import FileAttachment

Author: mbostock

docs/javascript/files.md

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 
 TK Should this be called “working with data”?
 
-You can load files the built-in `FileAttachment` function or the standard [`fetch`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch) API. We recommend `FileAttachment` because it supports many common data formats, including CSV, TSV, JSON, Apache Arrow, and SQLite. For example, here’s how to load a CSV file:
+You can load files the built-in `FileAttachment` function. This is available by default in Markdown, but you can import it like so:
+
+```js echo
+import {FileAttachment} from "npm:@observablehq/stdlib";
+```
+
+`FileAttachment` supports many common data formats, including CSV, TSV, JSON, Apache Arrow, and SQLite. For example, here’s how to load a CSV file:
 
 ```js echo
 const gistemp = FileAttachment("gistemp.csv").csv({typed: true});
@@ -34,23 +40,6 @@ const gistemp = FileAttachment("gistemp.csv").csv().then((D) => D.map(coerceRow)
 
 TK An explanation of why coercing types as early as possible is important.
 
-## Fetch
-
-Here’s `fetch` for comparison.
-
-```js run=false
-import {autoType, csvParse} from "npm:d3-dsv";
-
-const gistemp = fetch("./gistemp.csv").then(async (response) => {
-  if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`fetch error: ${response.status}`);
-  return csvParse(await response.text(), autoType);
-});
-```
-
-Use `fetch` if you prefer to stick to the web standards, you don’t mind writing a little extra code. 🥴 Also, you’ll need to use `fetch` to load files from imported ES modules; `FileAttachment` only works within Markdown.
-
-**Caution:** If you use `fetch` for a local file, the path *must* start with `./`, `../`, or `/`. This allows us to distinguish between local files and absolute URLs. But that’s a little silly, right? Because unlike `import`, you can’t `fetch` a bare module specifier, so we could be more generous and detect URLs using `/^\w+:/` instead.
-
 ## Supported formats
 
 The following type-specific methods are supported:

src/client/main.js

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export function define(cell) {
   v.define(outputs.length ? `cell ${id}` : null, inputs, body);
   variables.push(v);
   for (const o of outputs) variables.push(main.variable(true).define(o, [`cell ${id}`], (exports) => exports[o]));
-  for (const f of files) registerFile(f.name, {url: f.path, mimeType: f.mimeType});
+  for (const f of files) registerFile(f.name, f);
   for (const d of databases) registerDatabase(d.name, d);
 }
 

src/client/stdlib/databaseClient.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export function DatabaseClient(name) {
   return new DatabaseClientImpl(name, token);
 }
 
-const DatabaseClientImpl = class DatabaseClient {
+class DatabaseClientImpl {
   #token;
 
   constructor(name, token) {
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ const DatabaseClientImpl = class DatabaseClient {
   async sql() {
     return this.query(...this.queryTag.apply(this, arguments));
   }
-};
+}
 
+Object.defineProperty(DatabaseClientImpl, "name", {value: "DatabaseClient"}); // prevent mangling
 DatabaseClient.prototype = DatabaseClientImpl.prototype; // instanceof
 
 function coerceBuffer(d) {

src/client/stdlib/fileAttachment.js

@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 const files = new Map();
 
 export function registerFile(name, file) {
-  if (file == null) files.delete(name);
-  else files.set(name, file);
+  const url = String(new URL(name, location.href));
+  if (file == null) files.delete(url);
+  else files.set(url, file);
 }
 
-export function FileAttachment(name) {
+export function FileAttachment(name, base = location.href) {
   if (new.target !== undefined) throw new TypeError("FileAttachment is not a constructor");
-  const file = files.get((name = `${name}`));
+  const url = String(new URL(name, base));
+  const file = files.get(url);
   if (!file) throw new Error(`File not found: ${name}`);
-  const {url, mimeType} = file;
-  return new FileAttachmentImpl(url, name, mimeType);
+  const {path, mimeType} = file;
+  return new FileAttachmentImpl(path, name.split("/").pop(), mimeType);
 }
 
 async function remote_fetch(file) {
@@ -85,16 +87,17 @@ class AbstractFile {
   }
 }
 
-const FileAttachmentImpl = class FileAttachment extends AbstractFile {
+class FileAttachmentImpl extends AbstractFile {
   constructor(url, name, mimeType) {
     super(name, mimeType);
     Object.defineProperty(this, "_url", {value: url});
   }
   async url() {
     return (await this._url) + "";
   }
-};
+}
 
+Object.defineProperty(FileAttachmentImpl, "name", {value: "FileAttachment"}); // prevent mangling
 FileAttachment.prototype = FileAttachmentImpl.prototype; // instanceof
 
 class ZipArchive {

src/files.ts

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ export function getLocalPath(sourcePath: string, name: string): string | null {
 
 export function fileReference(name: string, sourcePath: string): FileReference {
   return {
-    name,
+    name: relativeUrl(sourcePath, name),
     mimeType: mime.getType(name),
-    path: relativeUrl(sourcePath, resolvePath("_file", sourcePath, name))
+    path: relativeUrl(sourcePath, join("_file", name))
   };
 }
 

src/javascript.ts

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ import {findAwaits} from "./javascript/awaits.js";
 import {resolveDatabases} from "./javascript/databases.js";
 import {findDeclarations} from "./javascript/declarations.js";
 import {findFeatures} from "./javascript/features.js";
-import {rewriteFetches} from "./javascript/fetches.js";
-import {defaultGlobals} from "./javascript/globals.js";
 import {findExports, findImportDeclarations, findImports} from "./javascript/imports.js";
 import {createImportResolver, rewriteImports} from "./javascript/imports.js";
 import {findReferences} from "./javascript/references.js";
@@ -20,9 +18,11 @@ export interface DatabaseReference {
 }
 
 export interface FileReference {
+  /** The relative path from the source root to the file. */
   name: string;
+  /** The MIME type, if known; derived from the file extension. */
   mimeType: string | null;
-  /** The relative path from the document to the file in _file */
+  /** The relative path from the page to the file in _file. */
   path: string;
 }
 
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ export function transpileJavaScript(input: string, options: ParseOptions): Pendi
           output.insertRight(input.length, "\n))");
         }
         await rewriteImports(output, node, sourcePath, createImportResolver(root, "_import"));
-        rewriteFetches(output, node, sourcePath);
         const result = `${node.async ? "async " : ""}(${inputs}) => {
 ${String(output)}${node.declarations?.length ? `\nreturn {${node.declarations.map(({name}) => name)}};` : ""}
 }`;
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ export interface JavaScriptNode {
 }
 
 function parseJavaScript(input: string, options: ParseOptions): JavaScriptNode {
-  const {globals = defaultGlobals, inline = false, root, sourcePath} = options;
+  const {inline = false, root, sourcePath} = options;
   // First attempt to parse as an expression; if this fails, parse as a program.
   let expression = maybeParseExpression(input, parseOptions);
   if (expression?.type === "ClassExpression" && expression.id) expression = null; // treat named class as program
@@ -152,16 +151,16 @@ function parseJavaScript(input: string, options: ParseOptions): JavaScriptNode {
   const body = expression ?? Parser.parse(input, parseOptions);
   const exports = findExports(body);
   if (exports.length) throw syntaxError("Unexpected token 'export'", exports[0], input); // disallow exports
-  const references = findReferences(body, globals);
-  findAssignments(body, references, globals, input);
-  const declarations = expression ? null : findDeclarations(body as Program, globals, input);
-  const {imports, fetches} = findImports(body, root, sourcePath);
-  const features = findFeatures(body, root, sourcePath, references, input);
+  const references = findReferences(body);
+  findAssignments(body, references, input);
+  const declarations = expression ? null : findDeclarations(body as Program, input);
+  const {imports, features: importedFeatures} = findImports(body, root, sourcePath);
+  const features = findFeatures(body, sourcePath, references, input);
   return {
     body,
     declarations,
     references,
-    features: [...features, ...fetches],
+    features: [...features, ...importedFeatures],
     imports,
     expression: !!expression,
     async: findAwaits(body).length > 0

src/javascript/assignments.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-import type {Expression, Node, Pattern, VariableDeclaration} from "acorn";
+import type {Expression, Identifier, Node, Pattern, VariableDeclaration} from "acorn";
 import {simple} from "acorn-walk";
+import {defaultGlobals} from "./globals.js";
 import {syntaxError} from "./syntaxError.js";
 
-export function findAssignments(node: Node, references: Node[], globals: Set<string>, input: string): void {
+export function findAssignments(node: Node, references: Identifier[], input: string): void {
   function checkConst(node: Expression | Pattern | VariableDeclaration) {
     switch (node.type) {
       case "Identifier":
         if (references.includes(node)) throw syntaxError(`Assignment to external variable '${node.name}'`, node, input);
-        if (globals.has(node.name)) throw syntaxError(`Assignment to global '${node.name}'`, node, input);
+        if (defaultGlobals.has(node.name)) throw syntaxError(`Assignment to global '${node.name}'`, node, input);
         break;
       case "ObjectPattern":
         node.properties.forEach((node) => checkConst(node.type === "Property" ? node.value : node));

src/javascript/declarations.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import type {Identifier, Pattern, Program} from "acorn";
+import {defaultGlobals} from "./globals.js";
 import {syntaxError} from "./syntaxError.js";
 
-export function findDeclarations(node: Program, globals: Set<string>, input: string): Identifier[] {
+export function findDeclarations(node: Program, input: string): Identifier[] {
   const declarations: Identifier[] = [];
 
   function declareLocal(node: Identifier) {
-    if (globals.has(node.name) || node.name === "arguments") {
+    if (defaultGlobals.has(node.name) || node.name === "arguments") {
       throw syntaxError(`Global '${node.name}' cannot be redefined`, node, input);
     }
     declarations.push(node);

src/javascript/features.ts

@@ -1,55 +1,50 @@
-import type {Identifier, Literal, Node, TemplateLiteral} from "acorn";
+import type {CallExpression, Identifier, Literal, Node, TemplateLiteral} from "acorn";
 import {simple} from "acorn-walk";
 import {getLocalPath} from "../files.js";
 import type {Feature} from "../javascript.js";
 import {syntaxError} from "./syntaxError.js";
 
-export function findFeatures(
-  node: Node,
-  root: string,
-  sourcePath: string,
-  references: Identifier[],
-  input: string
-): Feature[] {
+export function findFeatures(node: Node, path: string, references: Identifier[], input: string): Feature[] {
   const features: Feature[] = [];
 
   simple(node, {
     CallExpression(node) {
-      const {
-        callee,
-        arguments: args,
-        arguments: [arg]
-      } = node;
-
+      const {callee} = node;
       // Ignore function calls that are not references to the feature. For
       // example, if there’s a local variable called Secret, that will mask the
       // built-in Secret and won’t be considered a feature.
-      if (
-        callee.type !== "Identifier" ||
-        (callee.name !== "Secret" && callee.name !== "FileAttachment" && callee.name !== "DatabaseClient") ||
-        !references.includes(callee)
-      ) {
-        return;
-      }
-
-      // Forbid dynamic calls.
-      if (args.length !== 1 || !isStringLiteral(arg)) {
-        throw syntaxError(`${callee.name} requires a single literal string argument`, node, input);
-      }
-
-      // Forbid file attachments that are not local paths.
-      const value = getStringLiteralValue(arg);
-      if (callee.name === "FileAttachment" && !getLocalPath(sourcePath, value)) {
-        throw syntaxError(`non-local file path: "${value}"`, node, input);
-      }
-
-      features.push({type: callee.name, name: value});
+      if (callee.type !== "Identifier" || !references.includes(callee)) return;
+      const {name: type} = callee;
+      if (type !== "Secret" && type !== "FileAttachment" && type !== "DatabaseClient") return;
+      features.push(getFeature(type, node, path, input));
     }
   });
 
   return features;
 }
 
+export function getFeature(type: Feature["type"], node: CallExpression, path: string, input: string): Feature {
+  const {
+    arguments: args,
+    arguments: [arg]
+  } = node;
+
+  // Forbid dynamic calls.
+  if (args.length !== 1 || !isStringLiteral(arg)) {
+    throw syntaxError(`${type} requires a single literal string argument`, node, input);
+  }
+
+  // Forbid file attachments that are not local paths; normalize the path.
+  let name: string | null = getStringLiteralValue(arg);
+  if (type === "FileAttachment") {
+    const localPath = getLocalPath(path, name);
+    if (!localPath) throw syntaxError(`non-local file path: ${name}`, node, input);
+    name = localPath;
+  }
+
+  return {type, name};
+}
+
 export function isStringLiteral(node: any): node is Literal | TemplateLiteral {
   return (
     node &&