[BUG] _interopRequireWildcard not defined in browser when using "import()" in page.evaluate()

[Ademsk1]

System info

• Playwright Version: [v1.34.0]
• Operating System: [macOS 13.2]
• Browser: [All]
• Other info:
  Trying to import a url module in page.evaluate raises the following error:
  Error: page.evaluate: ReferenceError: _interopRequireWildcard is not defined
  despite me only using the following:

page.evaluate(()=> {
const {getAuth} = import('some-url-link-to-module')
}

I found this strange, as I don't use _interopRequireWildcard at all. When in the debugging browser session, I plugged my commands in manually, and had no issues at all. On further inspection within the evaluate function, it seems as though the command import(...) gets converted into:

await Promise.resolve().then(() => _interopRequireWildcard(require('some-url-link-to-module')));

within the pageFunction variable in page.evaluate. I decided to quickly try and change it back to its regular import(...) and it worked! However, even if _interopRequireWildcard was defined in the browser, require wouldn't be, and so if this could be altered so that import() doesn't get modified, this would work.

Steps

• Run a test with page.evaluate(...) where within it we use the import() method to import a url module

Expected
Module should be imported and usable

Actual
Error occurs due to some action causing import() to be rewritten as a promise that uses _interopRequireWildcard

[Smrtnyk]

seems like they transpile that code that is supposed to be evaluated in the browser

[Ademsk1]

seems like they transpile that code that is supposed to be evaluated in the browser

Yeah, which is a bit strange right? Surely a TS dev would know to write Javascript within the page.evaluate?

[Ademsk1]

I've been able to get around the issue by running

page.addScriptTag({url: 'http://X.com/Y', type: 'module'})
...
page.addScriptTag({content: 'import {Z} from http://X.com/Y', type: 'module'})

to enable me to use Z from the imported module. Despite this, I still think that the the import() method should work in page.evaluate.

[mxschmitt]

It's caused by the @babel/plugin-proposal-dynamic-import plugin which we use.

Wrote a test for it.

test('should support dynamic import inside page', async ({ runInlineTest, server }) => {
  server.setRoute('/helper.js', (req, res) => {
    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/javascript');
    res.end(`export const foo = 'from helper';`);
  });
  server.setRoute('/empty.html', (req, res) => {
    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
    res.end(`<script type="module">
      import { foo } from './helper.js';
      window.foo = foo;
    </script>`);
  });
  const result = await runInlineTest({
    'playwright.config.ts': `
    import { PlaywrightTestConfig } from '@playwright/test';

    const config: PlaywrightTestConfig = {
      use: {
        headless: false,
      },
    };
    module.exports = config;
  `,
    'a.test.ts': `
      const {test, expect} = require('@playwright/test');

      test('pass', async ({ page }) => {
        await page.goto('${server.EMPTY_PAGE}');
        expect(await page.evaluate(async () => {
          const foo = await import('./helper.js');
          throw new Error(foo);
          return foo;
        )).toBe('from helper');
      });
    `,
  });
  expect(result.passed).toBe(1);
  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
});

I don't think we can easily solve it, since we want the plugin to be enabled in node but not in the "evaluate functions" which get stringified to the browser. As a workaround I recommend for now to pass it as a string, then it does not get transpiled with Babel:

 expect(await page.evaluate(`
  (async () => {
    const { foo } = await import ('./helper.js');
    return foo;
  })()
`)).toBe('from helper');

[pavelfeldman]

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