worker: support MessagePort passing in messages

Support passing `MessagePort` instances through other `MessagePort`s,
as expected by the `MessagePort` spec.

Thanks to Stephen Belanger for reviewing this change in its original PR.

Refs: ayojs/ayo#106

PR-URL: #20876
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Shingo Inoue <leko.noor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: John-David Dalton <john.david.dalton@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>

Author: addaleax

doc/api/errors.md

@@ -629,6 +629,12 @@ An operation outside the bounds of a `Buffer` was attempted.
 An attempt has been made to create a `Buffer` larger than the maximum allowed
 size.
 
+<a id="ERR_CANNOT_TRANSFER_OBJECT"></a>
+### ERR_CANNOT_TRANSFER_OBJECT
+
+The value passed to `postMessage()` contained an object that is not supported
+for transferring.
+
 <a id="ERR_CANNOT_WATCH_SIGINT"></a>
 ### ERR_CANNOT_WATCH_SIGINT
 
@@ -1304,6 +1310,12 @@ strict compliance with the API specification (which in some cases may accept
 `func(undefined)` and `func()` are treated identically, and the
 [`ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE`][] error code may be used instead.
 
+<a id="ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST"></a>
+### ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST
+
+A `MessagePort` was found in the object passed to a `postMessage()` call,
+but not provided in the `transferList` for that call.
+
 <a id="ERR_MISSING_MODULE"></a>
 ### ERR_MISSING_MODULE
 

doc/api/worker.md

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the [HTML structured clone algorithm][]. In particular, it may contain circular
 references and objects like typed arrays that the `JSON` API is not able
 to stringify.
 
-`transferList` may be a list of `ArrayBuffer` objects.
+`transferList` may be a list of `ArrayBuffer` and `MessagePort` objects.
 After transferring, they will not be usable on the sending side of the channel
 anymore (even if they are not contained in `value`).
 

src/node_errors.h

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ namespace node {
 #define ERRORS_WITH_CODE(V)                                                  \
   V(ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS, RangeError)                                    \
   V(ERR_BUFFER_TOO_LARGE, Error)                                             \
+  V(ERR_CANNOT_TRANSFER_OBJECT, TypeError)                                   \
   V(ERR_CLOSED_MESSAGE_PORT, Error)                                          \
   V(ERR_CONSTRUCT_CALL_REQUIRED, Error)                                      \
   V(ERR_INDEX_OUT_OF_RANGE, RangeError)                                      \
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ namespace node {
   V(ERR_INVALID_TRANSFER_OBJECT, TypeError)                                  \
   V(ERR_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILED, Error)                                     \
   V(ERR_MISSING_ARGS, TypeError)                                             \
+  V(ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST, TypeError)                    \
   V(ERR_MISSING_MODULE, Error)                                               \
   V(ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG, Error)                                              \
 
@@ -51,11 +53,14 @@ namespace node {
 // Errors with predefined static messages
 
 #define PREDEFINED_ERROR_MESSAGES(V)                                         \
+  V(ERR_CANNOT_TRANSFER_OBJECT, "Cannot transfer object of unsupported type")\
   V(ERR_CLOSED_MESSAGE_PORT, "Cannot send data on closed MessagePort")       \
   V(ERR_CONSTRUCT_CALL_REQUIRED, "Cannot call constructor without `new`")    \
   V(ERR_INDEX_OUT_OF_RANGE, "Index out of range")                            \
   V(ERR_INVALID_TRANSFER_OBJECT, "Found invalid object in transferList")     \
-  V(ERR_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILED, "Failed to allocate memory")
+  V(ERR_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILED, "Failed to allocate memory")               \
+  V(ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST,                               \
+    "MessagePort was found in message but not listed in transferList")
 
 #define V(code, message)                                                     \
   inline v8::Local<v8::Value> code(v8::Isolate* isolate) {                   \

src/node_messaging.cc

@@ -41,14 +41,27 @@ namespace {
 // `MessagePort`s and `SharedArrayBuffer`s, and make new JS objects out of them.
 class DeserializerDelegate : public ValueDeserializer::Delegate {
  public:
-  DeserializerDelegate(Message* m, Environment* env)
-    : env_(env), msg_(m) {}
+  DeserializerDelegate(Message* m,
+                       Environment* env,
+                       const std::vector<MessagePort*>& message_ports)
+    : env_(env), msg_(m), message_ports_(message_ports) {}
+
+  MaybeLocal<Object> ReadHostObject(Isolate* isolate) override {
+    // Currently, only MessagePort hosts objects are supported, so identifying
+    // by the index in the message's MessagePort array is sufficient.
+    uint32_t id;
+    if (!deserializer->ReadUint32(&id))
+      return MaybeLocal<Object>();
+    CHECK_LE(id, message_ports_.size());
+    return message_ports_[id]->object();
+  };
 
   ValueDeserializer* deserializer = nullptr;
 
  private:
   Environment* env_;
   Message* msg_;
+  const std::vector<MessagePort*>& message_ports_;
 };
 
 }  // anonymous namespace
@@ -58,7 +71,23 @@ MaybeLocal<Value> Message::Deserialize(Environment* env,
   EscapableHandleScope handle_scope(env->isolate());
   Context::Scope context_scope(context);
 
-  DeserializerDelegate delegate(this, env);
+  // Create all necessary MessagePort handles.
+  std::vector<MessagePort*> ports(message_ports_.size());
+  for (uint32_t i = 0; i < message_ports_.size(); ++i) {
+    ports[i] = MessagePort::New(env,
+                                context,
+                                std::move(message_ports_[i]));
+    if (ports[i] == nullptr) {
+      for (MessagePort* port : ports) {
+        // This will eventually release the MessagePort object itself.
+        port->Close();
+      }
+      return MaybeLocal<Value>();
+    }
+  }
+  message_ports_.clear();
+
+  DeserializerDelegate delegate(this, env, ports);
   ValueDeserializer deserializer(
       env->isolate(),
       reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(main_message_buf_.data),
@@ -83,6 +112,10 @@ MaybeLocal<Value> Message::Deserialize(Environment* env,
       deserializer.ReadValue(context).FromMaybe(Local<Value>()));
 }
 
+void Message::AddMessagePort(std::unique_ptr<MessagePortData>&& data) {
+  message_ports_.emplace_back(std::move(data));
+}
+
 namespace {
 
 // This tells V8 how to serialize objects that it does not understand
@@ -97,12 +130,43 @@ class SerializerDelegate : public ValueSerializer::Delegate {
     env_->isolate()->ThrowException(Exception::Error(message));
   }
 
+  Maybe<bool> WriteHostObject(Isolate* isolate, Local<Object> object) override {
+    if (env_->message_port_constructor_template()->HasInstance(object)) {
+      return WriteMessagePort(Unwrap<MessagePort>(object));
+    }
+
+    THROW_ERR_CANNOT_TRANSFER_OBJECT(env_);
+    return Nothing<bool>();
+  }
+
+  void Finish() {
+    // Only close the MessagePort handles and actually transfer them
+    // once we know that serialization succeeded.
+    for (MessagePort* port : ports_) {
+      port->Close();
+      msg_->AddMessagePort(port->Detach());
+    }
+  }
+
   ValueSerializer* serializer = nullptr;
 
  private:
+  Maybe<bool> WriteMessagePort(MessagePort* port) {
+    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < ports_.size(); i++) {
+      if (ports_[i] == port) {
+        serializer->WriteUint32(i);
+        return Just(true);
+      }
+    }
+
+    THROW_ERR_MISSING_MESSAGE_PORT_IN_TRANSFER_LIST(env_);
+    return Nothing<bool>();
+  }
+
   Environment* env_;
   Local<Context> context_;
   Message* msg_;
+  std::vector<MessagePort*> ports_;
 
   friend class worker::Message;
 };
@@ -131,7 +195,7 @@ Maybe<bool> Message::Serialize(Environment* env,
       Local<Value> entry;
       if (!transfer_list->Get(context, i).ToLocal(&entry))
         return Nothing<bool>();
-      // Currently, we support ArrayBuffers.
+      // Currently, we support ArrayBuffers and MessagePorts.
       if (entry->IsArrayBuffer()) {
         Local<ArrayBuffer> ab = entry.As<ArrayBuffer>();
         // If we cannot render the ArrayBuffer unusable in this Isolate and
@@ -144,6 +208,12 @@ Maybe<bool> Message::Serialize(Environment* env,
         array_buffers.push_back(ab);
         serializer.TransferArrayBuffer(id, ab);
         continue;
+      } else if (env->message_port_constructor_template()
+                    ->HasInstance(entry)) {
+        MessagePort* port = Unwrap<MessagePort>(entry.As<Object>());
+        CHECK_NE(port, nullptr);
+        delegate.ports_.push_back(port);
+        continue;
       }
 
       THROW_ERR_INVALID_TRANSFER_OBJECT(env);
@@ -167,6 +237,8 @@ Maybe<bool> Message::Serialize(Environment* env,
                                contents.ByteLength() });
   }
 
+  delegate.Finish();
+
   // The serializer gave us a buffer allocated using `malloc()`.
   std::pair<uint8_t*, size_t> data = serializer.Release();
   main_message_buf_ =

src/node_messaging.h

@@ -37,9 +37,14 @@ class Message {
                             v8::Local<v8::Value> input,
                             v8::Local<v8::Value> transfer_list);
 
+  // Internal method of Message that is called once serialization finishes
+  // and that transfers ownership of `data` to this message.
+  void AddMessagePort(std::unique_ptr<MessagePortData>&& data);
+
  private:
   MallocedBuffer<char> main_message_buf_;
   std::vector<MallocedBuffer<char>> array_buffer_contents_;
+  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<MessagePortData>> message_ports_;
 
   friend class MessagePort;
 };

test/parallel/test-message-port-message-port-transferring.js

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Flags: --experimental-worker
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+const { MessageChannel } = require('worker');
+
+{
+  const { port1: basePort1, port2: basePort2 } = new MessageChannel();
+  const {
+    port1: transferredPort1, port2: transferredPort2
+  } = new MessageChannel();
+
+  basePort1.postMessage({ transferredPort1 }, [ transferredPort1 ]);
+  basePort2.on('message', common.mustCall(({ transferredPort1 }) => {
+    transferredPort1.postMessage('foobar');
+    transferredPort2.on('message', common.mustCall((msg) => {
+      assert.strictEqual(msg, 'foobar');
+      transferredPort1.close(common.mustCall());
+      basePort1.close(common.mustCall());
+    }));
+  }));
+}