deduplicator

func DeduplicateInterimReport ¶

func DeduplicateInterimReport(report *entities.InterimReport) *entities.InterimReport

DeduplicateInterimReport removes duplicate CryptographicAssets that share the same identity (file path + asset key + location). When duplicates are found, their metadata and rule information are merged into a single asset.

The deduplication process:

1. Groups assets by (file_path, asset_key, start_line, end_line) tuple, where asset_key is generated by CryptographicAsset.GetKey() based on asset-type-specific identifying fields
2. For each group, merges all assets into one representative asset
3. Preserves all unique metadata values from merged assets
4. Merges all unique rules from all assets in the group

Assets with different identifying characteristics (e.g., different algorithmFamily or algorithmName) or at different locations are kept separate to prevent metadata confusion.

This function modifies the report in-place and returns it for convenience.