Currently we *synchronously* fetch a number of browser preferences/options, from the platform code, during the viewer respectively PDF document initialization paths.
This seems unnecessary, and we can re-factor the code to instead include the relevant data when fetching the regular viewer preferences.
*Please note:* This patch contains a couple of micro-optimizations, hence I understand if it's deemed unnecessary.
Move the `AppOptions` initialization into the `Preferences` constructor, since that allows us to remove a couple of function calls, a bit of asynchronicity and one loop that's currently happening in the early stages of the default viewer initialization.
Finally, move the `Preferences` initialization to occur a *tiny* bit earlier since that cannot hurt given that the entire viewer initialization depends on it being available.
Please note that we've never had any functionality in the viewer itself that *set* preferences, and we've thus only ever read them.
For the GENERIC viewer it obviously makes sense for the user to be able to modify preferences, e.g. via the console, but that doesn't really apply to the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer since preferences are already accessible via `about:config` there. Hence it does seems somewhat strange to expose, a limited part of, the Firefox preference system in this way when we're not even using it.
Note that the unused preference setting-code also include a fair amount of *additional* validation on the platform-side, such as limiting any possible preference changes to the `pdfjs.`-branch and also an explicit white-list of preference names[1], to make sure that this is safe; please see:
- https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4e8f62a231e71dc53eb50b6d74afca21d6b254e9/toolkit/components/pdfjs/content/PdfStreamConverter.sys.mjs#458-495
- https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4e8f62a231e71dc53eb50b6d74afca21d6b254e9/toolkit/modules/AsyncPrefs.sys.mjs#21-48
Assuming that this patch lands, I'll follow-up with a mozilla-central patch to remove the code mentioned above.
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[1] This hard-coded list contains preferences that no longer exist, and also at least one (fairly obvious) typo.
This *special* build-target is very old, and was introduced with the first pre-processor that only uses comments to enable/disable code.
When the new pre-processor was added `PRODUCTION` effectively became redundant, at least in JavaScript code, since `typeof PDFJSDev === "undefined"` checks now do the same thing.
This patch proposes that we remove `PRODUCTION` from the JavaScript code, since that simplifies the conditions and thus improves readability in many cases.
*Please note:* There's not, nor has there ever been, any gulp-task that set `PRODUCTION = false` during building.
This patch fixes an old inconsistency, when using `BasePreferences.{reset, set}`, where the internal Preference values would be kept even if writing them to storage failed.
Given that none of these fields were ever intended to be accessed directly from the *outside*, since that will lead to inconsistent/broken state, we can use modern ECMAScript features to ensure that they are indeed private.
In the `getAll`-method, we can have just one *explicit* loop rather than two indirect ones via the old `Object.assign`-call.
Also, changes the `get`-method to be slightly more compact (while keeping the logic intact).
Looking at this now, I cannot understand why we'd need to initialize `this.prefs` with all of the values from `this.defaults`.
Not only does this *indirectly* require one extra loop, via the `Object.assign`-call, but it also means that in GENERIC-builds changes to default-preference values might not be picked-up unless the the existing user-prefs are cleared (if the user had *manually* set prefs previously).
Originally the default preferences where simply placed in a JSON-file, checked into the repository, which over time became impractical, annoying, and error-prone to maintain; please see PR 10548.
While that improved the overall situation a fair bit, it however inherited one quite unfortunate property of the old JSON-based solution[1]: It's still not possible for *different* build targets to specify their *own* default preference values.
With some preferences, such as e.g. `enableScripting`, it's not inconceivable that you'd want to (at least) support build-specific default preference values. Currently that's not really possible, which is why this PR re-factors the default preferences generation to support this.
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[1] This fact isn't really clear from the `AppOptions` implementation, unless you're familiar with the `gulpfile.js` code, which could lead to some confusion for those new to this part of the code-base.
Originally the default preferences were defined in a JSON-file checked into the repository, which was loaded using SystemJS in development mode.
Over the years a number of changes have been made to this code, most notably:
- The preferences JSON-file is now generated automatically, during building, from the `AppOptions` abstraction.
- All SystemJS usage has been removed from the development viewer.
Hence the default preferences are now available *synchronously* even in the development viewer, and it's thus no longer necessary to defer to the microtask queue (since `getDefaultPreferences` is async) just to get the default preferences.
While the effect of these changes is quite small, it *does* reduces the time it takes for the preferences to be fully initialized. Given the amount of asynchronous code during viewer initialization, every bit of time that we can save should thus help.
Originally the `default_preferences.json` file was checked into the repository, and we thus needed to load it in non-PRODUCTION mode (which was originally done asynchronously using `XMLHttpRequest`). Over the years a lot has changed and the `default_preferences.json` file is now built, by the `gulp default_preferences` task, from the `web/app_options.js` file. Hence it's no longer necessary, in non-PRODUCTION mode, to use SystemJS here since we can simply use a standard `import` statement instead.
Note how e.g. `web/app.js` already imports from `web/app_options.js` in the same exact way that `web/preferences.js` now does, hence this patch will *not* result in any significant changes in the built/bundled viewer file.
This is another (small) part in trying to reduce usage of SystemJS, with the goal of hopefully getting rid of it completely. (I've started working on this, and doing so has identified a number of problem areas; this patch addresses one of them.)
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).
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`.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-const
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).
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.)
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.
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.
The generated `default_preferences.json` file is necessary when initializing the Firefox preferences, which only supports certain types, hence this patch adds additional validation to help prevent run-time errors in Firefox.
Given that these changes add a code-path to `AppOptions.getAll` which could throw, the `OptionKind.PREFERENCE` branch is also modified to require *exact* matching to prevent (future) errors in the viewer.
Finally the conditionally defined `defaultOptions` will no longer (potentially) be considered during the `gulp default_preferences` task, to make it more difficult for them to be accidentally included.
Currently any editing of the preferences require updates in *three* separate files, which isn't a great developer experience to say the least.
This has annoyed me sufficiently to write this patch, which moves the definition of all preferences into `AppOptions` and adds a new `gulp` task to generate the `default_preferences.json` file for the builds where it's needed.
When updating Preferences using the `set` method, the input is carefully validated. However, no validation is (currently) done when a `BasePreferences` instance is created, which probably isn't that great. Hence this patch that simply ignores, to not unnecessarily break loading of the viewer itself, any invalid Preferences.
Given that the various Preferences are currently, and have been for quite some time, only used when initializing `PDFViewerApplication` re-loading them when a new PDF file is opened in the viewer is essentially a no-op.
Furthermore, with the only usage of `BasePreferences.reload` now gone, the value of that method seems questionable at best. In the event that the functionality is actually needed again, similar to the `ViewHistory`, it'd probably make more sense to simply replace `PDFViewerApplication.preferences` with a new `BasePreferences` instance instead (using e.g. `DefaultExternalServices.createPreferences`).
Given that *all* Preferences are already fetched in `PDFViewerApplication._readPreferences`, the amount of boilerplate/duplication can be considerably reduced with the addition of a `BasePreferences.getAll` method.
This patch contains the following improvements:
- Only fetch the various document properties *once* per PDF file opened, and cache the result (in a frozen object).
- Always update the *entire* dialog at once, to prevent inconsistent UI state (issue 8371).
- Ensure that the dialog, and all its internal properties, are reset when `PDFViewerApplication.close` is called.
- Inline, and re-factor, the `getProperties` method in `open`, since that's the only call-site.
- Always overwrite the fileSize with the value obtained from `pdfDocument.getDownloadInfo`, to ensure that it's correct.
- ES6-ify the code that's touched in this patch.
Fixes 8371.
Note that as discussed on IRC, this makes the viewer slightly slower to load *only* in `gulp server` mode, however the difference seem slight enough that I think it will be fine.
The sidebar code has, except for minor fixes/additions (such as attachments), been largely untouch for years.
To avoid having a bunch of sidebar code sprinkled throughout viewer.js, this patch moves the sidebar code into a separate file (pdf_sidebar.js), similar to how most other functionality has been moved in the last few years.
Besides simply moving code around, this patch also has the added benefit that we now keep track of the sidebar state (not just opened/closed).
This now makes it possible to handle both `Preferences` *and* `ViewHistory` settings for the sidebar state in a cleaner way, preventing strange and confusing interactions between the two.
