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fix(bundler): keep the failure that caused the ownership error - #3697

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Why

Staging preview has been 500ing since ~00:07 UTC with:

[ext-bundler-esbuild] Cannot own an esbuild service started outside the
module-wide adapter; restart the process and use only the Bundler contract

I could not determine the root cause, because the code discards it. That is what this PR fixes.

The defect

invokeEsbuild latches the ownership error before the operation settles:

const ownershipError = recordOwnershipError();       // latch created, no cause
return result.then(
  () => { throw ownershipError; },
  (cause) => { throw recordOwnershipError(cause); }, // ??= returns the existing
);                                                   // error — cause dropped

recordOwnershipError uses esbuildOwnershipError ??= new Error(...). Since the line above already set the latch, the rejection path's cause is silently thrown away — always, not just sometimes.

The latch is permanent and process-wide, so one failure at cold start makes every subsequent transform report a lifecycle problem that may not be what actually went wrong, with no trace of the real error anywhere in the logs.

The fix

  • Record the latch only once the operation settles, so the rejection path is the one that creates it and the cause is present.
  • If a latch already exists without a cause, adopt the cause that arrives later rather than discarding it. The first cause still wins over a second.
  • Fold the cause into the message. Callers log error.message (see esm-transform, layout-orchestrator), so a cause chain alone would still never be printed.

What this does and does not do

It does not fix staging. It makes staging diagnosable — the next occurrence will name the real failure instead of the lifecycle message.

Worth stating plainly: the same masking is why #3690 looked like the fix and was not. That PR correctly identified isLiveService rejecting a live service whose exit fields are undefined, and it is in v0.1.1235 — but staging still fails identically on v0.1.1235, so something else is tripping the guard and we cannot see what.

What I ruled out while chasing this

All tested against a Deno-compiled binary, since the failure is compiled-only:

Hypothesis Result
createRequire returns a different child_process than esbuild uses Refuted — same object across requires, compiled and interpreted
esbuild destructures spawn at load, defeating the patch Refuted — it holds the module and calls child_process.spawn at call time
The spawn-interception approach is broken under deno compile Refuted — service spawn intercepted, transform succeeds
Cold-start concurrency race in patch/restore Refuted — 12 concurrent first-transforms, 0 ownership errors
ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH unset / binary missing in the image Refuted for staging — binary is extracted, present, executable (0.28.1) in the pod

That last one does reproduce a different compiled failure: without ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH, spawn returns undefined and esbuild throws Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'unref'). Not staging's case, but it is one of the real errors this masking would hide.

Validation

  • 4 new tests; 3 fail against the previous implementation, all pass with the fix. The fourth covers the no-cause path and correctly passes under both.
  • Full esbuild-bundler.test.ts: 7 passed (23 steps), including the pre-existing lifecycle-ownership test.
  • deno lint / deno fmt --check clean across the extension.
  • Note: esbuild-bundler.test.ts has a pre-existing TS2352 on main (arrived with fix(bundler): keep compiled renderer service live #3690's test); unrelated and untouched.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved error reporting for bundling ownership failures.
    • Preserved the earliest failure while incorporating a more informative underlying cause when it becomes available later.
    • Sanitized and truncated cause details to keep error messages clear and safe.
    • Improved handling of failures occurring during or after bundling, including cases without an initial underlying error.

Staging preview has been returning 500 with

  [ext-bundler-esbuild] Cannot own an esbuild service started outside the
  module-wide adapter

and the message is all there is: whatever actually failed is discarded
before anyone can read it.

`invokeEsbuild` records the latch up front, with no cause:

    const ownershipError = recordOwnershipError();      // latch, no cause
    return result.then(
      () => { throw ownershipError; },
      (cause) => { throw recordOwnershipError(cause); } // ??= -> cause dropped
    );

Because the latch is set on the line above, the `??=` in
`recordOwnershipError` returns the existing causeless error and throws the
real one away. The latch is permanent, so every later operation in the
process reports a lifecycle problem that may not be what went wrong, and
the underlying failure is never visible anywhere.

Record the latch only once the operation settles, and let a cause arriving
later attach to an error created without one. Fold the cause into the
message too: callers log `error.message`, so a `cause` chain alone would
still not be printed.

This does not fix the staging failure. It makes it possible to see it.
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📦 Client bundle boundary

Entrypoint Modules Source size Server leaks
src/index.client.ts 454 3062 KiB ⚠️ 39 known

A server module in a client graph aborts hydration in the browser. New leaks fail CI; known leaks are tracked in scripts/lint/client-bundle-baseline.json to burn down.

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The esbuild bundler preserves the first ownership error and adopts a later underlying cause when needed. It sanitizes and truncates cause details. Tests cover cause adoption, retention, formatting, and missing causes.

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Ownership error cause handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ownership latch and test coverage
extensions/ext-bundler-esbuild/src/esbuild-bundler.ts, extensions/ext-bundler-esbuild/src/esbuild-bundler.test.ts
The latch sanitizes and truncates cause details, preserves the first error, and adopts a later cause when the first error has none. Test helpers isolate the shared latch. Tests cover these behaviors.
Service failure cause wiring
extensions/ext-bundler-esbuild/src/esbuild-bundler.ts
Ownership failures are latched before the esbuild promise settles. Rejected operations pass their causes to the latch, and fulfilled operations throw the latched error.

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The change preserves the underlying bundler failure so future errors are diagnosable without changing the intended bundling contract; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EsbuildBundler
  participant EsbuildOperation
  participant OwnershipErrorLatch
  EsbuildBundler->>EsbuildOperation: start bundling
  EsbuildOperation-->>EsbuildBundler: resolve or reject
  EsbuildBundler->>OwnershipErrorLatch: record ownership failure and cause
  OwnershipErrorLatch-->>EsbuildBundler: return latched error
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Deferring the latch until the operation settled left a window where a
concurrent transform passed the admission check in runBundlerOperation
and drove esbuild while ownership was already known to be invalid. Latch
synchronously again; the cause still arrives, because the latch is
created without one and recordOwnershipError adopts the first cause
offered afterwards.

The cause is folded into a message that callers log, so it must not carry
a machine's filesystem layout: a compiled runtime resolves esbuild under
a temp directory and spawn errors quote that path verbatim. Reduce
absolute paths to their basename, keep only the first line so a stack
never reaches the message, and bound the length.

  spawn /tmp/veryfront-esbuild-0.28.1-c3fd/esbuild ENOENT
    -> spawn esbuild ENOENT

Also import the BDD helpers from the repo module rather than @std.
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