[BEAM-6518] Substring-matching bug in Python metrics filtering

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P4
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.11.0
• Component/s: sdk-py-core
• Assignee: Ryan Williams
• Reporter: Ryan Williams
• Created: 26/Jan/19 20:20
• Updated: 24/Jul/20 20:00
• Resolved: 29/Jan/19 10:40

Description

MetricResults._matches_sub_path can be fooled into a false-negative if a path component before the one it is looking for is a superstring of the one it's looking for.

It's not particularly likely to happen, but worth fixing anyway.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7638