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rumdl_lib/rules/
md080_heading_anchor_collision.rs

1//! Rule MD080: Heading anchors must be unique.
2//!
3//! Two headings whose generated URL-safe anchor (slug) is identical produce a
4//! collision: a `[text](#slug)` link and, under the MDXG virtual-page model,
5//! the page identifier derived from an H1/H2 title can only resolve to the
6//! *first* occurrence. GitHub/MkDocs paper over this by auto-suffixing the
7//! later anchor (`slug-1`), which is functional but surprising and breaks any
8//! hand-written `#slug` link that meant the second heading.
9//!
10//! This is distinct from:
11//! - **MD024** (duplicate heading *text*) - misses distinct texts that
12//!   slugify identically (`Setup & Run` vs `Setup Run`, `C++` vs `C`).
13//! - **MD051** (broken/missing fragment *targets*) - this flags *ambiguous*
14//!   targets, where the reference resolves but not unambiguously.
15//!
16//! Diagnostic only: renaming a heading is a semantic choice, so there is no
17//! auto-fix. Opt-in, because the collision is functional under platform
18//! auto-suffixing and flagging it changes established lint output.
19
20use crate::lint_context::LintContext;
21use crate::rule::{FixCapability, LintError, LintResult, LintWarning, Rule, RuleCategory, Severity};
22use crate::rule_config_serde::RuleConfig;
23use crate::utils::anchor_styles::AnchorStyle;
24use crate::utils::range_utils::calculate_match_range;
25use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
26use std::collections::HashMap;
27
28fn default_levels() -> Vec<u8> {
29    vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
30}
31
32/// Configuration for MD080 (Heading anchor collision)
33#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
34#[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
35pub struct MD080Config {
36    /// Anchor generation style to match the target platform.
37    #[serde(default, alias = "anchor_style")]
38    pub anchor_style: AnchorStyle,
39
40    /// Heading levels whose anchors must be unique. Defaults to all levels
41    /// (any heading can be a fragment target). Set to `[1, 2]` to check only
42    /// the MDXG virtual-page identifiers derived from H1/H2 titles.
43    #[serde(default = "default_levels")]
44    pub levels: Vec<u8>,
45}
46
47impl Default for MD080Config {
48    fn default() -> Self {
49        Self {
50            anchor_style: AnchorStyle::default(),
51            levels: default_levels(),
52        }
53    }
54}
55
56impl RuleConfig for MD080Config {
57    const RULE_NAME: &'static str = "MD080";
58}
59
60#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
61pub struct MD080HeadingAnchorCollision {
62    config: MD080Config,
63    /// Whether `config.anchor_style` was chosen rather than derived from a
64    /// flavor. Unpinned, the style follows the flavor of the file being
65    /// checked; see [`MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::anchor_style`].
66    anchor_style_pinned: bool,
67}
68
69impl Default for MD080HeadingAnchorCollision {
70    fn default() -> Self {
71        Self::from_config_struct(MD080Config::default())
72    }
73}
74
75impl MD080HeadingAnchorCollision {
76    pub fn new() -> Self {
77        Self::default()
78    }
79
80    pub fn from_config_struct(config: MD080Config) -> Self {
81        Self {
82            config,
83            anchor_style_pinned: true,
84        }
85    }
86
87    /// The anchor style to generate slugs with for the file in `ctx`.
88    ///
89    /// A style the user pinned applies to every file. Otherwise it follows the
90    /// flavor the file is parsed with, which `per-file-flavor` can make
91    /// different from the global flavor the rule was constructed with.
92    fn anchor_style(&self, ctx: &LintContext) -> AnchorStyle {
93        if self.anchor_style_pinned {
94            self.config.anchor_style
95        } else {
96            AnchorStyle::for_flavor(ctx.flavor)
97        }
98    }
99
100    /// The anchor a heading actually resolves to. An explicit `{#custom-id}`
101    /// wins over the generated slug (it is what platforms emit) and is
102    /// compared in its emitted case: HTML `id` matching is case-sensitive, so
103    /// `{#API}` and `{#api}` are distinct anchors. Generated slugs are already
104    /// case-normalized by the anchor style.
105    fn effective_anchor(&self, text: &str, custom_id: Option<&str>, anchor_style: AnchorStyle) -> String {
106        match custom_id {
107            Some(id) => id.to_string(),
108            None => anchor_style.generate_fragment(text),
109        }
110    }
111
112    /// Resolve a heading's anchor and either record it as the first occurrence
113    /// or, if some earlier heading already produced the same anchor, emit a
114    /// collision warning pointing back at that first heading.
115    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
116    fn record(
117        &self,
118        text: &str,
119        custom_id: Option<&str>,
120        level: u8,
121        line_num: usize,
122        content: &str,
123        anchor_style: AnchorStyle,
124        seen: &mut HashMap<String, usize>,
125        warnings: &mut Vec<LintWarning>,
126    ) {
127        if !self.config.levels.contains(&level) {
128            return;
129        }
130
131        let anchor = self.effective_anchor(text, custom_id, anchor_style);
132        if anchor.is_empty() {
133            return;
134        }
135
136        if let Some(&first_line) = seen.get(&anchor) {
137            let (start_line, start_col, end_line, end_col) =
138                calculate_match_range(line_num, content, content.find(text).unwrap_or(0), text.len());
139            warnings.push(LintWarning {
140                rule_name: Some(self.name().to_string()),
141                severity: Severity::Warning,
142                line: start_line,
143                column: start_col,
144                end_line,
145                end_column: end_col,
146                message: format!(
147                    "Heading anchor '{anchor}' collides with the heading at line {first_line}; \
148                     fragment links and any derived page identifier resolve only to the first occurrence"
149                ),
150                fix: None,
151            });
152        } else {
153            seen.insert(anchor, line_num);
154        }
155    }
156}
157
158impl Rule for MD080HeadingAnchorCollision {
159    fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
160        "MD080"
161    }
162
163    fn description(&self) -> &'static str {
164        "Heading anchors must be unique"
165    }
166
167    fn check(&self, ctx: &LintContext) -> LintResult {
168        let mut warnings = Vec::new();
169        // anchor -> 1-based line of the first heading that produced it.
170        let mut seen: HashMap<String, usize> = HashMap::new();
171        let anchor_style = self.anchor_style(ctx);
172
173        for parsed in ctx.headings() {
174            let heading = parsed.heading;
175            if !heading.is_valid || heading.text.is_empty() {
176                continue;
177            }
178            self.record(
179                &heading.text,
180                heading.custom_id.as_deref(),
181                heading.level,
182                parsed.line_num,
183                parsed.line_info.content(ctx.content),
184                anchor_style,
185                &mut seen,
186                &mut warnings,
187            );
188        }
189
190        Ok(warnings)
191    }
192
193    fn fix_capability(&self) -> FixCapability {
194        // Renaming a heading (and every link that targets it) is a semantic
195        // decision the linter must not make automatically, so the fix
196        // coordinator must treat MD080 as diagnostic-only.
197        FixCapability::Unfixable
198    }
199
200    fn fix(&self, _ctx: &LintContext) -> Result<String, LintError> {
201        Err(LintError::FixFailed("MD080 has no auto-fix".to_string()))
202    }
203
204    fn category(&self) -> RuleCategory {
205        RuleCategory::Heading
206    }
207
208    fn as_any(&self) -> &dyn std::any::Any {
209        self
210    }
211
212    crate::impl_rule_config_sections!(MD080Config);
213
214    fn from_config(config: &crate::config::Config) -> Box<dyn Rule>
215    where
216        Self: Sized,
217    {
218        let mut rule_config = crate::rule_config_serde::load_rule_config::<MD080Config>(config);
219
220        // Mirror MD051: when the user has not pinned an anchor style, follow
221        // the active flavor's native anchor generation. The global flavor settles
222        // it here for `rumdl config`; a file `per-file-flavor` gives another flavor
223        // re-derives it in `anchor_style()`.
224        let explicit_style_present = config
225            .rules
226            .get("MD080")
227            .is_some_and(|rc| rc.values.contains_key("anchor-style") || rc.values.contains_key("anchor_style"));
228        if !explicit_style_present {
229            rule_config.anchor_style = AnchorStyle::for_flavor(config.global.flavor);
230        }
231
232        Box::new(MD080HeadingAnchorCollision {
233            config: rule_config,
234            anchor_style_pinned: explicit_style_present,
235        })
236    }
237}
238
239#[cfg(test)]
240mod tests {
241    use super::*;
242    use crate::config::MarkdownFlavor;
243
244    fn check(content: &str) -> Vec<LintWarning> {
245        let ctx = LintContext::new(content, MarkdownFlavor::Standard, None);
246        MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::new().check(&ctx).unwrap()
247    }
248
249    fn check_with(config: MD080Config, content: &str) -> Vec<LintWarning> {
250        let ctx = LintContext::new(content, MarkdownFlavor::Standard, None);
251        MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::from_config_struct(config)
252            .check(&ctx)
253            .unwrap()
254    }
255
256    /// Python-Markdown collapses the doubled hyphen, so these two headings share
257    /// `#test-double`; GitHub keeps it, so they do not collide. The count alone
258    /// therefore names the anchor style in force.
259    const ANCHOR_STYLE_PROBE: &str = "# Test--Double\n\n## Test Double\n";
260
261    fn collisions(rule: &dyn Rule, flavor: MarkdownFlavor) -> usize {
262        let ctx = LintContext::new(ANCHOR_STYLE_PROBE, flavor, None);
263        rule.check(&ctx).unwrap().len()
264    }
265
266    /// An unpinned anchor style follows the flavor of the file being checked,
267    /// not the global flavor the rule was constructed with. `per-file-flavor`
268    /// makes those differ, and the style is decided per file.
269    #[test]
270    fn test_unpinned_anchor_style_follows_the_file_flavor() {
271        let rule_from_global = |flavor| {
272            let mut config = crate::config::Config::default();
273            config.global.flavor = flavor;
274            MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::from_config(&config)
275        };
276
277        // Global standard: construction settles on GitHub anchors, under which
278        // the two headings keep distinct slugs.
279        let standard_global = rule_from_global(MarkdownFlavor::Standard);
280        assert_eq!(
281            collisions(standard_global.as_ref(), MarkdownFlavor::Standard),
282            0,
283            "GitHub anchors keep the doubled hyphen, so there is no collision"
284        );
285        // A file `per-file-flavor` parses as MkDocs is checked against
286        // Python-Markdown anchors, where the two slugs are the same.
287        assert_eq!(
288            collisions(standard_global.as_ref(), MarkdownFlavor::MkDocs),
289            1,
290            "a mkdocs file must be checked against Python-Markdown anchors even under a standard global flavor"
291        );
292
293        // The same in reverse: a standard file under a MkDocs global flavor.
294        let mkdocs_global = rule_from_global(MarkdownFlavor::MkDocs);
295        assert_eq!(collisions(mkdocs_global.as_ref(), MarkdownFlavor::MkDocs), 1);
296        assert_eq!(
297            collisions(mkdocs_global.as_ref(), MarkdownFlavor::Standard),
298            0,
299            "a standard file must be checked against GitHub anchors even under a mkdocs global flavor"
300        );
301    }
302
303    /// Control for the above: a style the user pinned is theirs, and applies to
304    /// every file whatever flavor it is parsed with.
305    #[test]
306    fn test_pinned_anchor_style_ignores_the_file_flavor() {
307        let mut config = crate::config::Config::default();
308        config.global.flavor = MarkdownFlavor::MkDocs;
309        let mut rule_config = crate::config::RuleConfig::default();
310        rule_config
311            .values
312            .insert("anchor-style".to_string(), toml::Value::String("github".to_string()));
313        config.rules.insert("MD080".to_string(), rule_config);
314        let rule = MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::from_config(&config);
315
316        for flavor in [
317            MarkdownFlavor::Standard,
318            MarkdownFlavor::MkDocs,
319            MarkdownFlavor::Kramdown,
320        ] {
321            assert_eq!(
322                collisions(rule.as_ref(), flavor),
323                0,
324                "pinned github anchors must survive a {flavor:?} file"
325            );
326        }
327    }
328
329    /// Directly constructed rules are pinned: nothing derived their style from a
330    /// flavor, so there is nothing to re-derive.
331    #[test]
332    fn test_directly_constructed_rule_keeps_its_anchor_style() {
333        let rule = MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::from_config_struct(MD080Config {
334            anchor_style: AnchorStyle::PythonMarkdown,
335            ..Default::default()
336        });
337        assert_eq!(
338            collisions(&rule, MarkdownFlavor::Standard),
339            1,
340            "an explicitly constructed Python-Markdown rule must not follow the file flavor"
341        );
342    }
343
344    #[test]
345    fn flags_distinct_text_same_github_slug() {
346        // "Setup & Run" and "Setup Run" both slugify to `setup--run` /
347        // `setup-run` family; under GitHub they collide on `setup--run`.
348        let w = check("# Setup & Run\n\n# Setup  Run\n");
349        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "got: {w:?}");
350        assert!(w[0].message.contains("collides with the heading at line 1"));
351        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 3);
352    }
353
354    #[test]
355    fn flags_punctuation_only_difference() {
356        // "C++" -> "c", "C" -> "c" under GitHub.
357        let w = check("# C++\n\n## C\n");
358        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "got: {w:?}");
359    }
360
361    #[test]
362    fn flags_same_text_across_levels() {
363        // Same text at different levels: MD024 with allow_different_nesting
364        // would NOT flag this, but the anchor `#intro` is genuinely ambiguous.
365        let w = check("# Intro\n\nbody\n\n## Intro\n");
366        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "distinct-level slug collision must flag: {w:?}");
367        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 5);
368    }
369
370    #[test]
371    fn no_warning_when_slugs_differ() {
372        assert!(check("# Alpha\n\n## Beta\n\n### Gamma\n").is_empty());
373    }
374
375    #[test]
376    fn flags_three_way_collision_once_per_extra() {
377        let w = check("# Dup\n\n## Dup\n\n### Dup\n");
378        assert_eq!(w.len(), 2, "first defines, each later collides: {w:?}");
379        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 3);
380        assert_eq!(w[1].line, 5);
381    }
382
383    #[test]
384    fn flags_colliding_custom_ids() {
385        let w = check("# Alpha {#dup}\n\n## Beta {#dup}\n");
386        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "got: {w:?}");
387        assert!(w[0].message.contains("'dup'"));
388    }
389
390    #[test]
391    fn custom_id_disambiguates_same_text() {
392        // Same visible text but explicit distinct ids => no collision.
393        let w = check("# Repeat {#first}\n\n## Repeat {#second}\n");
394        assert!(w.is_empty(), "explicit ids disambiguate: {w:?}");
395    }
396
397    #[test]
398    fn ignores_headings_in_code_fences() {
399        let w = check("# Title\n\n```\n# Title\n```\n");
400        assert!(w.is_empty(), "fenced `# Title` is not a heading: {w:?}");
401    }
402
403    #[test]
404    fn ignores_front_matter() {
405        let w = check("---\ntitle: Title\n---\n\n# Title\n\n## Title\n");
406        // Two real headings still collide; front matter must not add a third.
407        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "got: {w:?}");
408        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 7);
409    }
410
411    #[test]
412    fn levels_filter_restricts_scope() {
413        // H3 collision is ignored when only H1/H2 page ids are checked.
414        let cfg = MD080Config {
415            anchor_style: AnchorStyle::GitHub,
416            levels: vec![1, 2],
417        };
418        let w = check_with(cfg, "# Page\n\n### Dup\n\n### Dup\n");
419        assert!(w.is_empty(), "H3 collisions excluded by levels=[1,2]: {w:?}");
420    }
421
422    #[test]
423    fn anchor_style_changes_collision_outcome() {
424        // "a_b" vs "ab": GitHub preserves `_` (slugs `a_b` / `ab`, distinct),
425        // Kramdown strips `_` (both become `ab`, a collision).
426        let content = "# a_b\n\n## ab\n";
427        assert!(
428            check_with(
429                MD080Config {
430                    anchor_style: AnchorStyle::GitHub,
431                    levels: default_levels()
432                },
433                content
434            )
435            .is_empty(),
436            "GitHub keeps the underscore, slugs stay distinct"
437        );
438        assert_eq!(
439            check_with(
440                MD080Config {
441                    anchor_style: AnchorStyle::Kramdown,
442                    levels: default_levels()
443                },
444                content
445            )
446            .len(),
447            1,
448            "Kramdown removes `_`, so both headings slug to `ab`"
449        );
450    }
451
452    #[test]
453    fn flags_setext_heading_collision() {
454        // Setext headings produce fragment anchors too; a Setext H1 and an
455        // ATX H2 with the same slug collide just like two ATX headings.
456        let w = check("Intro\n=====\n\nbody\n\n## Intro\n");
457        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "setext + atx slug collision must flag: {w:?}");
458        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 6);
459    }
460
461    #[test]
462    fn custom_id_case_is_significant() {
463        // HTML id matching is case-sensitive: {#API} and {#api} are distinct
464        // anchors, so they must NOT be reported as a collision.
465        let w = check("# Alpha {#API}\n\n## Beta {#api}\n");
466        assert!(w.is_empty(), "custom ids differing only in case are distinct: {w:?}");
467    }
468
469    #[test]
470    fn flags_blockquote_heading_collision() {
471        // A blockquoted ATX heading still emits a fragment anchor (mirrors
472        // MD051), so it collides with a same-slug top-level heading.
473        let w = check("> ## Intro\n\n## Intro\n");
474        assert_eq!(w.len(), 1, "blockquote heading slug collision must flag: {w:?}");
475        assert_eq!(w[0].line, 3);
476    }
477
478    #[test]
479    fn blockquote_in_html_block_is_not_a_heading() {
480        // A CommonMark HTML block is raw content. Its blockquote-like line does
481        // not render as Markdown and therefore emits no heading anchor.
482        let w = check("<div>\n> ## Intro\n</div>\n\n## Intro\n");
483        assert!(w.is_empty(), "raw HTML must not create a heading collision: {w:?}");
484    }
485
486    #[test]
487    fn no_auto_fix_offered() {
488        let w = check("# Dup\n\n## Dup\n");
489        assert!(w[0].fix.is_none());
490        let ctx = LintContext::new("# Dup\n\n## Dup\n", MarkdownFlavor::Standard, None);
491        assert!(MD080HeadingAnchorCollision::new().fix(&ctx).is_err());
492    }
493
494    #[test]
495    fn empty_document_is_clean() {
496        assert!(check("").is_empty());
497        assert!(check("Just prose, no headings.\n").is_empty());
498    }
499}