fix(extensions): one AST walker, and fail closed when a node type cannot be walked - #3070
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`bounded-walk.ts` claimed to be "the single traversal used by every AST
consumer here", while `host/source-wrap.ts` ran a second hand-written
traversal with its own private `MAX_AST_DEPTH = 1000` and its own generic
child enumeration — two walkers and two constants, with a comment telling
the next reader the second one did not exist.
`checkBannedConstructs` now calls `walkBounded`. The duplicate constant
and the generic `childNodes` helper are gone. `acorn-walk`'s `base` does
report fewer nodes than the property crawl (non-computed member
properties, plain object keys, labels, `ExportSpecifier`s, pattern
`Property` wrappers), but not fewer banned ones: a differential run over
59 sources placing each banned construct in an exotic position found no
banned node the crawl reached and `base` missed. Accept/reject depths are
unchanged, and a test pins `wrapEntrySource` against `validateCode`
across the boundary so a future divergence fails.
`walkBounded` also reported a node it had no `base` for and then skipped
its entire subtree, silently. Every caller is a scanner looking for what
it must not find, so that was a scan failing open — `validateCode`
returned `ok`, `inferCapabilities` published an under-counted set, and
`wrapEntrySource` wrapped the script, none of them able to tell "found
nothing" from "never looked". The result now carries `unwalkableTypes`
and all three callers treat it as they already treat `depthExceeded`.
Not reachable on acorn 8.18.0 / acorn-walk 8.3.5 — the tests reproduce
the skew by removing one `base` entry rather than waiting for an upgrade.
Two docstrings named a number acorn does not have ("roughly 1200 source
levels", "roughly twice this depth"). Measured on Node 22, the same
script parses at 1100 source levels and aborts the process at 1200 in a
default-stack run (exit 134, not a catchable error), is rejected at 1200
under vitest's workers, and parses at 4000 under `--stack-size=4000`.
The parser's give-up point is a property of the host's remaining stack,
which is the argument for a fixed heap-based bound. `MAX_AST_DEPTH` is
unchanged at 1000.
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR centralizes bounded AST traversal and makes unknown-node handling fail closed across validation, capability inference, and source wrapping. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the remaining test-fixture naming cleanup is localized and non-blocking. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ExtensionSource
participant walkBounded
participant validateCode
participant inferCapabilities
ExtensionSource->>walkBounded: parse and bounded-traverse AST
walkBounded-->>validateCode: depthExceeded and unwalkableTypes
validateCode-->>ExtensionSource: validation result or invalid_value error
walkBounded-->>inferCapabilities: depthExceeded and unwalkableTypes
inferCapabilities-->>ExtensionSource: capabilities, observations, or parseErrors
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…ched, not absent The changeset claimed "no node type acorn emits today is missing a base". Enumerated against acorn-walk 8.3.5: `ExportSpecifier` has no `base` entry. It never triggers `unwalkableTypes` because `base.ExportNamedDeclaration` does not descend into `specifiers`, so the walk never dispatches on it — but the claim as written was wrong, and it is the sentence the "not reachable today" argument rests on. Narrowed to what was actually verified.
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In `@packages/extensions/src/host/source-wrap.test.ts`:
- Around line 322-329: Update WallReport.add to access the IFC EXPRESS
attributes wall.GlobalId and wall.Name instead of the unsupported lowercase
aliases, while preserving the existing unnamed fallback and row structure.
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| class WallReport { | ||
| #rows = []; | ||
| static HEADER = ['GlobalId', 'Name']; | ||
| static { WallReport.created = 0; } | ||
| add(wall) { | ||
| this.#rows.push([wall.globalId, wall.name ?? '(unnamed)']); | ||
| } | ||
| get rows() { return this.#rows; } |
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Use IFC EXPRESS attribute names in the script fixture.
Replace wall.globalId with wall.GlobalId. Replace wall.name with wall.Name. The current fixture presents unsupported aliases as realistic extension code.
As per coding guidelines, “User-facing APIs/exports/scripts use exact IFC EXPRESS names: PascalCase attributes (GlobalId, Name, ObjectType).”
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In `@packages/extensions/src/host/source-wrap.test.ts` around lines 322 - 329,
Update WallReport.add to access the IFC EXPRESS attributes wall.GlobalId and
wall.Name instead of the unsupported lowercase aliases, while preserving the
existing unnamed fallback and row structure.
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Self-review: sound, one stale number corrected. The post-review A broad ES2025 corpus — import attributes, static blocks, private fields, labels, optional chaining, generators, patterns, tagged templates, Also verified Fail-closed surfaces at all three callers ( The correction: reverting the fix reds 8 tests across all three callers plus the walker. The body says 7. Everything else in it reproduces. |
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The red is one assertion, and it is the fixture self-check, not the walker. That is the good outcome and worth reading carefully before changing anything.
for (const v of verdicts) {
expect(`${v.n}:${v.wrap}`).toBe(`${v.n}:${v.validate}`); // PASSES for every depth
}
// The range really does straddle the bound.
expect(verdicts.some((v) => v.wrap)).toBe(true); // passes
expect(verdicts.some((v) => !v.wrap)).toBe(true); // FAILSThe parity loop passes at every depth. Why arrows cannot straddle that rangeThe two shapes cost different amounts of AST depth per source level. Measured locally with this repo's acorn (8.18.0):
An arrow link costs one. So the array was tuned for the 2x shape and reused for the 1x shape, where the same numbers only reach about half the depth. To straddle with arrows you need n past 500 — and locally acorn stops parsing before that. That last part is environment-dependent and I am not claiming it holds on CI: your own docblock documents that the give-up point is a property of the host's remaining stack, and that a default-stack run, a vitest worker and The assertion is right and I would not weaken itThis is a differential test, and a differential only audits what differs. Two implementations that agree because neither reaches the boundary prove nothing, and that failure mode is invisible without exactly this check. It is the same shape as an oracle built from the code it checks. So: the straddle assertion caught a vacuous half of its own parity test. Deleting it, or relaxing it to Two ways forward, and the choice matters
I lean to (2), because (1) makes a test depend on stack size and the whole argument for a fixed bound is that the boundary must not. Either way the useful thing this failure surfaced: the depth bound is expressed in AST levels, so its effective source-level threshold varies by construct — 500 Unrelated noise, so nobody chases it: the |
…not straddle the bound
The parity test ran one DEPTHS list over both shapes and asserted the
range straddles the accept/reject boundary. It does for if-blocks. It
does not for arrow chains, and the straddle half was passing for the
wrong reason.
Measured in a vitest worker here: an arrow chain of 400 links parses and
is accepted; 425 fails to parse at all with 'Not enough stack space to
parse input'. So every rejected arrow verdict in the old list (450, 475,
490, 499, 500, 501, 600, 900) was acorn giving up on the parse, never
the depth bound. Both entry points agreed because both hit the same
parse failure — a real verdict for an unrelated reason, and one that
moves with the host's remaining stack, which is the exact dependency
MAX_AST_DEPTH exists to keep out of the answer. A probe run recorded
500/501/600 as ACCEPTED and 450-499 as rejected in the same process:
non-monotonic, i.e. noise.
The bound counts AST levels: an arrow link costs one where 'if (1) {}'
costs two, so it takes ~1000 links to reach 1000 levels and the parser
gives out first. Arrows cannot straddle.
- if-block parity keeps its depths and keeps the straddle assertion
- arrow parity moves to depths acorn parses here (10/100/200/300), keeps
the parity assertion, and asserts uniform acceptance instead of a
straddle it cannot have
- a new test pins the 1:2 cost ratio directly, via an independent
iterative crawl over acorn's tree rather than walkBounded
- MAX_AST_DEPTH's docblock states the asymmetry alongside the if ratio
Verified by mutation: with MAX_AST_DEPTH lowered to 200 the new arrow
test fails, so uniform acceptance is pinned, not assumed.
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You are right that the red is the fixture self-check rather than the walker — and it is worse than vacuous. Fixed, pushed The arrow half was passing for the wrong reasonProbing Every "rejection" at 450/475/490/499/500/501/600/900 was acorn failing to parse — never the depth bound. And an earlier probe in the same process recorded 500/501/600 as accepted while 450–499 were rejected. Non-monotonic, so it is noise, and it flakes rather than fails honestly. So the straddle assertion could not have meant what it claimed even when green. CI just caught it on the run where the noise fell the other way. Fixed, taking your option (2)
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Three findings in already-merged code from #3025/#3027, found by an adversarial pass over our own PRs.
1. "The single traversal" was not single
bounded-walk.ts:16-19claimed "This module is the single traversal used by every AST consumer here… Callers vary the visitor; they do not re-implement the traversal."source-wrap.ts:179re-implemented it, with its own privateMAX_AST_DEPTH = 1000and its own genericchildNodesenumeration instead ofacorn-walk'sbase. #3025 landed the private copy; #3027 landed the "single traversal" module one commit later and did not migrate it. Two constants, two walkers, and a comment telling the next reader the second does not exist.Migrated rather than documented.
checkBannedConstructsnow callswalkBounded; the private constant, the localAstNode/isAstNodeand the genericchildNodesare deleted.grep -rn MAX_AST_DEPTHoverpackages+appsnow shows exactly one definition.What the two enumerations differ on, established by a differential over 59 sources placing each banned construct in an exotic position (acorn 8.18.0 / acorn-walk 8.3.5):
baseomitsIdentifier(non-computed member properties, plain object keys, labels, import/export local bindings),PrivateIdentifier,ExportSpecifier, and thePropertywrapper inside object patterns.That last looked like a real loss —
const { a = import("m") } = oreports a missedPropertywhose subtree holds anImportExpression. Tracing the visit showedbase.ObjectPatterndescendsprop.valuedirectly, so theImportExpressionis still reached. Refined to "is any banned node itself missed", the answer across the corpus is no: none of the omitted types can be a banned node, and none is the sole path to one.Behaviour unchanged where it matters, measured before and after:
wrapEntrySourceandvalidateCodeboth accept if-nesting at 499 and reject at 500, and both reject arrow chains at 480 while accepting 400 — identical either side of the migration.One hazard handled:
walkBoundedreports skip-through nodes twice (once under acorn-walk's synthetic key, once under the real type), so the visitor switches on the suppliedtypekey rather thannode.type. A test pins "reports each banned construct exactly once".2. A fail-open branch in a security validator
bounded-walk.ts:126-131reported an unknown node type and silently skipped its entire subtree, without settingdepthExceeded.acorn-walkthrows on a missing base precisely so this cannot pass unnoticed.validateCodeis a banned-construct scanner, so a skipped subtree is a scan that fails open and a caller that sees a clean pass.RED, constructed by injecting the skew rather than waiting for it: a helper deletes one
acorn-walkbaseentry (TryStatement) for the duration of the call and restores it infinally. With the fix disabled, 7 tests fail — includinga banned
evalpassing a security scan clean.BoundedWalkResultnow carriesunwalkableTypes(deduped; the walk continues through siblings so the rest of the tree is still scanned). All three callers surface it, each mirroring its existingdepthExceededhandling:validateCodepushes aninvalid_valueerror naming the types →ok: false;inferCapabilitiespushes aparseErrorsentry and returns an empty capability set, the channelmigrateSavedScriptsand the promote dialog already use to refuse;wrapEntrySourcereturns errors instead of a wrap. Each has its own test, so no flag goes unread.Not reachable against acorn 8.18 / acorn-walk 8.3.5 today — it becomes live the first time acorn is upgraded ahead of acorn-walk.
3. Two numbers that would have justified raising the bound
Both were framed as properties of acorn. Measured on Node 22.13.1, one process per data point:
FATAL ERROR: RegExpCompiler Allocation failed, exit 134, not catchable.node --stack-size=4000, 4000 parses fine.So the docstring no longer quotes a floor. It says the give-up point is the host's remaining stack, and notes that one of the three failure modes is an uncatchable abort — which strengthens the case for the fixed heap bound rather than weakening it. The same claim is corrected in the still-pending changeset
bounded-ast-walk-for-author-source.md, which would otherwise ship into the changelog.MAX_AST_DEPTHis unchanged. A prior pass established it fires at 500 source levels while acorn parses far deeper in-process, so the limit sits below the ceiling it protects. The earlier non-monotonic evidence — "400 ok, 600 threw, 700 ok, 800 threw" — was a stack-budget boundary, not a property of the input.Adversarial checks
Passes with the change reverted? No — 7 tests go red. The parity test is the one exception and it is labelled as such: it is a drift guard, not a RED, because the two paths already agreed. To show it is not vacuous, a simulated divergence (making
validateCodereject at a different threshold) fails it, and it asserts its depth range straddles the boundary in both directions.Does it now reject valid source? No. A realistic 30-line extension entry — class with a private field,
static {}block, getter, labelled loop withcontinue label, optional chaining, template literal, destructuring default, computed key, try/catch — wraps clean and validates clean, asserted in two tests.Per-banned-construct verification, 16 cases:
ImportDeclaration,ExportNamedDeclaration,ExportDefaultDeclaration,ExportAllDeclarationandImportExpression, each in a class static block, computed key, object value, default parameter, destructuring default, template literal, behind optional chaining, class field initialiser, getter body, under a label, in a catch clause, and with import attributes. A silent coverage loss in a security scanner is the worst outcome here, so it is enumerated rather than assumed.packages/extensions810 → 841 tests, 60 files, all passing.tsc --noEmitclean,typecheck-testsOK, oxlint clean,check-changesetsclean.The changeset states these are latent, not live, names the exact acorn/acorn-walk versions the "not reachable today" claim rests on, and says the differential was run rather than reasoned.
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