add option to ignore image parsing errors; closes #258

README.md

@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ No configuration is necessary, however, you can create a config file and overrid
 ```yaml
 # supported options are "docker" and "podman"
 container-engine: docker
-
+# continue with analysis even if there are errors parsing the image archive
+ignore-errors: false
 log:
   enabled: true
   path: ./dive.log

cmd/analyze.go

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package cmd
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"github.com/spf13/viper"
 	"github.com/wagoodman/dive/dive"
 	"os"
 
@@ -55,11 +57,17 @@ func doAnalyzeCmd(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 		imageStr = userImage
 	}
 
+	ignoreErrors, err := cmd.PersistentFlags().GetBool("ignore-errors")
+	if err != nil {
+		logrus.Error("unable to get 'ignore-errors' option:", err)
+	}
+
 	runtime.Run(runtime.Options{
 		Ci:           isCi,
 		Source:       sourceType,
 		Image:        imageStr,
 		ExportFile:   exportFile,
 		CiConfig:     ciConfig,
+		IgnoreErrors: viper.GetBool("ignore-errors") || ignoreErrors,
 	})
 }

cmd/root.go

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ func initCli() {
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVar(&cfgFile, "config", "", "config file (default is $HOME/.dive.yaml, ~/.config/dive/*.yaml, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dive.yaml)")
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().String("source", "docker", "The container engine to fetch the image from. Allowed values: "+strings.Join(dive.ImageSources, ", "))
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolP("version", "v", false, "display version number")
+	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolP("ignore-errors", "i", false, "ignore image parsing errors and run the analysis anyway")
 	rootCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&isCi, "ci", false, "Skip the interactive TUI and validate against CI rules (same as env var CI=true)")
 	rootCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&exportFile, "json", "j", "", "Skip the interactive TUI and write the layer analysis statistics to a given file.")
 	rootCmd.Flags().StringVar(&ciConfigFile, "ci-config", ".dive-ci", "If CI=true in the environment, use the given yaml to drive validation rules.")
@@ -62,6 +63,9 @@ func initCli() {
 		}
 	}
 
+	if err := ciConfig.BindPFlag("ignore-errors", rootCmd.PersistentFlags().Lookup("ignore-errors")); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Unable to bind 'ignore-errors' flag: %v", err)
+	}
 }
 
 // initConfig reads in config file and ENV variables if set.
@@ -96,6 +100,7 @@ func initConfig() {
 	viper.SetDefault("filetree.show-attributes", true)
 
 	viper.SetDefault("container-engine", "docker")
+	viper.SetDefault("ignore-errors", false)
 
 	viper.SetEnvPrefix("DIVE")
 	// replace all - with _ when looking for matching environment variables

runtime/options.go

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ type Options struct {
 	Ci           bool
 	Image        string
 	Source       dive.ImageSource
+	IgnoreErrors bool
 	ExportFile   string
 	CiConfig     *viper.Viper
 	BuildArgs    []string

runtime/run.go

@@ -93,9 +93,11 @@ func run(enableUi bool, options Options, imageResolver image.Resolver, events ev
 			for _, err := range errors {
 				events.message("  " + err.Error())
 			}
-			events.exitWithError(fmt.Errorf("file tree has path errors"))
+			if !options.IgnoreErrors {
+				events.exitWithError(fmt.Errorf("file tree has path errors (use '--ignore-errors' to attempt to continue)"))
 				return
 			}
+		}
 
 		if enableUi {
 			// it appears there is a race condition where termbox.Init() will