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Fixes #10808.

The remaining six #10555 web interfaces exposed their methods through instance dispatch but did not install callable values on their prototypes. Install the URL, AbortController, AbortSignal, EventTarget, and Event methods with Node-compatible lengths and enumerability. Link AbortSignal.prototype to EventTarget.prototype and CustomEvent.prototype to Event.prototype so inherited method reads resolve.

URL.prototype.toString.call(url) now returns the href rather than the inherited generic object string. The other prototype methods can be read and called with an explicit receiver. The new parity case checks method descriptors, inherited values, and representative calls and side effects.

Validation:

  • Native perry-dev build of the compiler and runtime archives
  • Node parity: test_gap_10808_web_proto_methods
  • Node parity regressions: test_gap_10555_symbol_tostringtag_web_builtins, test_gap_6301_event_target_subclass, test_gap_10759_urlsearchparams_prototype_method_value
  • cargo fmt --all --check, scripts/check_file_size.sh, git diff --check
  • Raw-handle debt ratchet: 906 → 906

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Web API prototype methods are now available as callable values for URL, AbortController, AbortSignal, EventTarget, Event, and CustomEvent.
    • Direct calls such as URL.prototype.toString.call(url) now return the URL’s href.
    • Event methods now support initialization, cancellation, propagation control, composed paths, and event-target dispatch behavior.
    • Invalid receivers for applicable prototype methods now produce appropriate type errors.
    • Prototype inheritance works correctly for AbortSignal and CustomEvent, including inherited methods.

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The runtime now exposes callable prototype methods for selected Web APIs. It adds receiver validation, Event method implementations, WebIDL inheritance links, and tests for descriptors, direct calls, inherited methods, and state changes.

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Web API prototype methods

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reified URL and abort methods
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/proto_methods.rs
URL, AbortController, and AbortSignal now expose callable prototype methods with receiver validation and configured descriptors.
Event prototype methods
crates/perry-runtime/src/event_target.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/proto_methods.rs
Event and EventTarget methods now validate receivers, update event state, return composed paths, and use WebIDL method descriptors.
WebIDL inheritance links
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/populate.rs
AbortSignal inherits from EventTarget, and CustomEvent inherits from Event, through constructor and prototype links.
Prototype method validation
test-files/test_gap_10808_web_proto_methods.ts, changelog.d/11003-web-prototype-method-values.md
The test covers method descriptors, direct prototype calls, invalid receivers, inheritance, event behavior, and abort behavior. The changelog records the fix.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  participant PrototypeMethod
  participant RuntimeObject
  Script->>PrototypeMethod: read and call Web API method
  PrototypeMethod->>RuntimeObject: validate receiver
  RuntimeObject-->>PrototypeMethod: update state or return value
  PrototypeMethod-->>Script: return result
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The change exposes callable Web API prototype methods and related inheritance behavior, with no concrete production risk requiring resolution before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #10808 requires callable prototype method reads for AbortController, AbortSignal, CustomEvent, Event, EventTarget, and URL. The changes install callable WebIDL methods with required …
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/event_target.rs`:
- Around line 1094-1095: Update the zero-capture path in bound_event_target to
convert the implicit this value to an ObjectHeader pointer, validate it with
is_event_target, and throw a TypeError with the existing EventTarget receiver
message when validation fails; return the validated target otherwise.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/proto_methods.rs`:
- Around line 1339-1344: Mark AbortSignal.prototype.throwIfAborted as enumerable
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install_proto_method(
proto_obj,
"throwIfAborted",
abort_signal_prototype_throw_if_aborted_thunk as *const u8,
0,
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Mark throwIfAborted as enumerable.

install_proto_method records prototype methods as non-enumerable. WebIDL members must be enumerable, so this descriptor is incorrect for AbortSignal.prototype.throwIfAborted.

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             install_proto_method(
                 proto_obj,
                 "throwIfAborted",
                 abort_signal_prototype_throw_if_aborted_thunk as *const u8,
                 0,
             );
+            web_method_enumerable(proto_obj, "throwIfAborted");
             unsafe { install_web_builtin_to_string_tag(proto_obj, "AbortSignal") };
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install_proto_method(
proto_obj,
"throwIfAborted",
abort_signal_prototype_throw_if_aborted_thunk as *const u8,
0,
);
install_proto_method(
proto_obj,
"throwIfAborted",
abort_signal_prototype_throw_if_aborted_thunk as *const u8,
0,
);
web_method_enumerable(proto_obj, "throwIfAborted");
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/proto_methods.rs` around lines
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Not in merge train 257 (#11039), but NOT your fault and NOT a conflict with main: this applies cleanly to main on its own, and only conflicted with a sibling PR in the same train. Since that sibling is in 257, you will need a rebase once 257 lands (v0.5.1639). No action until then — I will ping you.

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Tried to rebase this for a merge train and stopped — the conflict is a real design question, so I left the PR alone.

crates/perry-runtime/src/object/global_this/proto_methods.rs: the URL / AbortController / AbortSignal / EventTarget / Event match arms were rewritten on both sides.

Whether the accessor install and the value install can coexist on the same arm, or whether one supersedes the other, is your call: the two changes disagree about where these names are supposed to resolve. Please rebase and say which wins.

Note this is also a fork PR, so I could not have pushed the rebase for you even if the merge had been mechanical.

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Implemented and pushed to fix/11003-ci (dd099e5204). Your head is on a fork so I could not push there; a merge train cherry-picks refs/pull/N/head or a branch, so this lands without the PR being mergeable.

The design question is settled, and it settled in favour of your change — with one correction to a guess I made earlier.

The two installs are complementary, not competing. WebIDL gives an interface prototype accessor properties for attributes and data properties for operations, and Node has both on URL.prototype at once. So main's #10555 accessors and your method values both belong on each arm, and that is what the branch does.

I had said PropertyAttrs::new(true, true, true) "looks wrong because Node's web builtins are non-enumerable". That is false, and checking the oracle rather than trusting the instinct is what caught it — WebIDL operations are enumerable, unlike ECMAScript builtins:

URL.toString                     enumerable=true     ← WebIDL
EventTarget.addEventListener     enumerable=true
AbortController.abort            enumerable=true
Array.map                        enumerable=false    ← ECMAScript
Object.hasOwnProperty            enumerable=false

One member breaks the pattern, and a uniform helper would have diverged from Node silently:

AbortSignal.throwIfAborted        enumerable=FALSE
Object.keys(AbortSignal.prototype) === ["aborted","onabort"]

It is installed with no enumerability override (the default is already non-enumerable) and carries a comment with the measured descriptor plus "do not fold this into the shared helper".

Two things beyond the conflict:

  • Your raw-handle pair in crates/perry-runtime/src/event_target.rs is now one across_mut with a nested with_const_ptr. That is not just counter-shaping — is_event_target interns _eventTarget via js_string_from_bytes, which allocates, so the receiver can genuinely move mid-predicate. 16/16, no ceiling raised.
  • Every arm now re-reads the prototype from a rooted slot before each install, rather than reusing the incoming raw proto_obj. These calls allocate (closure + name string + key string), and install_web_event_proto_methods was closing over one captured pointer across eight installs. Main's URL arm already did this; the discipline is now uniform.

New test test-files/test_gap_11003_web_proto_descriptors.ts pins kind/enumerable/configurable/writable and an independent Object.keys read, with Array.map as the ECMAScript contrast — byte-identical to the oracle. Your test_gap_10808_web_proto_methods.ts still passes.

Green: cargo fmt --check, check_file_size.sh, cargo check -p perry --bins (also under -D warnings), the raw-handle ratchet both invocations, addr-class, gc-root-holders, gc-store-sites, and run_lint_gates.sh at 88/88 (compile tier skipped). Your other CI red, the public-baseline step, resolved itself — main regenerated the artifact after your head was cut.

It goes in the next train.

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Rebase of #11003 onto main, plus the two things CI was red on.

1. The #10555/#10808 conflict. Main installs `Symbol.toStringTag` on the
   URL/AbortController/AbortSignal/EventTarget/Event prototypes and, for URL,
   the twelve WebIDL component accessors; this branch installs the interface
   *operations* as real property values. They are complementary, not
   competing: WebIDL reifies an interface's attributes as accessor properties
   and its operations as data properties holding a function, and Node carries
   both on `URL.prototype` at once. Every arm now runs both installs, in
   Node's own key order for URL (`toString`, the accessors, `toJSON`).

   Each install allocates a closure, a name string and a key string, so every
   arm roots the prototype once and re-reads its current address from the
   rooted slot before each call instead of reusing the incoming raw pointer.
   `install_web_event_proto_methods` did the same thing eight times over one
   captured `proto_obj`; it now re-reads too.

2. Enumerability. WebIDL operations are enumerable, unlike ECMAScript builtin
   methods, so each one overrides `install_proto_method`'s default. The single
   exception is `AbortSignal.prototype.throwIfAborted`, which Node makes
   non-enumerable alongside its `reason` accessor; it is installed with no
   override and the site records the measured descriptor so a later "cleanup"
   into a uniform helper does not silently diverge.

3. `lint :: Raw-handle debt ratchet`, which is independent of the conflict.
   The EventTarget receiver check added two bare `get_raw_mut_ptr` reads in
   `bound_event_target`, taking event_target.rs from 16 to 18. `is_event_target`
   interns `_eventTarget` through `key()`, which allocates, so the receiver can
   genuinely move while the predicate runs: the pair collapses into one
   `across_mut` whose nested `with_const_ptr` scopes the pointer the predicate
   reads, and whose returned address is the post-call re-read. Back to 16 with
   no ceiling raised and no allowlist entry.

Adds `test_gap_11003_web_proto_descriptors.ts`, which pins the descriptor
shape (kind, enumerable, configurable, writable) plus an independent
`Object.keys` read for a URL operation, a URL accessor, an EventTarget
operation, `AbortSignal.throwIfAborted`, and two ECMAScript builtins as the
non-enumerable contrast. Gap tests are diffed byte-for-byte against the
pinned Node oracle, so the enumerability split is asserted rather than
rediscovered.

(cherry picked from commit dd099e5)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
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Rebase of #11003 onto main, plus the two things CI was red on.

1. The #10555/#10808 conflict. Main installs `Symbol.toStringTag` on the
   URL/AbortController/AbortSignal/EventTarget/Event prototypes and, for URL,
   the twelve WebIDL component accessors; this branch installs the interface
   *operations* as real property values. They are complementary, not
   competing: WebIDL reifies an interface's attributes as accessor properties
   and its operations as data properties holding a function, and Node carries
   both on `URL.prototype` at once. Every arm now runs both installs, in
   Node's own key order for URL (`toString`, the accessors, `toJSON`).

   Each install allocates a closure, a name string and a key string, so every
   arm roots the prototype once and re-reads its current address from the
   rooted slot before each call instead of reusing the incoming raw pointer.
   `install_web_event_proto_methods` did the same thing eight times over one
   captured `proto_obj`; it now re-reads too.

2. Enumerability. WebIDL operations are enumerable, unlike ECMAScript builtin
   methods, so each one overrides `install_proto_method`'s default. The single
   exception is `AbortSignal.prototype.throwIfAborted`, which Node makes
   non-enumerable alongside its `reason` accessor; it is installed with no
   override and the site records the measured descriptor so a later "cleanup"
   into a uniform helper does not silently diverge.

3. `lint :: Raw-handle debt ratchet`, which is independent of the conflict.
   The EventTarget receiver check added two bare `get_raw_mut_ptr` reads in
   `bound_event_target`, taking event_target.rs from 16 to 18. `is_event_target`
   interns `_eventTarget` through `key()`, which allocates, so the receiver can
   genuinely move while the predicate runs: the pair collapses into one
   `across_mut` whose nested `with_const_ptr` scopes the pointer the predicate
   reads, and whose returned address is the post-call re-read. Back to 16 with
   no ceiling raised and no allowlist entry.

Adds `test_gap_11003_web_proto_descriptors.ts`, which pins the descriptor
shape (kind, enumerable, configurable, writable) plus an independent
`Object.keys` read for a URL operation, a URL accessor, an EventTarget
operation, `AbortSignal.throwIfAborted`, and two ECMAScript builtins as the
non-enumerable contrast. Gap tests are diffed byte-for-byte against the
pinned Node oracle, so the enumerability split is asserted rather than
rediscovered.

(cherry picked from commit dd099e5)
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
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Rebase of #11003 onto main, plus the two things CI was red on.

1. The #10555/#10808 conflict. Main installs `Symbol.toStringTag` on the
   URL/AbortController/AbortSignal/EventTarget/Event prototypes and, for URL,
   the twelve WebIDL component accessors; this branch installs the interface
   *operations* as real property values. They are complementary, not
   competing: WebIDL reifies an interface's attributes as accessor properties
   and its operations as data properties holding a function, and Node carries
   both on `URL.prototype` at once. Every arm now runs both installs, in
   Node's own key order for URL (`toString`, the accessors, `toJSON`).

   Each install allocates a closure, a name string and a key string, so every
   arm roots the prototype once and re-reads its current address from the
   rooted slot before each call instead of reusing the incoming raw pointer.
   `install_web_event_proto_methods` did the same thing eight times over one
   captured `proto_obj`; it now re-reads too.

2. Enumerability. WebIDL operations are enumerable, unlike ECMAScript builtin
   methods, so each one overrides `install_proto_method`'s default. The single
   exception is `AbortSignal.prototype.throwIfAborted`, which Node makes
   non-enumerable alongside its `reason` accessor; it is installed with no
   override and the site records the measured descriptor so a later "cleanup"
   into a uniform helper does not silently diverge.

3. `lint :: Raw-handle debt ratchet`, which is independent of the conflict.
   The EventTarget receiver check added two bare `get_raw_mut_ptr` reads in
   `bound_event_target`, taking event_target.rs from 16 to 18. `is_event_target`
   interns `_eventTarget` through `key()`, which allocates, so the receiver can
   genuinely move while the predicate runs: the pair collapses into one
   `across_mut` whose nested `with_const_ptr` scopes the pointer the predicate
   reads, and whose returned address is the post-call re-read. Back to 16 with
   no ceiling raised and no allowlist entry.

Adds `test_gap_11003_web_proto_descriptors.ts`, which pins the descriptor
shape (kind, enumerable, configurable, writable) plus an independent
`Object.keys` read for a URL operation, a URL accessor, an EventTarget
operation, `AbortSignal.throwIfAborted`, and two ECMAScript builtins as the
non-enumerable contrast. Gap tests are diffed byte-for-byte against the
pinned Node oracle, so the enumerability split is asserted rather than
rediscovered.

(cherry picked from commit dd099e5)
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Landed on main in merge train 271 (#11145, v0.5.1654), from the repaired branch fix/11003-ci.

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