*This patch improves handling of a couple of PDF documents from issue 14303.*
- Update `XRef.indexObjects` to actually clear *all* XRef-caches. Invalid XRef tables *usually* cause issues early enough during parsing that we've not populated the XRef-cache, however to prevent any issues we obviously need to clear that one as well.
- Improve the /Root dictionary validation in `XRef.parse` (PR 9827 follow-up). In addition to checking that a /Pages entry exists, we'll now also check that it can be successfully fetched *and* that it's of the correct type. There's really no point trying to use a /Root dictionary that e.g. `Catalog.toplevelPagesDict` will reject, and this way we'll be able to fallback to indexing the objects in corrupt documents.
- Throw an `InvalidPDFException`, rather than a general `FormatError`, in `XRef.parse` when no usable /Root dictionary could be found. That really seems more appropriate overall, since all attempts at parsing/recovery have failed. (This part of the patch is API-observable, hence the tag.)
With these changes, two existing test-cases are improved and the unit-tests are updated/re-factored to highlight that. In particular `GHOSTSCRIPT-698804-1-fuzzed.pdf` will now both load and "render" correctly, whereas `poppler-395-0-fuzzed.pdf` will now fail immediately upon loading (rather than *appearing* to work).
*Please note:* While this patch on its own is sufficient to prevent the worker-thread from hanging, however in combination with PR 14311 these PDF documents will both load *and* render correctly.
Rather than focusing on the particular structure of these PDF documents, it seemed (at least to me) to make sense to try and prevent all circular references when fetching/looking-up data using the XRef table.
To avoid a solution that required tracking the references manually everywhere, the implementation settled on here instead handles that internally in the `XRef.fetch`-method. This should work, since that method *and* the `Parser`/`Lexer`-implementations are completely synchronous.
Note also that the existing `XRef`-caching, used for all data-types *except* Streams, should hopefully help to lessen the performance impact of these changes.
One *potential* problem with these changes could be certain *browser* exceptions, since those are generally not catchable in JavaScript code, however those would most likely "stop" worker-thread parsing anyway (at least I hope so).
Finally, note that I settled on returning dummy-data rather than throwing an exception. This was done to allow parsing, for the rest of the document, to continue such that *one* bad reference doesn't prevent an entire document from loading.
Fixes two of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `poppler-91414-0.zip-2.gz-53.pdf` and `poppler-91414-0.zip-2.gz-54.pdf` documents.
For this particular PDF document, we have `/W [1 2 166666666666666666666666666]` which obviously makes no sense.
While this patch makes no attempt at actually validating the entries in the /W-array, we'll now simply abort all processing when the end of the PDF document has been reached (thus preventing hanging the browser).
Please note that this patch doesn't enable the PDF document to be loaded/rendered, but at least it fails "correctly" now.
Fixes one of the issues listed in issue 14303, namely the `REDHAT-1531897-0.pdf`document.
*Please note:* These changes will primarily benefit longer documents, somewhat at the expense of e.g. one-page documents.
The existing `PDFDocumentProxy.getStats` function, which in the default viewer is called for each rendered page, requires a round-trip to the worker-thread in order to obtain the current document stats. In the default viewer, we currently make one such API-call for *every rendered* page.
This patch proposes replacing that method with a *synchronous* `PDFDocumentProxy.stats` getter instead, combined with re-factoring the worker-thread code by adding a `DocStats`-class to track Stream/Font-types and *only send* them to the main-thread *the first time* that a type is encountered.
Note that in practice most PDF documents only use a fairly limited number of Stream/Font-types, which means that in longer documents most of the `PDFDocumentProxy.getStats`-calls will return the same data.[1]
This re-factoring will obviously benefit longer document the most[2], and could actually be seen as a regression for one-page documents, since in practice there'll usually be a couple of "DocStats" messages sent during the parsing of the first page. However, if the user zooms/rotates the document (which causes re-rendering), note that even a one-page document would start to benefit from these changes.
Another benefit of having the data available/cached in the API is that unless the document stats change during parsing, repeated `PDFDocumentProxy.stats`-calls will return *the same identical* object.
This is something that we can easily take advantage of in the default viewer, by now *only* reporting "documentStats" telemetry[3] when the data actually have changed rather than once per rendered page (again beneficial in longer documents).
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[1] Furthermore, the maximium number of `StreamType`/`FontType` are `10` respectively `12`, which means that regardless of the complexity and page count in a PDF document there'll never be more than twenty-two "DocStats" messages sent; see 41ac3f0c07/src/shared/util.js (L206-L232)
[2] One example is the `pdf.pdf` document in the test-suite, where rendering all of its 1310 pages only result in a total of seven "DocStats" messages being sent from the worker-thread.
[3] Reporting telemetry, in Firefox, includes using `JSON.stringify` on the data and then sending an event to the `PdfStreamConverter.jsm`-code.
In that code the event is handled and `JSON.parse` is used to retrieve the data, and in the "documentStats"-case we'll then iterate through the data to avoid double-reporting telemetry; see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/8f4c180b87e52f3345ef8a3432d6e54bd1eb18dc/toolkit/components/pdfjs/content/PdfStreamConverter.jsm#515-549
There's obviously no guarantee that this will work in general, if the document is sufficiently corrupt, but it should hopefully be better than just throwing `InvalidPDFException` as currently happens.
Please note that, as is often the case with corrupt documents, it's somewhat difficult to know if we're rendering the document "correctly" with this patch[1]. In this case even Adobe Reader cannot open the document, which is always a good sign that it's *really* corrupt, however we're at least able to render *something* with this patch.
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[1] Whatever "correct" even means when dealing with corrupt PDF documents, where often times different PDF viewers won't agree completely.
In cases where even the very *first* attempt at reading from an object will throw, simply ignoring such objects will help improve rendering of *some* corrupt documents.
Note that this will lead to more parsing in some cases, but considering that this only applies to *corrupt* documents that shouldn't be a big deal.
To get the maximum benefit from something like Prettier, you obviously don't want to disable the automatic formatting unless absolutely necessary. When we added Prettier there were a number of cases, mostly involving larger Arrays, which required disabling of the automatic formatting for overall readability and/or to not break inline comments.
With changes in Prettier version `2.3.0`, see [the release notes](https://prettier.io/blog/2021/05/09/2.3.0.html#concise-formatting-of-number-only-arrays-10106httpsgithubcomprettierprettierpull10106-10160httpsgithubcomprettierprettierpull10160-by-thorn0httpsgithubcomthorn0), there's now better formatting support for Arrays containing only numbers. Hence we can now remove a number of `// prettier-ignore` comments, and thus get the benefit of automatic formatting in (slightly) more of the code-base.
The size of the `src/core/obj.js` file has increased slowly over the years, and it also contains a fair amount of *distinct* functionality.
In order to improve readability and make it easier to navigate through the code, this patch moves the `XRef` into its own file.
