[fix] load data through regular json request

packages/adapter-netlify/index.js

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ async function generate_lambda_functions({ builder, publish, split }) {
 					writeFileSync(`.netlify/functions-internal/${name}.json`, fn_config);
 
 					redirects.push(`${pattern} /.netlify/functions/${name} 200`);
-					redirects.push(`${pattern}/__data.js /.netlify/functions/${name} 200`);
+					redirects.push(`${pattern}/__data.json /.netlify/functions/${name} 200`);
 				}
 			};
 		});

packages/adapter-vercel/index.js

@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ export default function ({ external = [], edge, split } = {}) {
 								sliced_pattern = '^/?';
 							}
 
-							const src = `${sliced_pattern}(?:/__data.js)?$`; // TODO adding /__data.js is a temporary workaround — those endpoints should be treated as distinct routes
+							const src = `${sliced_pattern}(?:/__data.json)?$`; // TODO adding /__data.json is a temporary workaround — those endpoints should be treated as distinct routes
 
 							await generate_function(route.id || 'index', src, entry.generateManifest);
 						}

packages/kit/src/constants.js

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ export const SVELTE_KIT_ASSETS = '/_svelte_kit_assets';
 
 export const GENERATED_COMMENT = '// this file is generated — do not edit it\n';
 
-export const DATA_SUFFIX = '/__data.js';
+export const DATA_SUFFIX = '/__data.json';

packages/kit/src/runtime/client/client.js

@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 import { onMount, tick } from 'svelte';
 import { make_trackable, decode_params, normalize_path } from '../../utils/url.js';
 import { find_anchor, get_base_uri, scroll_state } from './utils.js';
-import { lock_fetch, unlock_fetch, initial_fetch, subsequent_fetch } from './fetcher.js';
+import {
+	lock_fetch,
+	unlock_fetch,
+	initial_fetch,
+	subsequent_fetch,
+	native_fetch
+} from './fetcher.js';
 import { parse } from './parse.js';
 
 import Root from '__GENERATED__/root.svelte';
@@ -10,6 +16,7 @@ import { HttpError, Redirect } from '../control.js';
 import { stores } from './singletons.js';
 import { DATA_SUFFIX } from '../../constants.js';
 import { unwrap_promises } from '../../utils/promises.js';
+import * as devalue from 'devalue';
 
 const SCROLL_KEY = 'sveltekit:scroll';
 const INDEX_KEY = 'sveltekit:index';
@@ -1479,8 +1486,6 @@ export function create_client({ target, base, trailing_slash }) {
 	};
 }
 
-let data_id = 1;
-
 /**
  * @param {URL} url
  * @param {boolean[]} invalid
@@ -1489,25 +1494,20 @@ let data_id = 1;
 async function load_data(url, invalid) {
 	const data_url = new URL(url);
 	data_url.pathname = url.pathname.replace(/\/$/, '') + DATA_SUFFIX;
-	data_url.searchParams.set('__invalid', invalid.map((x) => (x ? 'y' : 'n')).join(''));
-	data_url.searchParams.set('__id', String(data_id++));
-
-	// The __data.js file is generated by the server and looks like
-	// `window.__sveltekit_data = ${devalue.uneval(data)}`. We do this instead
-	// of `export const data` because modules are cached indefinitely,
-	// and that would cause memory leaks.
-	//
-	// The data is read and deleted in the same tick as the promise
-	// resolves, so it's not vulnerable to race conditions
-	await import(/* @vite-ignore */ data_url.href);
 
-	// @ts-expect-error
-	const server_data = window.__sveltekit_data;
+	const res = await native_fetch(data_url.href, {
+		headers: {
+			'x-sveltekit-invalidated': invalid.map((x) => (x ? '1' : '')).join(',')
+		}
+	});
+	const server_data = await res.text();
 
-	// @ts-expect-error
-	delete window.__sveltekit_data;
+	if (!res.ok) {
+		// error message is a JSON-stringified string which devalue can't handle at the top level
+		throw new Error(JSON.parse(server_data));
+	}
 
-	return server_data;
+	return devalue.parse(server_data);
 }
 
 /**

packages/kit/src/runtime/client/fetcher.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { hash } from '../hash.js';
 
 let loading = 0;
 
-const native_fetch = window.fetch;
+export const native_fetch = window.fetch;
 
 export function lock_fetch() {
 	loading += 1;

packages/kit/src/runtime/server/data/index.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { DATA_SUFFIX } from '../../../constants.js';
  */
 export async function render_data(event, route, options, state) {
 	if (!route.page) {
-		// requesting /__data.js should fail for a +server.js
+		// requesting /__data.json should fail for a +server.js
 		return new Response(undefined, {
 			status: 404
 		});
@@ -25,10 +25,8 @@ export async function render_data(event, route, options, state) {
 		const node_ids = [...route.page.layouts, route.page.leaf];
 
 		const invalidated =
-			event.url.searchParams
-				.get('__invalid')
-				?.split('')
-				.map((x) => x === 'y') ?? node_ids.map(() => true);
+			event.request.headers.get('x-sveltekit-invalidated')?.split(',').map(Boolean) ??
+			node_ids.map(() => true);
 
 		let aborted = false;
 
@@ -38,9 +36,6 @@ export async function render_data(event, route, options, state) {
 			options.trailing_slash
 		);
 
-		url.searchParams.delete('__invalid');
-		url.searchParams.delete('__id');
-
 		const new_event = { ...event, url };
 
 		const functions = node_ids.map((n, i) => {

packages/kit/src/runtime/server/index.js

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export async function respond(request, options, state) {
 					// add headers/cookies here, rather than inside `resolve`, so that we
 					// can do it once for all responses instead of once per `return`
 					if (!is_data_request) {
-						// we only want to set cookies on __data.js requests, we don't
+						// we only want to set cookies on __data.json requests, we don't
 						// want to cache stuff erroneously etc
 						for (const key in headers) {
 							const value = headers[key];

packages/kit/src/runtime/server/page/index.js

@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ export async function render_page(event, route, page, options, state, resolve_op
 
 					if (err instanceof Redirect) {
 						if (state.prerendering && should_prerender_data) {
-							const body = `window.__sveltekit_data = ${JSON.stringify({
+							const body = devalue.stringify({
 								type: 'redirect',
 								location: err.location
-							})}`;
+							});
 
 							state.prerendering.dependencies.set(data_pathname, {
 								response: new Response(body),
@@ -260,10 +260,10 @@ export async function render_page(event, route, page, options, state, resolve_op
 		}
 
 		if (state.prerendering && should_prerender_data) {
-			const body = `window.__sveltekit_data = ${devalue.uneval({
+			const body = devalue.stringify({
 				type: 'data',
 				nodes: branch.map((branch_node) => branch_node?.server_data)
-			})}`;
+			});
 
 			state.prerendering.dependencies.set(data_pathname, {
 				response: new Response(body),

packages/kit/src/runtime/server/utils.js

@@ -70,17 +70,17 @@ export function allowed_methods(mod) {
 /** @param {any} data */
 export function data_response(data) {
 	const headers = {
-		'content-type': 'application/javascript',
+		'content-type': 'application/json',
 		'cache-control': 'private, no-store'
 	};
 
 	try {
-		return new Response(`window.__sveltekit_data = ${devalue.uneval(data)}`, { headers });
+		return new Response(devalue.stringify(data), { headers });
 	} catch (e) {
 		const error = /** @type {any} */ (e);
 		const match = /\[(\d+)\]\.data\.(.+)/.exec(error.path);
 		const message = match ? `${error.message} (data.${match[2]})` : error.message;
-		return new Response(`throw new Error(${JSON.stringify(message)})`, { headers });
+		return new Response(JSON.stringify(message), { headers, status: 500 });
 	}
 }
 

packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/client.test.js

@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ test.describe('Load', () => {
 		await expect(page.locator('p')).toHaveText('Count is 2');
 	});
 
-	test('__data.js has cache-control: private, no-store', async ({ page, clicknav }) => {
+	test('__data.json has cache-control: private, no-store', async ({ page, clicknav }) => {
 		await page.goto('/load/server-data-nostore?x=1');
 
 		const [response] = await Promise.all([

packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/test.js

@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ test.describe('Errors', () => {
 		);
 
 		const { status, name, message, stack, fancy } = read_errors(
-			'/errors/page-endpoint/get-implicit/__data.js'
+			'/errors/page-endpoint/get-implicit/__data.json'
 		);
 		expect(status).toBe(undefined);
 		expect(name).toBe('FancyError');

packages/kit/test/apps/options/test/test.js

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { parse } from 'devalue';
 import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
 import { start_server, test } from '../../../utils.js';
 
@@ -162,13 +163,10 @@ test.describe('trailingSlash', () => {
 	});
 
 	test('can fetch data from page-endpoint', async ({ request }) => {
-		const r = await request.get('/path-base/page-endpoint/__data.js');
-		const code = await r.text();
+		const r = await request.get('/path-base/page-endpoint/__data.json');
+		const data = parse(await r.text());
 
-		const window = {};
-		new Function('window', code)(window);
-
-		expect(window.__sveltekit_data).toEqual({
+		expect(data).toEqual({
 			type: 'data',
 			nodes: [null, { type: 'data', data: { message: 'hi' }, uses: {} }]
 		});
@@ -199,7 +197,7 @@ test.describe('trailingSlash', () => {
 			expect(requests.filter((req) => req.endsWith('.js')).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
 		}
 
-		expect(requests.includes(`/path-base/prefetching/prefetched/__data.js`)).toBe(true);
+		expect(requests.includes(`/path-base/prefetching/prefetched/__data.json`)).toBe(true);
 
 		requests = [];
 		await app.goto('/path-base/prefetching/prefetched');

packages/kit/test/prerendering/basics/test/test.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import { parse } from 'devalue';
 import { test } from 'uvu';
 import * as assert from 'uvu/assert';
 
@@ -25,11 +26,9 @@ test('renders a server-side redirect', () => {
 	const html = read('redirect-server.html');
 	assert.equal(html, '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://example.com/redirected">');
 
-	const code = read('redirect-server/__data.js');
-	const window = {};
-	new Function('window', code)(window);
+	const data = parse(read('redirect-server/__data.json'));
 
-	assert.equal(window.__sveltekit_data, {
+	assert.equal(data, {
 		type: 'redirect',
 		location: 'https://example.com/redirected'
 	});
@@ -77,11 +76,9 @@ test('loads a file with spaces in the filename', () => {
 	assert.ok(content.includes('<h1>answer: 42</h1>'), content);
 });
 
-test('generates __data.js file for shadow endpoints', () => {
-	const window = {};
-
-	new Function('window', read('__data.js'))(window);
-	assert.equal(window.__sveltekit_data, {
+test('generates __data.json file for shadow endpoints', () => {
+	let data = parse(read('__data.json'));
+	assert.equal(data, {
 		type: 'data',
 		nodes: [
 			null,
@@ -93,8 +90,8 @@ test('generates __data.js file for shadow endpoints', () => {
 		]
 	});
 
-	new Function('window', read('shadowed-get/__data.js'))(window);
-	assert.equal(window.__sveltekit_data, {
+	data = parse(read('shadowed-get/__data.json'));
+	assert.equal(data, {
 		type: 'data',
 		nodes: [
 			null,
@@ -109,7 +106,7 @@ test('generates __data.js file for shadow endpoints', () => {
 
 test('does not prerender page with shadow endpoint with non-load handler', () => {
 	assert.ok(!fs.existsSync(`${build}/shadowed-post.html`));
-	assert.ok(!fs.existsSync(`${build}/shadowed-post/__data.js`));
+	assert.ok(!fs.existsSync(`${build}/shadowed-post/__data.json`));
 });
 
 test('decodes paths when writing files', () => {
@@ -183,10 +180,9 @@ test('prerenders binary data', async () => {
 });
 
 test('fetches data from local endpoint', () => {
-	const window = {};
-	new Function('window', read('origin/__data.js'))(window);
+	const data = parse(read('origin/__data.json'));
 
-	assert.equal(window.__sveltekit_data, {
+	assert.equal(data, {
 		type: 'data',
 		nodes: [
 			null,

packages/kit/test/prerendering/trailing-slash/test/test.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const read = (file) => fs.readFileSync(`${build}/${file}`, 'utf-8');
 test('prerendered.paths omits trailing slashes for endpoints', () => {
 	const content = read('service-worker.js');
 
-	for (const path of ['/page/', '/page/__data.js', '/standalone-endpoint.json']) {
+	for (const path of ['/page/', '/page/__data.json', '/standalone-endpoint.json']) {
 		assert.ok(content.includes(`"${path}"`), `Missing ${path}`);
 	}
 });