Get full string for exported JavaScript results

[ydelvis]

Consider the query below, which attempts to get the callee and the associated parameters. The returned string for the parameters is often truncated (sanitized) when the length is longer than 20 characters as seen in the source code. For instance, if the expected full string is bd0be325-86d9-4f16-95fa-b677f7455177, it returns something like bd0be ... 5177, which is not helpful for my project.

While there's a good reason for this behavior, I would really like to be able to export the full string for a follow-up analysis.

import javascript

from CallExpr call, Expr parameters
where 
    parameters = call.getArgument(_)

select call.getCallee(), parameters.toString()

I have seen a similar issue (results abbreviation #9890), but the suggestions do not address my problem.

I would really appreciate any support I can get here. Thank you.

[jketema]

Hi @ydelvis

Thanks for your question. I've asked the CodeQL JavaScript team to take a look.

[erik-krogh]

The string you get out will contain ... when you select a large piece of code, there is no way of getting around that.

If you're doing some followup analysis, what you could do instead is to use the location that you get out (are you exporting to .sarif?), and then write your own code to extract the relevant region from the file.

[ydelvis]

Hi @jketema and @erik-krogh, thank you for looking at this for me.

I'm currently exporting as .csv
I'll try working on an extraction code as suggested and see how it works out. I was really hoping there would be a straightforward fix/hack to get the desired results though. Thanks once again. I appreciate your prompt response.

[erik-krogh]

I'm currently exporting as .csv

You could get the file-path and start/end column/lines as part of your select statement, then you could implement the thing I suggested.