This is an important part of the repl use-case.
TODO: The arg parsing in vm.runIn*Context() is rather wonky.
It would be good to move more of that into the Script class,
and/or an options object.
As documented in #3042 and in [1], the existing vm implementation has
many problems. All of these are solved by @brianmcd's [contextify][2]
package. This commit uses contextify as a conceptual base and its code
core to overhaul the vm module and fix its many edge cases and caveats.
Functionally, this fixes#3042. In particular:
- A context is now indistinguishable from the object it is based on
(the "sandbox"). A context is simply a sandbox that has been marked
by the vm module, via `vm.createContext`, with special internal
information that allows scripts to be run inside of it.
- Consequently, items added to the context from anywhere are
immediately visible to all code that can access that context, both
inside and outside the virtual machine.
This commit also smooths over the API very slightly:
- Parameter defaults are now uniformly triggered via `undefined`, per
ES6 semantics and previous discussion at [3].
- Several undocumented and problematic features have been removed, e.g.
the conflation of `vm.Script` with `vm` itself, and the fact that
`Script` instances also had all static `vm` methods. The API is now
exactly as documented (although arguably the existence of the
`vm.Script` export is not yet documented, just the `Script` class
itself).
In terms of implementation, this replaces node_script.cc with
node_contextify.cc, which is derived originally from [4] (see [5]) but
has since undergone extensive modifications and iterations to expose
the most useful C++ API and use the coding conventions and utilities of
Node core.
The bindings exposed by `process.binding('contextify')`
(node_contextify.cc) replace those formerly exposed by
`process.binding('evals')` (node_script.cc). They are:
- ContextifyScript(code, [filename]), with methods:
- runInThisContext()
- runInContext(sandbox, [timeout])
- makeContext(sandbox)
From this, the vm.js file builds the entire documented vm module API.
node.js and module.js were modified to use this new native binding, or
the vm module itself where possible. This introduces an extra line or
two into the stack traces of module compilation (and thus into most
stack traces), explaining the changed tests.
The tests were also updated slightly, with all vm-related simple tests
consolidated as test/simple/test-vm-* (some of them were formerly
test/simple/test-script-*). At the same time they switched from
`common.debug` to `console.error` and were updated to use
`assert.throws` instead of rolling their own error-testing methods.
New tests were also added, of course, demonstrating the new
capabilities and fixes.
[1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.10.16/api/vm.html#vm_caveats
[2]: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify
[3]: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5323#issuecomment-20250726
[4]: bf123f3ef9/src/contextify.cc
[5]: https://gist.github.com/domenic/6068120
* uv: Upgrade v0.10.14
* http_parser: Do not accept PUN/GEM methods as PUT/GET (Chris Dickinson)
* tls: fix assertion when ssl is destroyed at read (Fedor Indutny)
* stream: Throw on 'error' if listeners removed (isaacs)
* dgram: fix assertion on bad send() arguments (Ben Noordhuis)
* readline: pause stdin before turning off terminal raw mode (Daniel Chatfield)
The C++ API has been changed so the passed length is the byte size of
the data, not the length of the array.
This was done so users need to explicitly define how much memory they
want allocated.
Commit 03e008d introduced src/tls_wrap.cc and src/tls_wrap.h but
said files copied on the order of 1 kLoC from src/node_crypto.cc
and src/node_crypto.h. This commit undoes some of the duplication.
Fixes#6024.
RandomBytes() allocated memory with new[] which was then handed off to
Buffer::Use() which eventually releases it again with free().
Mixing the two is technically a violation of the spec and besides, it's
generally frowned upon.
Achieve a minor speed-up by looking up the timeout callback on the timer
object by using an array index rather than a named property.
Gives a performance boost of about 1% on the misc/timers benchmarks.
Code cleanup: don't call a Connection object `p` in some places, `c` in
other places and `ss` in yet other places. Let's just call it `conn`.
This also fixes about a million style errors in one fell swoop.
Don't create an Integer when setting a numeric index on an object or an
array, use the version of v8::Object::Set() that takes an uint32_t.
Change the types of the variables from int to uint32_t and clean up
some code consistency issues while we're here.
Don't set the oncomplete property in src/cares_wrap.cc, we can do it
just as easily in lib/dns.js.
Switch two closures to the 'function with _this_ object' model. Makes
it impossible for an overzealous closure to capture too much context
and accidentally hold on to too much memory.
Use v8::Integer::NewFromUnsigned() when updating the writeQueueSize
field.
Before this commit, it used v8::Integer::New() but that takes an
int32_t. It's unlikely for a write queue to grow beyond 2**31-1 bytes
but let's use the unsigned integer constructor anyway, just in case.
Change process.domain to use a getter/setter and access that property
via an array index. These are much faster to get from c++, and it can be
passed to _setupDomainUse and stored as a Persistent<Array>.
InDomain() and GetDomain() as trivial ways to access the domain
information in the native layer. Important because we'll be able to
quickly access if a domain is active. Instead of just whether the domain
module has been loaded.
Don't use v8::Object::SetHiddenValue() to keep a reference alive to the
buffer, we can just as easily do that from JS land and it's a lot faster
to boot.
Because the buffer is now a visible property of the write request
object, it's essential that we do *not* log it - we'd be effectively
serializing the whole buffer to a pretty-printed string.
* Change calls to String::New() and String::NewSymbol() to their
respective one-byte, two-byte and UTF-8 counterparts.
* Add a FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING macro that takes a string literal and
turns it into a v8::Local<v8::String>.
* Add helper functions that make v8::String::NewFromOneByte() easier to
work with. Said function expects a `const uint8_t*` but almost every
call site deals with `const char*` or `const unsigned char*`. Helps
us avoid doing reinterpret_casts all over the place.
* Code that handles file system paths keeps using UTF-8 for backwards
compatibility reasons. At least now the use of UTF-8 is explicit.
* Remove v8::String::NewSymbol() entirely. Almost all call sites were
effectively minor de-optimizations. If you create a string only once,
there is no point in making it a symbol. If you are create the same
string repeatedly, it should probably be cached in a persistent
handle.
smalloc.alloc now accepts an optional third argument which allows
specifying the type of array that should be allocated. All available
types are now located on smalloc.Types.
* Moved the ToObject check out of smalloc::Alloc and into JS. Direct
usage of that method is for internal use only and so can bypass the
possible coercion.
* Same has been done with smalloc::SliceOnto.
* smalloc::CopyOnto will now throw if passed argument is not an object.
* Remove extra TargetFreeCallback function. There was a use for it when
it was working with a Local<T>, but that code has been removed making
the function superfluous.
Ben Noordhuis
isaacs
Timothy J Fontaine
Domenic Denicola
Trevor Norris
Matthew Aynalem
Fedor Indutny
Matthias Bartelmeß