confluent-kafka/8.1.0.30 package update

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🩹 Build Failed: Patch Application Failed

Failed to apply patch: fix-GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9-force-update-common-beanutils.patch

Build Details

Category	Details
Build System	gradle
Failure Point	patch '-p1' --fuzz=2 --verbose <$patchfile

Root Cause Analysis 🔍

The patch operation failed with multiple hunks rejected. Specifically, 1 out of 2 hunks failed for build.gradle and 2 out of 2 hunks failed for gradle/dependencies.gradle. The patch was likely created for a different version of the source code than what was checked out.

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🔍 Build failure fix suggestions

Found similar build failures that have been fixed in the past and analyzed them to suggest a fix:

Similar PRs with fixes

• Adding VersionStream for kafka-4.0 #48244

Suggested Changes

File: fix-GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9-force-update-common-beanutils.patch

• examine
  Content:

First, we need to examine the content of the patch file to understand what it's trying to accomplish. The patch is likely attempting to fix a security vulnerability (GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9) by updating commons-beanutils.

File: confluent-kafka.yaml

• modify at line after the git-checkout step (pipeline section)
  Original:

  - uses: patch
    with:
      patches: fix-GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9-force-update-common-beanutils.patch

Replacement:

  # Direct dependency modification approach instead of using the failing patch
  - runs: |
      # Directly update commons-beanutils dependency in build.gradle
      find . -name "build.gradle" -exec sed -i 's/commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+/commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.4/g' {} \;
      
      # Update dependencies.gradle if it exists
      find . -name "dependencies.gradle" -exec sed -i 's/"commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+"/"commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.4"/g' {} \;
      
      # Verify the changes
      grep -r "commons-beanutils" --include="*.gradle" .

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Analysis

The build failure is related to a patch operation failing to apply cleanly because the target files' content doesn't match what the patch expects. Looking at the similar fixed build failure, the key pattern is that the patch was likely created for a different version of the source code than what is currently being used. In the similar example, rather than trying to modify the patch to work with the current source, the approach taken was to create a new package definition file that handles the dependency differently, avoiding the need for the problematic patch completely. This suggests that when patches fail to apply due to version mismatches, a complete reworking of the approach might be more effective than trying to fix the patch itself.

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Explanation

The suggested fix takes a different approach from trying to apply the failing patch. The error message indicates that the patch is failing to apply cleanly because the hunks in both build.gradle and gradle/dependencies.gradle don't match the expected content. This typically happens when the patch was created for a different version of the source code.

Instead of modifying the patch file (which would be difficult without knowing the exact version it was created for), we're directly making the changes that the patch was likely trying to apply. By examining the patch name fix-GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9-force-update-common-beanutils.patch, we can infer that it's attempting to update the commons-beanutils dependency to address a security vulnerability (GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9).

The solution uses sed commands to directly find and replace the commons-beanutils dependency version in both build.gradle and dependencies.gradle files to 1.9.4, which is the version that likely addresses the vulnerability. This approach bypasses the need to apply the patch and ensures the security fix is implemented regardless of the current source code structure.

The verification step with grep helps confirm that the changes were made correctly. This approach is similar to the pattern observed in the fixed example, where rather than trying to fix a failing patch, a more direct solution was implemented.

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Alternative Approaches

• Create a new patch file that matches the current source code structure by examining the build.gradle and gradle/dependencies.gradle files, identifying the current commons-beanutils version, and creating a patch that updates it to 1.9.4.
• Instead of using the patch mechanism, add a post-checkout step in the pipeline that uses Gradle to explicitly override the dependency version: gradle -PoverrideCommonsBeansVersion=1.9.4 or similar command that sets the property which can be referenced in the build files.
• Investigate if there's a newer version of the Confluent Kafka source that already has the fix incorporated, and update the package version accordingly to avoid needing the patch entirely.

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