Thanks for the comment.  I've found a way to implement [LenientThis] using
existing V8 APIs.  (But still think it would be better to support it in
V8).  I've prepared a CL to support [LenientThis] here:
https://codereview.chromium.org/1161463009/

For the idea to use a wrapper function, the type check is done before a
callback function is called, so anyway, we need to disable V8's type
check.  I think the type check is done at:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/v8/src/builtins.cc&l=1078

I figured out that the type check is done based on v8::Signature of
v8::FunctionTemplate.  So, V8 already has a feature to disable the type
check.  If we specify the empty signature, V8 doesn't do the type check.
 (I didn't know that.)

Having said that, I think it would be much better if V8 directly supported
[LenientThis], because
disabling the type check means that there is no guarantee what
FunctionCallbackInfo::Holder() points to.  We have to carefully avoid using
FunctionCallbackInfo::Holder().  This is a security risk for us.

My expectation is:
- Blink specifies a FunctionTemplate as [LenientThis] and gives the
appropriate Signature even if [LenientThis].
- V8 always tries to find the right receiver in
FunctionTemplateInfo::GetCompatibleReceiver
  - if failed and not [LenientThis], throw a TypeError as same as now
  - if failed and [LenientThis], just return undefined.
Then, FunctionCallbackInfo::Holder() always points to the appropriate
holder.

Cheers,
Yuki Shiino


2015-06-04 16:56 GMT+09:00 Ben L. Titzer <[email protected]>:

> Is it possible to emulate these semantics with a wrapper function that
> catches type errors at the API boundary?
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Yuki Shiino <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> +cc: [email protected]
>> -cc: v8-team
>>
>> Sorry, changed the mailing list to v8-users.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Yuki Shiino
>>
>>
>> 2015-06-03 22:20 GMT+09:00 Yuki Shiino <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi V8 team,
>>>
>>> It turned out that we need to support [LenientThis] extended attribute
>>> <http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#LenientThis> sometime soon to keep the
>>> backward compatibility.  Here are the issues that need [LenientThis].
>>> https://crbug.com/472260
>>> https://crbug.com/492820
>>>
>>> Since the type checking of instances is done in V8, we need you guys'
>>> help to relax the type checking against |this|.  Could you guys help us to
>>> support [LenientThis]?
>>>
>>> The required behavior of [LenientThis] is
>>> - get: returns |undefined| if the type checking fails, instead of
>>> throwing TypeError.
>>> - set: does nothing if the type checking fails, instead of throwing
>>> TypeError.
>>>
>>> My expectation is
>>> - V8 provides an option to relax the type checking
>>> - V8 handles the required behavior above, or
>>>   V8 calls Blink binding code back even if the type doesnt match.
>>> Any other ideas are welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Yuki Shiino
>>>
>>>
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