Having `assert` calls without a message string isn't very helpful when debugging, and it turns out that it's easy enough to make use of ESLint to enforce better `assert` call-sites.
In a couple of cases the `assert` calls were changed to "regular" throwing of errors instead, since that seemed more appropriate.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-syntax
*Please note:* These changes were done automatically, using the `gulp lint --fix` command.
This rule is already enabled in mozilla-central, see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/567b68b8ff4b6d607ba34a6f1926873d21a7b4d7/tools/lint/eslint/eslint-plugin-mozilla/lib/configs/recommended.js#103-104
The main advantage, besides improved consistency, of this rule is that it reduces the size of the code (by 3 bytes for each case). In the PDF.js code-base there's close to 8000 instances being fixed by the `dot-notation` ESLint rule, which end up reducing the size of even the *built* files significantly; the total size of the `gulp mozcentral` build target changes from `3 247 456` to `3 224 278` bytes, which is a *reduction* of `23 178` bytes (or ~0.7%) for a completely mechanical change.
A large number of these changes affect the (large) lookup tables used on the worker-thread, but given that they are still initialized lazily I don't *think* that the new formatting this patch introduces should undo any of the improvements from PR 6915.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/dot-notation
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.
Given that all of these primitives implement caching, to avoid unnecessarily duplicating those objects *a lot* during parsing, it would thus be good to actually enforce usage of `Cmd.get()`/`Name.get()`/`Ref.get()` in the code-base.
Luckily it turns out that there's an ESLint rule, which is fairly easy to use, that can be used to disallow arbitrary JavaScript syntax.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-syntax
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-const
With the recent introduction of Prettier this sort of mass enabling of ESLint rules becomes a lot easier, since the code will be automatically reformatted as necessary to account for e.g. changed line lengths.
Note that this patch is generated automatically, by using the ESLint `--fix` argument, and will thus require some additional clean-up (which is done separately).
This rule is already enabled in mozilla-central, and helps avoid some confusing formatting, see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/9e45d74b956be046e5021a746b0c8912f1c27318/tools/lint/eslint/eslint-plugin-mozilla/lib/configs/recommended.js#209-210
With the recent introduction of Prettier some of the existing nested ternary statements became even more difficult to read, since any possibly helpful indentation was removed.
This particular ESLint rule wasn't entirely straightforward to enable, and I do recognize that there's a certain amount of subjectivity in the changes being made. Generally, the changes in this patch fall into three categories:
- Cases where a value is only clamped to a certain range (the easiest ones to update).
- Cases where the values involved are "simple", such as Numbers and Strings, which are re-factored to initialize the variable with the *default* value and only update it when necessary by using `if`/`else if` statements.
- Cases with more complex and/or larger values, such as TypedArrays, which are re-factored to let the variable be (implicitly) undefined and where all values are then set through `if`/`else if`/`else` statements.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-nested-ternary
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.
Compared to the recently replaced `URL` polyfill, the new `ReadableStream` polyfill isn't being exported globally for two reasons:
- We're currently checking for the existence of a global `ReadableStream` implementation when determining if the Fetch API will be used; please see `isFetchSupported` in the src/display/display_utils.js file.
- Given that it's much newer functionality (compared to `URL`) and that not all browsers may implement all parts of the specification yet, not exposing the `ReadableStream` globally seems safer for now.
This rule is in the process of being rolled out in mozilla-central, and it helps avoid unnecessary `async` functions together with `new Promise(...)`.
Please see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-async-promise-executor for additional information.
See https://github.com/mozilla/eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized
Since we've generally never allowed e.g. `innerHTML`, which is enforced during review, there's only one linting failure with this patch. (Which is white-listed, according to the existing comment and the fact that it's test-only code.)
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).
Without providing useful (custom) error messages for the `no-restricted-globals` rule, see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-globals, it's quite likely that the rule will be incorrectly disabled rather than the required globals being imported as intended.
To reduced duplication of the `no-restricted-globals` rule in multiple `.eslintrc` files, it's instead moved to the top-level `.eslintrc` file and disabled as needed on a folder/file basis outside of `/src` and `/web`.
This moves/exposes the `URL` polyfill similarily to the existing `ReadableStream` polyfill, rather than exposing it globally, to avoid interfering with any "outside" code.
Both the `URL` and `ReadableStream` polyfills are now exposed on the `pdfjsLib` object, such that they are accessible to the viewer components.
Furthermore, the `no-restricted-globals` ESLint rule is also enabled to prevent accidental usage of the native `URL`/`ReadableStream` implementations directly in the `src/` and `web/` folders; see also https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-globals
Addresses the remaining TODO in https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/6
This rule is available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-mozilla, and is enforced in mozilla-central. Note that we have the necessary `Array`/`String` polyfills and that most cases have already been fixed, see PRs 9032 and 9434.
This rule is available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-mozilla, and is enforced in mozilla-central. Note that we have a polyfill for `ChildNode.remove()` and that most cases have already been fixed, see PRs 8056 and 8138.
Since multiple empty lines is virtually unused in the code-base, and the few cases that do exist look like "typos", let's enforce greater consistency here; please see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-multiple-empty-lines.
https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-var
Please note that two files were excluded:
1. `web/debugger.js`, since there's code in other files that currently depend on the global availability of code in `web/debugger.js`. Furthermore, since that file isn't used in production, doing a ES6 conversion probably isn't a priority.
2. `web/grab_to_pan.js`, since that file could be considered to be "external" code. We have made smaller changes to that file over the years, however doing a full ES6 `class` conversion might be a step too far!?
See https://eslint.org/docs/rules/for-direction; helps avoid typos that would cause infinite `for` loops.
Also, updates `eslint` and `eslint-plugin-mozilla` to the latest available versions.
http://eslint.org/docs/rules/comma-danglehttp://eslint.org/docs/rules/object-curly-spacing
*Please note:* This patch was created automatically, using the ESLint `--fix` command line option. In a couple of places this caused lines to become too long, and I've fixed those manually; please refer to the interdiff below for the only hand-edits in this patch.
```diff
diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index d18b9c58..7d47fd8d 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -1247,7 +1247,8 @@ gulp.task('gh-pages-git', ['gh-pages-prepare', 'wintersmith'], function () {
var reason = process.env['PDFJS_UPDATE_REASON'];
safeSpawnSync('git', ['init'], { cwd: GH_PAGES_DIR, });
- safeSpawnSync('git', ['remote', 'add', 'origin', REPO], { cwd: GH_PAGES_DIR, });
+ safeSpawnSync('git', ['remote', 'add', 'origin', REPO],
+ { cwd: GH_PAGES_DIR, });
safeSpawnSync('git', ['add', '-A'], { cwd: GH_PAGES_DIR, });
safeSpawnSync('git', [
'commit', '-am', 'gh-pages site created via gulpfile.js script',
```
Please see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/object-shorthand.
Unfortunately, based on commit 9276d1dcd9, it seems that we still need to maintain compatibility with old Node.js versions, hence certain files/directories that are executed in Node.js are currently exempt from this rule.
Furthermore, since the files specific to the Chromium extension are not run through Babel, the `/extensions/chromium/` directory is also exempt from this rule.
In various viewer files, there's a number of cases where we basically duplicate the functionality of `createPromiseCapability` manually.
As far as I can tell, a couple of these cases have existed for a very long time, and notable even before the `createPromiseCapability` utility function existed.
Also, since we can write ES6 code now, the patch also replaces a couple of `bind` usages with arrow functions in code that's touched in the patch.
See http://eslint.org/docs/rules/#ecmascript-6.
To try and enforce consistent rules and to help avoid some possible errors in ES6 code from the start, this patch adds a few basic ESLint rules.
Note that a two of the rules, `no-shadow` and `object-shorthand`, are currently disabled. While it'd certainly be nice to enable both of them, it's currently impossible since that would result in close to one thousand lint errors.
I happened to notice that some inequalities had the wrong order, and was surprised since I thought that the `yoda` rule should have caught that.
However, reading http://eslint.org/docs/rules/yoda#options a bit more closely than previously, it's quite obvious that the `onlyEquality` option does *exactly* what its name suggests. Hence I think that it makes sense to adjust the options such that only ranges are allowed instead.
This patch gets rid of the only case in the code-base where we're throwing a plain `string`, rather than an `Error`, which besides better/more consistent error handling also allows us to enable the [`no-throw-literal`](http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-throw-literal) ESLint rule.
See http://eslint.org/docs/rules/brace-style.
Having the opening/closing braces on the same line can often make the code slightly more difficult to read, in particular for `if`/`else if` statements, compared to using new lines.
This patch also, for consistency with `mozilla-central`, enables the [`no-iterator`](http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-iterator) rule. Note that this rule didn't require a single code change.
Please see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unused-vars; note that this patch purposely uses the same rule options as in `mozilla-central`, such that it fixes part of issue 7957.
It wasn't, in my opinion, entirely straightforward to enable this rule compared to the already existing rules. In many cases a `var descriptiveName = ...` format was used (more or less) to document the code, and I choose to place the old variable name in a trailing comment to not lose that information.
I welcome feedback on these changes, since it wasn't always entirely easy to know what changes made the most sense in every situation.
*Please note: ignoring whitespace changes is most likely necessary for the diff to be readable.*
This patch addresses all the current, in `mozilla-central`, linting failures in the addon. It should thus be possible to change the `.eslintignore` entry for PDF.js in `mozilla-central` from `browser/extensions/pdfjs/**` to `browser/extensions/pdfjs/build/**` and `browser/extensions/pdfjs/web/**` instead.
Note that we cannot, for backwards compatibility reason of the general PDF.js library, at this time make similar changes for files residing in the `build` and `web` directories in `mozilla-central`.
The main changes in this patch are that we now use [classes](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes) instead of our previous "class-like" functions, and also use the more compact [object shorthand notation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Object_initializer#New_notations_in_ECMAScript_2015).
A couple of functions were also converted to [arrow functions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions), to reduced usages of `bind(this)` and `var self = this`.
One caveat with ES6 classes is that it's not (yet) possible to define private constants/helper functions within them, which is why the `NetworkManagerClosure` was kept to not change the visibility of those constant/functions.
Besides testing in Firefox Nightly 53, this patch has also been tested in Firefox ESR 45 and SeaMonkey 2.46.
However, I'd gladly welcome help with testing the patch more, to ensure that nothing has gone wrong during the refactoring.
Fixes the first bullet point of issue 7957.
http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-lone-blocks
Note that we currently have no code that violates this rule in the source files, but it seems that the built files are possibly affected (see issue 7957).
Please see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/spaced-comment.
Note that the exceptions added for `line` comments are intended to still allow use of the old preprocessor without linting errors.
Also, I took the opportunity to improve the grammar slightly (w.r.t. capitalization and punctuation) for comments touched in the patch.
Using `else` after `return` is not necessary, and can often lead to unnecessarily cluttered code. By using the `no-else-return` rule in ESLint we can avoid this pattern, see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-else-return.
*Please note that most of the necessary code adjustments were made in PR 7890.*
ESLint has a number of advantageous properties, compared to JSHint. Among those are:
- The ability to find subtle bugs, thanks to more rules (e.g. PR 7881).
- Much more customizable in general, and many rules allow fine-tuned behaviour rather than the just the on/off rules in JSHint.
- Many more rules that can help developers avoid bugs, and a lot of rules that can be used to enforce a consistent coding style. The latter should be particularily useful for new contributors (and reduce the amount of stylistic review comments necessary).
- The ability to easily specify exactly what rules to use/not to use, as opposed to JSHint which has a default set. *Note:* in future JSHint version some of the rules we depend on will be removed, according to warnings in http://jshint.com/docs/options/, so we wouldn't be able to update without losing lint coverage.
- More easily disable one, or more, rules temporarily. In JSHint this requires using a numeric code, which isn't very user friendly, whereas in ESLint the rule name is simply used instead.
By default there's no rules enabled in ESLint, but there are some default rule sets available. However, to prevent linting failures if we update ESLint in the future, it seemed easier to just explicitly specify what rules we want.
Obviously this makes the ESLint config file somewhat bigger than the old JSHint config file, but given how rarely that one has been updated over the years I don't think that matters too much.
I've tried, to the best of my ability, to ensure that we enable the same rules for ESLint that we had for JSHint. Furthermore, I've also enabled a number of rules that seemed to make sense, both to catch possible errors *and* various style guide violations.
Despite the ESLint README claiming that it's slower that JSHint, https://github.com/eslint/eslint#how-does-eslint-performance-compare-to-jshint, locally this patch actually reduces the runtime for `gulp` lint (by approximately 20-25%).
A couple of stylistic rules that would have been nice to enable, but where our code currently differs to much to make it feasible:
- `comma-dangle`, controls trailing commas in Objects and Arrays (among others).
- `object-curly-spacing`, controls spacing inside of Objects.
- `spaced-comment`, used to enforce spaces after `//` and `/*. (This is made difficult by the fact that there's still some usage of the old preprocessor left.)
Rules that I indend to look into possibly enabling in follow-ups, if it seems to make sense: `no-else-return`, `no-lonely-if`, `brace-style` with the `allowSingleLine` parameter removed.
Useful links:
- http://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring
- http://eslint.org/docs/rules/
