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Bazel Unrecoverable Error with Capital Letters in SHA256 String #18291

@alexbeattie42

Description

@alexbeattie42

Description of the bug:

If there is a capital letter present in the SHA256 string bazel crashes with the fatal error contained below. Some tools, specifically Get-FileHash on Windows return upper case SHA256 strings.

The Illegal hexadecimal character error message does not make it clear that the problem is that uppercase letters are not valid in a bazel SHA256 string.

The code should either be updated so that letter case doesn't matter or the error message should specifically state that upper case letters are not accepted.


java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecoverable error while evaluating node 'REPOSITORY_DIRECTORY:@bazel_skylib' (requested by nodes 'PACKAGE_LOOKUP:@bazel_skylib//')
        at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:642)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:382)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: net.starlark.java.eval.Starlark$UncheckedEvalException: IllegalArgumentException thrown during Starlark evaluation (LOADING)
        at <starlark>.download_and_extract(<builtin>:0)
        at <starlark>._http_archive_impl(/private/var/tmp/_bazel_abeattie/6d30cdea4ede9832a87c4794c274b995/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/http.bzl:132)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal hexadecimal character: D
        at com.google.common.hash.HashCode.decode(HashCode.java:360)
        at com.google.common.hash.HashCode.fromString(HashCode.java:346)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.downloader.Checksum.fromString(Checksum.java:47)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.starlark.StarlarkBaseExternalContext.validateChecksum(StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java:302)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.starlark.StarlarkBaseExternalContext.downloadAndExtract(StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java:650)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.MethodDescriptor.call(MethodDescriptor.java:162)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.BuiltinFunction.fastcall(BuiltinFunction.java:77)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Starlark.fastcall(Starlark.java:638)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.evalCall(Eval.java:682)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.eval(Eval.java:497)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.execAssignment(Eval.java:109)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.exec(Eval.java:268)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.execStatements(Eval.java:82)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Eval.execFunctionBody(Eval.java:66)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.StarlarkFunction.fastcall(StarlarkFunction.java:173)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Starlark.fastcall(Starlark.java:638)
        at net.starlark.java.eval.Starlark.call(Starlark.java:604)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.starlark.StarlarkRepositoryFunction.fetch(StarlarkRepositoryFunction.java:220)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.repository.RepositoryDelegatorFunction.fetchRepository(RepositoryDelegatorFunction.java:413)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.repository.RepositoryDelegatorFunction.compute(RepositoryDelegatorFunction.java:344)
        at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:571)
        at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:382)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

Fails:

http_archive(
    name = "bazel_skylib",
    sha256 = "74D544D96F4A5BB630D465CA8BBCFE231E3594E5AAE57E1EDBF17A6EB3CA2506",
    urls = [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/mirror.tensorflow.org/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/1.3.0/bazel-skylib-1.3.0.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/1.3.0/bazel-skylib-1.3.0.tar.gz",
    ],
)

Succeeds:

http_archive(
    name = "bazel_skylib",
    sha256 = "74d544d96f4a5bb630d465ca8bbcfe231e3594e5aae57e1edbf17a6eb3ca2506",
    urls = [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/mirror.tensorflow.org/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/1.3.0/bazel-skylib-1.3.0.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/1.3.0/bazel-skylib-1.3.0.tar.gz",
    ],
)

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

Windows & MacOS

What is the output of bazel info release?

6.1.1

If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

No response

What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD ?

No response

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No response

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

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