[erlang-questions] Dialyzer and record MatchSpec warnings

Maxim Treskin zerthurd@REDACTED
Tue Feb 3 06:32:01 CET 2009


Hello

I found incomprehensible thing in dialyzer's output for MatchSpec using
records.

This is my module:
=======================================
-module(loc).
-export([get_ctrl_good/1, get_ctrl_bad/1]).

-record(controller, {
          id :: integer(),
          address :: any(),
          type :: any(),
          name :: string(),
          profile :: integer()
         }).

get_ctrl_good(CtrlId) ->
    CtrlMS = [{#controller{id = CtrlId, _='_'}, [], ['$_']}],
    case mnesia:dirty_select(controller, CtrlMS) of
        [Controller] -> [Controller];
        _ -> not_found
    end.

get_ctrl_bad(CtrlId) ->
    CtrlMS = [{#controller{id = CtrlId}, [], ['$_']}],
    case mnesia:dirty_select(controller, CtrlMS) of
        [Controller] -> [Controller];
        _ -> not_found
    end.
=======================================

So, when I make dialyzer --src -c loc.erl, I see following output:

>>>>>>>
  Checking whether the PLT /home/zert/.dialyzer_plt is up-to-date... yes
  Proceeding with analysis...
loc.erl:13: Function get_ctrl_good/1 has no local return
loc.erl:14: Record construction
#controller{id::any(),address::'_',type::'_',name::'_',profile::'_'}
violates the declared type for #controller{}
 done in 0m0.59s
done (warnings were emitted)
>>>>>>>

get_ctrl_bad/1 not contains _='_' in MatchSpec for dirty_select query and
does not work due to unassignet fileds of record became to undefined value.
get_ctrl_good/1 works fine, but dialyzer not think so.
BTW, I know about ets:ms2fun, it gave me same results as in get_ctrl_good/1

My OTP release is R12B-5.

How I can make this code right?

Thank you

-- 
Maxim Treskin
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