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Fix duplicate-signature false positives on calls at class-member depth - #1334

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Why

CheckDuplicateMethodSignatures reports duplicate-signature errors on valid, compiling C#. validate_script returns success: false, which also masks any genuine validation error in the same file.

The signature regex matches call sites as readily as declarations — (\S+) will capture punctuation as a "return type". That is normally harmless, because matches are non-overlapping: an ordinary declaration consumes its own opening brace, so a call inside the body has no preceding token left to match against.

Any call sitting at class-member depth escapes that, because there is no enclosing declaration match to consume the token in front of it:

  • Field initializersstatic bool X = ReadPref(); captures =
  • Expression-bodied membersint Total => Count(); captures =>; Current => _current ??= Build(); captures ??=
  • The first statement of a body whose declaration the regex could not match at all — an explicit interface implementation, since (\w+) cannot span the dot in IThing.Notify. The body's opening brace is captured instead.

All sit at class-member depth, so the brace-depth guard from "Prevent validator false positives from method-body calls" cannot reject them. Zero-argument methods are what bite in practice, since the key includes parameter types and an empty list always matches.

This repository's own sources contain four instances, all ordinary idiomatic C#:

File Shape
Editor/Helpers/McpLog.cs = ReadDebugPreference(); field initializer
Editor/Services/Transport/Transports/StdioBridgeHost.cs = ResolveFrameIOTimeoutMs(); field initializer
Editor/Services/BridgeControlService.cs => ResolvePreferredMode(); expression-bodied property
Editor/Security/SecureKeyStore/SecureKeyStore.cs => _current ??= Build(); expression-bodied property

Approach

This is the third report of one underlying pattern — after #1044 (new Type(...) constructor invocations) and the method-body-call fix. Rather than a third targeted skip, this rejects the class: a captured return type that is punctuation is never a declaration. ( is kept so tuple returns still validate.

Verification

Against the patched ManageScript.cs running in a real Unity project (v10.0.0, Unity 6000.3.8f1):

  • All four instances above, plus four in a production project (a 5,600-line controller with explicit interface implementations, and one with an expression-bodied property), validate clean.
  • A genuine duplicate — Initialize(string name) / Initialize(string label), the corruption pattern from DuplicateDetection_SameTypeDifferentParamName_Flagged — is still flagged.
  • All 14 existing duplicate-detection tests behave exactly as their assertions expect, before and after.
  • Tuple, generic, array, nullable, global::-qualified, async Task<T>, @-verbatim and leading-underscore return types all still detect genuine duplicates.

The three added tests fail without the guard and pass with it.

Checklist

  • Branched off beta
  • New tests (three, in the existing false-positive section)
  • No commented-out code or leftover markers
  • Description explains the why

Not covered

Two adjacent issues this deliberately does not touch:

  • A genuine duplicate explicit interface implementation (void IThing.Notify() twice) is still not detected, since (\w+) cannot match the dotted name.
  • #if / #else pairs that declare the same method in both branches are flagged as duplicates — the code-only pass strips comments and strings but not preprocessor directives. Five files here hit this, including ManageScript.cs itself.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved duplicate-method detection to avoid incorrectly flagging method calls as duplicate declarations in explicit interface implementations, expression-bodied members, and field initializers.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for these scenarios to help prevent future false-positive validation errors.

The signature regex matches call sites as readily as declarations, and
`(\S+)` will capture punctuation as a "return type". That is normally
harmless because matches are non-overlapping: an ordinary declaration
consumes its own opening brace, so a call inside the body has no
preceding token left to match against.

Any call sitting at class-member depth escapes that, because there is no
enclosing declaration match to consume the token in front of it:

  - field initializers -- `static bool X = ReadPref();` captures `=`;
  - expression-bodied members -- `int Total => Count();` captures `=>`,
    and `Current => _current ??= Build();` captures `??=`;
  - the first statement of a body whose declaration the regex could not
    match at all, i.e. an explicit interface implementation, since
    `(\w+)` cannot span the dot in `IThing.Notify` -- the body's opening
    brace is then captured instead.

All of these sit at class-member depth, so the brace-depth guard added
in "Prevent validator false positives from method-body calls" cannot
reject them, and valid code is reported as a duplicate. Zero-argument
methods are what bite in practice, since the key includes parameter
types and an empty list always matches.

This repository's own sources contain four instances (McpLog,
StdioBridgeHost, BridgeControlService, SecureKeyStore).

Rather than a third targeted skip after this and the `new` constructor
case, reject the class: a captured return type that is punctuation is
never a declaration. `(` is kept so tuple returns still validate.
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Walkthrough

ManageScript duplicate-method detection now excludes method calls mistaken for declarations. Three EditMode tests cover explicit interface implementations, expression-bodied members, and field initializers.

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Duplicate method detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Signature filtering and regression coverage
MCPForUnity/Editor/Tools/ManageScript.cs, TestProjects/UnityMCPTests/Assets/Tests/EditMode/Tools/ManageScriptValidationTests.cs
CheckDuplicateMethodSignatures ignores punctuation-prefixed inferred return types. Tests verify that calls in three syntactic contexts do not produce duplicate-method errors.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 64d4b

The validator can still misclassify casted field initializers as method declarations, causing valid files to report false duplicate errors and fail validation. Merge should wait for tuple-only filtering and a regression test.

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In `@MCPForUnity/Editor/Tools/ManageScript.cs`:
- Around line 2767-2768: Update the return-type filter associated with
methodSigPattern so an opening parenthesis is accepted only when it begins a
tuple-shaped return type, rather than any parenthesized expression. Ensure
cast-based initializers such as a cast followed by a method call are not
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Comment on lines +2767 to +2768
if (!char.IsLetter(returnTypeStart) && returnTypeStart != '_'
&& returnTypeStart != '@' && returnTypeStart != '(') continue;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict the ( exception to tuple return types.

The current check accepts every captured return type that starts with (. A valid field initializer such as private static object value = (object) Create(); can therefore match as a declaration for Create. If the class also contains a real Create() method, validation reports a false duplicate at class-member depth.

Accept ( only for a tuple-shaped return type, or parse the return type before applying this filter. Add a regression test for a cast followed by a method call.

Proposed fix
-                if (!char.IsLetter(returnTypeStart) && returnTypeStart != '_'
-                    && returnTypeStart != '@' && returnTypeStart != '(') continue;
+                bool isTupleReturnType = returnTypeStart == '('
+                    && returnType[returnType.Length - 1] == ')'
+                    && returnType.IndexOf(',') >= 0;
+                if (!char.IsLetter(returnTypeStart) && returnTypeStart != '_'
+                    && returnTypeStart != '@' && !isTupleReturnType) continue;

This finding is based on the supplied methodSigPattern and class-member depth logic.

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if (!char.IsLetter(returnTypeStart) && returnTypeStart != '_'
&& returnTypeStart != '@' && returnTypeStart != '(') continue;
bool isTupleReturnType = returnTypeStart == '('
&& returnType[returnType.Length - 1] == ')'
&& returnType.IndexOf(',') >= 0;
if (!char.IsLetter(returnTypeStart) && returnTypeStart != '_'
&& returnTypeStart != '@' && !isTupleReturnType) continue;
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In `@MCPForUnity/Editor/Tools/ManageScript.cs` around lines 2767 - 2768, Update
the return-type filter associated with methodSigPattern so an opening
parenthesis is accepted only when it begins a tuple-shaped return type, rather
than any parenthesized expression. Ensure cast-based initializers such as a cast
followed by a method call are not classified as declarations, while genuine
tuple return types remain supported, and add a regression test covering the
false duplicate scenario.

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