fix(cjs): defer conditional CommonJS require() init instead of hoisting (#10437) - #10674
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…ng (#10437) Perry's CJS->ESM wrap turned every literal require('S') in a wrapped file into a hoisted static import, eager-initializing the target regardless of whether the surrounding control flow ever reaches the call. function_local_specs only kept a require() lazy when every call site sat inside a function body; a top-level if/for/while/switch/try/ &&/?: guard (including pg's own if (forceNative) { require('./native') }) still forced eager init. Broaden the classification to also cover a control-flow block (if/for/while/switch/catch/with/else/try/do/finally) and a braceless/operator equivalent (cond && require(...), cond ? require(...) : x, for (...) require(...) with no block) -- matching Node's actual 'loads only when control flow reaches it' semantics. An ordinary object literal, class body, or bare grouping block does not count (the common module.exports = { fs: require('fs') } barrel shape stays eager), and a process.platform === '<literal>' guard (node-pty's Windows/Unix terminal split) is exempted since the platform is a compile-time-known build target, not a runtime unknown. This was the sole remaining blocker compiling pg from source: pg crashed at init with Cannot find module 'pg-native' even though its guarding forceNative check was false. Fixes #10437.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesCommonJS conditional require handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CJSModule
participant function_local_specs
participant collect_modules
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CJSModule->>function_local_specs: provide literal require call sites
function_local_specs->>collect_modules: mark conditionally reached specs as deferred
collect_modules->>CJSModule: emit _lazyreq_N binding
CJSModule->>RuntimeRequire: invoke require when control flow reaches the call
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In `@changelog.d/10674-cjs-conditional-require-deferred.md`:
- Around line 7-8: Update the changelog wording around the deferred
conditional-require behavior to state that only a require in the ternary
consequent arm, such as cond ? require(...) : x, is deferred. Do not claim that
requires in either ternary arm are deferred, and preserve the existing
descriptions of the other supported conditional contexts.
In `@crates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/extract_requires.rs`:
- Around line 508-510: Update the predecessor scan in the require-detection
helper around the visible `masked` and `two` checks to skip enclosing grouping
parentheses before evaluating `&&`, `||`, `??`, ternary, and braceless-control
guards. Ensure parenthesized calls remain lazy in short-circuit and conditional
expressions, and add regression coverage for parenthesized operator and ternary
require calls.
- Line 546: Update the captures loop over source in the platform-guard
extraction logic to validate each matched if token against
strip_comments_and_strings(source) before exempting either branch, so comments
and string literals cannot add entries to platform_guarded_specs while real
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Limit the ternary claim to the consequent arm.
The implementation deliberately leaves cond ? x : require(...) eager. This entry says that any ternary arm is deferred. Change the wording to identify only cond ? require(...) : x, or document the alternate-arm limitation.
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In `@changelog.d/10674-cjs-conditional-require-deferred.md` around lines 7 - 8,
Update the changelog wording around the deferred conditional-require behavior to
state that only a require in the ternary consequent arm, such as cond ?
require(...) : x, is deferred. Do not claim that requires in either ternary arm
are deferred, and preserve the existing descriptions of the other supported
conditional contexts.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Handle grouping parentheses before checking the guard.
false && (require("./missing")) reaches this helper with ( immediately before require. The helper returns false, so the wrapper eagerly initializes ./missing and throws during module initialization. Node never evaluates that call.
Skip enclosing grouping parentheses before checking &&, ||, ??, ternary, and braceless-control predecessors. Add regression coverage for parenthesized operator and ternary calls.
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In `@crates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/extract_requires.rs` around lines
508 - 510, Update the predecessor scan in the require-detection helper around
the visible `masked` and `two` checks to skip enclosing grouping parentheses
before evaluating `&&`, `||`, `??`, ternary, and braceless-control guards.
Ensure parenthesized calls remain lazy in short-circuit and conditional
expressions, and add regression coverage for parenthesized operator and ternary
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Ignore platform-guard text in comments and strings.
This regex scans source without confirming that the matched if token survived comment/string masking. For example, a comment containing if (process.platform === "win32") { require("./optional") } else { ... } adds ./optional to platform_guarded_specs. A real if (runtimeFlag) require("./optional") then becomes eager and can reproduce the optional-module crash that this change fixes.
Validate the matched if token against strip_comments_and_strings(source) before exempting either branch.
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In `@crates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/extract_requires.rs` at line 546,
Update the captures loop over source in the platform-guard extraction logic to
validate each matched if token against strip_comments_and_strings(source) before
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A top-level CommonJS `require()` in a conditional position never ran its target when that target carried no CommonJS export marker. The branch was taken, the shim was reached, and the module body never executed — silently, with no crash and no diagnostic. #10754 reports this as a call-site-shape problem (`if` works, `&&` / `?:` / `try` / `switch` / loop-body do not). That is a confound in the reproducer: its `if` case required a module with `module.exports = 1` while the other five required side-effect-only modules. Crossing the two axes against Node 26.5.1 on a release build of main @ 91a566c shows the discriminator is the TARGET's export shape — all six shapes fail with a side-effect-only target, all six pass with a value-returning one. #10674 defers a conditional require correctly: the target stays `ModuleInitKind::Deferred` and the shim returns the `_lazyreq_N` import binding, with codegen firing `<S>__init()` at the binding read. That init call is gated on the binding being a known imported FUNCTION (`ctx.import_function_prefixes`), which a target with no default export never is — so nothing fires. - `cjs_wrap/deferred_requires.rs`: an AST visitor replaces the text-scanning deferral classifier, which missed `if (cond) x = require('S')` (still eagerly hoisted on main, a residual #10437 shape), concise arrows, the ternary ALTERNATE arm, both halves of a `do`/`while`, and `&&=`/`||=`/`??=`. `extract_requires::function_local_specs` stays as the parse-failure fallback. - `cjs_wrap/wrap.rs`: a deferred specifier resolves through the path registry rather than its import binding, so initialization no longer depends on the target's export shape; the registry record is memoized per call site once `loaded === true`, because re-entering the registry on every call measured 3.4x on a hot require. - `cjs_wrap/wrap.rs`: the registry only holds EXPORTS for a target that publishes them, which is every CJS-wrapped module and no other. A file with no CommonJS marker is not CJS-wrapped, so it registers an initializer and never any exports, and the registry returned `undefined` where Node returns `{}`. The arm falls back to the import binding on a genuine registry miss, discriminated by `__perry_has_path_module` — the same guard the generic runtime-`require(path)` arm in the same wrapper already uses. - `perry-codegen/src/expr/dyn_extern_i18n.rs`: fire the deferred `__init()` before the imported-class and namespace fast paths, which can themselves depend on module initialization. The implementation is PR #10285's, rebased onto current main; the registry-miss fallback and the gap fixture are new here. `test_gap_10754_cjs_conditional_require_shapes.cts` crosses all six shapes with three cells each — taken/side-effect-only, taken/value-returning and not-taken — because a fix that loads the module unconditionally is #10437 again, not a fix. On unfixed main it differs from the Node oracle on 12 lines (six side-effect-only targets never load; three value-returning targets load before the program's first statement instead of at their call site) and the harness reports parity_fail; with this change it matches Node byte-for-byte and the harness reports PASS. Closes #10754
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A top-level CommonJS `require()` in a conditional position never ran its target when that target carried no CommonJS export marker. The branch was taken, the shim was reached, and the module body never executed — silently, with no crash and no diagnostic. #10754 reports this as a call-site-shape problem (`if` works, `&&` / `?:` / `try` / `switch` / loop-body do not). That is a confound in the reproducer: its `if` case required a module with `module.exports = 1` while the other five required side-effect-only modules. Crossing the two axes against Node 26.5.1 on a release build of main @ 91a566c shows the discriminator is the TARGET's export shape — all six shapes fail with a side-effect-only target, all six pass with a value-returning one. #10674 defers a conditional require correctly: the target stays `ModuleInitKind::Deferred` and the shim returns the `_lazyreq_N` import binding, with codegen firing `<S>__init()` at the binding read. That init call is gated on the binding being a known imported FUNCTION (`ctx.import_function_prefixes`), which a target with no default export never is — so nothing fires. - `cjs_wrap/deferred_requires.rs`: an AST visitor replaces the text-scanning deferral classifier, which missed `if (cond) x = require('S')` (still eagerly hoisted on main, a residual #10437 shape), concise arrows, the ternary ALTERNATE arm, both halves of a `do`/`while`, and `&&=`/`||=`/`??=`. `extract_requires::function_local_specs` stays as the parse-failure fallback. - `cjs_wrap/wrap.rs`: a deferred specifier resolves through the path registry rather than its import binding, so initialization no longer depends on the target's export shape; the registry record is memoized per call site once `loaded === true`, because re-entering the registry on every call measured 3.4x on a hot require. - `cjs_wrap/wrap.rs`: the registry only holds EXPORTS for a target that publishes them, which is every CJS-wrapped module and no other. A file with no CommonJS marker is not CJS-wrapped, so it registers an initializer and never any exports, and the registry returned `undefined` where Node returns `{}`. The arm falls back to the import binding on a genuine registry miss, discriminated by `__perry_has_path_module` — the same guard the generic runtime-`require(path)` arm in the same wrapper already uses. - `perry-codegen/src/expr/dyn_extern_i18n.rs`: fire the deferred `__init()` before the imported-class and namespace fast paths, which can themselves depend on module initialization. The implementation is PR #10285's, rebased onto current main; the registry-miss fallback and the gap fixture are new here. `test_gap_10754_cjs_conditional_require_shapes.cts` crosses all six shapes with three cells each — taken/side-effect-only, taken/value-returning and not-taken — because a fix that loads the module unconditionally is #10437 again, not a fix. On unfixed main it differs from the Node oracle on 12 lines (six side-effect-only targets never load; three value-returning targets load before the program's first statement instead of at their call site) and the harness reports parity_fail; with this change it matches Node byte-for-byte and the harness reports PASS. Closes #10754
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Removes crates/perry-ext-pg (sqlx::postgres + tokio bridge) and the duplicate pre-#466 in-tree pg implementation in crates/perry-stdlib/src/pg/ (bundled-pg feature), plus every registry entry that pointed at them. import ... from "pg" now falls through to real-source compilation instead of the native binding. wip, base = PR #10674 (fix/10437-cjs-conditional-require) since pg does not run without that fix. # Conflicts: # Cargo.lock # crates/perry-api-manifest/src/entries.rs # workspace-architecture.json
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Summary
require()calls that sit inside control flow (if/for/while/switch/try/catch/else/do/finally, or a braceless/operator equivalent —cond && require(...),cond ? require(...) : x,for (...) require(...)with no block) were previously hoisted into an eager staticimportregardless of whether the branch ever runs.cjs_wrap::extract_requires::function_local_specsnow classifies those call sites as deferred the same way a function-localrequire()already was, so the target module inits only when control flow actually reaches the call — matching Node.module.exports = { fs: require('fs'), path: require('path') }barrel-export shape stays eager), and aprocess.platform === '<literal>'if/else guard (node-pty's Windows/Unix terminal split) is explicitly exempted — the platform is a compile-time-known build target, not a runtime unknown, andwrap_commonjs_for_target's existing dead-branch pruning already resolves it correctly.pgfrom source:pg/lib/index.jsguards its optional native binding behindif (forceNative) { require('./native') }, and./nativerequires the often-uninstalledpg-native. Every program usingpgcrashed at init withCannot find module 'pg-native'even thoughforceNativewas false.Fixes #10437.
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crates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/extract_requires.rs: broadenfunction_local_specs's scope tracking from "Function body only" to "Function body OR a control-flow block", add a braceless/operator-guard detector (site_is_conditionally_guarded) for shapes with no enclosing{ }(&&/||/??/ternary/bracelessif/for/while/else/do), and addprocess_platform_guarded_specsto exempt the compile-time-resolvedprocess.platformguard shape from the new classification.crates/perry/src/commands/compile/collect_modules.rs: update the doc comment on theis_deferred_requiretagging pass — the mechanism is no longer Next.js-specific.test-files/test_gap_cjs_conditional_require_deferred.ts+test-files/_helpers/gap10437_*.cjs: reproduces the issue's full variant matrix (literalfalse,&&, runtime-false env check, ternary arm not taken,switchcase not taken, a loop that never iterates, a function never called, and the taken branch's ordering) in one file, plus require caching on a repeated conditional require and a swallowed try/catch around a genuinely missing module (the pg-native crash shape, with a non-existent target so it's fully self-contained).Validation
upstream/mainbuild (crates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/extract_requires.rs+collect_modules.rsreverted toupstream/main, rest of the tree unchanged) hits the exact bug on the new gap test —side_athroughside_fprint even though their guarding branches are never taken,side_hprints before the statements that precede it, and the crash-form section throwsError: Cannot find module './gap10437_missing_optional_dep.cjs'and exits 1.node --experimental-strip-types test_gap_cjs_conditional_require_deferred.tsvs. the Perry-compiled binary (PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1) —diffis empty../run_parity_tests.sh --filter test_gap_cjs_conditional_require_deferred(PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1) — PASS, 100%.cargo test -p perry cjs_wrapand thecrates/perry/tests/cjs_wrap_builtin_require.rs/create_require_package.rs/issue_5257_require_adopt_no_default_namespace.rsintegration suites — all green with the fix. One test (cjs_wrap_object_create_on_builtin_namespace_get_prototype_of_not_sentinel) fails identically with the fix's two changed files reverted toupstream/main— confirmed pre-existing onmain, unrelated to this change (it never touches a conditionalrequire(); the failing assertion is aboutObject.create/prototype-sentinel handling onrequire("process"), which is a Node builtin and bypasses the classification this PR touches entirely). Not filed as a new issue here since it's out of scope; flagging for the maintainer.scripts/run_lint_gates.sh SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1— 75 of 77 gates passed (compile tier skipped). The two failures are both pre-existing/known: "Public benchmark evidence freshness" (red on every PR per the fix-agent runbook) andcargo fmt --all -- --check, which flagged this PR's own new code — fixed by runningcargo fmt(included in this diff).perf stat -e instructions, min-of-20 runs each to filter this shared host's scheduling noise — seeCLAUDE.md's "contended host" note): a fixture with 4 conditional (if (true) { require(...) }) requires, all branches taken (the worst case for this fix — every target actually loads, so the only delta is routing through the deferred__init()guard instead of a direct eager read). Baseline (pre-fix) min: 44,968,264 instructions. Fixed min: 45,150,200 instructions — +181,936 (+0.40%). For the actual bug (branches NOT taken), this fix is a net win: the old behavior did strictly more work (initializing modules nothing ever used)./root/claude-pkgaudit-measure/pkgtest/pg_test.ts(perry.compilePackagescoveringpg+ its full 43-module dependency closure) against the fixed compiler.PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1, building only-p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static):pg's real source compiled cleanly (43 modules, only the expectedCould not resolve import 'pg-native'warning — no crash), but linking failed on a different, pre-existing, already-tracked issue: the well-knownbundled-pg/bundled-netnative-wrapper archives (perry-ext-pg,perry-ext-net) got JIT-built in separate cargo invocations from the prebuiltlibperry_stdlib.a, so each carried a different tokio compilation — the link guard correctly refused that pair (perry-ext-net: outbound TCP panics — LTO dead-strips tokio CONTEXT statics #507/test_gap_fetch_request_from_node_incoming_message SIGABRTs deterministically on pristine main, and is in no allowlist #7629, "two tokio compilations" — nothing to do with this PR's mechanism).cargo build --release -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static -p perry-ext-net -p perry-ext-pg --features perry-stdlib/external-net-pump, per Archives from separate cargo invocations can bundle different tokio builds off one Cargo.lock; the link guard catches it but two agents hit it today in unrelated work #10671's guidance) produced a coherent set.pg_test.tsthen compiled, linked, and ran, reaching a realnet.connect()attempt:RESULT: ERROR Connection refused (os error 111)/RESULT: NEEDS_LIVE_SERVER— exactly the expected output with no live Postgres on this host. Nopg-nativeerror anywhere.perry-ext-pghand-written Rust binding looks deletable.pgnow compiles from real source, links, and runs correctly end-to-end; CommonJSrequire()outside a function is hoisted and run unconditionally at module init, including insideif (false)and other branches that never run #10437 was confirmed as the sole compiler-correctness blocker. The tokio-coherence build-orchestration issue above is aperry.compilePackages-adjacent build-setup gap (not apg-specific one —perry-ext-net's well-known routing hit the same issue), already tracked, and separate from this PR's scope.Not run
RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime— this change touches onlycrates/perry/src/commands/compile/cjs_wrap/andcollect_modules.rs(theperryCLI crate); it does not touchperry-runtimeat all, and the host's disk margin was too tight to justify an unrelated ~30-minute release suite.cargo test -p perry(unit + the relevant integration suites) is the scope actually exercised.cargo testscope above.Summary by CodeRabbit
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require()calls until the relevant control-flow path is reached.Tests