Detect binaries in parallel during pre-scan

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements

  • License and copyright results now use consistent, predictable alphabetical ordering.
  • Unknown SPDX license keys are handled more reliably, while recognized license expressions are resolved more efficiently.
  • Large codebases benefit from faster parallel binary detection.
  • ScanCode resource usage now adapts to available system memory and can be customized through configuration.
  • OSS item processing is more efficient without changing output.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for deterministic value ordering and updated license-ordering expectations.

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Walkthrough

The change makes license and copyright ordering deterministic, caches SPDX resolution, reuses joined copyright text, adds parallel binary detection, and configures ScanCode in-memory resource limits.

Changes

Scanner output determinism

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deterministic license and copyright values src/fosslight_source/_scan_item.py, src/fosslight_source/_merge.py, src/fosslight_source/_parsing_scancode_file_item.py, tests/*	License and copyright values are sorted deterministically. SPDX resolution caches results and skips unknown keys. Tests update and verify the ordering.
ScanCode memory limit resolution pyproject.toml, src/fosslight_source/run_scancode.py	The minimum fosslight_util version increases to 2.2.11. run_scan resolves max_in_memory from an environment override or available system memory.
Parallel binary detection src/fosslight_source/_scancode_ignore_binaries.py	Binary detection uses multiprocessing for large codebases and falls back to sequential processing when pool creation fails.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8b460

License and copyright output becomes deterministic and ScanCode processing gains resource controls, but merging large sets still fully sorts values when only the top three are needed. This is a bounded performance concern and does not otherwise block merge readiness.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant run_scan
  participant proc_meminfo
  participant ScanCode_cli_run_scan
  run_scan->>proc_meminfo: Read available memory
  proc_meminfo-->>run_scan: Return memory capacity
  run_scan->>ScanCode_cli_run_scan: Pass max_in_memory

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IgnoreBinaries_process_codebase
  participant _detect_binaries
  participant multiprocessing_Pool
  participant codebase
  IgnoreBinaries_process_codebase->>_detect_binaries: Provide paths and locations
  _detect_binaries->>multiprocessing_Pool: Detect binaries in parallel
  multiprocessing_Pool-->>_detect_binaries: Return binary locations
  IgnoreBinaries_process_codebase->>codebase: Re-fetch and remove resources

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Docstring coverage is 34.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 9 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/fosslight_source/_merge.py (1)

114-115: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep top-three selection bounded.

_get_top_merge_values sorts all U distinct values, although it returns only three. Replace sorted(...) with heapq.nsmallest(3, ...) using the same key to reduce the work from O(U log U) to bounded selection.

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In `@src/fosslight_source/_merge.py` around lines 114 - 115, Update
_get_top_merge_values to use heapq.nsmallest(3, ...) instead of sorting all
Counter(values) entries, preserving the existing key of descending frequency
with value-based tie-breaking and the returned top-three value list.

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In `@src/fosslight_source/_merge.py`:
- Around line 114-115: Update _get_top_merge_values to use heapq.nsmallest(3,
...) instead of sorting all Counter(values) entries, preserving the existing key
of descending frequency with value-based tie-breaking and the returned top-three
value list.

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📒 Files selected for processing (10)

• pyproject.toml
• src/fosslight_source/_merge.py
• src/fosslight_source/_parsing_scancode_file_item.py
• src/fosslight_source/_scan_item.py
• src/fosslight_source/_scancode_ignore_binaries.py
• src/fosslight_source/run_scancode.py
• tests/test_manifest_android_bp.py
• tests/test_manifest_recommended_scenarios.py
• tests/test_multi_value_order.py
• tests/test_parsing_unknown_spdx.py

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