Once we're finally able to get rid of SystemJS, which is unfortunately still blocked on [bug 1247687](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687), we might also want to clean-up (or even completely remove) the `BaseException` abstraction and simply extend `Error` directly instead.
At that point we'd need to (explicitly) set the `name` on each class anyway, so this patch is essentially preparing for future clean-up. Furthermore, after the `BaseException` abstraction was added there's been *multiple* issues filed about third-party minification breaking our code since `this.constructor.name` is not guaranteed to always do what you intended.
While hard-coding the strings indeed feels quite unfortunate, it's likely the "best" solution to avoid the problem described above.
Previously this rule has been enabled in the `web/` folder, and in select files in the `src/` sub-folders.
In this case, enabling of this rule didn't actually require any further code changes.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-var
Please note that these changes were done automatically, using `gulp lint --fix`.
Given that the major version number was increased, there's a fair number of (primarily whitespace) changes; please see https://prettier.io/blog/2020/03/21/2.0.0.html
In order to reduce the size of these changes somewhat, this patch maintains the old "arrowParens" style for now (once mozilla-central updates Prettier we can simply choose the same formatting, assuming it will differ here).
This rule is *not* currently enabled in mozilla-central, but it appears commented out[1] in the ESLint definition file; see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/c80fa7258c935223fe319c5345b58eae85d4c6ae/tools/lint/eslint/eslint-plugin-mozilla/lib/configs/recommended.js#238-239
Unfortunately this rule is, for fairly obvious reasons, impossible to `--fix` automatically (even partially) and each case thus required careful manual analysis.
Hence this ESLint rule is, by some margin, probably the most difficult one that we've enabled thus far. However, using this rule does seem like a good idea in general since allowing variable shadowing could lead to subtle (and difficult to find) bugs or at the very least confusing code.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-shadow
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[1] Most likely, a very large number of lint errors have prevented this rule from being enabled thus far.
This removes a couple of, thanks to preceeding code, unnecessary `typeof PDFJSDev` checks, and also fixes a couple of incorrectly implemented (my fault) checks intended for `TESTING` builds.
In order to eventually get rid of SystemJS and start using native `import`s instead, we'll need to provide "complete" file identifiers since otherwise there'll be MIME type errors when attempting to use `import`.
Note that Prettier, purposely, has only limited [configuration options](https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html). The configuration file is based on [the one in `mozilla central`](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/.prettierrc) with just a few additions (to avoid future breakage if the defaults ever changes).
Prettier is being used for a couple of reasons:
- To be consistent with `mozilla-central`, where Prettier is already in use across the tree.
- To ensure a *consistent* coding style everywhere, which is automatically enforced during linting (since Prettier is used as an ESLint plugin). This thus ends "all" formatting disussions once and for all, removing the need for review comments on most stylistic matters.
Many ESLint options are now redundant, and I've tried my best to remove all the now unnecessary options (but I may have missed some).
Note also that since Prettier considers the `printWidth` option as a guide, rather than a hard rule, this patch resorts to a small hack in the ESLint config to ensure that *comments* won't become too long.
*Please note:* This patch is generated automatically, by appending the `--fix` argument to the ESLint call used in the `gulp lint` task. It will thus require some additional clean-up, which will be done in a *separate* commit.
(On a more personal note, I'll readily admit that some of the changes Prettier makes are *extremely* ugly. However, in the name of consistency we'll probably have to live with that.)
Note that most (reasonably) modern browsers have supported this for a while now, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream#Browser_compatibility
By moving the polyfill into `src/shared/compatibility.js` we can thus get rid of the need to manually export/import `ReadableStream` and simply use it directly instead.
The only change here which *could* possibly lead to a difference in behavior is in the `isFetchSupported` function. Previously we attempted to check for the existence of a global `ReadableStream` implementation, which could now pass (assuming obviously that the preceding checks also succeeded).
However I'm not sure if that's a problem, since the previous check only confirmed the existence of a native `ReadableStream` implementation and not that it actually worked correctly. Finally it *could* just as well have been a globally registered polyfill from an application embedding the PDF.js library.
When `ReadableStream` support was added to the `MessageHandler`, the `_onComObjOnMessage` function became more complex than previously.
All of the nested `if`/`else if`/`else` branches are now, at least in my opinion, making some of this code a bit difficult to follow. Hence this patch, which attempts to help readability by making use of early `return`s and `Error`s.
The patch also changes a couple of `var`/`let` occurences to `const`.
Note that using `in` leads to unnecessary stringification of the properties, which seems completely unnecessary here. To avoid future problems from these changes the `MessageHandler.on` method will now assert, in non-`PRODUCTION`/`TESTING` builds, that it's always called with a function as expected.
This patch also renames `callbacksCapabilities` to `callbackCapabilities`, note the removed "s", since using a double plural format looks a bit strange.
Given that the `isReply` property is an internal implementation detail, changing its type shouldn't be a problem. Note that by directly indicating if either data or an Error is sent, it's no longer necessary to use `in` when handling the callback.
Sometimes we also used `@return`, but `@returns` is what the JSDoc
documentation recommends. Even though `@return` works as an alias, it's
good to use the recommended syntax and to be consistent within the
project.
Given that there's only a couple of call-sites, and that the helper function is really simple, it doesn't seem entirely necessary to keep it around. While fewer function calls is always a good thing, in this case the performance impact is small enough to be unmeasurable.
With *one* single exception the code in `MessageHandler` is using `reason` when passing around various Errors, hence this patch also renames an `error` key for consistency.
The `streamId` short-hand in `MessageHandler._processStreamMessage` was only used partially througout the method, which seemed kind of strange, hence that's fixed in this patch.
Furthermore, always giving the `streamController` object a constant shape in `MessageHandler.sendWithStream` cannot hurt either.
Having recently worked with this code, it struck me that most of the `postMessage` calls where `Error`s are involved have never been correctly implemented (i.e. missing `wrapReason` calls).
There's only three call-sites and one of them doesn't even need the complete functionality of `resolveCall`, hence it seems reasonable to just inline this code.
An additional benefit of this is that the `Function.prototype.apply()` instance can also be converted into "normal" function calls, which should be a tiny bit more efficient.
The patch also replaces a number of unnecessary arrow functions, in relevant parts of the `MessageHandler` code, with "normal" functions instead.
Finally, all `Promise.resolve().then(...)` calls are replaced with `new Promise(...)` instead since the latter is a tiny bit more efficient. This also explains the test failures on the Linux bot, with a prior version of the patch, since the `Promise.resolve().then(...)` format essentially creates two Promises thus causing additional delay.
At this point in time it's easy to convert the `MessageHandler.on` call-sites to use arrow functions, and thus let the JavaScript engine handle scopes for us, rather than having to manually keep references to the relevant scopes in `MessageHandler`.[1]
An additional benefit of this is that a couple of `Function.prototype.call()` instances can now be converted into "normal" function calls, which should be a tiny bit more efficient.
All in all, I don't see any compelling reason why it'd be necessary to keep supporting custom `scope`s in the `MessageHandler` implementation.
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[1] In the event that a custom scope is ever needed, simply using `bind` on the handler function when calling `MessageHandler.on` ought to work as well.
Since `wrapReason` and `makeReasonSerializable` are essentially functionally equivalent it doesn't seem necessary to keep both of them around, especially when `makeReasonSerializable` only has a *single* call-site.
Given that the `stream` property is an internal implementation detail, changing its type shouldn't be a problem. By using Numbers instead, we can avoid unnecessary String allocations when creating/processing Streams.
With PR 11069 we're now using Streams for OperatorList parsing (in addition to just TextContent parsing), which brings the nice benefit of being able to easily abort parsing on the worker-thread thus saving resources.
However, since we're now creating many more `ReadableStream` there appears to be a tiny bit more overhead because of it (giving ~1% slower runtime of `browsertest` on the bots). In this case we're just going to have to accept such a small regression, since the benefits of using Streams clearly outweighs it.
What we *can* do here, is to try and make the Streams part of the `MessageHandler` implementation slightly more efficient by e.g. removing unnecessary function calls (which has been helpful in other parts of the code-base). To that end, this patch makes the following changes:
- Actually support `transfers` in `MessageHandler.sendWithStream`, since the parameter was being ignored.
- Inline the `sendStreamRequest`/`sendStreamResponse` helper functions at their respective call-sites. Obviously this causes some amount of code duplication, however I still think this change seems reasonable since for each call-site:
- It avoids making one unnecessary function call.
- It avoids allocating one temporary object.
- It avoids sending, and thus structure clone, various undefined object properties.
- Inline objects in the `MessageHandler.{send, sendWithPromise}` methods.
- Finally, directly call `comObj.postMessage` in various methods when `transfers` are *not* present, rather than calling `MessageHandler.postMessage`, to further reduce the amount of function calls.
The `finalize` helper function has only a *single* call-site, and furthermore it's just a one-liner too. Furthermore it's only ever called with a `Promise` as its argument, meaning that it's unnecessarily convoluted as well (i.e. the `Promise.resolve()` part shouldn't be necessary).
Hence this code can be both simplified *and* inlined at its only call-site instead.
Currently `wrapReason` is manually called at *every* `resolveOrReject` call-site, despite it being completely unnecessary unless there's an actual error being handled. This is obviously inefficient, and it's easy enough to avoid by having `resolveOrReject` handle this only when actually needed.
For proof-of-concept, this patch converts a couple of `Promise` returning methods to use `async` instead.
Please note that the `generic` build, based on this patch, has been successfully testing in IE11 (i.e. the viewer loads and nothing is obviously broken).
Being able to use modern JavaScript features like `async`/`await` is a huge plus, but there's one (obvious) side-effect: The size of the built files will increase slightly (unless `SKIP_BABEL == true`). That's unavoidable, but seems like a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.
Finally, note that the `chromium` build target was changed to no longer skip Babel translation, since the Chrome extension still supports version `49` of the browser (where native `async` support isn't available).
The `MessageHandler` itself, and its assorted helper functions, are currently the single largest[1] piece of code in the `src/shared/util.js` file. By moving this code into its own file, `src/shared/util.js` thus becomes smaller and more manageable.
