Inlining the checks should be a *tiny bit* more efficient, since it avoids have to make *unconditional* function calls in these fairly commonly used helper functions.
*Please note:* This is a tentative patch, since I don't know if this is deemed important enough to fix.
The new event could be seen as a *supplement* to the existing "documentinit" and "documentloaded" events, but for the case when a PDF document fails to load.
To make the "documenterror" event generally useful, it'll include both the localized error message as well as the original reason for the error (when that exists).
This patch implements this by looking for the UTF-8 BOM, i.e. `\xEF\xBB\xBF`, in order to determine the encoding.[1]
The actual conversion is done using the `TextDecoder` interface, which should be available in all environments/browsers that we support; please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder#browser_compatibility
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[1] Assuming that everything lacking a UTF-16 BOM would have to be UTF-8 encoded really doesn't seem correct.
In corrupt PDF documents Type3 fonts may introduce circular dependencies, thus resulting in the affected font(s) never loading and parsing/rendering never completing.
Note that I've not seen any real-world examples of this kind of font corruption, but the attached PDF document was rather found in https://github.com/pdf-association/safedocs/tree/main/Miscellaneous%20Targeted%20Test%20PDFs
*Please note:* That repository contains a number of reduced test-cases that are specifically intended to test interoperability (between PDF viewer) and parsing/rendering for various kinds of strange/corrupt PDF documents.
Some of the test-cases found there may thus not make sense to try and "fix" upfront, in my opinion, unless the problems are also found in real-world PDF documents.
While `PageViewport` apparently makes sense in TypeScript environments, given that it's being returned by the `PDFPageProxy.getViewport`-method in the API, we really don't want to extend the *public* API by simply exporting the class directly in `src/pdf.js` since it should never be called/initialized manually.
Hence we follow the same pattern as in PR 14013, and also extend the API unit-tests to ensure that `PDFPageProxy.getViewport` always returns a `PageViewport`-instance as expected.
This prevents the `BaseSVGFactory.create`-method from throwing, and thus preventing any remaining Annotations (on the page) from rendering in corrupt documents.
This helper function has never been used in e.g. the worker-thread, hence its placement in `src/shared/util.js` led to a *small* amount of unnecessary duplication.
After the previous patches this helper function is now *only* used in the viewer, hence it no longer seems necessary to expose it through the official API.
*Please note:* It seems somewhat unlikely that third-party users were relying *directly* on this helper function, which is why it's not being exported as part of the viewer components. (If necessary, we can always change this later on.)
As part of the changes/improvement in PR 14092, we're no longer using the `addLinkAttributes` directly in e.g. the AnnotationLayer-code.
Given that the helper function is now *only* used in the viewer, hence it no longer seems necessary to expose it through the official API.
*Please note:* It seems somewhat unlikely that third-party users were relying *directly* on the helper function, which is why it's not being exported as part of the viewer components. (If necessary, we can always change this later on.)
This structure contains *almost* exclusively references to DOM elements (and a couple of simple strings), rather than complete classes/functions. Hence the `eventBus`-option sticks out a fair bit, and I'd guess that it's *mostly* unused in e.g. third-party implementations.
Given that we, in multiple places, mention that the default viewer shouldn't be used as-is I really don't think that we need to keep this special `eventBus`-option around. Furthermore, nowadays it's also a lot easier to (safely) access the existing `EventBus`-instance in the viewer; see https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Third-party-viewer-usage#initialization-promise which shows how to listen for the default viewer being initialized (and its `eventBus` thus being available).
The patch in PR 14335 *essentially* re-introduced the old code from before PR 3848, however looking at this code a bit closer it should be possible to simplify it by making the method asynchronous.
While this method is currently only used as a *fallback* in corrupt documents, the way that `MissingDataException`s are handled is less than ideal. Note that if a `MissingDataException` is thrown, we're forced to re-parse the *entire* /Pages tree[1].
With this method now being asynchronous, we're able to handle fetching of References in a *much* easier/nicer way than before without having to throw `MissingDataException`s and re-parse anything.
These changes also let us simplify the call-site slightly, by calling the method *directly* instead of using the `PDFManager`-instance (since again it will no longer throw `MissingDataException`s).
Furthermore, this patch contains the following other changes:
- Reduce unnecessary duplication in the various `catch` handlers throughout the method, by simply moving the `XRefEntryException` handling into the `addPageError` helper function instead.
- Move the "circular references"-check to occur slightly earlier, since there's obviously no point in asynchronously fetching data just to then throw an Error *immediately* afterwards.
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[1] Imagine e.g. a thousand page document, where there's a `MissingDataException` thrown when fetching/parsing page 900.
This method is now being used a lot more, compared to when it's added, since it's now used together with scripting as part of the `PDFDocument.fieldObjects` parsing (called during viewer initialization).
For /Page Dictionaries that we've already parsed, the `pageIndex` corresponding to a particular Reference is already known and we're thus able to skip *all* parsing in the `Catalog.getPageIndex` method for those cases.
I happened to notice that we didn't have *any* unit-tests for either `getFieldObjects` or `getCalculationOrderIds`, on the `PDFDocumentProxy` class, which seems unfortunate since it's API functionality that we depend on in e.g. the viewer.
Besides converting `Catalog.getPageDict` to an `async` method, thus simplifying the code, this patch also allows us to pro-actively fix a existing issue.
Note how we're looking up References in such a way that `MissingDataException`s won't cause trouble, however it's *technically possible* that the entries (i.e. /Count, /Kids, and /Type) in a /Pages Dictionary could actually be indirect objects as well. In the existing code this could lead to *some*, or even all, pages failing to load/render as intended.
In practice that doesn't *appear* to happen in real-world PDF documents, but given all the weird things that PDF software do I'd prefer to fix this pro-actively (rather than waiting for a bug report).
With `Catalog.getPageDict` being `async` this is now really simple to address, however I didn't want to introduce a bunch more *unconditional* asynchronicity in this method if it could be avoided (since that could slow things down). Hence we'll *synchronously* lookup the *raw* data in a /Pages Dictionary, and only fallback to asynchronous data lookup when a Reference was encountered.
In addition to the above, this patch also makes the following notable changes:
- Let `Catalog.getPageDict` *consistently* reject with the actual error, regardless of what data we're fetching. Previously we'd "swallow" the actual errors except when looking up Dictionary entries, which is inconsistent and thus seem unfortunate. As can be seen from the updated unit-tests this change is API-observable, hence why the patch is tagged `[api-minor]`.
- Improve the consistency of the Dictionary /Type-checks in both the `Catalog.getPageDict` and `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` methods.
In `Catalog.getPageDict` there's a fallback code-path where we're *incorrectly* checking the /Page Dictionary for a /Contents-entry, which is wrong since a /Page Dictionary doesn't need to have a /Contents-entry in order to be valid.
For consistency the `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` method is also updated to handle errors in the /Type-lookup correctly.
- Reduce the `PagesCountLimit.PAUSE_EAGER_PAGE_INIT` viewer constant, to further improve loading/rendering performance of the *second* page during initialization of very long documents; PR 14359 follow-up.
