etherpad-lite/src/tests
John McLear 9e352ca4f3
fix(clientVars): stop mutating the shared plugin registry during sanitization (#7587)
PadMessageHandler built the `pluginsSanitized` payload for clientVars by
aliasing `plugins.plugins` and then mutating each entry's `package` field
in place:

    let pluginsSanitized: any = plugins.plugins;
    Object.keys(plugins.plugins).forEach(function(element) {
      const p: any = plugins.plugins[element].package;
      pluginsSanitized[element].package = {name: p.name, version: p.version};
    });

Because `pluginsSanitized` is a reference to `plugins.plugins`, the
assignment clobbered the server-side plugin registry. After the first
pad connection, every plugin's `package` object held only `{name,
version}` — `realPath`, `path`, and `location` were gone.

Minify.ts resolves `/static/plugins/ep_*/...` URLs via
`plugin.package.realPath`. Once the field disappeared, every subsequent
static asset request for a bundled plugin 500'd with:

    TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of
    type string. Received undefined
        at Object.join (node:path:1354:7)
        at _minify (src/node/utils/Minify.ts:181:23)

Symptoms on Chromium: plugin CSS/JS assets fail to load (e.g.
/static/plugins/ep_font_size/static/css/size.css returns 500), so
plugins partially render or don't work at all. Firefox swallows the
resulting console errors quietly.

Fix: extract the sanitization into a pure helper `sanitizePluginsForWire`
that returns a fresh object graph and never touches the input. The
helper is covered by a new backend spec that:
  * verifies the sanitized output has only {name, version} in `package`
  * asserts the input registry's realPath/path/location survive the call
  * runs the call repeatedly and confirms non-destructiveness
  * mutates the returned copy and asserts the input is independent

Verified live with the dev server: before the fix, `/static/plugins/
ep_font_size/static/css/size.css` 500'd after visiting any pad; after
the fix it returns 200 both before and after pad connections.
2026-04-23 10:18:57 +01:00
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backend fix(clientVars): stop mutating the shared plugin registry during sanitization (#7587) 2026-04-23 10:18:57 +01:00
backend-new chore: moved first files to esm (#7061) 2025-08-04 19:59:28 +02:00
container Feat/oauth2 (#6281): Added oauth to API paths 2024-03-26 17:11:24 +01:00
frontend Removed deprecated js files. 2024-08-18 19:22:08 +02:00
frontend-new feat: add timeslider line numbers (#7542) 2026-04-19 11:18:54 +01:00
ratelimit Added typescript to etherpad 2024-02-05 21:13:02 +01:00
README.md restructure: move bin/ and tests/ to src/ 2021-02-04 17:15:08 -05:00
settings.json Add creator-owned pad settings defaults (#7545) 2026-04-19 11:13:44 +01:00

About this folder: Tests

Before running the tests, start an Etherpad instance on your machine.

Frontend

To run the frontend tests, point your browser to <yourdomainhere>/tests/frontend

Backend

To run the backend tests, run cd src and then npm test