fix: dotnet PURL types are invalid (#1649)

Signed-off-by: Keith Zantow <[email protected]>
anchore · Mar 3, 2023 · 304be4a · 304be4a
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diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/dotnet/package.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/dotnet/package.go
@@ -45,7 +45,17 @@ func packageURL(m pkg.DotnetDepsMetadata) string {
 	var qualifiers packageurl.Qualifiers
 
 	return packageurl.NewPackageURL(
-		packageurl.TypeDotnet,
+		// This originally was packageurl.TypeDotnet, but this isn't a valid PURL type, according to:
+		// https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/master/PURL-TYPES.rst
+		// Some history:
+		//   https://github.com/anchore/packageurl-go/pull/8 added the type to Anchore's fork
+		//   due to this PR: https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/951
+		// There were questions about "dotnet" being the right purlType at the time, but it was
+		// acknowledged that scanning a dotnet file does not necessarily mean the packages found
+		// are nuget packages and so the alternate type was added. Since this is still an invalid
+		// PURL type, however, we will use TypeNuget and revisit at such time there is a better
+		// official PURL type available.
+		packageurl.TypeNuget,
 		"",
 		m.Name,
 		m.Version,

diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/dotnet/parse_dotnet_deps_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/dotnet/parse_dotnet_deps_test.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "AWSSDK.Core",
 			Version:      "3.7.10.6",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.Options",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Newtonsoft.Json",
 			Version:      "13.0.1",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Serilog.Sinks.Console",
 			Version:      "4.0.1",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "Serilog",
 			Version:      "2.10.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ func TestParseDotnetDeps(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:         "System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe",
 			Version:      "6.0.0",
-			PURL:         "pkg:dotnet/[email protected]",
+			PURL:         "pkg:nuget/[email protected]",
 			Locations:    fixtureLocationSet,
 			Language:     pkg.Dotnet,
 			Type:         pkg.DotnetPkg,