fix(webview): omit originalContent from webview messages and fetch on demand - #1888
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… demand Strip originalContent (the whole pre-edit file) from file-edit tool messages before they are posted to the webview, and let FileChangesPanel request it on demand by messageId and taskId. This keeps the webview heap from growing with the total size of edited files, which could end in a gray screen (OOM). Also adds the scripts/gray-screen heap-measurement tooling.
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WalkthroughThe extension omits nonempty ChangesOn-demand original content
Gray-screen analysis and stress tools
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FileChangesPanel
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FileChangesPanel->>webviewMessageHandler: Send readOriginalContent with timestamp and identifiers
webviewMessageHandler->>findOriginalContent: Look up original content in current task messages
findOriginalContent-->>webviewMessageHandler: Return content or null
webviewMessageHandler->>ClineProvider: Post originalContent response
ClineProvider-->>FileChangesPanel: Deliver originalContent response
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The standalone test can hang during server startup, while two diagnostic tools can produce misleading results. Fix these failures before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The on-demand diff flow keeps original content associated with the active task. The remaining concern is confined to developer-run stress tooling, whose temporary build directory assumes a trusted local filesystem. Retained concerns
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Full details: Regression EvidenceExplanation The core original-content path has focused coverage in Resolution Add focused subprocess or Playwright smoke tests for both browser harnesses. At minimum, cover Full details: Lifecycle Resource CleanupExplanation Task switching can trigger duplicate original-content fetches. In Resolution Keep original-content responses in a task-scoped cache, including responses that arrive while another task is current. Key both the cache lookup and pending-request state by task ID and message identity. On task changes, load the current task’s cached result instead of clearing all results, and only render entries for the current task. Clear the task-scoped cache when the panel unmounts, and apply a bounded eviction policy if it can span many tasks.
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🟡 Minor · Return a failure status for caught scenario errors. · webview-render-stress.mjs:358-363
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReturn a failure status for caught scenario errors.
--scenario unknownreaches the explicitthrow, but the catch only logs the error. The final exit then returns0becausecrashedis false. Unexpected failures from a configured scenario can follow the same path. Scripted runs can therefore report a failed workload as successful.The existing render checks call
process.exit(2)directly, so this fix should target the scenario-error state rather than those checks.Suggested fix
let crashed = false + let scenarioFailed = false page.on("crash", () => { @@ } catch (e) { - if (!crashed) console.error("scenario error:", e.message.split("\n")[0]) + scenarioFailed = true + if (!crashed) console.error("scenario error:", e.message.split("\n")[0]) } @@ - process.exit(crashed ? 1 : 0) + process.exit(crashed || scenarioFailed ? 1 : 0)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Reject the readiness promise when the server exits.
The port probe releases its port before the child binds it. If another process takes that port, the child can exit before printing listening; this promise handles neither exit nor a startup timeout, so the HTTP tests cannot complete normally. Reject on early exit and bound the readiness wait. Node.js emits exit when a spawned child ends; a successful spawn does not turn that exit into a spawn error. (nodejs.org) As per path instructions, “Check cleanup and deterministic async behavior.”
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Fill top from readable tasks.
If the largest ui_messages.json is malformed and --top is 1, slice(0, top) excludes every other task before flatMap skips the malformed file. The report analyzes zero tasks even when a readable task exists. Iterate over tasks in size order until top analyses succeed, and test a malformed task followed by a readable task. As per path instructions, “Trace changed inputs through normal, boundary, error, cancellation, retry, and default paths and their direct test counterparts.”
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Update the task selection around the `slice(0, top)` and `analyze(s.id)` flow so
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src/core/webview/stripOriginalContent.ts(omitOriginalContent) replaces a file-edit tool message'soriginalContentwithoriginalContentLengthinClineProviderbefore posting to the webview. Results are cached per message object (WeakMap keyed on text), so repeated state pushes don't re-parse. Empty originals (new files) are kept, because the webview treats them as "has an original". Non-JSON or truncated partial messages are left untouched.FileChangesPanelsends a newreadOriginalContentrequest when a diff is opened.webviewMessageHandlerresolves the message bymessageId(falling back totsonly for messages persisted without one, sincetscan collide within a millisecond) and replies withoriginalContentInfo(nullif unavailable). The request carries thetaskId; the host answersnullfor another task and the panel ignores responses for a task that is not current. Pending requests are tracked per task and message, so switching tasks cannot send duplicates.fileChangesFromMessagesreadsoriginalContentLength.isAnsweredandpartialis always taken from the current message.scripts/gray-screen/*are the heap-measurement harnesses used below. They are dev-only and not shipped. The mock server validates--dir, the static servers are confined to their build directory (symlinks resolved), and generated tasks are written atomically.nullfallback and the empty-original case inFileChangesPanelbehave correctly.Test Procedure
Unit tests (all pass):
src(stripOriginalContent,webviewMessageHandler.readOriginalContent,ClineProvider): 3 files, 197 tests.webview-ui(FileChangesPanel,fileChangesFromMessages): 2 files, 42 tests.Real-Chromium heap test: production webview-ui build in headless Chromium, 15 s of driven updates, 50 KB pre-edit file per edit.
The "Before" column is the behavior with
originalContentinline. The "After" column is the behavior with it omitted. At 6000 edits the old behavior reproduces the gray screen, and the new one completes.Reproduce:
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omitOriginalflag simulates the omission in the harness, so the numbers show the effect of the omission rather than this PR's exact code path.