`needless_raw_strings`, `needless_raw_string_hashes`: False negative with macros

[musjj]

Summary

needless_raw_strings and needless_raw_string_hashes does not work when the string is inside macros.

Lint Name

needless_raw_strings, needless_raw_string_hashes

Reproducer

#![warn(clippy::needless_raw_strings, clippy::needless_raw_string_hashes)]

let _ = r"SELECT * FROM posts"; // needless-raw-strings
let _ = r#"SELECT * FROM posts"#; // needless-raw-strings
let _ = r##"SELECT * FROM "posts""##; // needless-raw-string-hashes

// None of lines below triggers any warning
println!(r"SELECT * FROM posts");
println!(r#"SELECT * FROM posts"#);
println!(r##"SELECT * FROM "posts""##);

// No warning when used with sqlx
sqlx::query!(
    r#"
    SELECT * FROM posts
    "#,
)
.fetch_all(&pool)
.await
.unwrap();

Version

rustc 1.83.0-nightly (363ae41 2024-09-24)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 363ae41
commit-date: 2024-09-24
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.83.0-nightly
LLVM version: 19.1.0

[samueltardieu]

@rustbot claim

[samueltardieu]

The problem is not with macros, it is with format_args!() templates (and with macros using them, such as println!()).

[musjj]

It looks like that the issue is fixed in clippy 0.1.84 (c1db4dc242 2024-10-25) for println!. But it's still a problem for the sqlx macro:

sqlx::query!(r#"SELECT * FROM posts"#) // no warnings
    .fetch_all(&pool)
    .await?;

The macro is implemented here: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/blob/028084bce3a741e995c3e6c559c6dbb27a62534d/src/macros/mod.rs#L314. Is there something that is confusing clippy here?

[samueltardieu]

In general, Clippy doesn't lint the output of macros if it cannot determine that the tokens come from the source. Here, the procedural macro in sqlx seems to cut the link between the string literal and the emitted string. Clippy never sees the original string as it has been replaced by the macro expansion.