `saturating_add` fix above it has no
  panic paths, no I/O, no fallible lookups (weight closures return `f32`
  infallibly, `HashMap`/`Vec` ops don't fail). Wrapping a total function in
  `Result` would manufacture an `Err` variant no caller could ever hit —
  violating "make illegal states unrepresentable." The Result convention applies
  to *fallible* operations; this isn't one. Sibling `linearize_source` correctly
  *does* return `Result` because it parses and can hit `SearchError::Ast`.

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## Confirmations (brief asked to verify)

- **`node.depth` vs `(d as u16)` (commit 30f6838)**: Good change. Reading
  `node.depth` directly removes a redundant `usize → u16` round-trip and is the
  single source of truth. The `checked_sub(1)`/`checked_sub(2)` on `u16` cleanly
  handle depth-0 and depth-1 nodes (no underflow). Verified correct.
- **Gap-fill slice panic-safety (`ancestors[usize::from(p+1)..d]`)**: Safe for
  the *bounds* the commit message claims. `d = node.depth ≤ max_depth <
  ancestors.len()` (upper bound), and the slice is only reached under
  `node.depth > p + 1` so `p+1 < d` (start < end). The dropped explicit guard was
  genuinely redundant. The **only** residual hole is the `p + 1` overflow above,
  which is an arithmetic concern, not a slice-bounds concern.
- **Sort by `ngram.key()` not `weight` — NaN-safe**: Confirmed correct.
  `sort_unstable_by_key` orders by `u32`/`u64` keys (total order, no NaN). The
  `f32` weight never participates in ordering, so a NaN weight from a hostile
  closure cannot poison the sort or cause a `sort_unstable` panic. Dedup is via
  `HashMap` keyed on the n-gram, also weight-independent. Weight is captured once
  on first insertion (`or_insert((w, 0))`) and not recomputed — correct, since
  weight is a pure function of the key.
- **Iterator vs index-loop**: Idiomatic. `nodes.iter().map(|n| n.depth).max()`
  for max-depth; `for node in nodes` for the main pass; `.into_iter().map(...)
  .collect()` for entry building. No manual index loops where iterators fit.
  Direct `ancestors[d]` indexing is appropriate (random-access write).
- **`usize::from` vs `as`**: Clean — `usize::from(max_depth)`, `usize::from(pd)`,
  `usize::from(p + 1)` all use the infallible `From`. The one remaining cast is
  `node.depth as usize` (line 133) which is a widening `u16 → usize`, always
  lossless and idiomatic. (`usize::from(node.depth)` would be marginally more
  consistent but is not a clippy finding and not worth churning.)
- **HashMap entry API**: Correct use of `.entry(key).or_insert((w, 0))` then
  `entry.1 += 1` — single lookup, no double-hashing. `with_capacity(nodes.len())`
  pre-sizing is a reasonable upper bound. Good.
- **`impl Fn` parameters for DI**: Idiomatic monomorphized DI — zero-cost,
  no `Box<dyn Fn>` indirection. Matches the project DI convention and keeps the
  core unit-testable with synthetic weights. Good.
- **`Copy` on `LinearNode` / entries**: `LinearNode` (4 bytes) and the entry
  structs are correctly `Copy` — cheap by-value, `.copied().flatten()` on the
  ancestor `Option<u16>` is the right pattern.

## Pre-existing clippy fixes — idiomatic?

All verified idiomatic and correct:
- `manual_range_contains` → `(0.0..=1.0_f64).contains(&w)` (scoring_tests.rs):
  correct, including the explicit `_f64` suffix to pin the range element type.
- `cloned_ref_to_slice_refs` → `std::slice::from_ref(&row)` (storage_tests.rs ×4):
  correct — replaces `&[row.clone()]` with a zero-alloc single-element slice; the
  later `assert_eq!(found, row)` still owns `row`, so no borrow conflict.
- `field_reassign_with_default` → struct-update `BM25FConfig { k1, ..default() }`
  (config/query/reader_tests.rs): correct. Notably the reviewer left
  `bad_boost.field_boosts[0] = -1.0` and `bad_b.field_b[2] = 1.5` as mutation
  with an explanatory comment — correct call, since struct-update can't express
  *array-element* mutation. Honest and precise.
- `single_match`/`panic` → `if let Err(...) = result { panic!(...) }` plus adding
  `clippy::panic` to the test-module allow lists (classifier/query/ngram_tests.rs):
  correct — the `if let` collapse is the right fix, and allowing `clippy::panic`
  in `#[cfg(test)]` modules is appropriate (panics are legitimate in tests).

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## Summary

| Category | CRITICAL | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW |
|----------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Blocking | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Should Fix | - | 0 | 1 | - |
| Pre-existing | - | - | 0 | 0 |

**Rust Score**: 9/10
**Recommendation**: APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS

The code is clippy-clean, correctly bounded in production, idiomatic, and the
infallible-return design is justified. The one MEDIUM (let-chain adoption vs.
`#[allow(collapsible_if)]`) is a true-positive suppression that the edition-2024
toolchain recommends collapsing; addressing it removes three bare `#[allow]`
attributes and improves readability. The `p + 1` overflow is a low-risk public-API
hardening worth a one-token `saturating_add` while in this file.
