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fix(pipx): discover wheel-only package versions #11959

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167 changes: 134 additions & 33 deletions src/backend/pipx.rs
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Expand Up @@ -165,24 +165,11 @@ impl Backend for PIPXBackend {
let html = HTTP_FETCH.get_html(url).await?;

// PEP-0503 (HTML format doesn't include timestamps)
let version_re = regex!(
r#"href=["'][^"']*/([^/]+)\.tar\.gz(?:#(md5|sha1|sha224|sha256|sha384|sha512)=[0-9A-Fa-f]+)?["']"#
);

version_re
.captures_iter(&html)
.filter_map(|cap| {
let filename = cap.get(1)?.as_str();
let escaped_package = regex::escape(&package);
// PEP-503: normalize package names by replacing hyphens with character class that allows -, _, .
let re_str = escaped_package.replace(r"\-", r"[\-_.]");
let re_str = format!("^{re_str}-(.+)$");
let pkg_re = regex::Regex::new(&re_str).ok()?;
let pkg_version = pkg_re.captures(filename)?.get(1)?.as_str();
Some(VersionInfo {
version: pkg_version.to_string(),
..Default::default()
})
Self::versions_from_simple_index(&package, &html)
.into_iter()
.map(|version| VersionInfo {
version,
..Default::default()
})
.sorted_by_cached_key(|v| Versioning::new(&v.version))
.collect()
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -231,21 +218,8 @@ impl Backend for PIPXBackend {
let url = registry_url.replace("{}", &package);
let html = HTTP_FETCH.get_html(url).await?;

// PEP-0503
let version_re = regex!(r#"href=["'][^"']*/([^/]+)\.tar\.gz(?:#(md5|sha1|sha224|sha256|sha384|sha512)=[0-9A-Fa-f]+)?["']"#);

let version = version_re
.captures_iter(&html)
.filter_map(|cap| {
let filename = cap.get(1)?.as_str();
let escaped_package = regex::escape(&package);
// PEP-503: normalize package names by replacing hyphens with character class that allows -, _, .
let re_str = escaped_package.replace(r"\-", r"[\-_.]");
let re_str = format!("^{re_str}-(.+)$");
let pkg_re = regex::Regex::new(&re_str).ok()?;
let pkg_version = pkg_re.captures(filename)?.get(1)?.as_str();
Some(pkg_version.to_string())
})
let version = Self::versions_from_simple_index(&package, &html)
.into_iter()
.filter(|v| {
!v.contains("dev")
&& !v.contains("a")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -465,6 +439,60 @@ pub fn install_time_option_keys() -> Vec<String> {
}

impl PIPXBackend {
fn versions_from_simple_index(package: &str, html: &str) -> Vec<String> {
let href_re = regex!(r#"(?i)href\s*=\s*["']([^"']+)["']"#);

href_re
.captures_iter(html)
.filter_map(|cap| {
let href = cap.get(1)?.as_str();
let path = href.split(['?', '#']).next()?;
let filename = path.rsplit('/').next()?;
let filename = urlencoding::decode(filename).ok()?;

Self::version_from_distribution_filename(package, &filename)
})
.unique()
.collect()
}

fn version_from_distribution_filename(package: &str, filename: &str) -> Option<String> {
let normalized_package = Self::normalize_package_name(package);

if let Some(stem) = filename.strip_suffix(".whl") {
let fields = stem.split('-').collect_vec();
if !(fields.len() == 5 || fields.len() == 6)
|| Self::normalize_package_name(fields[0]) != normalized_package
{
return None;
}
return Some(fields[1].to_string());
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the optional wheel build tag.

Line 464 accepts every six-field filename. A wheel build tag must start with an ASCII digit. For example, demo_pkg-9.9.9-invalid-py3-none-any.whl currently adds 9.9.9 as a candidate.

Reject invalid build tags and empty wheel fields. Add this malformed filename to the parser test. Otherwise, remote listing or latest can select a version from an invalid artifact.

Proposed fix 
 let fields = stem.split('-').collect_vec();
-if !(fields.len() == 5 || fields.len() == 6)
+let valid_wheel_fields = fields.iter().all(|field| !field.is_empty())
+    && match fields.len() {
+        5 => true,
+        6 => fields[2]
+            .as_bytes()
+            .first()
+            .map(|byte| byte.is_ascii_digit())
+            .unwrap_or(false),
+        _ => false,
+    };
+if !valid_wheel_fields
     || Self::normalize_package_name(fields[0]) != normalized_package
 {
     return None;
 }
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if let Some(stem) = filename.strip_suffix(".whl") {
let fields = stem.split('-').collect_vec();
if !(fields.len() == 5 || fields.len() == 6)
|| Self::normalize_package_name(fields[0]) != normalized_package
{
return None;
}
return Some(fields[1].to_string());
if let Some(stem) = filename.strip_suffix(".whl") {
let fields = stem.split('-').collect_vec();
let valid_wheel_fields = fields.iter().all(|field| !field.is_empty())
&& match fields.len() {
5 => true,
6 => fields[2]
.as_bytes()
.first()
.map(|byte| byte.is_ascii_digit())
.unwrap_or(false),
_ => false,
};
if !valid_wheel_fields
|| Self::normalize_package_name(fields[0]) != normalized_package
{
return None;
}
return Some(fields[1].to_string());
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In `@src/backend/pipx.rs` around lines 462 - 469, Update the wheel filename
parsing logic around the fields validation in the relevant pipx parser to reject
empty fields and, for six-field filenames, require the build-tag field
(fields[1]) to begin with an ASCII digit before returning a candidate. Preserve
valid five-field filenames and add coverage for the malformed
demo_pkg-9.9.9-invalid-py3-none-any.whl case in the existing parser tests.

}

let stem = filename.strip_suffix(".tar.gz")?;
stem.match_indices('-').find_map(|(index, _)| {
(Self::normalize_package_name(&stem[..index]) == normalized_package)
.then(|| stem[index + 1..].to_string())
})
}

fn normalize_package_name(package: &str) -> String {
let mut normalized = String::with_capacity(package.len());
let mut separator = false;
for c in package.chars() {
if matches!(c, '-' | '_' | '.') {
if !separator {
normalized.push('-');
separator = true;
}
} else {
normalized.extend(c.to_lowercase());
separator = false;
}
}
normalized
}

fn versions_from_pypi_package(data: PypiPackage) -> Vec<VersionInfo> {
// Releases with only yanked files are ignored so fuzzy/latest
// resolution mirrors pip's default yanked-file behavior.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -984,6 +1012,79 @@ mod tests {
use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
use std::ffi::OsString;

#[test]
fn parses_versions_from_simple_index_artifacts() {
let html = r#"
<a href="https://files.example/demo_pkg-1.0.0.tar.gz#sha256=abc">sdist</a>
<a href="demo_pkg-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl#sha256=def">wheel</a>
<a href="/demo_pkg-2.0.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux_x86_64.whl">duplicate wheel</a>
<a href="/demo_pkg-2.1.0-1-py3-none-any.whl">wheel with build tag</a>
<a href="/demo_pkg-3.0.0rc1-py3-none-any.whl">prerelease wheel</a>
<a href="/other-9.9.9-py3-none-any.whl">other package</a>
"#;

assert_eq!(
PIPXBackend::versions_from_simple_index("demo-pkg", html),
vec!["1.0.0", "2.0.0", "2.1.0", "3.0.0rc1"]
);
}

#[test]
fn parses_normalized_and_encoded_simple_index_filenames() {
let html = r#"
<a href="demo.pkg-1.0%2Bcpu.tar.gz?download=1">sdist</a>
<a HREF='DEMO_PKG-2.0%2Bcpu-py3-none-any.whl'>wheel</a>
"#;

assert_eq!(
PIPXBackend::versions_from_simple_index("Demo_Pkg", html),
vec!["1.0+cpu", "2.0+cpu"]
);
}

#[tokio::test]
async fn simple_index_resolves_wheel_only_packages() {
use crate::backend::Backend;

let mut server = mockito::Server::new_async().await;
let index = server
.mock("GET", "/simple/wheel-only/")
.with_status(200)
.with_header("content-type", "text/html")
.with_body(
r#"
<a href="wheel_only-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl">1.0.0</a>
<a href="wheel_only-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl">2.0.0</a>
<a href="wheel_only-2.0.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux_x86_64.whl">2.0.0</a>
"#,
)
.expect(2)
.create_async()
.await;
let config = crate::config::Config::get().await.unwrap();
let backend = PIPXBackend::from_arg(
format!(
"pipx:wheel-only[registry_url='{}/simple/{{}}/']",
server.url()
)
.into(),
);

assert_eq!(
backend.list_remote_versions(&config).await.unwrap(),
vec!["1.0.0", "2.0.0"]
);
assert_eq!(
backend
.latest_stable_version(&config)
.await
.unwrap()
.as_deref(),
Some("2.0.0")
);
index.assert_async().await;
}

#[tokio::test]
async fn exact_semver_versions_resolve_without_remote_discovery() {
use crate::backend::Backend;
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