Previously, when wrapping errors in wrapError, if the error was not an
actual error object, we wouldn't set the cause property on the wrapping
error correctly. The "instanceof Error" check is simply there so that we
can know whether we can add the original errors message to the wrapping
error, but the line that sets the error's cause was mistakenly moved
into that condition.
This commit also fixes the wrapping error's message in the case of
non-Error objects, to avoid having "the following error occurred in
hookname:" with nothing after the colon which is confusing/misleading.
This commit makes all errors thrown in owl use a custom error class. The
main point of this is to always wrap user-code errors that happen during
the owl lifecycle so that they can be treated uniformly in onError by
checking the cause property, and also allows user code to differenciate
owl errors from non-owl errors reliably at runtime.
Before this commit, wrapping an error occurring in async code
would result in an unhandledpromise exception, because we created
another promise, that would be rejected and that we didn't catch.
Before this commit, whenever Owl encounter a t-if, it generates an
anchor (a "hole") in the current block being compiled. However, in some
cases, the content of the t-if may not have any content at all, and the
anchor is then useless. Worse, the code generating the anchor generates
an index based on the number of sub blocks, but if there is no content,
the next anchor being created will have the same index, which then may
cause weird bugs.
A possible way to fix this could be to make sure we increment properly
the anchor index, but we could even do better: not having an anchor at
all.
Before this commit, the generated code for the component directive was
using the current context as the place to look for static informations
(such as the sub components). However, it is not entirely correct, since
the current context may be different than the current component (which
is easily accessed by using the this variable).
Also, while doing this, we fix some issues in the t-set directive, which
as calling lazy values with the wrong this.
Before this commit, using t-on on t-component was not correctly
implemented by owl: when more than one component shared the same
parentelement and have an handler with the same name, the second handler
would override the first (using an internal key). With this commit, we
simply recreate event handler for each instance of a catcher block. Note
that it means that using t-on on components is slightly slower now.
Also, this commit fixes an additional issue that was noticed: the
catcher block would not update its internal handler properly, so it
would not behave properly after being patched.
closes#1199
Before this commit, Owl had a bad interaction with the static
defaultProps code. The props comparison would be done with the new props
object (unmodified) and the current props object (with default props
applied), so the comparison would always return false, which in turn,
causes additional useless renderings.
This commit modifies component node to keep a reference to the
(unmodified) props object so we can compare it as expected.
This commit reworks the props validation code in order to extract a
generic validate utility function. The validation should be more robust,
with better error messages, and at the same time, it supports `*` in a
shape object.
And as a bonus, it is now typesafe, and the static props object is now
typed.
closes#1190
Previously, components would automatically call useState on their props,
so that changes deeply within props would automatically cause the
component to be rendered. This can be useful when passing a piece of
state to children or descendants.
One problem with this is that all props implicitly become reactive, even
if the object that was passed as a props was not. The problem with that
being that since the original object is not reactive, any change made by
the parent will not go through the reactivity system and the children
won't be notified of the change, in essence, this reactive object is
essentially useless, while having a real cost: traversing reactive
objects creates more reactive objects, and those objects are all
proxies. This is expensive for basically no benefit, while also making
it more difficult to debug code that involves those objects.
This commit fixes that by only calling useState on objects that are
already reactive, allowing the usecase described in the first paragraph
without the drawbacks described in the second.
With this commit, props validation error messages will include a more
developer-friendly error message, avoiding the need to investigate in
the Developer Tools why a complex props structure is invalid.
If you declare a child component which is not actually a Component,
the error message is not very friendly and not very helpfull to find
what happens and which child component is wrong.
```
const ChildComponent = "not a component constructor";
class MyComponent extends Component {
static components = { ChildComponent };
}
```
This commit improves the type declaration for those working with Typescript
and adds a runtime check for javascript codebases
Before this commit, there were 2 different ways of generating variable
identifiers. And it was possible to have a situation with two different
variable in a template with the same identifier, which caused a crash.
This commit ensures that we go through a unique helper method, so this
cannot occur anymore. Also, the code is slightly simpler.
Previously, if a fiber was delayed because one of its ancestors was
rendering, and that fiber was not a root fiber, it would be rendered
after all its ancestors had finished rendering even if one of those
ancestor renderings cancelled it.
This commit fixes that by simply checking that a delayed fiber is still
its component node's current fiber before rendering it.
With this commit, we make sure that the `render` method was explicitely
called with the deep === true argument, instead of assuming that it is a
boolean. This prevents errors when some unrelated value is given to the
render method. This could happen in some cases, such as
useBus(someBus, 'someevent', this.render)
In that case, the `useBus` code would simply call the this.render with a
customevent, which would be considered truthy before, and not anymore
Before this commit, the list of all children was managed at the level of
the root fiber, but this could cause issue when subfibers would be
reused. With this commit, we use the childrenMap object that exists on
each fiber instead.
Canceling a fiber may cause user code to be run, which means that some
new renderings could be scheduled, but this could interfere with the
current renderings!
A little typo was preventing a dynamic t-slot with a scope
(`<t t-slot="{{ state.name }}" myScope="someValue" />`)
to work properly.
This commit corrects this.
Before this commit, a t-set-slot that has no content was not even compiled, and thus not passed
to the component for which it has was defined
After this commit, we allow a t-set-slot to have no content (because it can have slot props)
This is a breaking semantic change. With this commit, the UI is frozen
whenever owl is waiting for a parent to change
Also, this allows Owl not to render components that will be removed
later.
This commit adds a warning when an async hook
(onWillUpdateProps/onWillStart) takes longer than 3 seconds, as these
hooks block the rendering and patching of the application, it is rarely
desirable and often a sign of a deadlock. This warning will contain the
stack trace of the call to the hook to help in debugging.
Before this commit, if the effect function would throw, then the cleanup
function would not be properly assigned, which caused additional errors
later, when the cleanup code would try to call it.
closes#1149
Previously, we were wrapping the entire renderFn in a try/catch, causing
errors during template execution to be caught and wrapped by
onWillRender/onRendered which is undesirable. Now we only wrap the hook
that's being registered.
With this commit, component only render child
components if they have different props (shallow
equality). Otherwise, we trust the reactivity
system to make sure that all impacted components
are updated
Previously, a crash in a lifecycle hook for any reason would throw an
error whose stack trace started from the scheduler and contained only
the place where the hook was called by owl, but not the place where the
hook was registered by the user. This proved very difficult for users to
debug as they cannot really tell which component registered that hook.
This commit alleviates the issue by creating a new Error when the hook
is originally called, and wrapping the registered callback in a try
catch, throwing an error with the correct stack trace instead of the
error in the hook, and setting the error in the hook as the cause of
this synthetic error.
Samuel Degueldre