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ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android

1.2 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for zxing/zxing, a Java project with 34,181 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 183,403 lines of code across 2447 source files, recording 70 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.2 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.

Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.

1.2
Adjusted Signal
1.2
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-28
Last Push
34.2K
Stars
Java
Language
183.4K
Lines of Code
2.4K
Files
70
Pattern Hits
2026-10-31
Scan Date
0.01
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · Payload v1

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 0.4/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 13 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 5.6/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 57 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 5.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 70 finding(s).

What These Metrics Mean

Adjusted Signal
Legacy pattern score normalized per 1,000 scanned lines and multiplied by the repository-level time factor. It is not an estimate of AI authorship.
Raw Pattern Score
Sum of severity- and context-weighted pattern findings before applying the time factor.
Time Factor
A coarse multiplier based on repository last-push metadata. It does not identify when individual code was written.
Pattern Hits
Count of configured pattern findings. Review each location and surrounding code before acting.
HC Hit Rate
High- and critical-severity findings per scanned file. Severity is a configured detector weight, not proof of a vulnerability or authorship.
Lines / Files
Scan coverage denominators used by the legacy normalized score.

Pattern-Signal History

This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.

Severity Breakdown

Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.

CRITICAL 13HIGH 0MEDIUM 1LOW 56

Directory Score Breakdown

This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.

Pattern Findings

The scanner identified 70 distinct pattern matches across 4 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.

Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.

Hallucination Indicators13 hits · 155 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALdocs/js/apache-maven-fluido-1.8.min.js25(function(de){var cy,dh,cn,cH,cK,ci,cW,dg,dm,cI,cX,cZ,cC,co,c8,c3,df,ce,cF,da="sizzle"+1*new Date(),cJ=de.document,di=0,CODE
CRITICALdocs/js/apache-maven-fluido-1.6.min.js25(function(de){var cy,dh,cn,cH,cK,ci,cW,dg,dm,cI,cX,cZ,cC,co,c8,c3,df,ce,cF,da="sizzle"+1*new Date(),cJ=de.document,di=0,CODE
CRITICALdocs/js/apache-maven-fluido-1.5.min.js25(function(de){var cy,dh,cn,cH,cK,ci,cW,dg,dm,cI,cX,cZ,cC,co,c8,c3,df,ce,cF,da="sizzle"+1*new Date(),cJ=de.document,di=0,CODE
CRITICALdocs/js/apache-maven-fluido-1.7.min.js25(function(de){var cy,dh,cn,cH,cK,ci,cW,dg,dm,cI,cX,cZ,cC,co,c8,c3,df,ce,cF,da="sizzle"+1*new Date(),cJ=de.document,di=0,CODE
CRITICAL⚡docs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html99<div class="col-summary-item-name even-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/client/result/CalendarParsedResult.html#getECODE
CRITICAL⚡docs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html103<div class="col-summary-item-name odd-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/client/result/CalendarParsedResult.html#getStCODE
CRITICAL⚡docs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html107<div class="col-summary-item-name even-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResult.html#CODE
CRITICAL⚡docs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html111<div class="col-summary-item-name odd-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResult.html#gCODE
CRITICAL⚡docs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html115<div class="col-summary-item-name even-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/client/result/URIParsedResult.html#isPossiblCODE
CRITICALdocs/apidocs/deprecated-list.html135<div class="col-summary-item-name odd-row-color"><a href="com/google/zxing/pdf417/PDF417ResultMetadata.html#getOptionalDCODE
CRITICALdocs/apidocs/script-dir/jquery-ui.min.js6(t=>{"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(["jquery"],t):t(jQuery)})(function(x){x.ui=x.ui||{};x.ui.version="1.14CODE
CRITICALdocs/apidocs/script-dir/jquery-3.7.1.min.js2!function(e,t){"use strict";"object"==typeof module&&"object"==typeof module.exports?module.exports=e.document?t(e,!0):fCODE
CRITICALdocs/apidocs/script-dir/jquery-3.6.1.min.js2!function(e,t){"use strict";"object"==typeof module&&"object"==typeof module.exports?module.exports=e.document?t(e,!0):fCODE
Fake / Example Data44 hits · 55 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…t/java/com/google/zxing/aztec/encoder/EncoderTest.java165 testEncodeDecode("Lorem ipsum. http://test/", true, 2);CODE
LOW…t/java/com/google/zxing/aztec/encoder/EncoderTest.java293 testHighLevelEncodeString("Lorem ipsum.",CODE
LOW…ing/client/result/AddressBookParsedResultTestCase.java36 null, new String[] {"Sean Owen"}, null, null, new String[] {"srowen@example.org"}, null, null, null,CODE
LOW…ing/client/result/AddressBookParsedResultTestCase.java49 null, new String[] {"Sean Owen"}, null, new String[] {"123 Main St"},CODE
LOW…ing/client/result/AddressBookParsedResultTestCase.java74 null, new String[] {"Sean Owen"}, null, new String[] {"123 Main St"},CODE
LOW…ing/client/result/AddressBookParsedResultTestCase.java88 null, new String[] {"Sean Owen"}, null, new String[] {"123 Main St"}, new String[] {"srowen@example.org"},CODE
LOW…ing/client/result/AddressBookParsedResultTestCase.java88 null, new String[] {"Sean Owen"}, null, new String[] {"123 Main St"}, new String[] {"srowen@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java68 doTest("srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", null, null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java69 doTest("mailto:srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", null, null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java75 doTest("mailto:srowen@example.org,bob@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java76 new String[] {"srowen@example.org", "bob@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java78 doTest("mailto:?to=srowen@example.org,bob@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java79 new String[] {"srowen@example.org", "bob@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java85 doTest("mailto:?cc=srowen@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java87 new String[] {"srowen@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java89 doTest("mailto:?cc=srowen@example.org,bob@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java91 new String[] {"srowen@example.org", "bob@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java97 doTest("mailto:?bcc=srowen@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java99 new String[] {"srowen@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java101 doTest("mailto:?bcc=srowen@example.org,bob@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java103 new String[] {"srowen@example.org", "bob@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java110 new String[] {"bob@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java111 new String[] {"foo@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java112 new String[] {"srowen@example.org"},CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java119 doTest("MATMSG:TO:srowen@example.org;;", "srowen@example.org", null, null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java120 doTest("MATMSG:TO:srowen@example.org;SUB:Stuff;;", "srowen@example.org", "Stuff", null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java121 doTest("MATMSG:TO:srowen@example.org;SUB:Stuff;BODY:This is some text;;", "srowen@example.org",CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java127 doTest("smtp:srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", null, null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java128 doTest("SMTP:srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", null, null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java129 doTest("smtp:srowen@example.org:foo", "srowen@example.org", "foo", null);CODE
LOW⚡…ng/client/result/EmailAddressParsedResultTestCase.java130 doTest("smtp:srowen@example.org:foo:bar", "srowen@example.org", "foo", "bar");CODE
LOW…le/zxing/client/result/ParsedReaderResultTestCase.java79 "srowen@example.org", ParsedResultType.EMAIL_ADDRESS);CODE
LOW⚡…le/zxing/client/result/ParsedReaderResultTestCase.java92 doTestResult("srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", ParsedResultType.EMAIL_ADDRESS);CODE
LOW⚡…le/zxing/client/result/ParsedReaderResultTestCase.java93 doTestResult("mailto:srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", ParsedResultType.EMAIL_ADDRESS);CODE
LOW⚡…le/zxing/client/result/ParsedReaderResultTestCase.java94 doTestResult("MAILTO:srowen@example.org", "srowen@example.org", ParsedResultType.EMAIL_ADDRESS);CODE
LOW…le/zxing/client/result/ParsedReaderResultTestCase.java132 "Sean Owen\nGoogle\n123 Main St\n+12225551212\nsrowen@example.org", ParsedResultType.ADDRESSBOOK);CODE
LOW…/zxing/client/result/CalendarParsedResultTestCase.java159 null, null, null, "20080504T123456Z", null, "bob@example.org", null, Double.NaN, Double.NaN);CODE
LOW…/zxing/client/result/CalendarParsedResultTestCase.java171 new String[] {"bob@example.org", "alice@example.org"}, Double.NaN, Double.NaN);CODE
LOW…ogle/zxing/client/result/EmailAddressResultParser.java26 * like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".COMMENT
LOWdocs/apidocs/index-all.html1094 like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".</div>CODE
LOWdocs/apidocs/allclasses-index.html356 like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".</div>CODE
LOW…ogle/zxing/client/result/EmailAddressResultParser.html100 like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".</div>CODE
LOW…cs/com/google/zxing/client/result/package-summary.html117 like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".</div>CODE
LOW…google/zxing/client/result/class-use/ResultParser.html96 like "joe@example.org" or a mailto: URL like "mailto:joe@example.org".</div>CODE
Over-Commented Block12 hits · 12 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…a/com/google/zxing/qrcode/encoder/EncoderTestCase.java641 // BitVector::sizeInBytes() is used for finding the smallest QR CodeCOMMENT
LOW…/zxing/datamatrix/encoder/HighLevelEncodeTestCase.java81 //"b" is normally encoded as "Shift 3, 2" (two C40 values)COMMENT
LOW…n/java/com/google/zxing/qrcode/encoder/MatrixUtil.java141 // Version info appear if version >= 7.COMMENT
LOW…n/java/com/google/zxing/qrcode/encoder/MatrixUtil.java281 // Example: Calculation of version information of 7.COMMENT
LOW…main/java/com/google/zxing/common/HybridBinarizer.java201 }COMMENT
LOW…google/zxing/pdf417/decoder/PDF417ScanningDecoder.java441 // for (int i = 0; i < moduleBitCount.length; i++) {COMMENT
LOW…e/src/main/java/com/google/zxing/oned/EAN13Reader.java41 // 1 Odd Odd Even Odd Even EvenCOMMENT
LOW…ava/com/google/zxing/oned/MultiFormatUPCEANReader.java81 // followed by those 12 digits encoded as EAN-13. Each will recognize such a code,COMMENT
LOW…re/src/main/java/com/google/zxing/oned/UPCEReader.java41 //COMMENT
LOWandroid/proguard.cfg1# This is a configuration file for ProGuard.COMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml1# For most projects, this workflow file will not need changing; you simply needCOMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml41 # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.COMMENT
AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUM…/com/google/zxing/common/GlobalHistogramBinarizer.java101 // more robust on the blackbox tests than sampling a diagonal as we used to do.COMMENT