This manually ignores some cases where the resulting auto-formatting would not, as far as I'm concerned, constitute a readability improvement or where we'd just end up with more overall indentation.
Please see https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/arrow-body-style
Given that we only use standard `import`/`export` statements now, after recent PRs, the "exports" global is unused.
Instead we add "__non_webpack_import__" to the `globals` to avoid having to sprinkle disable statements throughout the code.
Finally, the way that `globals` are defined has changed in ESLint and we should thus explicitly specify them as "readonly"; please find additional details at https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/configure/language-options#specifying-globals
This *finally* allows us to mark the entire PDF.js library as a "module", which should thus conclude the (multi-year) effort to re-factor and improve how we import files/resources in the code-base.
This also means that the `gulp ci-test` target, which is what's run in GitHub Actions, now uses JavaScript modules since that's supported in modern Node.js versions.
At this point in time all browsers, and also Node.js, support standard `import`/`export` statements and we can now finally consider outputting modern JavaScript modules in the builds.[1]
In order for this to work we can *only* use proper `import`/`export` statements throughout the main code-base, and (as expected) our Node.js support made this much more complicated since both the official builds and the GitHub Actions-based tests must keep working.[2]
One remaining issue is that the `pdf.scripting.js` file cannot be built as a JavaScript module, since doing so breaks PDF scripting.
Note that my initial goal was to try and split these changes into a couple of commits, however that unfortunately didn't really work since it turned out to be difficult for smaller patches to work correctly and pass (all) tests that way.[3]
This is a classic case of every change requiring a couple of other changes, with each of those changes requiring further changes in turn and the size/scope quickly increasing as a result.
One possible "issue" with these changes is that we'll now only output JavaScript modules in the builds, which could perhaps be a problem with older tools. However it unfortunately seems far too complicated/time-consuming for us to attempt to support both the old and modern module formats, hence the alternative would be to do "nothing" here and just keep our "old" builds.[4]
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[1] The final blocker was module support in workers in Firefox, which was implemented in Firefox 114; please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import#browser_compatibility
[2] It's probably possible to further improve/simplify especially the Node.js-specific code, but it does appear to work as-is.
[3] Having partially "broken" patches, that fail tests, as part of the commit history is *really not* a good idea in general.
[4] Outputting JavaScript modules was first requested almost five years ago, see issue 10317, and nowadays there *should* be much better support for JavaScript modules in various tools.
The existing Node.js-specific polyfills depend on the `node-canvas` package, which has unfortunately (repeatedly) shown to cause trouble for many users. We attempted to improve the situation by listing the relevant packages as `optionalDependencies`, but that didn't seem to really fix the problem.
With this patch the library should be able to load in Node.js-environments even if polyfilling fails, and any errors will instead occur during rendering. Obviously this is *not* a proper solution, since it basically moves the problem to another part of the code-base.
However for certain "simpler" use-cases, such as e.g. text-extraction, these changes should hopefully improve general usability of the PDF.js library in Node.js-environments.
*Please note:* For most PDF documents rendering should still work though, since `DOMMatrix` is *currently* only used with Patterns and `Path2D` only with Type3-fonts and Patterns.
With the changes in the previous patch the `isNodeJS`-helper no longer needs to live in its own file, which helps get rid of a closure in the *built* files.
In the last couple of years we've been quicker to remove support for older browsers/environments, which means that at this point in time we don't bundle that many polyfills. (The polyfills are also generally simpler nowadays, ever since we removed support for e.g. Internet Explorer.)
Rather than having to *manually* handle the polyfills, we can actually let Babel take care of bundling the necessary polyfills for us; please refer to https://babeljs.io/docs/babel-preset-env
The only exception here is the Node.js-specific compatibility-code, which is moved into the `src/display/node_utils.js` file. This ought to be fine since workers are not available/used in Node.js-environments.
*Please note:* For the `legacy`-builds this will increase the size of the *built* files, however that seems like a very small price to pay in order to simplify maintenance of the general PDF.js library.
This patch extends PR 16115 to work in all browsers, regardless of their `OffscreenCanvas` support, such that transfer functions will be applied to general rendering (and not just image data).
In order to do this we introduce the `BaseFilterFactory` that is then extended in browsers/Node.js environments, similar to all the other factories used in the API, such that we always have the necessary factory available in `src/display/canvas.js`.
These changes help simplify the existing `putBinaryImageData` function, and the new method can easily be stubbed-out in the Firefox PDF Viewer.
*Please note:* This patch removes the old *partial* transfer function support, which only applied to image data, from Node.js environments since the `node-canvas` package currently doesn't support filters. However, this should hopefully be fine given that:
- Transfer functions are not very commonly used in PDF documents.
- Browsers in general, and Firefox in particular, are the *primary* development target for the PDF.js library.
- The FAQ only lists Node.js as *mostly* supported, see https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#faq-support
This first of all simplifies the file, since we no longer need dummy-classes and can instead *directly* define the actual classes.
Furthermore, and more importantly, this means that we no longer need to bundle this code in e.g. MOZCENTRAL-builds which reduces the size of *built* `pdf.js` file slightly.
Given that these factories are being used in *different* files, for Browser respectively Node.js implementations, it seems reasonable to move them into their own file instead.
Previously this rule has been enabled in the `web/` folder, and in select files in the `src/` sub-folders.
Note that a number of the files in the `src/display/` folder were already enforcing the `no-var` rule, and thanks to Prettier the necessary re-writing will be (mostly) handled automatically.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-var
This moves, and slightly simplifies, code that's currently residing in the unit-test utils into the actual library, such that it's bundled with `GENERIC`-builds and used in e.g. the API-code.
As an added bonus, this also brings out-of-the-box support for CMaps in e.g. the Node.js examples.