process: port on-exit-leak-free to core by H4ad · Pull Request #53239 · nodejs/node

H4ad · 2024-05-31T23:02:30Z

This PR basically ports on-exit-leak-free to core, in their words:

This module helps dispose of an object gracefully when the Node.js process exits. It executes a function with a given parameter on 'exit' without leaking memory, cleaning things up appropriately if the object is garbage collected.

This module was created by @mcollina, so all the credits for him, I'm just doing the port.

Motivation

This library was proposed to be introduced on core previously on issue #48058 via the following syntax:

new FinalizationRegistry(fn, {
  runOnExit: true
})

But the main arguments against introducing it were:

By @tniessen: The usage of FinalizationRegistry is an anti-pattern, not recommended to close files automatically, and best to avoid when possible (said by the authors of the API) (ref comment)
By @aduh95: Needing a strong motivation, do not change the FinalizationRegistry since it is a standard. (ref comment)

To address the arguments above, I made some changes:

Instead of changing the standard, I introduced finalization object inside process object that wraps the methods of on-exit-leak-free.
The motivation to push this module started at on-exit-leak-free, copy or move to core? H4ad/nodejs-logging-proposal#10, where I'm trying to create a proposal to introduce a logging module to core, and this dependency is one of the dependencies that we plan to use in the implementation. Also, the module on-exit-leak-free has more than 5M downloads per month, so it's a demanded feature.

APIs Introduced

Now we have three new methods of process.finalization:

register: Accepts two arguments, objand fn, and executes the fn when the exit event is emitted.
- The fn is a function that will be called with obj registered and the event, which is exit.
registerBeforeExit: Accepts two arguments, objand fn, and executes the fn when the beforeExit event is emitted.
- The fn is a function that will be called with obj registered and the event, which is beforeExit.
unregister: Accepts one argument obj to unregister the object.

About moving away from classes (like aduh said about creating a new one), I think exposing functions was better than creating a class since we want to be able to use/call those methods in any place we want. But I'm open to better API design for these features.

TODO

I will wait for a few folks to manifest about introducing this feature (in the current state) before spending time creating documentation that could be totally changed or not used, so I will keep it as a draft for a couple of days.

Update the documentation
- Explain how to use
- Link/Include the comments about "avoid where possible" that were said by the authors of the FinalizationRegistry/WeakRef.
- Include examples of how to use this feature.

nodejs-github-bot · 2024-05-31T23:02:35Z

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mcollina

Given this is per-thread, you'd need to add some test that verifies this for multi-threading scenarios.

Can you add a reference that those were extracted by my module, with its license? Thx.

lib/internal/process/per_thread.js

LICENSE

doc/api/process.md

lib/internal/process/finalization.js

doc/api/process.md

mcollina

lgtm

nodejs-github-bot · 2024-06-09T12:48:57Z

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H4ad · 2024-06-09T14:21:49Z

/cc @nodejs/tsc pinging to give some visibility on this change since it introduces something new to process.

H4ad · 2024-06-09T16:27:04Z

Added block until friday (06/14) to see if there's any objection, otherwise I will remove blocked and merge.

ShogunPanda

LGTM!

RafaelGSS

Left a couple of comments, but, it's still unclear to me why we need it on core instead of using the npm package directly. It's not very common usage by Node.js developers I assume.

FWIW I will review it properly before the TSC meeting.

doc/api/process.md

RafaelGSS · 2024-06-10T16:05:14Z

lib/internal/process/finalization.js

+    beforeExit: onBeforeExit,
+  };
+
+  function install(event) {


I think we should emit an experimental warning here.

Added on register, registerBeforeExit and unregister.

mcollina · 2024-06-10T17:41:51Z

Left a couple of comments, but, it's still unclear to me why we need it on core instead of using the npm package directly. It's not very common usage by Node.js developers I assume.

The end goal of @H4ad is to add a logging utility to Node.js. This is needed to do it properly, i.e. flush all the buffered logs when 'exit' is emitted. (logs will be missed if this is not done)

mcollina

lgtm

H4ad · 2024-07-11T11:50:31Z

Force pushed due to the error on mac-os test.

@cjinhuo I posted a comment on your issue, but try reading the docs that this PR introduces about this feature, maybe it can help you understand what is going on.

nodejs-github-bot · 2024-07-11T14:20:06Z

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nodejs-github-bot · 2024-07-11T17:57:21Z

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PR-URL: #53239 Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chemi Atlow <chemi@atlow.co.il> Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz.nizipli@sentry.io>

Notable changes: http: * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose websockets (Natalia Venditto) #53721 module: * add __esModule to require()'d ESM (Joyee Cheung) #52166 path: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `matchGlob` method (Aviv Keller) #52881 process: * (SEMVER-MINOR) port on-exit-leak-free to core (Vinicius Lourenço) #53239 stream: * (SEMVER-MINOR) pipeline wait for close before calling the callback (jakecastelli) #53462 worker: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add postMessageToThread (Paolo Insogna) #53682 PR-URL: TODO

Notable changes: http: * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose websockets (Natalia Venditto) #53721 module: * add __esModule to require()'d ESM (Joyee Cheung) #52166 path: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `matchGlob` method (Aviv Keller) #52881 process: * (SEMVER-MINOR) port on-exit-leak-free to core (Vinicius Lourenço) #53239 stream: * (SEMVER-MINOR) pipeline wait for close before calling the callback (jakecastelli) #53462 worker: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add postMessageToThread (Paolo Insogna) #53682 PR-URL: #53826

PR-URL: #53239 Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chemi Atlow <chemi@atlow.co.il> Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz.nizipli@sentry.io>

Notable changes: http: * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose websockets (Natalia Venditto) #53721 lib: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `node:sqlite` module (Colin Ihrig) #53752 module: * add `__esModule` to `require()`'d ESM (Joyee Cheung) #52166 path: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `matchesGlob` method (Aviv Keller) #52881 process: * (SEMVER-MINOR) port on-exit-leak-free to core (Vinicius Lourenço) #53239 stream: * (SEMVER-MINOR) pipeline wait for close before calling the callback (jakecastelli) #53462 test_runner: * support glob matching coverage files (Aviv Keller) #53553 worker: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `postMessageToThread` (Paolo Insogna) #53682 PR-URL: #53826

PR-URL: nodejs#53239 Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chemi Atlow <chemi@atlow.co.il> Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz.nizipli@sentry.io>

Notable changes: http: * (SEMVER-MINOR) expose websockets (Natalia Venditto) nodejs#53721 lib: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `node:sqlite` module (Colin Ihrig) nodejs#53752 module: * add `__esModule` to `require()`'d ESM (Joyee Cheung) nodejs#52166 path: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `matchesGlob` method (Aviv Keller) nodejs#52881 process: * (SEMVER-MINOR) port on-exit-leak-free to core (Vinicius Lourenço) nodejs#53239 stream: * (SEMVER-MINOR) pipeline wait for close before calling the callback (jakecastelli) nodejs#53462 test_runner: * support glob matching coverage files (Aviv Keller) nodejs#53553 worker: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `postMessageToThread` (Paolo Insogna) nodejs#53682 PR-URL: nodejs#53826

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Not cleaning things up... mcollina/on-exit-leak-free#31

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