- For the generic viewer we use @fluent/dom and @fluent/bundle
- For the builtin pdf viewer in Firefox, we set a localization url
and then we rely on document.l10n which is a DOMLocalization object.
Given that we only use standard `import`/`export` statements now, after recent PRs, the "exports" global is unused.
Instead we add "__non_webpack_import__" to the `globals` to avoid having to sprinkle disable statements throughout the code.
Finally, the way that `globals` are defined has changed in ESLint and we should thus explicitly specify them as "readonly"; please find additional details at https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/configure/language-options#specifying-globals
Given the amount of work put into removing `require`-calls from the code-base, let's ensure that new ones aren't accidentally added in the future.
Note that we still have a couple of files where `require` is being used, in particular:
- The Node.js examples, however those will be updated to use `import` in PR 17081.
- The Webpack examples, and related support files, however I unfortunately don't know enough about Webpack to be able to update those. (Hopefully users of that code will help out here, once version `4` is released.)
- The `statcmp`-tool, since *some* of those `require`-calls cannot be converted to `import` without other code changes (and that file is only used during benchmarking).
Please find additional details at https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/blob/main/docs/rules/no-commonjs.md
By leveraging import maps we can get rid of *most* of the remaining `require`-calls in the `src/display/`-folder, since we should strive to use modern `import`-statements wherever possible.
The only remaining cases are Node.js-specific dependencies, since those seem very difficult to convert unless we start producing a bundle *specifically* for Node.js environments.
- Remove the dependency on fit-curve;
- Improve the way to draw the current line in using a Path2D and
in clearing only the last part of the curve instead of clearing
all the canvas;
- Smooth the curve when drawing to avoid to have some changes after
the drawing ends;
- Make the smoothing a bit less agressive.
Now that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247687 has landed in Firefox, we're able to use worker-modules during development :-)
This removes the final piece of SystemJS usage from the PDF.js library, thus allowing a fair bit of clean-up, and we now use *only* native `import`/`export` statements everywhere in development mode.
Given that the GV-viewer isn't using most of the UI-related components of the default-viewer, we can avoid including them in the *built* viewer to save space.[1]
The least "invasive" way of implementing this, at least that I could come up with, is to leverage import maps with suitable stubs for the GV-viewer.
The one slightly annoying thing is that we now have larger import maps across multiple html-files, and you'll need to remember to update all of them when making future changes.
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[1] With this patch, the built `viewer.js` size is 391 kB and `viewer-geckoview.js` is 285 kB.
Rather than including all of this external code in the PDF.js repository, we should be using the npm package instead.
Unfortunately this is slightly more complicated than you'd hope, since the `fit-curve` package (which is older) isn't directly compatible with modern JavaScript modules.
In particular, the following cases needed to be considered:
- For the development viewer (i.e. `gulp server`) and the unit-tests, we thus need to build a fitCurve-bundle that can be directly `import`ed.
- For the actual PDF.js build-targets, we can slightly reduce the sizes by depending on the "raw" `fit-curve` source-code.
- For the Node.js unit-tests, the `fit-curve` package can be used as-is.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Name` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Name` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isName` helper function for where it makes sense.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Dict` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Dict` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isDict` helper function for where it makes sense.
Unless you actually need to check that something is both a `Cmd` and also of the *correct* type, using `instanceof Cmd` directly should be a tiny bit more efficient since it avoids one function call and an unnecessary `undefined` check.
This patch uses ESLint to enforce this, since we obviously still want to keep the `isCmd` helper function for where it makes sense.
This allows us to remove the manually implemented `structuredClone` polyfill, thus reducing the maintenance burden for the `LoopbackPort` class; refer to https://github.com/zloirock/core-js#structuredclone
*Please note:* While `structuredClone` support landed already in Firefox 94, Google Chrome only added it in version 98 (currently in Beta). However, given that the `LoopbackPort` will only be used together with *fake workers* in browsers this shouldn't be too much of a problem.[1]
For Node.js environments, where *fake workers* are unfortunately necessary, using a `legacy/`-build is already required which thus guarantees that the `structuredClone` polyfill is available.
Also, the patch updates core-js to the latest version since that one includes `structuredClone` improvements; please see https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/releases/tag/v3.20.3
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[1] Given that we only support browsers with proper worker support, if *fake workers* are being used that essentially indicates a configuration problem/error.
With ESLint 8 we should now finally be able to start using modern `class` features, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/Public_class_fields and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/Private_class_fields
However, while both ESLint and Acorn now support this, it unfortunately turns out that Escodegen (which we use during building) still lack the necessary support. Looking at https://github.com/estools/escodegen there's not been any updates since last year, and there's also open PRs adding support for these new `class` features.
To avoid blocking usage of these `class` features in the PDF.js code-base, in particular *private* fields/methods, this patch thus proposes that we (hopefully temporarily) switch to an `escodegen` fork that has the necessary support; please see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@javascript-obfuscator/escodegen
While I have no reason to doubt the security of the `escodegen` fork, this patch nonetheless pins the version number. Furthermore, I've also diffed the output of the two `.js`-files in this forked package against the original files without finding anything that looks immediately "dangerous".
*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.
The former prevents unintended errors in regexes. The latter is
something I ran into a couple of times before editors had proper support
for syntax highlighting in template literals, and it's an easy mistake
to make, especially when converting older code to use template literals.
Nowadays most editors display template literals in different colors, but
nevertheless it seems like a good idea to enable this rule.
Fortunately both rules don't require any code changes, so it's more for
prevention.
Using `instanceof Object` is generally problematic, since it's not guaranteed to always do the right thing for all Objects.
(I stumbled upon this while working on another patch, when I noticed that the `outlineView` was broken with workers disabled.)
By adding basic linting of JSON files, we can ensure that they're actually valid and prevent e.g. test-failures caused by *accidental* errors when editing the `test/test_manifest.json` file (something that I've done *many* times myself).
For now this simply uses the `recommended` configuration, but we can obviously tweak this later if/when needed. Please find additional information at https://github.com/azeemba/eslint-plugin-json
