CSS: Improve $string_escapes documentation clarity#227
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the CSS tokenizer’s escape decoding to follow the CSS Syntax spec’s special handling for string tokens, specifically fixing how \ + newline and \ + EOF contribute to decoded string values, and aligns the test corpus accordingly.
Changes:
- Implement special string-token escape handling (
\-newline → discard both,\-EOF → discard backslash) viadecode_escapes(..., $string_escapes=true). - Update the JSON test corpus expected
normalized/valuefields for affected cases. - Add/extend PHPUnit coverage for string/URL/ident backslash-newline and backslash-EOF behaviors, and introduce a
cssPHPUnit group.
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| File | Description |
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| components/DataLiberation/CSS/class-cssprocessor.php | Renames and extends escape decoding to support string-token-specific escape rules; updates call sites. |
| components/DataLiberation/Tests/CSSProcessorTest.php | Adds targeted regression tests for backslash-newline and backslash-EOF across string/URL/ident contexts; adds @group css. |
| components/DataLiberation/Tests/css-test-cases.json | Fixes expected normalized/value outputs for string tokens containing backslash-newline and backslash-EOF. |
| components/DataLiberation/Tests/CSSUrlProcessorTest.php | Adds @group css to allow running CSS-related tests via a PHPUnit group. |
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| if ( $this->is_valid_escape( $at ) ) { | ||
| ++$at; | ||
| $decoded .= $this->decode_escape_at( $at, $bytes_consumed ); |
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In the decode_range() slow path, both the normal segments appended via substr($this->css, ...) earlier in the loop and the decode_escape_at() return value here are not passed through wp_scrub_utf8(). This makes output inconsistent with the fast path (which scrubs) and can leak invalid UTF-8 if the range contains escapes/CR/FF/NUL plus invalid bytes. Consider scrubbing the appended segments (including the decoded escape output) and adding a regression test that combines an invalid byte with a backslash escape.
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This is a good spot, but not new in this PR: #228
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nice. It would be great to explore a fix+test in another pr cc @copilot
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| * - \-EOF: do nothing (consume the backslash, produce no value). | ||
| * - \-newline: consume both (line continuation, produce no value). |
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@copilot Let's express that as 0x byte sequences with annotations what do they mean. This notation confuses me.
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Updated in 96b91af — the comment now uses 0x byte sequences with annotations, e.g. 0x5C (backslash) followed by 0x0A (LF), 0x0C (FF), or 0x0D (CR).
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| * @return string Decoded and normalized string. | ||
| */ | ||
| private function decode_string_or_url( int $start, int $length ): string { | ||
| private function decode_range( int $start, int $length, bool $string_escapes = false ): string { |
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| * - \-newline is consumed as a line continuation (ignored). | ||
| * - \-EOF is silently discarded. |
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@copilot This should be consistent with the comment in the body. Below that was changed to use HEX, so lets do that here as well.
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Done in b0d082e — updated the $string_escapes docblock to use 0x5C (backslash) followed by 0x0A (LF), 0x0C (FF), or 0x0D (CR) notation, consistent with the method body.
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| * @param int $length Length of the substring to decode. | ||
| * @param bool $string_escapes Optional, default false. When true, apply special CSS string | ||
| * token escape rules: | ||
| * - 0x5C (backslash) followed by 0x0A (LF), 0x0C (FF), or 0x0D (CR) |
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@copilot Both here and below the CRLF case in not mentioned.
- Here it would be better to remove the technical details and just say that there are some additional escaping rules the apply only to strings.
- Add the CRLF case to the technical comment in the function body.
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Done in 59fe777:
- Docblock simplified to: "When true, apply additional escape rules that apply only to string tokens (CSS §4.3.5)."
- CRLF (0x0D 0x0A) case added to the technical comment in the function body.
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decode_range()$string_escapesparameter following review feedback:@paramdocblock: Replace verbose 0x byte-sequence bullet list with a concise high-level description; technical details live in the function body where they belong.