Current pdf_viewer definitions result in errors like the following when
trying to use them in a ts project:
[error] TypeScript error
node_modules/.pnpm/pdfjs-dist@2.10.377/node_modules/pdfjs-dist/web/pdf_viewer.d.ts:1:15
- error TS2691: An import path cannot end with a '.d.ts' extension.
Consider importing 'pdfjs-dist/types/web/pdf_viewer.component.js'
instead.
1 export * from "pdfjs-dist/types/web/pdf_viewer.component.d.ts";
Import/export statements in typescript should not include file extensions.
Currently a `TESTING = true` environment variable will *always* take precedence in the various build-tasks, and there's no way to explicitly disable it for a particular build. That's clearly an oversight on my part, however it's easy enough to fix this; sorry about breaking this!
The `loadAndEnablePDFBug` helper function, in `web/app.js`, can be simplified a little bit by making it `async`. Furthermore, given how `PDFBug` is being used, we can also (slightly) re-factor `PDFBug.init` such that the `PDFBug.enable`-call is done internally rather than having to handle that manually at the call-site.
(Finally, utilize `await` more in the `loadFakeWorker` helper function.)
This way there cannot be any *incorrect* cache hits, since Refs are guaranteed to be unique.
Please note that the reason for caching by Ref rather than doing something along the lines of the `localShadingPatternCache` (which uses a `Map` directly), is that TilingPatterns are streams and those cannot be cached on the `XRef`-instance (this way we avoid unnecessary parsing).
*This patch is very similar to the recently fixed `renderInteractiveForms`-options, see PR 13867.*
As far as I can tell, this *subtle* bug has existed ever since `AnnotationStorage`-support was first added in PR 12106 (a little over a year ago).
The value of the `includeAnnotationStorage`-option, as passed to the `PDFPageProxy.render` method, will (potentially) affect the size/content of the operatorList that's returned from the worker (for documents with forms).
Given that operatorLists will generally, unless they contain huge images, be cached in the API, repeated `PDFPageProxy.render` calls where the form-data has been changed by the user in between, can thus *wrongly* return a cached operatorList.
In the viewer we're only using the `includeAnnotationStorage`-option when printing, which is probably why this has gone unnoticed for so long. Note that we, for performance reasons, don't cache printing-operatorLists in the API.
However, there's nothing stopping an API-user from using the `includeAnnotationStorage`-option during "normal" rendering, which could thus result in *subtle* (and difficult to understand) rendering bugs.
In order to handle this, we need to know if the `AnnotationStorage`-instance has been updated since the last `PDFPageProxy.render` call. The most "correct" solution would obviously be to create a hash of the `AnnotationStorage` contents, however that would require adding a bunch of code, complexity, and runtime overhead.
Given that operatorList caching in the API doesn't have to be perfect[1], but only have to avoid *false* cache-hits, we can simplify things significantly be only keeping track of the last time that the `AnnotationStorage`-data was modified.
*Please note:* While working on this patch, I also noticed that the `renderInteractiveForms`- and `includeAnnotationStorage`-options in the `PDFPageProxy.render` method are mutually exclusive.[2]
Given that the various Annotation-related options in `PDFPageProxy.render` have been added at different times, this has unfortunately led to the current "messy" situation.[3]
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[1] Note how we're already not caching operatorLists for pages with *huge* images, in order to save memory, hence there's no guarantee that operatorLists will always be cached.
[2] Setting both to `true` will result in undefined behaviour, since trying to insert `AnnotationStorage`-values into fields that are being excluded from the operatorList-building will obviously not work, which isn't at all clear from the documentation.
[3] My intention is to try and fix this in a follow-up PR, and I've got a WIP patch locally, however it will result in a number of API-observable changes.
At this point in time, all of the supported browsers (in the PDF.js project) have native `ReadableStream` implementations; see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream#browser_compatibility
Hence the polyfill is *only* necessary in Node.js environments now, and we shouldn't need to do any detailed feature detection either (since that was only done for the non-Chromium versions of the MS Edge browser).
Finally, we can slightly reduce the size of the Chromium-extension since the polyfill shouldn't be needed there either.
By not adding any additional non-`Dict` entries to the list of candidates for merging of sub-dictionaries, we can very slightly reduce the amount of parsing required by not having to *again* iterate through unmergeable data.
The original idea behind including the class name, when logging errors, was to improve things in the *hypothetical case* where `PDFViewer`- and `PDFSinglePageViewer`-instances would be used side-by-side.
Given that all of the relevant methods are synchronous this seem unlikely to really be necessary, and furthermore it's probably best to avoid using `this.constructor.name` since that's not guaranteed to do what you intend (we've seen repeated issues with minifiers mangling function/class names).
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.
Rather than caching only the *last* `PDFPageProxy.getAnnotations` call, and having to handle the intent separately, we can instead implement the caching in exactly the same way as done in the `PDFPageProxy.{render, getOperatorList}` methods.
This patch removes the only remaining closure in the `src/display/api.js` file, utilizing a similar approach as used in lots of other parts of the code-base, which results in a small decrease in the size of the *build* `pdf.js` file.
Given that `PDFWorker` is exposed through the *public* API, this complicates things somewhat since there's a couple of worker-related properties that really should stay *private*. Initially, while working on PR 13813, I believed that we'd need support for private (static) class fields in order to get rid of this closure, however I've managed to come up with what's hopefully deemed an acceptable work-around here.
Furthermore, some helper functions were simply moved into the `PDFWorker` class as static methods, thus simplifying the overall implementation (e.g. we don't need to manually cache the Promise in the `PDFWorker._setupFakeWorkerGlobal`-method).
Finally, as part of this re-factoring a number of missing JSDoc-comments were added which *together* with the removal of the closure significantly improves the `gulp jsdoc` output for the `PDFWorker` class.
*Please note:* This patch is tagged with `api-minor` since it deprecates `PDFWorker.getWorkerSrc()` in favor of the shorter `PDFWorker.workerSrc`, with the fallback limited to `GENERIC` builds.
It shouldn't be necessary to assign these variables to the global scope (as far as I can tell), either explicitly with `window` or implicitly with `var`, and this way we don't need to disable the ESLint `no-undef` rule; fixes another small part of issue 13862.
*Please note:* I wasn't going to put additional work into this code after PR 13869, however these changes looked so simple that I figured trying to get rid of the few remaining "Code scanning alerts" wouldn't hurt.
However, this file would still very much benefit from additional clean-up and re-factoring work, since it's quite old and currently contains some dead code (commented out).
The value of the `renderInteractiveForms` parameter, as passed to the `PDFPageProxy.render` method, will (potentially) affect the size/content of the operatorList that's returned from the worker (for documents with forms).
Given that operatorLists will generally, unless they contain huge images, be cached in the API, repeated `PDFPageProxy.render` calls that *only* change the `renderInteractiveForms` parameter can thus return an incorrect operatorList.
As far as I can tell, this *subtle* bug has existed ever since `renderInteractiveForms`-support was first added in PR 7633 (which is almost five years ago).
With the previous patch, fixing this is now really simple by "encoding" the `renderInteractiveForms` parameter in the *internal* renderingIntent handling.
With the changes made in PR 13746 the *internal* renderingIntent handling became somewhat "messy", since we're now having to do string-matching in various spots in order to handle the "oplist"-intent correctly.
Hence this patch, which implements the idea from PR 13746 to convert the `intent`-strings, used in various API-methods, into an *internal* renderingIntent that's implemented using a bit-field instead. *Please note:* This part of the patch, in itself, does *not* change the public API (but see below).
This patch is tagged `api-minor` for the following reasons:
1. It changes the *default* value for the `intent` parameter, in the `PDFPageProxy.getAnnotations` method, to "display" in order to be consistent across the API.
2. In order to get *all* annotations, with the `PDFPageProxy.getAnnotations` method, you now need to explicitly set "any" as the `intent` parameter.
3. The `PDFPageProxy.getOperatorList` method will now also support the new "any" intent, to allow accessing the operatorList of all annotations (limited to those types that have one).
4. Finally, for consistency across the API, the `PDFPageProxy.render` method also support the new "any" intent (although I'm not sure how useful that'll be).
Points 1 and 2 above are the significant, and thus breaking, changes in *default* behaviour here. However, unfortunately I cannot see a good way to improve the overall API while also keeping `PDFPageProxy.getAnnotations` unchanged.
