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Structured log emission policy: Suppressed log records are exported · case 01

Suppressed log records are exported.

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ROOT CAUSE

The implementation substitutes and True and for and not suppressed and, so suppressed log records are exported.

THE FAILURE

The implementation substitutes and True and for and not suppressed and, so suppressed log records are exported.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair substitutes and suppressed and. Fixture 1 still yields False instead of True.

Case contract

Emit a log only when severity reaches the threshold, logger is enabled, sampling selected it, it is not suppressed, and all required fields exist. False-valued fields count as present.

Why this case matters

An offline model of structured log emission policy, suitable for testing build and release tooling without external services.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(event, threshold, enabled, sampled, suppressed, required):
    return event['level'] >= threshold and enabled and sampled and True and set(required) <= set(event)
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
check('fixture 2', solve({'level': 1, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 3', solve({'level': 3, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
check('fixture 4', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, False, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 5', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, False, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 6', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, True, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 7', solve({'level': 2}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 8', solve({'level': 2, 'message': False}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 1TrueTruePassed
fixture 2FalseFalsePassed
fixture 3TrueTruePassed
fixture 4FalseFalsePassed
fixture 5FalseFalsePassed
fixture 6TrueFalseFailed
fixture 7FalseFalsePassed
fixture 8TrueTruePassed

SHA-256 / 23f9c1fdbd9d715a910a331825c12c970d83efb61ffff9ad7359b761c6085291

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(event, threshold, enabled, sampled, suppressed, required):
    return event['level'] >= threshold and enabled and sampled and suppressed and set(required) <= set(event)
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
check('fixture 2', solve({'level': 1, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 3', solve({'level': 3, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
check('fixture 4', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, False, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 5', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, False, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 6', solve({'level': 2, 'message': 'x'}, 2, True, True, True, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 7', solve({'level': 2}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), False)
check('fixture 8', solve({'level': 2, 'message': False}, 2, True, True, False, ['message']), True)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 1FalseTrueFailed
fixture 2FalseFalsePassed
fixture 3FalseTrueFailed
fixture 4FalseFalsePassed
fixture 5FalseFalsePassed
fixture 6TrueFalseFailed
fixture 7FalseFalsePassed
fixture 8FalseTrueFailed

SHA-256 / fcb1072d1e8185abaa28807b08fc65de033596c84188caa0faf63a92f71b5ece

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Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:37.812098+00:00.

Case digest / 97c05401dbcce240d83143e074858c30fe880f4159024271fb174be123b578cd