Would like to know if this is bug ticket worthy be...
# generalh
high-yak-85899
02/19/2023, 8:29 PMWould like to know if this is bug ticket worthy before posting. I've got a file that is owned by one target with a custom name so
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$ ./pants list path/to/some/module.py
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$ ./pants dependencies path/to/dependee.py
13:24:45.87 [INFO] Initializing scheduler...
13:24:46.16 [INFO] Scheduler initialized.
13:24:50.01 [ERROR] 1 Exception encountered:
ResolveError: The address path/to/some:some from the `dependencies` field of the target path/to:dependee_target does not exist.
The target name ':some' is not defined in the directory path/to/some. Did you mean one of these target names?
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enough-analyst-54434
02/19/2023, 8:31 PMCan you provide the actual dependency string you use?
enough-analyst-54434
02/19/2023, 8:33 PMBasically, if your expectation is that single target BUILD files should allow the single target to be addressed by not spelling out the target name, that is definitely not supported except for the default target, whose name must match the parent dir name (and this is the default when you leave off name in a target definition).
enough-analyst-54434
02/19/2023, 8:35 PMFor a bug report, you'd want to point out how https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/targets#target-addresses is contradicted; otherwise, this would be a feature request.
h
high-yak-85899
02/19/2023, 8:37 PMHmm, yeah I think more one the feature request side.
e
enough-analyst-54434
02/19/2023, 8:47 PMOk. What is the motivation for wanting to blur like that? Why not just use the default target name if you want to blur or else say what you mean? What purpose does this third option serve?
h
high-yak-85899
02/19/2023, 8:49 PMWe had some bad usage before that had folks use a different target name. I was mostly just surprised to see that it couldn't resolve the target when it was unambiguous.
e
enough-analyst-54434
02/19/2023, 8:59 PMGotcha. Perhaps a good way to think about things here is that Pants tries to infer things about your existing code. It tries to meet you where you're at. But that does not hold for Pants own configuration you have to add. That tends to expect explicitness.
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