Closed Bug 240186 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

[FIX]GetElementsByAttribute should return live nodelists

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(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P1)

x86
Linux
defect

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla1.8alpha1

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(Reporter: bzbarsky, Assigned: bzbarsky)

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(1 file, 2 obsolete files)

I believe that making this do what other nodelists do is the right thing, if it's declared as returning an nsIDOMNodeList. If anyone objects, please let me know and justify the objections. Note that once this is done the only user of nsRDFDOMNodeList will be nsXULElement::GetChildNodes (which _definitely_ needs to be fixed to not be broken like it is), so we can look forward to eliminating nsRDFDOMNodeList.
ccing a few more people, since this will affect the various birds.
Attached file List of files I need to diff to get the patch (obsolete) (deleted) —
This is just a note-to-self. Most of XUL/JS changes are just to avoid using .length unnecessarily, but a few (especially in calendar) are correctness changes that absolutely have to be made if this list becomes live.
Yay, this sounds awesome!
Attached patch Patch (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
Attachment #145842 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Priority: -- → P1
Summary: GetElementsByAttribute should return live nodelists → [FIX]GetElementsByAttribute should return live nodelists
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.8alpha
Comment on attachment 146101 [details] [diff] [review] Patch Neil, could you review the JS changes? jst, could you review the rest?
Attachment #146101 - Flags: superreview?(jst)
Attachment #146101 - Flags: review?(neil.parkwaycc.co.uk)
Comment on attachment 146101 [details] [diff] [review] Patch Almost ok... >- nsString* mData; >+ const nsAFlatString* mData; >+ /** >+ * Whether we own mData >+ */ >+ PRPackedBool mOwnsData; Aren't string buffers smart now, so you can do nsString mData; here and mData = aData in the constructor, etc? >- if (regionElements.length) { >- contentList.selectItem(regionElements[0]); >+ var regionElement = regionElements.item(0); >+ if (regionElement) { >+ contentList.selectItem(regionElement); I prefer your FireFox version of these changes. >+ selectedItem = dataEls.item(0) ? dataEls.item(0) : defaultItem; selectedItem = dataEls.item(0) || defaultItem; Note that someone's trying to fix the JS strict warnings in this code so you might get a conflict... > // Find and select the menuitem that matches inputField's "value" > var arr = null; > var popup = this.menupopup; > > if (popup) > arr = popup.getElementsByAttribute('label', this.inputField.value); > >- if (arr && arr.length) >- this.setSelectionInternal(arr[0]); >- else >- this.setSelectionInternal(null); >+ if (arr) { >+ this.setSelectionInternal(arr.item(0)); This isn't the same. The old code would set the internal selection to null even if there wasn't a menupopup. This is necessary so that the .selectedItem getter returns null if you remove the menupopup. I think something like this would work, if you prefer it to arr && arr.item(0): var popup = this.menupopup; var item = null; if (popup) item = popup.getElementsByAttribute('label', this.inputField.value).item(0); this.setSelectionInternal(item); >- return btns.length > 0 ? btns[0] : document.getAnonymousElementByAttribute(this._wizardButtons, "dlgtype", aDlgType); >+ return btns[0] ? btns[0] : document.getAnonymousElementByAttribute(this._wizardButtons, "dlgtype", aDlgType); Again, btns.item(0) ? btns[0] : as per your FireFox version. >- for( var i = 0; i < eventBoxList.length; i++ ) { >- eventBox = eventBoxList[ i ]; >+ while (eventBoxList.item(0)) { >+ eventBox = eventBoxList[0]; > eventBox.parentNode.removeChild( eventBox ); > } Out of interest, does this continue searching the document from where it left off, or does it start from the beginning every time, or does .item(N) do a search every time anyway? Anyway, my point is that calendar might want to be able to create a backward-compatible xpi so they would need code that would work with both static and dynamic lists. >Index: toolkit/components/console/content/consoleBindings.xml >=================================================================== >RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/components/console/content/consoleBindings.xml,v >retrieving revision 1.3 >diff -u -p -d -u -8 -r1.3 consoleBindings.xml >--- toolkit/components/console/content/consoleBindings.xml 22 Oct 2003 08:00:39 -0000 1.3 >+++ toolkit/components/console/content/consoleBindings.xml 14 Apr 2004 15:56:02 -0000 >@@ -257,17 +257,17 @@ > <parameter name="aAttr"/> > <parameter name="aVal"/> > <body><![CDATA[ > var kids = document.getAnonymousNodes(this); > for (var i = 0; i < kids.length; ++i) { > if (kids[i].getAttribute(aAttr) == aVal) > return kids[i]; > var kids2 = kids[i].getElementsByAttribute(aAttr, aVal); >- if (kids2.length > 0) >+ if (kids2.item(0)) > return kids2[0]; > } > return null; > ]]></body> > </method> This code should just so not be here; it was removed from SeaMonkey, the caller now uses document.getAnonymousElementByAttribute instead.
Attachment #146101 - Flags: review?(neil.parkwaycc.co.uk) → review+
> so you can do nsString mData; here An nsString is a lot bigger than a pointer, and most content lists have no mData, so I'd rather keep this as is. > I prefer your FireFox version of these changes. Eh? I don't see a FireFox version of that change in the patch.... > so you might get a conflict... I recall. Conflicts happen. ;) > This isn't the same. Good point. Will fix. Something like: this.setSelectionInternal(arr ? arr.item(0) : null); should work, right? > Again, btns.item(0) ? btns[0] : as per your FireFox version. Oops. Forgot to fix that. Fixed. > Out of interest, does this continue searching the document from where it left I believe it searches from beginning every time; I also believe we could change that without too much hassle.... The code here may in fact be better off deleting elements off the end perf-wise; I'm not quite sure. > they would need code that would work with both static and dynamic lists Removing off the end may be the only way to do it. > This code should just so not be here Wanna file a followup bug? I'm trying to avoid making substantive changes to any of the JS/XBL stuff here. Thanks for the review!
Hmm... I must have been seeing double. Anyway, where you wrote >- if (listSelection.length) >- list.selectedItem = listSelection[0]; >+ var firstListSelection = listSelection.item(0); >+ if (firstListSelection) >+ list.selectedItem = firstListSelection; I would prefer >- if (listSelection.length) >+ if (listSelection.item(0)) as you have done everywhere else.
Ah, ok. Sure thing. Made that change.
Comment on attachment 146101 [details] [diff] [review] Patch Very nice changes! Here's some minor comments: - In nsContentList::~nsContentList(): - delete mData; + if (mOwnsData) { + delete mData; + } Seems like you could get by w/o adding mOwnsData here if you'd write the above as: + if (mData && mData != &EmptyString()) { + delete mData; + } - In nsContentList::AttributeChanged(): + if (mState == LIST_DIRTY || !mFunc) { + // Either we're already dirty or this notification doesn't affect + // whether we might match aContent. + return; + } Isn't !mFunc the more common case here? If so, test that first. + if (MayContainRelevantNodes(aContent->GetParent())) { + if (Match(aContent)) { + if (mElements.IndexOf(aContent) == -1) { + // We now match a new node. Just dirty ourselves. Kinda sucks to do a linear search here, but I guess it should be a short list in most cases. - In nsXULElement::GetElementsByAttribute(): + nsCOMPtr<nsIAtom> attrAtom(do_GetAtom(aAttribute)); + NS_ENSURE_TRUE(attrAtom, NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY); - GetElementsByAttribute(this, aAttribute, aValue, elements); + nsCOMPtr<nsIContentList> list = + new nsContentList(GetDocument(), + nsXULDocument::MatchAttribute, + aValue, + this, + PR_TRUE, + attrAtom, + kNameSpaceID_None); Seems like it might be worth changing NS_GetContentList() to take a callback function as well, and get the caching benefits that normal nsContentList cases get. If you agree, either do that, or file a followup bug on that. Either way is fine with me. sr=jst
Attachment #146101 - Flags: superreview?(jst) → superreview+
> Seems like you could get by w/o adding mOwnsData here Oh, duh. Excellent idea. > Isn't !mFunc the more common case here? If so, test that first. It is, and will do. > Kinda sucks to do a linear search here Yeah... I didn't want to dirty all content lists all the time on attr changes, though. I suppose I could just unconditionally dirty if a node had an attr change and now we match it. Would that be better? > Seems like it might be worth changing NS_GetContentList() I thought about that too, but I'd need to push more stuff up into nsContentListKey to make sure the hashing is done right. I'll file a followup on this, since it may take some thought.
(In reply to comment #11) > > Kinda sucks to do a linear search here > > Yeah... I didn't want to dirty all content lists all the time on attr changes, > though. I suppose I could just unconditionally dirty if a node had an attr > change and now we match it. Would that be better? Sounds better to me, yeah.
Attached patch Patch updated to comments (deleted) — Splinter Review
Attachment #146101 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Blocks: 121495
Checked in for 1.8a, marking fixed. I've filed bug 240572 on the hashing issue. Bug 121495 covers the XUL childNodes work. No real effect on Tp/Txul/Ts from this checkin, which is good.
Blocks: 240572
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
The changes to calendar, for example: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/calendar/resources/content&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&root=/cvsroot&file=monthView.js&rev1=1.66&rev2=1.67 which was part of the patch are causing infinite loops. Example line 671 of monthView.js ( the length of the nodelist is 1 and remains 1 )
Mea Culpa. I used the April 14th nightly which apparently didn't have the fix in. Today's build works fine.
Blocks: 242982
toolkit/browser bits have been relanded following aviary branch landing
Keywords: aviary-landing
Keywords: aviary-landing
Depends on: 271709
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
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