[robobun]

To decide on: expect(Bun.file(path).slice(a, b)) throws in both matchers until something runs a stat on the file. On main its negated forms pass. Notes has the alternative.

Problem

• expect(blob).toHaveLength(n) and .toBeEmpty() take an internal marker for the length of a Blob of unknown size: a Bun.file() of a missing path, a directory or a pipe. toHaveLength(0) fails with Received length: 17976931348623157... (309 digits). .not.toHaveLength(n) and .not.toBeEmpty() pass.
• JSC__JSValue__getLengthIfPropertyExistsInternal (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:2992) returns DBL_MAX for such a Blob. The matchers only know +Infinity and NaN.

Fix

• That function returns NaN for such a Blob. Both matchers throw Received value is a Blob whose size is not known: FileRef ("/path"), with and without .not.
• Correct because no caller can compare or print NaN as a length. JSValue::get_length still gives 0.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js (6 new tests, 5 fail on main). Also jest-extended.test.js, body-clone.test.ts, inspect.test.js, blob.test.ts.
• Self-reviewed: 41 concerns raised, 35 addressed. Notes names the 6 rejected.

Background

• Found in review of FormData: throw when serializing an S3-backed entry instead of sending an empty part #38364. No user reported it. expect(): not.toHaveLength() and not.toBeEmpty() pass for a Blob with no known size #43961 has the same symptom and is closed as not planned.
• The matchers use a Blob's size as its length, a Bun extension.
• Considered an f64::MAX test in the matchers: it adds a compare per call.

Downsides

• Tests that pass by accident now throw: the negated forms on a missing file, a directory or a pipe.
• Size: .text +512 bytes (size). A passing call executes no added instruction (gdb).
• Not fixed: an S3 file still passes toBeEmpty(). s3: leave the size of an S3 blob unknown in resolve_size #46653 changes that, and its test rows then need the new text.

Notes

History

• Fix crash in test.todo + remove JSC C API usages in bun:test #3079 (0f2a79b) added the marker. toHaveLength threw Received value does not have a length property for it, before it applied .not. Implement expect().toBeEmpty() #3060 (1a30b4f) changed that compare to +Infinity 16 hours later, and the marker went on to the compare.
• test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js:2612 still says: "if a file doesn't exist, it should throw (not return 0 size)".
• Jest throws for a received value with no numeric length, with and without .not. Run with expect 30.5.2 on Node 26.3.0: expect(new Blob(["abc"])).not.toHaveLength(0) is a TypeError.

What has an unknown size

All forms of the two matchers throw for these. A fixed matrix of 199 rows has 68 changed rows, all of these kinds.

• Bun.file() of a missing path, a directory, a FIFO, /dev/null, and Bun.stdin. A slice of one of them.
• Bun.file(path).slice(a, b) of a regular file, when nothing has run a stat on the file. See the next section.
• A Bun.file() that read .size before its file existed. Bun.file: a failed stat leaves the size unknown #39763 is about the 0 that it keeps.

The slice of a file that nothing has looked at

• Bun.file(path).slice(a, b) has its size without a stat, so nothing knows if the file exists. console.log of a Response over such a slice prints no size (clone() of a Bun.file() body no longer freezes what the Bun.file() answers or throws for a body that cannot be read #44504). With this PR both matchers throw for it.
• On main toHaveLength(size) fails on it with the 309 digits, and .not.toHaveLength(size) passes. .not.toHaveLength(other) and .not.toBeEmpty() pass, and for a file with content those two results are right. They now throw. The tests do not pin this case.
• .size, .lastModified, exists() or one of the two matchers on the Bun.file() makes the slice known. slice.size, await slice.text(), await file.text() and await file.stat() do not. A test can use expect(slice.size).toBe(n).

Rejected in self-review

• Ask the Blob in the matchers before the C++ function runs, or test for f64::MAX in the matchers and keep the marker (4 concerns). NaN adds no work to a passing call, and no reader can take it for a length. If a reviewer prefers the marker, the change is small: then nothing outside src/runtime/test_runner changes.
• A typed result for the C++ function (1 concern). Not built: nobody asked for it.
• Delete the f64::MAX test of JSValue::get_length in this PR (1 concern). See the next section.

JSValue::get_length does not change

• Its if len == f64::MAX { return Ok(0); } (src/jsc/JSValue.rs:1366) has no Blob behind it after this PR. It still decides { length: Number.MAX_VALUE }.
• I built the deletion and measured it. .text grew by 12,544 bytes: JSArrayIterator::init gets 18 bytes smaller, and LLVM then inlines it at 47 of its 99 call sites. Bun.spawnSync({ cmd: { length: Number.MAX_VALUE } }) went from cmd must not be empty to cmd array is too large, and Bun.$({ raw: { length: Number.MAX_VALUE } }) started to throw.
• jsc: get_length returns 0 for objects without a length property; bun:test reads callback arity before wrapping it #38910 rewrites get_length. The deletion fits there, or in a PR of its own.

A stat in the matcher was built and removed

• For such a slice the matcher ran one stat, and took the size of the slice when the file was a regular file.
• A slice that exists before the stat is not cut to the file, so that size is its window. First use, release builds:

slice	bytes that a read returns	toHaveLength(10) with the stat	this PR
slice(0, 10) of 20 bytes	10	passes	throws
slice(0, 10) of an empty file	0	passes	throws
slice(0, 10) of 5 bytes	5	passes	throws
slice(30, 40) of 20 bytes	0	passes	throws

• Main gives the same four answers when file.size runs after slice(). When it runs before, the slice is cut to the file, and toHaveLength(10) fails for the last three.
• The stat also kept st_mode on the store that a slice shares with its Bun.file(). For a Bun.file(fd) it kept the whole fstat: size stayed 20 after the file grew to 100.
• A right answer needs the window cut to st_size. clone() of a Bun.file() body no longer freezes what the Bun.file() answers or throws for a body that cannot be read #44504 left that open: an empty file and a procfs file give the same stat. Bun.file().slice(): keep the size unknown for a slice with no end #45859 and Bun.file: a failed stat leaves the size unknown #39763 change the same state.

Measurements

Linux x64, release builds of 811afe7 with and without this diff. The branch is now on 179664e, two unrelated commits later.

• size: .text 82,236,809 to 82,237,321 bytes (+512). .rodata, .data and .bss are equal.
• nm: four symbols change. Expect::throw_nan_length is new, 550 bytes. The host function of toBeEmpty goes from 2,261 to 2,224 bytes, that of toHaveLength from 1,917 to 1,890, the C++ function from 731 to 718.
• Executed instructions of the third call, gdb stepi: expect([1, 2, 3]).toHaveLength(3) 581 and 581, expect([]).toBeEmpty() 240 and 239, JSValue::get_length on an array 81 and 81.
• Calls of throw_nan_length in 200,000 passing matcher calls each on an array, a string, a Headers, a Blob and a Bun.file(): 0 (gdb breakpoint counts).
• stat system calls, gdb catch syscall: equal in 9 call orders. The matchers add no stat.
• objdump: direct calls of JSArrayIterator::init 99 and 99, of JSValue::get_length 19 and 19.
• Not measured: macOS, Windows, aarch64. The container has no strace, perf or valgrind.

Other open PRs on the same lines

• s3: leave the size of an S3 blob unknown in resolve_size #46653 and FormData: throw when serializing an S3-backed entry instead of sending an empty part #38364 give an S3 file an unknown size. Their rows toThrow("Received length"), toThrow("Expected value to be empty") and the bare expect(s3file).not.toHaveLength(0) of FormData: throw when serializing an S3-backed entry instead of sending an empty part #38364 then fail with this PR. The PR that lands second has to edit them.
• jsc: get_length returns 0 for objects without a length property; bun:test reads callback arity before wrapping it #38910 (get_length) and bun:test: stop toBeEmpty() from passing for undefined, null, numbers, functions and Dates #42541 (other branches of toBeEmpty) touch the same two matchers.
• deepEquals: compare FormData, Blob, File, Cookie and CookieMap by their native state #45613 (Blob deep equality) is a different matcher family: expect(Bun.file(a)).toEqual(Bun.file(missing)) is not changed here.

Suites run (debug build with ASAN, on 179664e)

• test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js: 433 pass, 2 todo. The tests of the two matchers also pass with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.
• jest-extended.test.js 58 pass, body-clone.test.ts 100 pass, inspect.test.js 104 pass, blob.test.ts 149 pass.
• Not run: Windows. The FIFO row is skipped there. The directory and missing-path rows are not.

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[robobun]

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Status

Reproduced on 1.4.3-canary (367d939) and on main at 811afe7, with no network:

import { expect } from "bun:test";

const missing = Bun.file("/tmp/does-not-exist");
expect(missing).not.toBeEmpty(); // passes
expect(missing).not.toHaveLength(0); // passes
expect(missing).toHaveLength(Number.MAX_VALUE); // passes
expect(missing).toHaveLength(0); // fails: Received length: 1797693134862315700000... (309 digits)

A directory, a FIFO and Bun.stdin give the same results.

With this PR each of these calls throws Received value is a Blob whose size is not known: FileRef ("/tmp/does-not-exist").

PR: #46813

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Walkthrough

The Blob length binding now returns NaN for an unknown Blob size. The toHaveLength and toBeEmpty matchers use a shared helper to report errors for NaN values. Tests cover unknown-size Blobs and numeric and NaN length properties.

Changes

Unknown Blob Length Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unknown-size length sentinel src/jsc/JSValue.rs, src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp	The Blob length binding returns NaN when the size is UINT64_MAX. The method documentation now describes +Infinity as the missing-property result.
Length matcher error handling src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/expect/toBeEmpty.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/expect/toHaveLength.rs, test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js	Both matchers use a shared helper to classify NaN lengths as an unknown Blob size or a non-number length property. Tests cover missing paths, directories, FIFOs on non-Windows platforms, slices, and numeric and NaN length properties.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, alii

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9c076

The change is behaviorally mergeable; only the test imports need cleanup to follow repository guidance.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the only other consumer of the changed C++ length probe, JSValue::get_length (src/jsc/JSValue.rs:1362): with NaN in place of DBL_MAX, clamp passes NaN through and the as u64 cast saturates to 0, so it still returns 0 for an unknown-size Blob. I also confirmed the Blob-ness check in throw_nan_length cannot misclassify a plain { length: NaN } object: a JSBlob is a JSDOMWrapperType and is handled before the generic length-property path in bindings.cpp, so NaN from a Blob only ever means unknown size.

Extended reasoning...

The change swaps the unknown-Blob-size sentinel in JSC__JSValue__getLengthIfPropertyExistsInternal from DBL_MAX to NaN, adds a shared throw_nan_length helper used by toHaveLength and toBeEmpty, and adds test.each rows for missing path, directory, FIFO and slices. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The inline finding (negated matchers on a slice of an existing regular file now throw where they passed, a regression the PR itself lists as a downside) is a user-visible behavior change a human should weigh, so this is not an approve.

[claude]

🔴 bun:test users whose suites call .not.toBeEmpty() or .not.toHaveLength(n) on a slice of an existing regular file now get a thrown error where the base passes. The helper at src/runtime/test_runner/expect.rs:1640 treats every NaN from the length probe as an unknown size, but get_size_for_bindings (src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:1925) also answers u64::MAX for Bun.file(path).slice(a, b) of a regular file that nothing has stat'd yet. Fix: before reporting unknown size, resolve seekability for a file-backed slice whose seekable is unset (one stat on the store) so a regular-file slice keeps its known length, and only truly unsizable stores (missing path, directory, FIFO) throw. [also at: src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:2993 - Test authors who slice a regular Bun.file() before anything stats it now get a throw from toHaveLength()/toBeEmpty() where the negated forms passed before.]

Why this was flagged

A test does const s = Bun.file("data.bin").slice(0, 10); expect(s).not.toBeEmpty(); without reading .size on the parent file first. Bun__Blob__getSizeForBindings goes to get_size_for_bindings at src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:1913; has_size is true for a slice, file.seekable is None and mode_seen_by_clone is None, so src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs:1934 returns u64::MAX. The C++ probe at src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:2993 now returns PNaN instead of DBL_MAX. toBeEmpty at src/runtime/test_runner/expect/toBeEmpty.rs:78 and toHaveLength at src/runtime/test_runner/expect/toHaveLength.rs:61 call Expect::throw_nan_length, which finds the value is a Blob and throws "Received value is a Blob whose size is not known: FileRef ("data.bin")". On the base branch the length was DBL_MAX, so .not.toBeEmpty() and .not.toHaveLength(10) passed (and were correct). The toHaveLength test block at test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js:2667 only covers slices of a missing path and a directory, not of a regular file, so nothing pins this case.

Verification: The C++ probe (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:2990-2993) now maps that u64::MAX to PNaN instead of DBL_MAX; toBeEmpty.rs:77-78 and toHaveLength.rs:60-61 then call Expect::throw_nan_length (expect.rs:1640-1649), which, since from_js(value) is a Blob, throws "Received value is a Blob whose size is not known: FileRef (...)" — before not is applied.

[robobun]

The regression is real: on main .not.toBeEmpty() passes on such a slice, and with this PR it throws. It is now the first line of the description, as a choice for a maintainer. No code change in this push.

I built the suggested stat before I opened the PR, and removed it. A slice that exists before the stat is not cut to the file, so the stat gives the slice its window, not the bytes that are in the file. First use of Bun.file(path).slice(a, b), release builds:

slice	bytes that a read returns	toHaveLength(10) with the stat	this PR
slice(0, 10) of 20 bytes	10	passes	throws
slice(0, 10) of an empty file	0	passes	throws
slice(0, 10) of 5 bytes	5	passes	throws
slice(30, 40) of 20 bytes	0	passes	throws

Three of the four are silent passes of a wrong length. Main gives the same answers when file.size runs after slice(), and the right ones when it runs before. The stat also kept its result on the store that a slice shares with its Bun.file(): a Bun.file(fd) reported size 20 after the file grew to 100.

A right answer needs the window cut to st_size. That decides what size a file slice has, and #44504 left that open on purpose: an empty file and a procfs file give the same stat. #45859 and #39763 change the same state. So this PR reports what the Blob layer knows about such a slice, which is nothing. console.log of a Response over it prints no size for the same reason.

A test has two exits: expect(slice.size).toBe(n), or a read of file.size before the matcher. If a maintainer prefers the stat, it is a small change on top of this one.