:bazel-diff -- generate-hashes is not giving correct targets when changed something in build attribute .bzl file which imported in many BUILD files

[ananta-code]

Hi,

I am using bazel run :bazel-diff -- generate-hashes --workspacePath="/home/jenkins/workspace/PROJECT" /home/jenkins/starting_hashes1.json against a commit id to find out list of files and similarly running the same command to find the final_hashes.json file against a final commit after checking out the code git checkout "c41b43xxxxxxxxxx"

But i observed this is not returning correct targets when i run

bazel run :bazel-diff -- get-impacted-targets --startingHashes=/home/jenkins/starting_hashes.json --finalHashes=/home/jenkins/final_hashes.json --output=/home/jenkins/bazel_diff_impacted_targets.json

However i tried using --useCquery="true" while generating hashes hope it might give me correct file list but it is damn slow .

I am using bazel 7.3 .

Please suggest if anything can be done or missing?

Regards,
abcuser

[tinder-maxwellelliott]

Can you get me an explanation of what you mean by not the correct targets, what targets are missing from your impacted list?

Also a minor repro story can help in debugging this since this should likely be a CI check in the repo to make sure we don't regress on whatever the issue is here

[ananta-code]

Let's say i have defined service metadata to something called all_gke_service.bzl

`def all_gke_service(
name,
acceptance_test_tags = ["acceptance"],
technology_type = "java",
upload_to_nexus_targets = [],
unit_test_tags = ["unit"],
**kwargs):
"""Generates GKE deployment configs for each service

Args:
  name: service name (without tenant suffix)
  acceptance_test_tags: tag(s) for acceptance tests for the main service
  technology_type: the type of technology in which the service was written
  upload_to_nexus_targets: list of Nexus upload targets, if any
  unit_test_tags: tag(s) for unit tests for the main service
  **kwargs: any other service attributes that apply to all tenants (pass-through)
"""

arguments = struct(
    name = name,
    acceptance_test_tags = acceptance_test_tags,
    technology_type = technology_type,
    upload_to_nexus_targets = upload_to_nexus_targets,
    unit_test_tags = unit_test_tags,
    subdir_prefix = subdir_prefix,
)

# Validate required attributes
validate_common_arguments(arguments)`

Then i am using all_gke_service.bzl file in some application BUILD.bazel file.
like

`load("//bazel:mvn_rules.bzl", "mvn_install")
load("//bazel:all_gke_service.bzl", "all_gke_service")

package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])

test_suite(
name = "all_tests",
)

mvn_install(
name = "service",
srcs = [":main_srcs"],
finalName = "app-service.jar",
java_version = "java-17-openjdk",
project = "service",
deps = [
],
)

all_gke_service(
name = "test-service",
acceptance_test_tags = [], # disabled until acceptance test functionality is fixed
....
....
)
`

SO when i change anything in all_gke_service.bzl , i am expecting bazel-diff get-impacted-targets should return all service targets which uses all_gke_service.bzl in their BUILD.bazel file but bazel-diff get-impacted-targets command wont return any thing