[META] Robust component instance error handling during hydration+rendering (#3517941) · Issues · project / canvas

[META] Robust component instance error handling during hydration+rendering

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [wim leers](https://www.drupal.org/user/99777) >>> Legend <ul> <li>✅ Done.</li> <li>🟢 Confident it will not require backwards compatibility breaks.</li> <li>🟡 Medium confidence; more work needed to achieve necessary confidence.</li> <li>🔴 Low confidence; requires a lot more work</li> </ul> <h3 id="requirements-functional">Functional Requirements</h3> <ol> <li>Provide clear, user-friendly error messages </li><li>Display actionable resolution steps for each error </li><li>Offer retry and undo action to resolve the error when possible </li><li>Provide component-level error handling so one component error doesn't break the entire page </li><li>Log errors for developers to troubleshoot, for client side and PHP logic errors. </li></ol> <h3 id="requirements-nonfunctional">Non-Functional Requirements or Constraints</h3> <ol> <li>Must avoid leaking sensitive internal error information to non-developers. </li><li>If a component instance with a slot fails to render (due to logic error or invalid input), it’s possible that the slots won’t render either, hence obscuring a subset of the component tree. These should remain visible in the “Layers” view. </li></ol> <h3 id="out-of-scope">Out of Scope</h3> <dl> <dt>Robust error handling for XB config entities created through the XB UI, such as <code>Pattern</code>s (“sections”), <code>JavaScriptComponent</code>s (“code components”), etc.</dt> <dd>Impact: Those may still break when saving (creating or editing) them. Issue for those: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3503547" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3503547</a>. </dd> </dl> <h3 id="acceptance-criteria">Acceptance Criteria</h3> Explicit test coverage for each of: <ol> <li>A Drupal Block plugin (whose rendering logic throws a PHP exception) used as a component instance in an XB component tree does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable. </li><li>An SDC (whose Twig logic throws a PHP exception) used as a component instance in an XB component tree does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable (except that if this SDC has slots, those slots MAY not appear in the preview, but they would appear in the “Layers” view). </li><li>A code component (whose JS logic throws a JS exception) used as a component instance whose explicit inputs are invalid does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable (except that if this code component has slots, those slots MAY not appear in the preview, but they would appear in the “Layers” view). </li><li>A Drupal Block plugin used as a component instance whose explicit inputs are invalid does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable. </li><li>An SDC used as a component instance whose explicit inputs are invalid does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable. </li><li>A code component used as a component instance whose explicit inputs are invalid does NOT make the rest of the component tree unusable. </li></ol> <h2 id="beta">Beta blockers (July 2025)</h2> Beta blockers (tag: <code>beta blocker</code>) MUST happen before <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3515932" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3515932</a>. (Numbered lists must happen one after the other, bulleted lists can happen in parallel.) <ol> <li>✅ Failing tests for all acceptance criteria that relate to either a server-rendered component source (1, 2, 4 and 5 — code components are rendered client-side), or when the server has the necessary information to deduce that the component will fail to render (6). That means everything except the 3rd acceptance criterium. → <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder/issues/3517966" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3517966: Failing kernel tests for all ways a component source can fail to render on the server side</a> </li><li> ✅ Fallback markup for server side-rendered components (SDC + block plugins), plus make the above tests pass, plus logging, plus structured information about all component instances that failed to render and why. → <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder/issues/3485878" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3485878: Server-rendered component instances should NEVER result in a user-facing error, should fall back to a meaningful error instead (+ log)</a> 👆 This implements an (ugly) catch-all to at least avoid the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2024-11-06/Screenshot%202024-11-06%20at%202.40.56%E2%80%AFPM.png">hard, fatal failures</a>. It unblocks the next stage. </li><li> ✅ Missed edge case above: rendering of a component for the list of available components could also fail! Fixed in <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder/issues/3526225" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3526225: Use `RenderSafeComponentContainer` also when normalizing `Component` config entities (was: "SDC using an invalid filter in Twig somehow bypasses the robust error handling")</a>. </li></ol> <dl> <dt id="before">Before</dt> <dd><img src="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2024-11-06/Screenshot%202024-11-06%20at%202.40.56%E2%80%AFPM.png" alt=""></dd> <dt id="after-canvas-user">After (since <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder/issues/3485878" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3485878: Server-rendered component instances should NEVER result in a user-facing error, should fall back to a meaningful error instead (+ log)</a>) — for Canvas user</dt> <dd><img src="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2025-05-01/Screenshot%20from%202025-05-01%2015-26-24.png" alt=""></dd> <dt id="after-site-visitor">After (since <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder/issues/3485878" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3485878: Server-rendered component instances should NEVER result in a user-facing error, should fall back to a meaningful error instead (+ log)</a>) — for site visitor</dt> <dd><img src="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2025-05-01/Screenshot%20from%202025-05-01%2015-27-02.png" alt=""></dd> </dl> <h2 id="stable">Stable blockers (October 2025)</h2> Stable blockers (tag: <code>stable blocker</code>) do not block <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3515932" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3515932</a>, but would be nice-to-have at that point in time. They MUST happen before <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3517885" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3517885</a>. <ol> <li>✅ Canvas shouldn't gracefully degrade while developing SDCs, block plugins or code components: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3470422" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/work_items/3470422</a> </li><li>✅ Graceful degradation when uninstall themes, because core doesn't do what it should do: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3546188" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3546188: Theme SDC instances cause fatal error after theme uninstallation due to core bug: keep in-use Components and switch them to the Fallback ComponentSource</a> </li><li>✅ Robustness is too robust 😅 <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3535983" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3535983: Canvas' component rendering robustness layer is too eager: catch all `\Throwable`s EXCEPT `EnforcedResponseException` and `FormAjaxException`, otherwise "form" components cannot work</a> </li><li>✅ The Canvas UI shouldn't allow instantiating components known to be broken due to developer making changes real-time: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3548922" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3548922: A component appearing in the list of components to instantiate that is broken during development should convey that</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3532514" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3532514: Gracefully handle components in active development: ensure great DX</a>, whose MR !220 also <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/canvas/-/merge_requests/220#note_626103">hardens a missed edge case in #3548922</a> </li></ol> <h2 id="post-stable-priorities">Post-stable priorities (after October 2025)</h2> Post-stable priorities (tag: <code>post-stable priority</code>) do not block any release, and are things we'd like to see happen, but are intentionally NOT happening any time soon. We're highly confident that these will be net additions without the need for backwards compatibility breaks. <ol> <li id="post-stable-bugs">Newly discovered bugs: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3578865" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3578865: Hydrating a component tree with an instance containing garbage values OutOfRangeException when component trees have inputs for non-existent props</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3578865" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3578865: Hydrating a component tree with an instance containing garbage values OutOfRangeException when component trees have inputs for non-existent props</a> </li><li>Technically a Drush/core bug wrt config system/data integrity, but can cause Canvas component trees containing code component instances to break in an unrecoverable way: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3573022" title="Status: Active">#3573022: [upstream] Data loss: `drush config:import` deletes config (e.g. code component + component config entities) and bypasses config system data integrity checks</a> </li></ul> </li> <li>Designs <ul> <li>in-preview affordances: what does the fallback look like inside the preview? Does it look different when we know it causes slots (and their contents) to not render? </li><li>live site affordances: what should the fallback look like outside the preview, i.e. on the live site? (This can occur if everything was valid at the time of saving, but the component logic changed during a deployment.) </li></ul> </li> <li>Implement designs. ℹ️ No issues yet, because blocked on designs. <ol> <li>Refine the messages in the structured information </li><li>… designs will determine what needs to change compared to the naïve situation above: change the fallback markup, change the toasts, etc. </li><li>⚠️ Fallback markup for client side-rendered components (code components), which we can then do "right" the first time. (We used the server side ones in phase 1 to help ground the designers.) Background info: @effulgentsia stated he’s confident about <code><astro-island></code>'s ability to handle most of this for us, and is confident we’ll be able to still intercept the error and render a nice fallback of our own design/choosing. </li></ol> </li> <li>Docs <ul> <li>Docs added to <code>docs/components.md</code>, one per component source: each should get a new subsection titled <q>Possible failure modes</q>. </li><li>Docs added to <code>docs/data.model</code>, section <code>3.3 Data Model: rendering a stored `component tree`</code>. </li></ul> </li> <li>Expose the structured information in the XB HTTP API response to the client. → <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3518201" title="Status: Active">#3518201: Server-rendered component instances failing to hydrate/render should pass a meaningful error in API responses to the Canvas UI/client in a structured way</a> </li><li>Render the structured information in the XB HTTP API response on the client using <a href="https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/components/toast">Radix UI Toast</a>s. Must include test that verifies it works for 10 "broken" component instances. → <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas/issues/3518203" title="Status: Postponed">#3518203: [PP-1] Present all component instances that fail to render using toasts</a> </li><li>Designs <ul> <li>on-top-of-preview affordances: How do we inform the user on top of the preview, while editing? Because there could be MANY errors. Using a so-called “toast” UI component was suggested by @lauriii , but what should those look like? XB uses Radix UI, so is the <a href="https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/components/toast">Radix UI Toast</a> sufficient? </li><li>retry: what does retry functionality look like for the first two? Does it appear on both, or on either? Why? </li></ul> </li> </ol>

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