Including semmle libraries in custom query suites

[mutasDev]

Hey,

I am trying to create a custom query set for python (and in future some further languages) and for those I need to include some experimental libraries from semmle, more specifically , e.g. : experimental.semmle.python.Concepts.

I tried copying the complete experimental folder from the codeql repository into the folder where the query lies, but that does not seem to work.

How can I include tertiary libraries into own suites?

[tausbn]

May I ask how you're creating your query pack? For me, the following interaction with the CodeQL CLI seemed to work just fine:

% codeql pack init test
Created qlpack at .../test/qlpack.yml
% cd test
% codeql pack add codeql/python-queries
Adding codeql/python-queries@0.5.1 to dependencies.
Saving qlpack.yml.
Reinstalling dependencies.
Package install location: ~/.codeql/packages
Installed fresh codeql/python-queries@0.5.1
Installed fresh codeql/python-all@0.6.1 (library)
Installed fresh codeql/suite-helpers@0.1.0

At this point I added a file test.ql with the following contents:

import python
import experimental.semmle.python.Concepts

select 1

and now compiling it works:

% codeql query compile test.ql
Compiling query plan for .../test/test.ql.
Done [1/1 comp 3.4s] .../test/test.ql.

So basically I think what may be missing here is the codeql/python-queries dependency. Once that has been installed, everything should work, hopefully. 🤞