feat: transform negative lookaheads

node/declaration.test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { test, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'vitest'
 
 import { FunctionConfig } from './config.js'
 import { Declaration, mergeDeclarations, parsePattern } from './declaration.js'
@@ -183,3 +183,49 @@ test('Ensures pattern match on the whole path', () => {
 
   expect(actual).toEqual(expected)
 })
+
+describe('Transforms negative lookaheads', () => {
+  test('Throws if a `extractedExclusionPatterns` property is not supplied', () => {
+    const input = "'/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|favicon.ico).*)'"
+
+    expect(() => parsePattern(input)).toThrowError('Regular expressions with lookaheads are not supported')
+  })
+
+  test('With a disjunction inside the lookahead', () => {
+    const input = "'/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|favicon.ico).*)'"
+    const exclusions: string[] = []
+    const actual = parsePattern(input, exclusions)
+
+    expect(actual).toEqual("^'\\/(.*)'$")
+    expect(exclusions).toStrictEqual(["/^'\\/(api|_next\\/static|_next\\/image|favicon.ico.*)'$/"])
+  })
+
+  test('With multiple lookaheads inside a disjunction', () => {
+    const input = 'one(two(?!three)|four|five(?!six)|seven)'
+    const exclusions: string[] = []
+    const expected = '^one(two|four|five|seven)$'
+    const actual = parsePattern(input, exclusions)
+
+    expect(actual).toEqual(expected)
+    expect(exclusions).toStrictEqual(['/^one(twothree)$/', '/^one(fivesix)$/'])
+  })
+
+  test('With a lookahead outside of a disjunction', () => {
+    const input = 'a(b|c)(?!d)'
+    const exclusions: string[] = []
+    const expected = '^a(b|c)$'
+    const actual = parsePattern(input, exclusions)
+
+    expect(actual).toEqual(expected)
+    expect(exclusions).toStrictEqual(['/^a(b|c)d$/'])
+  })
+
+  test('Throws on nested lookaheads', () => {
+    const exclusions: string[] = []
+
+    expect(() => parsePattern('one(?!two(?!three))', exclusions)).toThrowError(
+      'Regular expressions with nested lookaheads are not supported',
+    )
+    expect(exclusions).toStrictEqual([])
+  })
+})

node/declaration.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import regexpAST from 'regexp-tree'
+import regexpAST, { NodePath } from 'regexp-tree'
 
 import { FunctionConfig, HTTPMethod, Path } from './config.js'
 import { FeatureFlags } from './feature_flags.js'
@@ -116,20 +116,73 @@ const createDeclarationsFromFunctionConfigs = (
   return declarations
 }
 
-// Validates and normalizes a pattern so that it's a valid regular expression
-// in Go, which is the engine used by our edge nodes.
-export const parsePattern = (pattern: string) => {
+/**
+ * Validates and normalizes a pattern so that it's a valid regular expression
+ * in Go, which is the engine used by our edge nodes.
+ *
+ * @param pattern Original regular expression
+ * @param extractedExclusionPatterns If set, negative lookaheads (which are
+ * not supported in Go) are transformed into a list of exclusion patterns to
+ * be stored in this array
+ * @returns Normalized regular expression
+ */
+export const parsePattern = (pattern: string, extractedExclusionPatterns?: string[]) => {
   let enclosedPattern = pattern
-  if (!pattern.startsWith('^')) enclosedPattern = `^${enclosedPattern}`
-  if (!pattern.endsWith('$')) enclosedPattern = `${enclosedPattern}$`
 
+  if (!pattern.startsWith('^')) {
+    enclosedPattern = `^${enclosedPattern}`
+  }
+
+  if (!pattern.endsWith('$')) {
+    enclosedPattern = `${enclosedPattern}$`
+  }
+
+  let lookaheadDepth = 0
+
+  // Holds the location of every lookahead expression found.
+  const lookaheads = new Set<string>()
   const regexp = new RegExp(enclosedPattern)
   const newRegexp = regexpAST.transform(regexp, {
-    Assertion(path) {
-      // Lookaheads are not supported. If we find one, throw an error.
-      if (path.node.kind === 'Lookahead') {
-        throw new Error('Regular expressions with lookaheads are not supported')
-      }
+    Assertion: {
+      // If we're entering a negative lookahead expression, register its
+      // location.
+      pre(path) {
+        if (path.node.kind !== 'Lookahead') {
+          return
+        }
+
+        if (!extractedExclusionPatterns) {
+          throw new Error('Regular expressions with lookaheads are not supported')
+        }
+
+        if (!path.node.negative) {
+          throw new Error('Regular expressions with positive lookaheads are not supported')
+        }
+
+        lookaheadDepth += 1
+
+        if (lookaheadDepth > 1) {
+          throw new Error('Regular expressions with nested lookaheads are not supported')
+        }
+
+        const lookahead = serializeNodeLocation(path.node)
+
+        if (lookahead) {
+          lookaheads.add(lookahead)
+        }
+      },
+
+      // If we're leaving a negative lookahead expression, remove it from the
+      // AST. We'll later replace its functionality with an exclusion pattern.
+      post(path) {
+        if (path.node.kind !== 'Lookahead' || !path.node.negative) {
+          return
+        }
+
+        lookaheadDepth -= 1
+
+        path.remove()
+      },
     },
 
     Group(path) {
@@ -146,6 +199,79 @@ export const parsePattern = (pattern: string) => {
     },
   })
 
+  // The `extractedExclusionPatterns` property works as a shut-off valve: if
+  // it's not supplied, don't even traverse the AST again to further process
+  // lookaheads.
+  if (extractedExclusionPatterns) {
+    const exclusionPatterns = [...lookaheads].map((lookahead) => getExclusionPatternFromLookahead(regexp, lookahead))
+
+    extractedExclusionPatterns.push(...exclusionPatterns)
+  }
+
   // Strip leading and forward slashes.
   return newRegexp.toString().slice(1, -1)
 }
+
+/**
+ * Takes a regular expression and a lookahead inside it and returns a new
+ * regular expression that acts as an exclusion pattern to replace the
+ * lookahead.
+ *
+ * @param regexp Original regular expression
+ * @param location Serialized location of the lookahead
+ * @returns Exclusion pattern regular expression
+ */
+const getExclusionPatternFromLookahead = (regexp: RegExp, location: string) => {
+  const exclusionRegexp = regexpAST.transform(regexp, {
+    Assertion(path) {
+      if (
+        path.node.kind !== 'Lookahead' ||
+        path.node.assertion === null ||
+        serializeNodeLocation(path.node) !== location
+      ) {
+        return
+      }
+
+      // Unwrap the lookahead by replacing it with the expression it holds —
+      // e.g. `(?!foo)` becomes `foo`.
+      path.replace(path.node.assertion)
+
+      // Traverse the parents of the lookahead all the way up to the root. When
+      // we find a disjunction, replace it with the child we travelled from. In
+      // practice this means getting rid of all the branches that are not the
+      // lookahead.
+      // For example, in `(a|b(?!c)|d)` the exclusion patterns cannot contain
+      // the `a` or `d` branches of the disjunction, otherwise `ab` and `ad`
+      // would incorrectly be excluded. The exclusion must be `bc` only.
+      let visitor: NodePath | null = path
+
+      while (visitor !== null) {
+        const child = visitor
+
+        visitor = visitor.parentPath
+
+        if (visitor?.node.type !== 'Disjunction') {
+          continue
+        }
+
+        visitor.replace(child.node)
+      }
+    },
+  })
+
+  return exclusionRegexp.toString()
+}
+
+/**
+ * Creates a string representation of a regexp AST node in the format
+ * `<start line>,<start column>,<start offset>,<end line>,<end column>,<end offset>`
+ */
+const serializeNodeLocation = (node: NodePath['node']) => {
+  if (!node.loc) {
+    return ''
+  }
+
+  const { start, end } = node.loc
+
+  return [start.line, start.column, start.offset, end.line, end.column, end.offset].join(',')
+}

node/feature_flags.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-const defaultFlags = {}
+const defaultFlags = {
+  edge_bundler_transform_lookaheads: false,
+}
 
 type FeatureFlag = keyof typeof defaultFlags
 type FeatureFlags = Partial<Record<FeatureFlag, boolean>>

node/manifest.test.ts

@@ -486,3 +486,22 @@ test('Returns functions without a declaration and unrouted functions', () => {
   expect(declarationsWithoutFunction).toEqual(['func-3'])
   expect(unroutedFunctions).toEqual(['func-2', 'func-4'])
 })
+
+test('Generates exclusion patterns from negative lookaheads', () => {
+  const functions = [{ name: 'func-1', path: '/path/to/func-1.ts' }]
+  const declarations = [{ function: 'func-1', pattern: "'/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|favicon.ico).*)'" }]
+  const { manifest } = generateManifest({
+    bundles: [],
+    declarations,
+    featureFlags: { edge_bundler_transform_lookaheads: true },
+    functions,
+  })
+
+  expect(manifest.routes).toEqual([
+    {
+      function: 'func-1',
+      pattern: "^'/(.*)'$",
+      excluded_patterns: ["/^'/(api|_next/static|_next/image|favicon.ico.*)'$/"],
+    },
+  ])
+})

node/manifest.ts

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ const normalizeMethods = (method: unknown, name: string): string[] | undefined =
 const generateManifest = ({
   bundles = [],
   declarations = [],
+  featureFlags,
   functions,
   userFunctionConfig = {},
   internalFunctionConfig = {},
@@ -153,7 +154,8 @@ const generateManifest = ({
       return
     }
 
-    const pattern = getRegularExpression(declaration)
+    const extractedExclusionPatterns = featureFlags?.edge_bundler_transform_lookaheads ? [] : undefined
+    const pattern = getRegularExpression(declaration, extractedExclusionPatterns)
 
     // If there is no `pattern`, the declaration will never be triggered, so we
     // can discard it.
@@ -163,7 +165,7 @@ const generateManifest = ({
 
     routedFunctions.add(declaration.function)
 
-    const excludedPattern = getExcludedRegularExpressions(declaration)
+    const excludedPattern = [...getExcludedRegularExpressions(declaration), ...(extractedExclusionPatterns ?? [])]
     const route: Route = {
       function: func.name,
       pattern: serializePattern(pattern),
@@ -225,10 +227,10 @@ const pathToRegularExpression = (path: string) => {
   }
 }
 
-const getRegularExpression = (declaration: Declaration) => {
+const getRegularExpression = (declaration: Declaration, extractedExclusionPatterns?: string[]) => {
   if ('pattern' in declaration) {
     try {
-      return parsePattern(declaration.pattern)
+      return parsePattern(declaration.pattern, extractedExclusionPatterns)
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       throw wrapBundleError(
         new Error(