19.2.0 Date interop not working

[hashtag-smashtag]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the new date interop in 19.2.0, but having issues in both directions across the Javascript/Java boundary:

• When I create a JS Date in Javascript, it's only seen as a Java Date if I explicitly use value.as(Date.class). However, value.as(Object.class) instead gives me an empty Map. The workaround for this is to use the HostAccessBuilder#targetTypeMapping feature.
• When I create a Date in java, it's not seen as a JS Date in Javascript. Implementing ProxyInstant/ProxyDate does not change this. And there is no Java-JS type mapping (see Custom Java -> JS Conversion #144). Thus I still need to continue to use my own DateProxy (a ProxyObject that exposes a getTime member as a ProxyExecutable).

Here is a testng test in Groovy that demonstrates the issues:

// In Groovy
@Test
void "date interop troubles"() {
    // Java -> JS ----------------------------------------------------------
    def hostAccess = HostAccess.newBuilder()
            .allowAccessAnnotatedBy(HostAccess.Export.class)
            .allowArrayAccess(true)
            .allowListAccess(true)
            // we could use .targetTypeMapping, but are showing how date interop doesn't work without it
            .build()
    context = Context.newBuilder("js")
            .allowHostAccess(hostAccess)
            .allowExperimentalOptions(true)
            .option("js.experimental-foreign-object-prototype", "true")
            .build()

    def val = context.eval("js", "new Date();")

    that "asDate on js-date works", {
        def asResult = val.as(Date.class)
        assert asResult instanceof Date
        assertThat asResult isInstanceOf Date
    }

    that "asObject on js-date does NOT work", {
        def asResult = val.as(Object.class)
        assertThat asResult isNotInstanceOf Date
        assertThat asResult isInstanceOf Map
    }

    that "asMap on js-object-with-date does NOT work", {
        val = context.eval("js", "var abc = { str: 'hi', num: 123, date: new Date() }; abc;")
        def asResult = val.as(Map.class)
        assertThat asResult.date isNotInstanceOf Date
        assertThat asResult.date isInstanceOf Map
        asResult = val.as(new TypeLiteral<Map<String,Object>>() {})
        assertThat asResult.date isNotInstanceOf Date
        assertThat asResult.date isInstanceOf Map
    }

    // Java -> JS ----------------------------------------------------------
    context.getBindings("js").putMember("binding", new Date())

    that "java Date does NOT become or act like a js-date", {
        val = context.eval("js", "binding instanceof Date")
        assert val.isBoolean() && !val.asBoolean()

        try {
            context.eval("js", "binding.getTime();")
            assert false
        } catch (PolyglotException ignored) { /* expected */}
    }

    that "does NOT work for a POJO containing an explicit Date field in js", {
        context.getBindings("js").putMember("testClass", new TestClass(testDate: new Date()))
        val = context.eval("js", "testClass.testDate instanceof Date")
        assert val.isBoolean() && !val.asBoolean()

        try {
            context.eval("js", "testClass.testDate.getTime();")
            assert false
        } catch (PolyglotException ignored) { /* expected */}
    }

    // Not testing fancier things like Dates as values on Object/Serializable fields, within Collections, etc

    that "does NOT work for ProxyInstant", {
        context.getBindings("js").putMember("binding", ProxyInstant.from(new Date().toInstant()))
        val = context.eval("js", "binding instanceof Date")
        assert val.isBoolean() && !val.asBoolean()

        try {
            context.eval("js", "binding.getTime();")
            assert false
        } catch (PolyglotException ignored) { /* expected */}
    }
}

public class TestClass {
    @Export
    public Date testDate;
}

[Biglr]

Hi @hashtag-smashtag

I'm currently facing the same issue and was wondering if you have an example of your targetTypeMappings for JS Dates to Java Dates.

Cheers and thanks,
David

[hashtag-smashtag]

Hi @Biglr ,

For the JS->Java direction, we use something like this (note DateProxy references are our own proxy for Java->JS):

// Wherever you're setting up your HostAccess, ours is static:
private static void addTypeMappings(HostAccess.Builder builder) {
    //...
    builder.targetTypeMapping(Value.class, Object.class, Values::isDate, Values::toDateOrClassCastException);
    builder.targetTypeMapping(Value.class, Date.class, Values::isDate, Values::toDateOrClassCastException);
    builder.targetTypeMapping(Value.class, DateProxy.class, Values::isDate, Values::toDateOrClassCastException);
   //...
}

// Use the HostAccess when you're constructing your Contexts:
Builder contextBuilder = Context.newBuilder("js)
    .allowHostAccess(hostAccess)
    //...
    ;

public final class Values {
    public static boolean isDate(@Nullable Value value) {
        if (value == null || value.isNull() || value.isHostObject()) {
            return false;
        }

        // Could consider other formats like long epoch
        // Currently just looking for js Date class or DateProxy

        if (value.isProxyObject() && (value.asProxyObject() instanceof DateProxy)) {
            return true;
        }

        Value metaObject = value.getMetaObject();
        if ((metaObject == null) || !Objects.equals(metaObject.getMetaSimpleName(), "Date")) {
            return false;
        }

        return value.hasMember("getTime") && value.getMember("getTime").canExecute();
    }

    public static Date toDateOrClassCastException(@Nullable Value value) {
        Date date = toDate(value);
        if (value == null) {
            // So mapper can move onto other mappings
            throw new ClassCastException();
        }
    }

    @Nullable
    public static Date toDate(@Nullable Value value) {
        if (value == null || value.isNull()) {
            return null;
        }

        if (value.isProxyObject() && value.asProxyObject() instanceof DateProxy) {
            return (DateProxy) value.asProxyObject();
        }

        checkArgument(value.hasMember("getTime"), "Value [%s] is not a Date.", value);
        Value time = value.getMember("getTime").execute();
        checkArgument((time != null) && time.isNumber() && time.fitsInLong(),
                      "Value [%s] is not a Date.", value);

        return new DateProxy(time.asLong());
    }
}

Cheers,
Matt

[Biglr]

Hi @hashtag-smashtag

Thank you very much for your reply!

I was fiddling around with targetTypeMaps in the mean time and I came up with this (found something similar in a close GitHub issue somewhere, there really is not much in terms of examples for this around...):

.targetTypeMapping(Value.class, Date.class, v -> v.hasMember("getTime"), v -> new Date(v.getMember("getTime").execute().asLong()))

however, this never worked and just ignored the mapping no matter what i set for accepts.

I guess the critical point was to not only specify Date.class or LocalDate.class but Object.class as well (which you did gladly, otherwise I might have never come to that conclusion).

I'll stick to your implementation though, since it offers much more extensibility 😉

Thank you once again very much, you saved me a lot time and headaches 😀

Cheers,
David

[steventamm]

Java->JS interop is still mostly broken. Using 20.2.0, it looks like JSRuntime.toPrimitiveFromForeign doesn't handle Date/Instance correctly and calls toString and tries to coerce it to a double. When I try to use the Intl library for formatting a straight ProxyDate, it gives a rangeError. If my ProxyDate implements ProxyObject and implements toString as the same as getTime, it works, but it's incorrect. Date.toString() should return a formatted date and not the epoch date.

JSRuntime.toPrimitiveFromForeign should check InteropLibrary.isDate/isInstant/etc. and then call the appropiate method.

You can validate it by running js --jvm --js.intl-402 then trying this

var pdate = Java.type('org.graalvm.polyglot.proxy.ProxyDate').from(Java.type('java.time.LocalDate').now())
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US').format(pdate)

It returns

RangeError: Provided date is not in valid range.
	at <js> null(Unknown)
	at <js> :program(<shell>:2:1:0-45)

instead of properly coercing as a JSDate

[hashtag-smashtag]

Hi @steventamm

For Java -> JS we use something like this as a workaround:

public class DateProxy extends Date implements ProxyObject {

    private static final Set<String> PROTOTYPE_FUNCTIONS = ImmutableSet.of(
            "getTime",
            "toISOString",
            "toJSON",
            "toString"
    );

    public DateProxy(Date date) {
        super(date.getTime());
    }

    public DateProxy(long epoch) {
        super(epoch);
    }

    @Override
    public Object getMember(String key) {
        switch (key) {
            case "getTime":
                return (ProxyExecutable) arguments -> getTime();
            case "toJSON":
            case "toISOString":
                return (ProxyExecutable) arguments -> ISO8601Utils.format(this, true);
            case "toString":
                // Currently defaulting to Date.toString, but could improve
                return (ProxyExecutable) arguments -> toString();
            default:
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This date does not support: " + key);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Object getMemberKeys() {
        return PROTOTYPE_FUNCTIONS.toArray();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasMember(String key) {
        return PROTOTYPE_FUNCTIONS.contains(key);
    }

    @Override
    public void putMember(String key, Value value) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This date does not support adding new properties/functions.");
    }
}