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fix(parser): count chunks before invoking tokenizer callbacks
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fix(parser): stop closing a stack reset by a callback
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29 changes: 29 additions & 0 deletions src/Parser.spec.ts
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Expand Up @@ -334,6 +334,35 @@ describe("API", () => {
expect(events).toStrictEqual(["×", "bar", "end"]);
});

it("should parse chunks queued after reset in a callback", () => {
const texts: string[] = [];
const parser = new Parser({
ontext(text) {
texts.push(text);
if (text === "first") parser.reset();
else if (text === "second") parser.pause();
},
});
parser.write("first");
parser.write("second");
parser.write("third");
parser.resume();
parser.end();
expect(texts).toStrictEqual(["first", "second", "third"]);
});

it("should stop closing elements after reset in onclosetag", () => {
const closed: string[] = [];
const parser = new Parser({
onclosetag(name) {
closed.push(name);
if (name === "c") parser.reset();
},
});
parser.write("<a><b><c></a>");
expect(closed).toStrictEqual(["c"]);
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P1 Next document loses its start

The close-callback reset fix still leaves the parser unable to read the next document correctly. After this test's write("<a><b><c></a>"), a subsequent write("<x>") emits text x> instead of opening x. The tokenizer continues after the callback and changes its reset index and sectionStart from zero to one. Extend this test to parse another chunk, and stop the old tokenizer work after a reset.

});

it("should support custom tokenizer", () => {
class CustomTokenizer extends Tokenizer {}

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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions src/Parser.ts
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Expand Up @@ -553,10 +553,11 @@ export class Parser implements Callbacks {
if (!this.isVoidElement(name)) {
const pos = this.stack.lastIndexOf(name);
if (pos !== -1) {
for (let index = this.stack.length - 1; index > pos; index--) {
// A callback may have reset the stack.
while (this.stack.length > pos + 1) {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '495,585p' src/Parser.ts
sed -n '745,815p' src/Parser.ts
sed -n '280,330p' src/Parser.spec.ts
rg -n 'reset\(|onclosetag\(|writeIndex|onopentag' src/Parser.ts

Repository: fb55/htmlparser2

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Parser methods ---'
sed -n '350,490p' src/Parser.ts
sed -n '690,755p' src/Parser.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Tokenizer declarations and lifecycle ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'class Tokenizer' src
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'reset()' src/Tokenizer.ts
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'write(' src/Tokenizer.ts
sed -n '1,180p' src/Tokenizer.ts
sed -n '380,500p' src/Tokenizer.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- reset identity/reentrancy candidates ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'writeIndex' src
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'tokenizer.running' src
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'onclosetag' src/Parser.ts src/Tokenizer.ts

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Tokenizer state and lifecycle ---'
sed -n '180,250p' src/Tokenizer.ts
sed -n '1125,1195p' src/Tokenizer.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Parser write drain and end ---'
sed -n '805,850p' src/Parser.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Reset/write related tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*spec.ts' -- 'reset()' src test 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F --glob '*spec.ts' -- 'write(' src/Parser.spec.ts | tail -30

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Stop the old close-tag unwind after reset()

When an onclosetag callback calls reset() and then write(), Tokenizer.reset() sets running to true, so the new document is parsed synchronously. The old pos remains active, and the loop can pop elements from the new document.

Track reset identity and stop both the unwind and matched-element pop when it changes.

🐛 Suggested fix 
+    private resetCount = 0;
     private writeIndex = 0;
         if (!this.isVoidElement(name)) {
             const pos = this.stack.lastIndexOf(name);
             if (pos !== -1) {
+                const resetCount = this.resetCount;
                 // A callback may have reset the stack.
-                while (this.stack.length > pos + 1) {
+                while (
+                    this.resetCount === resetCount &&
+                    this.stack.length > pos + 1
+                ) {
                     this.popElement(true);
                 }
-                if (this.stack.length === pos + 1) this.popElement(false);
+                if (
+                    this.resetCount === resetCount &&
+                    this.stack.length === pos + 1
+                ) {
+                    this.popElement(false);
+                }
     reset(): void {
+        this.resetCount++;
         this.cbs.onreset?.();
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Review comment at @src/Parser.ts at line 557:
Track reset identity in Parser and increment it in reset(); in the close-tag
handling around the stack unwind, capture the current identity and stop both the
unwind loop and matched-element pop if it changes, so a callback that resets and
writes cannot let the old close-tag processing alter the new document’s stack.

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this.popElement(true);
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P2 Badge Break the loop when callbacks replace the stack

The stack length does not establish that the elements still belong to the document whose closing tag is being processed. If an onclosetag callback calls reset() and immediately writes a replacement document containing enough open elements, this loop starts closing those new elements; if the callback repeats that reset-and-write operation for each close, the loop never reduces the length and does not terminate. Track reset/stack identity and exit after replacement rather than using the mutable length as the sole bound.

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}
this.popElement(false);
if (this.stack.length === pos + 1) this.popElement(false);
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P1 New elements close too soon

While parsing <a><b><c></a>, calling reset() and then write("<x><y>") inside the close callback for c still closes elements from the new document. The old loop keeps its original pos but checks the newly filled stack, so it closes y and x. Stop the old close operation when reset() runs, rather than relying only on stack length.

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P2 Badge Preserve tokenizer state after resetting from onclosetag

When onclosetag calls reset(), this stops the stack loop but returns control to Tokenizer.stateInClosingTagName, which subsequently overwrites the token position established by Tokenizer.reset(); this handler also later overwrites startIndex. For example, after parsing <a><b><c></a> with a reset on c, a subsequent parser.write("next") emits "ext", so the parser is not actually ready for a new document as reset() promises. The reset needs to abort the active tokenizer callback, such as through a reset-generation check, rather than only terminating this stack loop.

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} else if (this.htmlMode && name === "p") {
// Implicit open before close
this.emitOpenTag("p");
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this.buffers.push(chunk);
if (this.tokenizer.running) {
this.tokenizer.write(chunk);
// Count the chunk first, as a callback may call `reset()`.
this.writeIndex++;
this.tokenizer.write(chunk);
}
}

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