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Alex Goodman da745b13e8 feat(golang): add extended-stdlib scope and module patterns for symbol capture (#5154)
* feat(golang): add extended-stdlib scope and include patterns for symbol capture

`golang.capture-symbols` decides how much symbol data lands in the SBOM for grype's reachability analysis. It's `none`, `stdlib`, or `all` today, and the useful middle is missing: `stdlib` stops at the standard library, `all` multiplies SBOM size.

A new `extended-stdlib` configurable covers stdlib plus everything under `golang.org/x/`:

```yaml
golang:
  capture-symbols: extended-stdlib
```

Also, a new `capture-symbols-include` configurable for modules that are noisy in your binaries but not everyone's. It's unioned with whatever the scope selects, so it only ever widens:

```yaml
golang:
  capture-symbols: extended-stdlib
  capture-symbols-include:
    - github.com/klauspost/**
```

Patterns are standard doublestar globs, which matters because module paths carry `/v2`-style suffixes:

```yaml
golang:
  capture-symbols-include:
    - github.com/klauspost/*     # compress, but not compress/v2
    - github.com/klauspost/**    # both
    - k8s.io/client-go           # exact match only
```

Ordering is `none` < `stdlib` < `extended-stdlib` < `all`. The existing three values
and the `none` default are unchanged, and the include list is inert under `none`.
Presets compile into glob lists internally, so a single matcher answers "does this
module get symbols" instead of a preset branch sitting next to a separate glob branch.

An unrecognized `capture-symbols` value still falls back to `none`, but warns now
instead of doing it silently. A malformed include pattern warns and gets skipped.

One thing worth a look beyond the feature: the `Symbols` field description in the JSON
schema was wrong after this (it claimed only `all` and `stdlib` populate anything), and
that description lives in the already-published `16.1.10`. Rather than bump a version for
a sentence, `16.1.10` is amended in place and `schema/json/README.md` grows an explicit
exception for description-only changes: descriptions only, no shape change of any kind,
`$id` unchanged. Anything else still needs a bump. Happy to split that into its own PR if
you'd rather review the policy separately.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

* refactor(golang): rename capture-symbols-include to capture-symbols-modules

The key's entries are go module paths, and `-include` sitting next to `capture-symbols` reads as plausibly taking symbol or package names instead. Those spellings parse and match nothing, which is quieter than the confusion `-include` was picked to avoid, so the name now says what the list holds.

`golang.CatalogerConfig.CaptureSymbolsModules` and `WithCaptureSymbolsModules` rename with it. Nothing behavioral changes; the key is new in this PR so there is no compatibility surface.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(golang): match capture-symbols-modules across major version suffixes

`github.com/anchore/*` covered `github.com/anchore/syft` and silently stopped covering it the day it became `github.com/anchore/syft/v2`. The config keeps parsing, nothing warns, and symbols quietly go missing from the SBOM. Exact paths had the same hole: `github.com/klauspost/compress` did not cover `compress/v2` either, so no spelling short of `**` survived a major bump.

A major version suffix is part of a module's path but not part of its identity, so patterns are now matched against the module path both with and without it, using `module.SplitPathVersion` from `golang.org/x/mod` (already a direct dep, already used in this package for `PseudoVersion`).

```yaml
golang:
  capture-symbols-modules:
    - github.com/klauspost/*          # compress and compress/v2
    - github.com/klauspost/compress   # same module at every major version
    - github.com/klauspost/compress/v2  # v2 alone
```

Only a trailing suffix is a version, which is Go's own rule. In `github.com/anchore/syft/v2/thing` the `v2` is an ordinary path element naming a major subdirectory a nested module lives in, so it stays literal and `github.com/anchore/**/thing` is how you reach it. `/v0` and `/v1` are not valid suffixes and are left alone.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-07 12:44:42 +00:00

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package cataloging
import "strings"
// SymbolScope controls which packages get function symbols (from a binary's symbol table) attached to their metadata.
type SymbolScope string
const (
// SymbolScopeNone disables symbol capture entirely.
SymbolScopeNone SymbolScope = "none"
// SymbolScopeStdlib captures symbols only for the synthetic "stdlib" package, leaving module packages without symbols.
SymbolScopeStdlib SymbolScope = "stdlib"
// SymbolScopeExtendedStdlib captures symbols for the synthetic "stdlib" package as well as every module
// under golang.org/x/ (the extended standard library).
SymbolScopeExtendedStdlib SymbolScope = "extended-stdlib"
// SymbolScopeAll captures symbols for all module packages as well as the synthetic "stdlib" package.
SymbolScopeAll SymbolScope = "all"
)
// Parse normalizes a SymbolScope, treating empty (unset) and unrecognized values as SymbolScopeNone.
func (s SymbolScope) Parse() SymbolScope {
switch strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(string(s))) {
case string(SymbolScopeAll):
return SymbolScopeAll
case string(SymbolScopeExtendedStdlib):
return SymbolScopeExtendedStdlib
case string(SymbolScopeStdlib):
return SymbolScopeStdlib
}
return SymbolScopeNone
}