Better error stack traces

package.json

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "chai": "4.2.0",
     "conditional-type-checks": "1.0.5",
+    "error-stack-parser": "^2.1.4",
     "esbuild": "^0.17.15",
     "husky": "4.2.5",
     "karma": "^6.4.1",

src/task.ts

@@ -69,36 +69,42 @@ export class SynclinkTask<T> {
     });
   }
 
-  schedule_async(): this {
+  _schedule_async(): Promise<T> {
     if (this.mode === "async") {
       // already scheduled
-      return this;
+      return this._promise;
     }
     if (this.mode === "sync") {
       throw new Error("Already synchronously scheduled");
     }
     this.mode = "async";
-    this.do_async().then(
+    const p = this.do_async().then(
       (value) => {
         // console.log("resolving", this.taskId, "value", value);
         this._resolved = true;
         this._result = value;
         this._resolve(value);
+        return value;
       },
       (reason) => {
         this._exception = reason;
         this._reject(reason);
+        throw reason;
       },
     );
+    return p;
+  }
+
+  schedule_async(): this {
+    this._schedule_async();
     return this;
   }
 
-  async then<S>(
+  then<S>(
     onfulfilled: (value: T) => S,
     onrejected: (reason: any) => S,
   ): Promise<S> {
-    this.schedule_async();
-    return this._promise.then(onfulfilled, onrejected);
+    return this._schedule_async().then(onfulfilled, onrejected);
   }
 
   catch<S>(onrejected: (reason: any) => S): Promise<S> {

src/transfer_handlers.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { generateUUID } from "./request_response";
 import { createProxy, expose, wrap } from "./async_task";
 import { FakeMessageChannel } from "./fake_message_channel";
 import { ProxyMarked, proxyMarker } from "./types";
+import * as ErrorStackParser from "error-stack-parser";
 
 export const throwMarker = Symbol("Synclink.thrown");
 
@@ -103,6 +104,47 @@ type SerializedThrownValue =
   | { isError: true; value: Error }
   | { isError: false; value: unknown };
 
+const CHROME_IE_STACK_REGEXP = /^\s*at .*(\S+:\d+|\(native\))/m;
+
+function renderChromeStack(s: ErrorStackParser.StackFrame): string {
+  const locationInfo = [s.fileName, s.lineNumber, s.columnNumber].join(":");
+  if (s.functionName) {
+    return `    at ${s.functionName} (${locationInfo})`;
+  } else {
+    return `    at ${locationInfo}`;
+  }
+}
+
+function renderFirefoxStack(s: ErrorStackParser.StackFrame): string {
+  const locationInfo = [s.fileName, s.lineNumber, s.columnNumber].join(":");
+  return `${s.functionName || ""}@${locationInfo}`;
+}
+
+function fixStackTrace(origError: Error): Error {
+  const e = new Error(origError.message);
+  e.name = origError.name;
+  const isChromeStack = origError.stack?.match(CHROME_IE_STACK_REGEXP);
+  const stackList = ErrorStackParser.parse(origError)
+    .concat(ErrorStackParser.parse(e))
+    .filter((s) => {
+      const fileName = s.getFileName();
+      const funcName = s.getFunctionName();
+      return (
+        !fileName ||
+        !/synclink\.m?js$/.test(fileName) ||
+        funcName?.startsWith("SynclinkTask.") ||
+        funcName?.startsWith("then")
+      );
+    })
+    .map(isChromeStack ? renderChromeStack : renderFirefoxStack);
+  if (isChromeStack) {
+    stackList.unshift(e.stack!.split("\n", 2)[0]);
+  }
+  const stack = stackList.join("\n");
+  e.stack = stack;
+  return e;
+}
+
 /**
  * Internal transfer handler to handle thrown exceptions.
  */
@@ -130,10 +172,7 @@ export const throwTransferHandler: TransferHandler<
   },
   deserialize(serialized) {
     if (serialized.isError) {
-      throw Object.assign(
-        new Error(serialized.value.message),
-        serialized.value,
-      );
+      throw fixStackTrace(serialized.value);
     }
     throw serialized.value;
   },

tsconfig.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     /* Basic Options */
-    "target": "es2015" /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', or 'ESNEXT'. */,
+    "target": "ES2017" /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', or 'ESNEXT'. */,
     "module": "esnext" /* Specify module code generation: 'none', commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */,
     "lib": [
       "esnext",