feat: serialize DOMException per Web IDL [Serializable] - #2040
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime now supports structured cloning of ChangesDOMException Structured Cloning
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker
participant StructuredSerialization
participant WorkerWrapper
participant ReceivingIsolate
participant ParentWorker
Worker->>StructuredSerialization: Serialize message with DOMException
StructuredSerialization-->>WorkerWrapper: Provide serialized message
WorkerWrapper->>StructuredSerialization: Deserialize message
StructuredSerialization->>ReceivingIsolate: Construct DOMException
ReceivingIsolate-->>StructuredSerialization: Return reconstructed instance
StructuredSerialization-->>WorkerWrapper: Return deserialized message
WorkerWrapper->>ParentWorker: Dispatch message event
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to DOMException cloning is mergeable with bounded follow-up, but a test should confirm that a caller-set stack survives worker messaging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to DOMException now crosses existing cloning and worker-message boundaries as typed error data. The inspected controls preserve native-object restrictions and contain reconstruction failures. No material security regression was established, but incomplete security coverage limits assurance. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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DOMException carries the [Serializable] slot in Web IDL, so it must survive
structuredClone and worker postMessage rather than degrading the way a custom
Error subclass does. Node reaches that with its JSTransferable protocol; this
is the same mechanism reduced to the one class.
The dom-exception builtin gains a native half: binding.markCloneable stamps
every instance with a per-isolate v8::Private held in the runtime's
RuntimeState, unforgeable and invisible from JS. Every GetExports call site for
that builtin now goes through serialization::GetDomExceptionExports, because
GetExports consults the binding factory only on the run that populates the
cache.
The serializer delegate claims host objects unconditionally and answers
IsHostObject from the brand. That claim replaces V8's own embedder-field
detection instead of extending it, so objects with internal fields — Java
proxies, URL, URLSearchParams, ObjectManager wrappers — are claimed first and
keep their existing behavior: a DataCloneError under structuredClone, an empty
object over postMessage.
V8 forbids JS execution while a value is being read, so the payload travels
out-of-band: WriteHostObject pushes {name, message, stack} onto the
SerializedValue and writes a tag plus an index, and Deserialize constructs every
instance through the real constructor before ReadValue starts — running the
builtin on demand on a worker isolate that never touched DOMException.
Construction re-brands, so a forwarded exception serializes on the next hop.
Host objects now start with a uint32 tag (0 = degraded native wrapper, 1 =
DOMException index); the bytes never outlive the process.
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test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testRuntimeImplementedAPIs.js (1)
65-87: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert a caller-set
stackacross both serialization paths.The shared structured-clone suite checks a constructor-generated stack, but not an overridden string. The shared worker tests check DOMException fields without checking
stack, and the new worker fixture posts extracted fields rather than the DOMException itself. A regression that drops a caller-set stack from a worker message can therefore pass. Set a sentinel stack and assert it on the direct clone and on the DOMException received by the parent.Suggested fix
diff --git a/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testRuntimeImplementedAPIs.js b/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testRuntimeImplementedAPIs.js @@ it("serializes through structuredClone on this runtime", function () { - var clone = structuredClone(new DOMException("x", "AbortError")); + var original = new DOMException("x", "AbortError"); + original.stack = "DOMException stack sentinel"; + var clone = structuredClone(original); expect(clone instanceof DOMException).toBe(true); expect(clone.name).toBe("AbortError"); + expect(clone.stack).toBe("DOMException stack sentinel"); }); @@ expect(event.data.name).toBe("AbortError"); expect(event.data.message).toBe("first in this isolate"); + expect(event.data.exception instanceof DOMException).toBe(true); + expect(event.data.exception.stack).toBe("DOMException stack sentinel"); worker.terminate(); diff --git a/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/domExceptionFirstCloneWorker.js b/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/domExceptionFirstCloneWorker.js @@ get inner() { - return new DOMException("first in this isolate", "AbortError"); + var exception = new DOMException("first in this isolate", "AbortError"); + exception.stack = "DOMException stack sentinel"; + return exception; @@ postMessage({ + exception: clone.inner, isDomException: clone.inner instanceof DOMException,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 65-87: Update the structuredClone test to set a sentinel stack on
the original DOMException and assert it survives cloning. In the worker test
flow, use domExceptionFirstCloneWorker.js to set the same sentinel and post the
DOMException itself; update the parent’s onmessage assertions to verify the
received exception and its stack while preserving the existing field checks.
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Implements the
[Serializable]slot DOMException was deliberately shipped without, so it survivesstructuredCloneand workerpostMessageinstead of degrading like a custom Error subclass. Mirrors NativeScript/ios#453.Mechanism (Node's JSTransferable protocol, reduced to one class)
binding.markCloneablestamps every instance with a per-isolatev8::Private(stored in the runtime'sRuntimeStateslot bag), unforgeable and invisible from JS. All threeGetExportscall sites for the builtin — the lazy-global row, theinternal/dom-exceptionregistry row andThrowDataCloneError— now share one binding factory (serialization::DomExceptionBinding), becauseGetExportsconsults the factory only on the run that populates the cache, so a site passing a different one would win or lose by init order.HasCustomHostObjectand answersIsHostObjectwith a private-symbol check, V8's escape hatch for treating a plain JS object as a host object. That claim replaces V8's own embedder-field detection rather than adding to it, soIsHostObjectclaims anything with internal fields first — Java proxies,URL/URLPattern/URLSearchParams, ObjectManager wrappers — and those keep raisingDataCloneErrorunderstructuredCloneand keep arriving as{}overpostMessage. Cost: one private-symbol lookup per plain JS object in a serialized graph, the same price Node pays.ReadHostObjectis aV8_Fatal), so this mirrors Node'shost_objects_design:WriteHostObjectpushes{name, message, stack}onto an out-of-band list on theSerializedValueand writes only a tag + index into the stream;Deserializeconstructs every instance through the real constructor beforeReadValuestarts, andReadHostObjecthands them out by index. Construction re-brands the instance, so a forwarded exception serializes again on the next hop — and on a worker isolate that never touched DOMException, the pre-construction step runs the builtin on demand.Deserializethrows aDataCloneErrorrather than returning empty with nothing pending when the builtin cannot load, sostructuredClonenever yieldsundefinedsilently. The main-thread worker message read (WorkerWrapper::FireMessageOnParentWorkerObject) now runs under aTryCatch, so a failed read is logged instead of left pending on the isolate; the worker-side read inDrainPendingTaskswas already inside one.Wire format
Host objects now start with a uint32 tag:
0= degraded native wrapper (writes nothing else; the reader returnsObject::New, keeping today's empty-object shape),1= a uint32 index into the out-of-band DOMException payload list. The bytes never outlive the process (structuredCloneround-trips in one isolate, worker messages cross isolates in the same binary), so the format is free to evolve with the file.Policies
DOMException serializes under both
kReject(structuredClone) andkDegrade(workerpostMessage): the reject policy exists to refuse objects whose native half would be left behind, and a DOMException has none. Graph identity is preserved by V8's object-id machinery — one payload per distinct instance.Claiming is unconditional: V8 samples
HasCustomHostObjectonce perValueSerializerand never re-checks it, so a gate on "this isolate holds a DOMException" would lose the type of the isolate's first instance when a getter creates it during the very clone that carries it.Tests
postMessagein both directions — main→worker exercises the on-demand builtin run in a fresh isolate. Those specs probe whetherstructuredCloneactually carries a DOMException rather than assuming it from presence, so they self-gate on runtimes without the slot. The commit also pins the "Throw error in onerror" forward count on whetherWorkeris anEventTarget; Android's is not yet, so the legacy count of 2 stays pinned and the worker error path is untouched here.tests/testRuntimeImplementedAPIs.js: an unguardedstructuredClonecanary; a worker (tests/domExceptionFirstCloneWorker.js) whose first DOMException is born inside a getter during the clone that carries it; and a spec cloningnew java.lang.Object()andnew URL("https://example.com/")after a DOMException exists, pinning that native wrappers still raiseDataCloneError.Summary by CodeRabbit
DOMExceptioncan now be cloned withstructuredCloneand sent through worker messages, preserving its name, message, and stack.