Bug 122329 – [Mac] Don't preflight spell checker when calling -setContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled repeatedly

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit Misc.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

In <rdar://problem/15145394>, I observed a case where WebKit1 tests would fail to function because of repeated attempts to launch spellchecking service.

DumpRenderTree calls -[WebView setContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled:YES] before each test, and this results in WebKit calling [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] _preflightChosenSpellServer], which in turn launches the service if it's not launched yet.

What I observed was that launchservicesd was busy servicing AppleSpell.service registrations, and this was making service launch time out, and this was making us try to re-launch it again and again. I'm not sure what the initial trigger for the misbehavior was, but repeatedly trying to relaunch an app that fails to launch makes little sense.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 213369 [details]
proposed patch

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 213369 [details]
proposed patch

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=213369&action=review

> Source/WebKit/mac/WebView/WebView.mm:-5547
>      if (continuousSpellCheckingEnabled != flag) {
>          continuousSpellCheckingEnabled = flag;
>          [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:continuousSpellCheckingEnabled forKey:WebContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled];
> -    }

I think this would read better as early return than with all the code nested inside and if statement.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

> I think this would read better as early return than with all the code nested inside and if statement.

Oops. Fixed and landed in <http://trac.webkit.org/r156949>.