According to v8.h, "the returned handle is valid until this TryCatch
block has been destroyed". This is incorrect, as can be demonstrated
with the test below. In practice the return value lives no longer and
no shorter than the active HandleScope at the time these methods are
called. An issue has been opened about this in the V8 bug tracker:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=10537.
```rust
fn try_catch_bad_lifetimes() {
let _setup_guard = setup();
let mut isolate = v8::Isolate::new(Default::default());
let mut hs = v8::HandleScope::new(&mut isolate);
let scope = hs.enter();
let context = v8::Context::new(scope);
let mut cs = v8::ContextScope::new(scope, context);
let scope = cs.enter();
let caught_msg_2 = {
let mut try_catch = v8::TryCatch::new(scope);
let try_catch = try_catch.enter();
let caught_msg_1 = {
let mut hs = v8::HandleScope::new(scope);
let scope = hs.enter();
// Throw exception #1.
let msg_1 = v8::String::new(scope, "BOOM!").unwrap();
let exc_1 = v8::Exception::type_error(scope, msg_1);
scope.isolate().throw_exception(exc_1);
// Catch exception #1.
let caught_msg_1 = try_catch.message().unwrap();
let caught_str_1 =
caught_msg_1.get(scope).to_rust_string_lossy(scope);
assert!(caught_str_1.contains("BOOM"));
// Move `caught_msg_1` out of the HandleScope it was created in.
// The borrow checker allows this because `caught_msg_1`'s
// lifetime is contrained to not outlive the TryCatch, but it is
// allowed to outlive the HandleScope that was active when the
// exception was caught.
caught_msg_1
};
// Next line crashes.
let caught_str_1 =
caught_msg_1.get(scope).to_rust_string_lossy(scope);
assert!(caught_str_1.contains("BOOM"));
// Throws exception #2.
let msg_2 = v8::String::new(scope, "DANG!").unwrap();
let exc_2 = v8::Exception::type_error(scope, msg_2);
scope.isolate().throw_exception(exc_2);
// Catch exception #2.
let caught_msg_2 = try_catch.message().unwrap();
let caught_str_2 =
caught_msg_2.get(scope).to_rust_string_lossy(scope);
assert!(caught_str_2.contains("DANG"));
// Move `caught_msg_2` out of the extent of the TryCatch, but still
// within the extent of its HandleScope. This is unnecessarily
// rejected at compile time.
caught_msg_2
};
let caught_str_2 =
caught_msg_2.get(scope).to_rust_string_lossy(scope);
assert!(caught_str_2.contains("DANG"));
}
```
The `get_current_context()` and `get_entered_or_microtask_context()`
methods now return `Option<Local<Context>>` to reflect that an isolate
may not have entered any context.
They're also moved from `Isolate` to `struct Entered` because it turns
out that the underlying V8 API calls actually create new local handles,
hence they should only be used inside an active HandleScope.
The `InContext` trait has been removed.
A test exercising `ContextScope` and the `get_*_context()` methods
mentioned above was added.
Closes: #248.
This patch clarifies that v8::Isolate is a single threaded creature,
which can only be accessed from other threads in special circumstances.
To ensure optimal operation in Deno, we remove v8::Locker, which ought
to be unnecessary when a thread is dedicated to each Isolate and the
Isolates never move between threads.
There are valid use-cases for v8::Locker, and we hope to address them in
future versions of rusty_v8.
Co-authored-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
