[Mac] DumpRenderTree sets storage directory incorrectly

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Storage tests are flaky in WebKit1, because DumpRenderTree effectively makes all parallel processes use the same temporary directory.

I hope that this fix will address increased appcache test flakiness that started this week, when I changed DRT to delete appcache between tests - this made sqlite race for access to ApplicationCache.db a lot more than before.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 242724 [details]
proposed fix

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I'm now trying to remember if we needed to set standard defaults in order to make frameworks that use CFPreferences work...

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 242724 [details]
proposed fix

Bummer. http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/158652 says:

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Using NSArgumentDomain was not a good idea. While it works with NSUserDefaults
and CFPreferencesCopyAppValue family of functions, it doesn't work with
CFPreferencesCopyValue(..., kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication, ...).
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So, we should use NSArgumentDomain only for per instance preferences.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 242726 [details]
proposed fix

Looking at WebKit1 code, we have a bunch of unfortunate special cases that bypass WebPreferences, and use NSUserDefaults directly.

WebKitKerningAndLigaturesEnabledByDefaultDefaultsKey is read and written by WebView, so it's global per process identifier, and cannot be different in different WebViews or in parallel DumpRenderTrees.

Same thing with these ones, which are further complicated due to interactions between WebKit and AppKit preferences:

    [webView setContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled:YES];
    [webView setAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled:NO];
    [webView setAutomaticLinkDetectionEnabled:NO];
    [webView setAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled:NO];
    [webView setAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled:NO];
    [webView setAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled:YES];
    [webView setGrammarCheckingEnabled:YES];

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 242726 [details]
proposed fix

Clearing flags on attachment: 242726

Committed r176917: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/176917>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.