Autoloader: Fixed and improved callbacks #1935
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This PR fixes and improves the internal Autoloader callbacks.
Bug
Callbacks were stored in
success_callbacks
anderror_callbacks
and not removed after execution meaning once added, a callback was executed every time the language for which the callback was added for was requested (either directly or as a dependency).This bug wasn't very visible because of how the Autoloader is usually used. Usually, the Autoloader is used to load the languages for the static code in a page. This means that the Autoloader gets asked for a bunch of languages, loads them asynchronously and then executes the callbacks with this line (
success
is this function). Because it takes a little while until the language is loaded (certainly until the next tick), all callbacks will be registered before theonload
of the script is called meaning that this never gets executed.Thus the bug doesn't show up. (And even if it does, the success callback is usually just a
Prism.highlightElement
call.)I discovered this bug when I used Autoloader to highlight C like code and then after that was done (some ticks later), I used Autoloader to highlight JavaScript code. What followed was that the synchronously called callbacks caused a stack overflow. Just a bit of good ol' infinite recursion.
I could have also fixed it by deferring callbacks to the next tick but I decided to rework the callback structure because this change of behavior might break some code. Autoloader invokes the callbacks of already loaded languages (and failed ones) synchronously while all other callbacks are called asynchronously. This fix keeps this behavior.
(It's another question as to whether we should call all callbacks asynchronously. Yes, we should IMO.)
Improvements
data
is completely unnecessary and was removed.lang_data
.