The special empty value (that we use for array holes, Optional<Value>
when empty and a few other other placeholder/sentinel tasks) still
exists, but you now create one via JS::js_special_empty_value() and
check for it with Value::is_special_empty_value().
The main idea here is to make it very unlikely to accidentally create an
unexpected special empty value.
This removes a couple of places where we were constructing strings or
vectors just to transfer data over IPC. And passes some values by const&
to remove clangd noise.
This supports evaluating the script and replying with the result. We
currently serialize JS objects to a string, but we will need to support
dynamic interaction with the objects over IPC. This does not yet support
sending console messages to DevTools.
Our existing WebContentConsoleClient is very specific to our home-grown
Inspector. It renders console output to an HTML string. For DevTools, we
will not want this behavior; we will want to send representations of raw
JS values.
This patch makes WebContentConsoleClient a base class to handle console
input from the user, either from the Inspector or from DevTools. It then
moves the HTML rendering needed for the Inspector to a new class,
InspectorConsoleClient. And we add a DevToolsConsoleClient (currently
just stubbed) to handle needs specific to DevTools.
We choose at runtime which console client to install, based on the
--devtools command line flag.
