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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Analyzes the dump of initialization failures and creates a Graphviz dot file
+   representing dependencies."""
+
+import codecs
+import os
+import re
+import string
+import sys
+
+
+_CLASS_RE = re.compile(r'^L(.*);$')
+_ERROR_LINE_RE = re.compile(r'^java.lang.InternalError: (.*)')
+_STACK_LINE_RE = re.compile(r'^\s*at\s[^\s]*\s([^\s]*)')
+
+def Confused(filename, line_number, line):
+  sys.stderr.write('%s:%d: confused by:\n%s\n' % (filename, line_number, line))
+  raise Exception("giving up!")
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+
+def ProcessFile(filename):
+  lines = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf8', 'replace').read().split('\n')
+  it = iter(lines)
+
+  class_fail_class = {}
+  class_fail_method = {}
+  root_failures = set()
+  root_errors = {}
+
+  while True:
+    try:
+      # We start with a class descriptor.
+      raw_line = it.next()
+      m = _CLASS_RE.search(raw_line)
+      # print(raw_line)
+      if m is None:
+        continue
+      # Found a class.
+      failed_clazz = m.group(1).replace('/','.')
+      # print('Is a class %s' % failed_clazz)
+      # The error line should be next.
+      raw_line = it.next()
+      m = _ERROR_LINE_RE.search(raw_line)
+      # print(raw_line)
+      if m is None:
+        Confused(filename, -1, raw_line)
+        continue
+      # Found an error line.
+      error = m.group(1)
+      # print('Is an error %s' % error)
+      # Get the top of the stack
+      raw_line = it.next()
+      m = _STACK_LINE_RE.search(raw_line)
+      if m is None:
+        continue
+      # Found a stack line. Get the method.
+      method = m.group(1)
+      # print('Is a stack element %s' % method)
+      (left_of_paren,paren,right_of_paren) = method.partition('(')
+      (root_err_class,dot,root_method_name) = left_of_paren.rpartition('.')
+      # print('Error class %s' % err_class)
+      # print('Error method %s' % method_name)
+      # Record the root error.
+      root_failures.add(root_err_class)
+      # Parse all the trace elements to find the "immediate" cause.
+      immediate_class = root_err_class
+      immediate_method = root_method_name
+      root_errors[root_err_class] = error
+      # Now go "up" the stack.
+      while True:
+        raw_line = it.next()
+        m = _STACK_LINE_RE.search(raw_line)
+        if m is None:
+          break  # Nothing more to see here.
+        method = m.group(1)
+        (left_of_paren,paren,right_of_paren) = method.partition('(')
+        (err_class,dot,err_method_name) = left_of_paren.rpartition('.')
+        if err_method_name == "<clinit>":
+          # A class initializer is on the stack...
+          class_fail_class[err_class] = immediate_class
+          class_fail_method[err_class] = immediate_method
+          immediate_class = err_class
+          immediate_method = err_method_name
+    except StopIteration:
+      # print('Done')
+      break  # Done
+
+  # Assign IDs.
+  fail_sources = set(class_fail_class.values());
+  all_classes = fail_sources | set(class_fail_class.keys())
+  i = 0
+  class_index = {}
+  for clazz in all_classes:
+    class_index[clazz] = i
+    i = i + 1
+
+  # Now create the nodes.
+  for (r_class, r_id) in class_index.items():
+    error_string = ''
+    if r_class in root_failures:
+      error_string = ',color=Red,tooltip="' + root_errors[r_class] + '",URL="' + root_errors[r_class] + '"'
+    print('  n%d [shape=box,label="%s"%s];' % (r_id, r_class, error_string))
+
+  # Some space.
+  print('')
+
+  # Connections.
+  for (failed_class,error_class) in class_fail_class.items():
+    print('  n%d -> n%d;' % (class_index[failed_class], class_index[error_class]))
+
+
+def main():
+  print('digraph {')
+  print('  overlap=false;')
+  print('  splines=true;')
+  ProcessFile(sys.argv[1])
+  print('}')
+  sys.exit(0)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  main()