Given that the API will now, after PR 12039, automatically pick the correct factories to use depending on the environment (browser vs. Node.js), we can utilize that in the unit-tests as well. This way we don't have to manually repeat the same initialization code in *multiple* unit-tests.
*Note:* The *official* PDF.js API is defined in `src/pdf.js`, hence the new exports in `src/display/api.js` will not affect that.
Also, updates the unit-test `FileReaderFactory` helpers similarily.
*Drive-by change:* Fix the `CMapReaderFactory` usage in the annotation unit-tests, since the cache should only contain raw data and not a Promise. While this obviously works as-is, having unit-tests that "abuse" the intended data format can easily lead to unnecessary failures if changes are made to the relevant `src/core/` code.
This will, in a very simple way using the existing events, thus allow the viewer to remove the "beforeunload" `window` event listener when the document is closed.
Generally speaking we want to avoid having *global* event listeners for the PDF document instance, which is why the `EventBus` exists, and instead reserve global events for the viewer itself. However, the `AnnotationStorage` "beforeunload" event unfortunately needs to be document-specific and we should thus ensure that it's correctly removed when the document is destroyed.
* the goal is to execute actions like Open or OpenAction
* can be tested with issue6106.pdf (auto-print)
* once #12701 is merged, we can add page actions
Given that we already include the "Content-Disposition"-header filename, when it exists, it shouldn't hurt to also include the information from the "Content-Length"-header.
For PDF documents opened via a URL, which should be a very common way for the PDF.js library to be used, this will[1] thus provide a way of getting the PDF filesize without having to wait for the `getDownloadInfo`-promise to resolve[2].
With these API improvements, we can also simplify the filesize handling in the `PDFDocumentProperties` class.
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[1] Assuming that the server is correctly configured, of course.
[2] Since that's not *guaranteed* to happen in general, with e.g. `disableAutoFetch = true` set.
- Add support for logical assignment operators, i.e. `&&=`, `||=`, and `??=`, with a Babel-plugin. Given that these required incrementing the ECMAScript version in the ESLint and Acorn configurations, and that platform/browser support is still fairly limited, always transpiling them seems appropriate for now.
- Cache the `hasJSActions` promise in the API, similar to the existing `getAnnotations` caching. With this implemented, the lookup should now be cheap enough that it can be called unconditionally in the viewer.
- Slightly improve cleanup of resources when destroying the `WorkerTransport`.
- Remove the `annotationStorage`-property from the `PDFPageView` constructor, since it's not necessary and also brings it more inline with the `BaseViewer`.
- Update the `BaseViewer.createAnnotationLayerBuilder` method to actaually agree with the `IPDFAnnotationLayerFactory` interface.[1]
- Slightly tweak a couple of JSDoc comments.
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[1] We probably ought to re-factor both the `IPDFTextLayerFactory` and `IPDFAnnotationLayerFactory` interfaces to take parameter objects instead, since especially the `IPDFAnnotationLayerFactory` one is becoming quite unwieldy. Given that that would likely be a breaking change for any custom viewer-components implementation, this probably requires careful deprecation.
* When no actions then set it to null instead of empty object
* Even if a field has no actions, it needs to listen to events from the sandbox in order to be updated if an action changes something in it.
By using optional chaining, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining, it's possible to reduce unnecessary code-repetition in many cases.
Note that these changes also reduce the size of the *built* `pdf.js` file, when `SKIP_BABEL == true` is set, and for the `MOZCENTRAL` build-target that result in a `0.1%` filesize reduction from a simple and mostly mechanical code change.
Since we no longer use SystemJS to load the unit-tests, there's now nothing that prevents us from using optional chaining and nullish coalescing in the `src/display/` directory.
*This patch is based on a couple of smaller things that I noticed when working on PR 12479.*
- Don't store the /Fields on the `formInfo` getter, since that feels like overloading it with unintended (and too complex) data, and utilize a `hasFields` boolean instead.
This functionality was originally added in PR 12271, to help determine what kind of form data a PDF document contains, and I think that we should ensure that the return value of `formInfo` only consists of "simple" data.
With these changes the `fieldObjects` getter instead has to look-up the /Fields manually, however that shouldn't be a problem since the access is guarded by a `formInfo.hasFields` check which ensures that the data both exists and is valid. Furthermore, most documents doesn't even have any /AcroForm data anyway.
- Determine the `hasFields` property *first*, to ensure that it's always correct even if there's errors when checking e.g. the /XFA or /SigFlags entires, since the `fieldObjects` getter depends on it.
- Simplify a loop in `fieldObjects`, since the object being accessed is a `Map` and those have built-in iteration support.
- Use a higher logging level for errors in the `formInfo` getter, and include the actual error message, since that'd have helped with fixing PR 12479 a lot quicker.
- Update the JSDoc comment in `src/display/api.js` to list the return values correctly, and also slightly extend/improve the description.
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
The `/Order` array is used to improve the display of Optional Content groups in PDF viewers, and it allows a PDF document to e.g. specify that Optional Content groups should be displayed as a (collapsable) tree-structure rather than as just a list.
Note that not all available Optional Content groups must be present in the `/Order` array, and PDF viewers will often (by default) hide those toggles in the UI.
To allow us to improve the UX around toggling of Optional Content groups, in the default viewer, these hidden-by-default groups are thus appended to the parsed `/Order` array under a *custom* nesting level (with `name == null`).
Finally, the patch also slightly tweaks an `OptionalContentConfig` related JSDoc-comment in the API.
Obviously it doesn't make sense to call that method without providing an `AnnotationStorage`-instance, however we should ensure that doing so won't cause errors.
Hence we need to check that `annotationStorage` is actually defined, before attempting to call its `resetModified` method.
Related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659753
This allows Firefox trigger a "save" event from ctrl/cmd+s or the "Save
Page As" context menu, which in turn lets pdf.js generate a new PDF if
there is form data to save.
I also now use `sourceEventType` on downloads so Firefox can determine if
it should launch the "open with" dialog or "save as" dialog.
- Initialize the `AnnotationStorage`-instance, on `PDFDocumentProxy`, lazily.
- Change the `AnnotationStorage` to use a `Map` internally, rather than a regular Object (simplifies the following points).
- Let `AnnotationStorage.getAll` return `null` when there's no data stored, to avoid unnecessary parsing on the worker-thread. This ought to "just work", since the worker-thread code *should* already handle the `!annotationStorage` case everywhere.
- Add a new `AnnotationStorage.size` getter, to be able to easily tell if there's any data stored.
While the parameter name (clearly) suggests that an `AnnotationStorage`-instance is expected, looking at the only call-sites that include the parameter (i.e. the `PDFPrintServiceFactory` instances) it actually contains just a normal Object.
Hence it seems much more reasonable to actually pass a valid `AnnotationStorage`-instance, as the name suggests, and simply have `PDFPageProxy.render` do the `annotationStorage.getAll()` call. (Since we cannot send an `AnnotationStorage`-instance as-is to the worker-thread, given the "structured clone algorithm".)
Over time we used multiple different formats for JSDoc comments. This
commit standardizes those formats to the one we used most often.
Moreover, this removes the example in the outline endpoint documentation
since it now has a proper type definition and it didn't render correctly
in JSDoc.
This commit:
- formats the documentation block according to the standards;
- replaces the callback definitions with the `function` type (we have
that for other definitions already and the callback type was not
rendered correctly by JSDoc);
- synchronizes the type documentation and the class documentation;
- fixes the documentation by making it easier to read and making sure
that all optional properties are indicated as such;
- uses the `@link` tag to indicate links to other code.
The `typestest` still passes and JSDoc now renders this class correctly.
Add a new method to the API to get the optional content configuration. Add
a new render task param that accepts the above configuration.
For now, the optional content is not controllable by the user in
the viewer, but renders with the default configuration in the PDF.
All of the test files added exhibit different uses of optional content.
Fixes#269.
Fix test to work with optional content.
- Change the stopAtErrors test to ensure the operator list has something,
instead of asserting the exact number of operators.
These errors can/will occur if data is still loading when the document is destroyed, which is the case in the API unit-tests that load the `tracemonkey.pdf` file.
While this patch prevents these kind of problems, and thus allows us to update Jasmine again, I cannot help but thinking that it's slightly "hacky". Basically, we'll simply catch and ignore (some) rejected promises once the document is destroyed and/or its data loading is aborted. However, I don't *think* that these changes should cause issues in general, since we don't really care about errors once document destruction has started (note e.g. the fair number of `catch` handlers ignoring `AbortException`s already).
This PR adds typescript definitions from the JSDoc already present.
It adds a new gulp-target 'types' that calls 'tsc', the typescript
compiler, to create the definitions.
To use the definitions, users can simply do the following:
```
import {getDocument, GlobalWorkerOptions} from "pdfjs-dist";
import pdfjsWorker from "pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.worker.entry";
GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = pdfjsWorker;
const pdf = await getDocument("file:///some.pdf").promise;
```
Co-authored-by: @oBusk
Co-authored-by: @tamuratak
There's quite frankly no particular reason to special-case Type3-fonts with image resources, which are very rare anyway, now that we have a general mechanism for sending/receiving images globally.
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.
As can be seen in the code there's a handful of places where this structure needs to be iterated, something that becomes cumbersome when dealing with `Object`s. Hence, by changing this to a `Map` instead we can both simplify the code and avoid creating unnecessary closures.
Particularily the `PDFPageProxy._tryCleanup` method becomes a lot more readable, at least in my opinion.
Finally, since this property is intended to be "private" the name is adjusted to reflect that.
This patch aims to simplify the `PDFPageProxy._destroy` method, by:
- Replacing the unnecessary `forEach` with a "regular" `for`-loop instead.
- Use a more appropriate variable name, since `intentState.renderTasks` contain instances of `InternalRenderTask`.
- Move the "is rendering completed"-handling to a new `InternalRenderTask.completed` getter, to abstract away some (mostly) internal `InternalRenderTask` state.
With the changes in previous patches, the `disableCreateObjectURL` option/functionality is no longer used for anything in the API and/or in the Worker code.
Note however that there's some functionality, mainly related to file loading/downloading, in the GENERIC version of the default viewer which still depends on this option.
Hence the `disableCreateObjectURL` option (and related compatibility code) is moved into the viewer, see e.g. `web/app_options.js`, such that it's still available in the default viewer.
Currently some JPEG images are decoded by the built-in PDF.js decoder in `src/core/jpg.js`, while others attempt to use the browser JPEG decoder. This inconsistency seem unfortunate for a number of reasons:
- It adds, compared to the other image formats supported in the PDF specification, a fair amount of code/complexity to the image handling in the PDF.js library.
- The PDF specification support JPEG images with features, e.g. certain ColorSpaces, that browsers are unable to decode natively. Hence, determining if a JPEG image is possible to decode natively in the browser require a non-trivial amount of parsing. In particular, we're parsing (part of) the raw JPEG data to extract certain marker data and we also need to parse the ColorSpace for the JPEG image.
- While some JPEG images may, for all intents and purposes, appear to be natively supported there's still cases where the browser may fail to decode some JPEG images. In order to support those cases, we've had to implement a fallback to the PDF.js JPEG decoder if there's any issues during the native decoding. This also means that it's no longer possible to simply send the JPEG image to the main-thread and continue parsing, but you now need to actually wait for the main-thread to indicate success/failure first.
In practice this means that there's a code-path where the worker-thread is forced to wait for the main-thread, while the reverse should *always* be the case.
- The native decoding, for anything except the *simplest* of JPEG images, result in increased peak memory usage because there's a handful of short-lived copies of the JPEG data (see PR 11707).
Furthermore this also leads to data being *parsed* on the main-thread, rather than the worker-thread, which you usually want to avoid for e.g. performance and UI-reponsiveness reasons.
- Not all environments, e.g. Node.js, fully support native JPEG decoding. This has, historically, lead to some issues and support requests.
- Different browsers may use different JPEG decoders, possibly leading to images being rendered slightly differently depending on the platform/browser where the PDF.js library is used.
Originally the implementation in `src/core/jpg.js` were unable to handle all of the JPEG images in the test-suite, but over the last couple of years I've fixed (hopefully) all of those issues.
At this point in time, there's two kinds of failure with this patch:
- Changes which are basically imperceivable to the naked eye, where some pixels in the images are essentially off-by-one (in all components), which could probably be attributed to things such as different rounding behaviour in the browser/PDF.js JPEG decoder.
This type of "failure" accounts for the *vast* majority of the total number of changes in the reference tests.
- Changes where the JPEG images now looks *ever so slightly* blurrier than with the native browser decoder. For quite some time I've just assumed that this pointed to a general deficiency in the `src/core/jpg.js` implementation, however I've discovered when comparing two viewers side-by-side that the differences vanish at higher zoom levels (usually around 200% is enough).
Basically if you disable [this downscaling in canvas.js](8fb82e939c/src/display/canvas.js (L2356-L2395)), which is what happens when zooming in, the differences simply vanish!
Hence I'm pretty satisfied that there's no significant problems with the `src/core/jpg.js` implementation, and the problems are rather tied to the general quality of the downscaling algorithm used. It could even be seen as a positive that *all* images now share the same downscaling behaviour, since this actually fixes one old bug; see issue 7041.
Currently image resources, as opposed to e.g. font resources, are handled exclusively on a page-specific basis. Generally speaking this makes sense, since pages are separate from each other, however there's PDF documents where many (or even all) pages actually references exactly the same image resources (through the XRef table). Hence, in some cases, we're decoding the *same* images over and over for every page which is obviously slow and wasting both CPU and memory resources better used elsewhere.[1]
Obviously we cannot simply treat all image resources as-if they're used throughout the entire PDF document, since that would end up increasing memory usage too much.[2]
However, by introducing a `GlobalImageCache` in the worker we can track image resources that appear on more than one page. Hence we can switch image resources from being page-specific to being document-specific, once the image resource has been seen on more than a certain number of pages.
In many cases, such as e.g. the referenced issue, this patch will thus lead to reduced memory usage for image resources. Scrolling through all pages of the document, there's now only a few main-thread copies of the same image data, as opposed to one for each rendered page (i.e. there could theoretically be *twenty* copies of the image data).
While this obviously benefit both CPU and memory usage in this case, for *very* large image data this patch *may* possibly increase persistent main-thread memory usage a tiny bit. Thus to avoid negatively affecting memory usage too much in general, particularly on the main-thread, the `GlobalImageCache` will *only* cache a certain number of image resources at the document level and simply fallback to the default behaviour.
Unfortunately the asynchronous nature of the code, with ranged/streamed loading of data, actually makes all of this much more complicated than if all data could be assumed to be immediately available.[3]
*Please note:* The patch will lead to *small* movement in some existing test-cases, since we're now using the built-in PDF.js JPEG decoder more. This was done in order to simplify the overall implementation, especially on the main-thread, by limiting it to only the `OPS.paintImageXObject` operator.
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[1] There's e.g. PDF documents that use the same image as background on all pages.
[2] Given that data stored in the `commonObjs`, on the main-thread, are only cleared manually through `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup`. This as opposed to data stored in the `objs` of each page, which is automatically removed when the page is cleaned-up e.g. by being evicted from the cache in the default viewer.
[3] If the latter case were true, we could simply check for repeat images *before* parsing started and thus avoid handling *any* duplicate image resources.
With these changes SystemJS is now only used, during development, on the worker-thread and in the unit/font-tests, since Firefox is currently missing support for worker modules; please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687
Hence all the JavaScript files in the `web/` and `src/display/` folders are now loaded *natively* by the browser (during development) using standard `import` statements/calls, thanks to a nice `import-maps` polyfill.
*Please note:* As soon as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687 is fixed in Firefox, we should be able to remove all traces of SystemJS and thus finally be able to use every possible modern JavaScript feature.
As part of trying to reduce the usage of SystemJS in the development viewer, this patch is a necessary step that will allow removal of some `require` statements.
Currently this uses `SystemJS.import` in non-PRODUCTION mode, but it should be possible to replace those with standard *dynamic* `import` calls in the future.
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
*This patch implements https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/11777#issuecomment-609741348*
This extends the work from PR 11773 and 11777 further, by immediately releasing the `font.data` property once the font been attached to the DOM. By not unnecessarily holding onto this data on the main-thread, we'll thus reduce the memory usage of fonts even further (especially beneficial in longer documents with composite fonts).
The new behaviour is controlled by the recently added `fontExtraProperties` API option (adding a new option just for this patch didn't seem necessary), since there's one edge-case in the SVG renderer where the `font.data` property is necessary (see the `pdf2svg` example).
Note that while the default viewer does run clean-up with an idle timeout, that timeout will be reset whenever rendering occurs *or* when scrolling happens in the viewer. In practice this means that unless the user doesn't interact with the viewer in *any* way during an extended period of time, currently set to 30 seconds, the `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` method will never be called and font resources will thus not be cleaned-up.
This patch fixes yet another instalment in the never-ending series of "what the *bleep* was I thinking", by changing the `PDFDocumentProxy.getViewerPreferences` method to return `null` by default.
Not only is this method now consistent with many other API methods, for the data not present case, but it also avoids having to e.g. loop through an object to check if it's actually empty (note the old unit-test).
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).
For years now, the `Font.exportData` method has (because of its previous implementation) been exporting many properties despite them being completely unused on the main-thread and/or in the API.
This is unfortunate, since among those properties there's a number of potentially very large data-structures, containing e.g. Arrays and Objects, which thus have to be first structured cloned and then stored on the main-thread.
With the changes in this patch, we'll thus by default save memory for *every* `Font` instance created (there can be a lot in longer documents). The memory savings obviously depends a lot on the actual font data, but some approximate figures are: For non-embedded fonts it can save a couple of kilobytes, for simple embedded fonts a handful of kilobytes, and for composite fonts the size of this auxiliary can even be larger than the actual font program itself.
All-in-all, there's no good reason to keep exporting these properties by default when they're unused. However, since we cannot be sure that every property is unused in custom implementations of the PDF.js library, this patch adds a new `getDocument` option (named `fontExtraProperties`) that still allows access to the following properties:
- "cMap": An internal data structure, only used with composite fonts and never really intended to be exposed on the main-thread and/or in the API.
Note also that the `CMap`/`IdentityCMap` classes are a lot more complex than simple Objects, but only their "internal" properties survive the structured cloning used to send data to the main-thread. Given that CMaps can often be *very* large, not exporting them can also save a fair bit of memory.
- "defaultEncoding": An internal property used with simple fonts, and used when building the glyph mapping on the worker-thread. Considering how complex that topic is, and given that not all font types are handled identically, exposing this on the main-thread and/or in the API most likely isn't useful.
- "differences": An internal property used with simple fonts, and used when building the glyph mapping on the worker-thread. Considering how complex that topic is, and given that not all font types are handled identically, exposing this on the main-thread and/or in the API most likely isn't useful.
- "isSymbolicFont": An internal property, used during font parsing and building of the glyph mapping on the worker-thread.
- "seacMap": An internal map, only potentially used with *some* Type1/CFF fonts and never intended to be exposed in the API. The existing `Font.{charToGlyph, charToGlyphs}` functionality already takes this data into account when handling text.
- "toFontChar": The glyph map, necessary for mapping characters to glyphs in the font, which is built upon the various encoding information contained in the font dictionary and/or font program. This is not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "toUnicode": The unicode map, necessary for text-extraction to work correctly, which is built upon the ToUnicode/CMap information contained in the font dictionary, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "vmetrics": An array of width data used with fonts which are composite *and* vertical, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
- "widths": An array of width data used with most fonts, but not directly used on the main-thread and/or in the API.
Given the way that "classes" were previously implemented in PDF.js, using regular functions and closures, there's a fair number of false positives when the `no-shadow` ESLint rule was enabled.
Note that while *some* of these `eslint-disable` statements can be removed if/when the relevant code is converted to proper `class`es, we'll probably never be able to get rid of all of them given our naming/coding conventions (however I don't really see this being a problem).
Please note that the `setPDFNetworkStreamFactory` functionality isn't exposed in the public API, i.e. not listed among the exports in the `src/pdf.js` file, and that even if it were it wouldn't really be useful considering that none of the `PDFNetworkStream`/`PDFFetchStream`/`PDFNodeStream` classes are exported either.
These methods were deprecated already in PDF.js version `2.1.266`, see PRs 10246 and 10369, and were converted to throw `Error`s upon invocation in PDF.js version `2.4.456`, see PR 11219.
Hence it ought to be possible to remove these methods now.
*This is part of a series of patches that will try to split PR 11566 into smaller chunks, to make reviewing more feasible.*
Once all the code has been fixed, we'll be able to eventually enable the ESLint no-shadow rule; see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-shadow
This property has never been documented and/or *intentionally* exposed through the API, instead the `PDFPageProxy.pageNumber` property is the documented/intended API to use here.
Hence pageIndex is changed to a "private" property on `PDFPageProxy` instances, and internal API functionality is also updated to *consistently* use `this._pageIndex` rather than a mix of formats.
This patch deprecates the existing `getOpenActionDestination` API method, in favor of a better and more general `getOpenAction` method instead. (For now JavaScript actions, related to printing, are still handled as before.)
By clearly separating "regular" Print actions from the JavaScript handling, it's thus possible to get rid of the somewhat annoying and strictly incorrect warning when the viewer loads.
Given that all `TypedArray` polyfills were removed in PDF.js version `2.0`, since native support is now required, this branch has been dead code for awhile.
This patch makes the following changes, to improve these API methods:
- Let `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` return a boolean indicating if clean-up actually happened, since ongoing rendering will block clean-up.
Besides being used in other parts of this patch, it seems that an API user may also be interested in the return value given that clean-up isn't *guaranteed* to happen.
- Let `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` return the promise indicating when clean-up is finished.
- Improve the JSDoc comment for `PDFDocumentProxy.cleanup` to mention that clean-up is triggered on *both* threads (without going into unnecessary specifics regarding what *exactly* said data actually is).
Add a note in the JSDoc comment about not calling this method when rendering is ongoing.
- Change `WorkerTransport.startCleanup` to throw an `Error` if it's called when rendering is ongoing, to prevent rendering from breaking.
Please note that this won't stop *worker-thread* clean-up from happening (since there's no general "something is rendering"-flag), however I'm not sure if that's really a problem; but please don't quote me on that :-)
All of the caches that's being cleared in `Catalog.cleanup`, on the worker-thread, *should* be re-filled automatically even if cleared *during* parsing/rendering, and the only thing that probably happens is that e.g. font data would have to be re-parsed.
On the main-thread, on the other hand, clearing the caches is more-or-less guaranteed to cause rendering errors, since the rendering code in `src/display/canvas.js` isn't able to re-request any image/font data that's suddenly being pulled out from under it.
- Last, but not least, add a couple of basic unit-tests for the clean-up functionality.
Interestingly the viewer already seem to work correctly as-is, with workers disabled and a non-standard `verbosity` level.
Hence this is possibly Node.js specific, but given that the issue is lacking *both* the PDF file in question and a runnable test-case, so this patch is essentially a best-effort guess at what the problem could be.
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 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`.
This patch makes the follow changes:
- Remove no longer necessary inline `// eslint-disable-...` comments.
- Fix `// eslint-disable-...` comments that Prettier moved down, thus causing new linting errors.
- Concatenate strings which now fit on just one line.
- Fix comments that are now too long.
- Finally, and most importantly, adjust comments that Prettier moved down, since the new positions often is confusing or outright wrong.
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.)
Since bundlers, such as Webpack, cannot be told to leave `require` statements alone we are thus forced to jump through hoops in order to prevent these warnings in third-party deployments of the PDF.js library; please see [Webpack issue 8826](https://github.com/webpack/webpack) and libraries such as [require-fool-webpack](https://github.com/sindresorhus/require-fool-webpack).
*Please note:* This is based on the assumption that code running in Node.js won't ever be affected by e.g. Content Security Policies that prevent use of `eval`. If that ever occurs, we should revert to a normal `require` statement and simply document the Webpack warnings instead.
This patch reduces some duplication, by moving *all* fake worker loader code into the `setupFakeWorkerGlobal` function. Furthermore, the functions are simplified further by using `async`/`await` where appropriate.
There's no particularily good reason, as far as I can tell, to not support a custom worker path in Node.js environments (even if workers aren't supported). This patch thus make the Node.js fake worker loader code-path consistent with the fallback code-path used with *browser* fake worker loader.
Finally, this patch also deprecates[1] the `fallbackWorkerSrc` functionality, except in Node.js, since the user should *always* provide correct worker options since the fallback is nothing more than a best-effort solution.
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[1] Although it probably shouldn't be removed until the next major version.
For performance reasons, and to avoid hanging the browser UI, the PDF.js library should *always* be used with web workers enabled.
At this point in time all of the supported browsers should have proper worker support, and Node.js is thus the only environment where workers aren't supported. Hence it no longer seems relevant/necessary to provide, by default, fake worker loaders for various JS builders/bundlers/frameworks in the PDF.js code itself.[1]
In order to simplify things, the fake worker loader code is thus simplified to now *only* support Node.js usage respectively "normal" browser usage out-of-the-box.[2]
*Please note:* The officially intended way of using the PDF.js library is with workers enabled, which can be done by setting `GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc`, `GlobalWorkerOptions.workerPort`, or manually providing a `PDFWorker` instance when calling `getDocument`.
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[1] Note that it's still possible to *manually* disable workers, simply my manually loading the built `pdf.worker.js` file into the (current) global scope, however this's mostly intended for testing/debugging purposes.
[2] Unfortunately some bundlers such as Webpack, when used with third-party deployments of the PDF.js library, will start to print `Critical dependency: ...` warnings when run against the built `pdf.js` file from this patch. The reason is that despite the `require` calls being protected by *runtime* `isNodeJS` checks, it's not possible to simply tell Webpack to just ignore the `require`; please see [Webpack issue 8826](https://github.com/webpack/webpack) and libraries such as [require-fool-webpack](https://github.com/sindresorhus/require-fool-webpack).
For certain canvas-related errors (and probably others), the browser rendering exceptions may be propagated "as-is" to the PDF.js code. In this case, the exceptions are of the somewhat cryptic `NS_ERROR_FAILURE` type.
Unfortunately these aren't actual `Error`s, which thus ends up unintentionally triggering the `assert` in `PDFPageProxy._abortOperatorList`; sorry about that!
The code in question is *only* relevant in non-`PRODUCTION` mode, i.e. the *development* version of the viewer run with `gulp server`, and has been completely unused at least since SystemJS was added.
I really cannot see any reason to keep this, since it's code which first of all isn't shipping and secondly isn't even being used in the development viewer.
Even though the currect situation only results in six unnecessary function calls per page, it nonetheless seems completely unnecessary to call dummy functions when `pdfBug` is *not* set (i.e. the default behaviour).
As can be seen in the API, there's a number of document loading Exception handlers which are both really simple and highly similar. Hence these are changed such that all the relevant Exceptions are sent via *one* message instead.
Furthermore, the patch also avoids unnecessarily re-creating `UnknownErrorException`s at the worker side and removes an unnecessary `bind` call.
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.
Sometimes we also used `@return` or `@returns`, but `@type` is what
the JSDoc documentation recommends. This also improves the documentation
because before this commit the types were not shown and now they are.
All of these methods have been marked as `deprecated` in *three* releases now, and I'd thus like to (slowly) move towards complete removal.
However rather than just removing the methods right away, which would cause somewhat cryptic failures, this patch tries to implement a hopefully reasonable middle ground by throwing `Error`s with (essentially) the same information as the previous warnings.
While the previous `deprecated` messages could perhaps be seen as optional, with these changes API consumers will now be forced to actually migrate their code.
By default, i.e. with workers enabled, it's *purposely* not possible to send `Dict`s and `Stream`s from the worker-thread. This is achieved by defining a `function` on every `Dict` instance, since that ensures that [the structured clone algoritm](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Structured_clone_algorithm) will throw an Error on `postMessage`.
However, with workers *disabled* we fall-back to the `LoopbackPort` implementation which just ignores any `function`s, thus incorrectly allowing sending of data which *should* be unclonable.
With this patch we're finally able to abort worker-thread parsing of the `OperatorList`, rather than *only* aborting the main-thread rendering itself, when the `RenderTask.cancel` method is being called.
This will help improve perceived performance in the default viewer, especially when reading longer and more complex documents, since pages that've been scrolled out-of-view (and thus evicted from the cache) will no longer compete for parsing resources on the worker-thread.
*Please note:* With the implementation in this patch we're *not* aborting worker-thread parsing immediately on `RenderTask.cancel`, since that would lead to *worse* performance in many cases. For example: When zoom/rotation occurs in the viewer, while parsing/rendering is still ongoing, a `cancel` call will usually be (almost) immediately folled by a new `PDFPageProxy.render` call. In that case you obviously don't want to abort parsing on the worker-thread, since that would risk throwing away a partially parsed `OperatorList` and thus force unnecessary re-parsing which will regress perceived performance (especially for more complex documents).
When choosing a reasonable delay, before cancelling `getOperatorList` on the worker-thread when `RenderTask.cancel` is called, two different positions need to be considered:
1. The delay needs to be short enough, since a timeout in the multiple seconds range would essentially make this entire functionality meaningless (by always allowing most/all pages enough time to finish parsing).
2. The delay cannot be *too* short, since that would actually *reduce* performance in the zoom/rotation case outlined above. Furthermore, the time between `RenderTask.cancel` and `PDFPageProxy.render` calls will obviously be affected by both general computer performance and current CPU load.
It's certainly possible that the timeout may require some further tweaks, however the value settled on in this patch was easily *one order* of magnitude larger than the delta between cancel/render in my tests.
With the changes made in PR 11069, it's no longer necessary to include the `pageIndex`/`intent` parameters when sending 'GetOperatorList' data. In the previous implementation these properties were used to associate the `OperatorList` with the correct `RenderTask`, however now that `ReadableStream`s are used that's handled automatically and it's thus dead code at this point.
By transfering, rather than copying, `ArrayBuffer`s between the main- and worker-threads, you can avoid unnecessary allocations by only having *one* copy of the same data.
Hence manually setting `postMessageTransfers: false`, when calling `getDocument`, is a performance footgun[1] which will do nothing but waste memory.
Given that every reasonably modern browser supports `postMessage` transfers[2], I really don't see why it should be possible to force-disable this functionality.
Looking at the browser support, for `postMessage` transfers[2], it's highly unlikely that PDF.js is even usable in browsers without it. However, the feature testing of `postMessage` transfers is kept for the time being just to err on the safe side.
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[1] This is somewhat similar to the, now removed, `disableWorker` parameter which also provided API users a much too simple way of reducing performance.
[2] See e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MessagePort/postMessage#Browser_compatibility and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferable#Browser_compatibility
Note how the sent values have inconsistent types, with a boolean in one case and an object in the other (normal) case.
Furthermore, explicitly sending a `supportTypedArray: true` property seems superfluous at least to me.
It recently occurred to me that the CMap data should be an excellent candidate for transfering.
This will help reduce peak memory usage for PDF documents using CMaps, since transfering of data avoids duplicating it on both the main- and worker-threads.
Unfortunately it's not possible to actually transfer data when *returning* data through `sendWithPromise`, and another solution had to be used.
Initially I looked at using one message for requesting the data, and another message for returning the actual CMap data. While that should have worked, it would have meant adding a lot more complexity particularly on the worker-thread.
Hence the simplest solution, at least in my opinion, is to utilize `sendWithStream` since that makes it *really* easy to transfer the CMap data. (This required PR 11115 to land first, since otherwise CMap fetch errors won't propagate correctly to the worker-thread.)
Please note that the patch *purposely* only changes the API to Worker communication, and not the API *itself* since changing the interface of `CMapReaderFactory` would be a breaking change.
Furthermore, given the relatively small size of the `.bcmap` files (the largest one is smaller than the default range-request size) streaming doesn't really seem necessary either.
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.
