Bug 178927 – WebDriver process should not link to JavaScriptCore

• Component: WebDriver
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

We only do that to use InspectorValues because we don't have any other json API available in WTF. I think we should move InspectorValues implementation to WTF, or add a new implementation instead (or even use an existing one like https://github.com/nlohmann/json that looks pretty good). In the meantime, maybe we can just build the current InspectorValues as part of the WebDriver process since InspectorValues is self-contained and only depends on WTF.

[Blaze Burg]

I had some patch series to move InspectorValue to WTF::JSONValue. Unfortunately I didn't have time to write tests so it never got reviewed. If you want to work on this, I can point you to the patches.

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Sure, I can just write the tests.

[Blaze Burg]

Hey Carlos, here's some more information to help you out. The previous patch series moved stuff into the top-level JSON namespace, so classes were JSON::{Array, Object, Value}. If this goes into WTF then we can keep that, or make these WTF::JSON{Array, Object, Value}. Let me know what you think; if it is a general-purpose JSON class with tests than I think either name is acceptable.

The first patch:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173619

Joe wrote out some reasonable test cases that you can cover for now:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173619#c12

Once that patch lands (to change all callsites to use the non-Inspector namespace) the rest is moving the implementation and changing header includes:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173793

When all the code is moved into the new place then there are some great cleanups I'd like to pursue. The first is already posted here, but don't worry about fixing it up:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173662

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

This was finally fixed in r225231

[Blaze Burg]

Hooray!