On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 6:13 PM Ian Clelland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, that is exactly the situation outlined as a risk. I'm still running
> some HTTPArchive queries, but didn't immediately see much there.
>
> I expect that +Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> may have more
> context on the changes here, but my understanding is that WebIDL has been
> moving towards this for some time.
>
> The issues I'm aware of are on WebIDL:
> https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/350 renames "NoInterfaceObject"
> to "LegacyNoInterfaceObject"
> https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/365 starts mandating the use of
> "Exposed" in all interfaces
>
> Reporting specifically was updated in 2019, with
> https://github.com/w3c/reporting/pull/173, after
> https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/pull/423 made Exposed mandatory.
>

Is it possible to rename these exposed interfaces to something less
generic, that's less likely to collide?


>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:18 AM Rick Byers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I did a quick GitHub search and quickly found this
>> <https://github.com/xuehuibo/MobileQueryPlatform/blob/master/MobileQueryPlatform/MobileQueryPlatform/Views/Home/ReportMenu.cshtml>:
>> :-(
>>
>>   if (window.Report == undefined) {
>>         Tools.Namespace.register("window.Report");
>>     }
>>
>> And then a bunch of downstream code expecting to build stuff up on
>> window.Report. I didn't try to find out where or how much this is used, but
>> it's certainly not promising.
>>
>> Where is this decision to expose all interface objects by default coming
>> from? Are we sure it's the right thing for the web when the global
>> namespace is shared between the platform and application code?
>>
>> Sorry Ian, I know I said I thought this should be a simple one :-). If we
>> have data that it looks very rare, then I'm still happy to approve. I'm
>> just wondering now about the bigger picture of this class of changes.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 9:52 AM Yoav Weiss <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> As this is not actually a feature, but a spec alignment effort, I think
>>> it makes sense to skip TAG reviews and vendor positions for this.
>>>
>>> I'm slightly concerned about `Report` collisions. Would you be able to
>>> run a quick HTTPArchive scan for "window.Report" and "self.Report" and see
>>> what that gives? ("var Report" would just unconditionally override it, so
>>> that's not an issue)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 2:55 PM Ian Clelland <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Contact [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> Specificationhttps://w3c.github.io/reporting/#idl-index
>>>>
>>>> Summary
>>>>
>>>> Several interface objects used by the Reporting API were originally not
>>>> exposed as symbols on the JavaScript global object. This includes Report,
>>>> ReportBody, and the various specific report body types such as
>>>> CSPViolationReportBody and DeprecationReportBody. This change exposes those
>>>> objects on the window (or worker global), bringing the implementation in
>>>> line with the specification.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Blink componentBlink>ReportingObserver
>>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EReportingObserver>
>>>>
>>>> TAG review
>>>>
>>>> TAG review statusNot applicable
>>>>
>>>> Risks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>>
>>>> The main risk here is that the newly-exposed symbols will collide with
>>>> symbols defined in existing scripts. Most of the names are quite specific,
>>>> but "Report" and "ReportBody" may have some existing use. However, this is
>>>> unlikely to be a problem in practice, as most code which uses these names
>>>> for its own variables will also continue to work; redefining them in a
>>>> local script should not have any effect on either the script or the
>>>> Reporting API. One possibility for breakage would be a script that defines,
>>>> say, a "Report" object, (unrelated to the Reporting API,) but does so only
>>>> if it did not previously exist. In that case, the hypothetical script would
>>>> *not* define its own Report, and would presumably attempt to use the
>>>> newly-exposed interface object. In order for this to be a real issue, a
>>>> script would have to: 1. Use one of these symbol names, down to
>>>> capitalization. I suspect that "Report" is the most probable, with the
>>>> various ReportBody types being far less likely candidates for collision 2.
>>>> Specifically guard against re-defining the symbol, even though it's not
>>>> currently platform-exposed anywhere. This would likely only occur if some
>>>> initialization code was expected to be run multiple times blindly. (Blink's
>>>> web test result page, for instance, uses "Report" as an object name, but
>>>> defines it unconditionally, so it will simply shadow the interface object.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Gecko*: No signal
>>>>
>>>> *WebKit*: No signal
>>>>
>>>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>>>
>>>> *Other signals*:
>>>>
>>>> Ergonomics
>>>>
>>>> None
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Activation
>>>>
>>>> None
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Security
>>>>
>>>> None
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WebView application risks
>>>>
>>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such
>>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Debuggability
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows,
>>>> Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes
>>>>
>>>> This is a change to the IDL for these interfaces, and is automatically
>>>> supported by all Blink platforms.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>> ?Yes
>>>>
>>>> Flag name
>>>>
>>>> Requires code in //chrome?False
>>>>
>>>> Tracking bug
>>>> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1122656
>>>>
>>>> Estimated milestones
>>>>
>>>> M110
>>>>
>>>> Anticipated spec changes
>>>>
>>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
>>>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
>>>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
>>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
>>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5977883141472256
>>>>
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