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if-object-literal

Summary: Object literal following if

Category: Bugs

Avoid

package policy

import rego.v1

# {} interpreted as object, not a rule body
allow if {}

allow if {
    # perhaps meant to be comparison?
    # but this too is an object
    input.x: 10
}

Rationale​

An object literal immediately following an if is almost certainly a mistake, and the intention was likely to express a rule body in its place. This isn't too common, but can happen when either an empty object {} is all that follows the if, or an expression in the "body" mistakenly is written as a key: value pair.

Configuration Options​

This linter rule provides the following configuration options:

rules:
  bugs:
    if-object-literal:
      # one of "error", "warning", "ignore"
      level: error

Community​

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