prometheus / prometheus/common
TextParser: Tolerate trailing whitespace
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- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 295
- Forks
- 367
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Apparently, trailing whitespace is not tolerated, see https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/1469 .
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the TextParser implementation and reproduce the reported failure with input containing trailing whitespace. Trace how the input is parsed and verify that trailing whitespace is accepted without changing other parsing behavior; done when the relevant parser check passes for that case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100