[duquerson]

What does this change?

Fixes handling of missing and malformed PDF sources.

PdfView now accepts source={null} and source={undefined} as an empty state. It renders the container without mounting the native PDF view, emits no events, and mounts or unmounts the native view correctly when the source changes.

Malformed runtime values such as strings, {}, { uri: 42 }, and [null] no longer throw during render. They report invalid-source through onError, including sourceIndex for invalid items in a source list.

PdfDocument.open and PdfCache.download now reject with typed errors for invalid sources. Empty source lists no longer report a nonexistent sourceIndex.

The public PdfViewProps.source type is now optional and accepts null. Invalid JavaScript values remain runtime errors reported through the documented error path.

Closes #66.

How was it verified?

• 92 targeted Bun tests passed:
  • source.test.ts
  • PdfView.test.tsx
  • PdfDocument.test.ts
  • PdfCache.test.ts
• TypeScript passed with tsc --noEmit.
• ESLint passed for the changed JavaScript/TypeScript files.
• git diff --check passed.
• Native device/emulator validation was not run in this environment.

Scope

• Platforms: both
• Android versions: not Android specific

Checklist

• bun run lint, bun run typecheck and bun run test pass
  Targeted tests and direct TypeScript/ESLint checks passed; the full scripts were not run in this environment.
• New behavior is covered by tests.
• Nitro specs unchanged; package/nitrogen/ was not modified.
• Public API changed; docs/api.md and docs/guides/sources-and-loading.md were updated. README capability matrix and docs/api-design.md still need review.
• Native change validated on both iOS and Android.
• No performance claim.
• Commits follow Conventional Commits.
• Behavior changed with an explicit type change: PdfViewProps.source is now optional and accepts null.

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• New Features

  • PdfView accepts optional or null sources and displays an empty view when no source is provided.
  • Valid sources can be loaded after initially rendering empty, and removing the source unmounts the viewer.
  • Invalid sources are handled safely with descriptive invalid-source errors.
  • Document opening, downloads, and cache operations reject invalid inputs consistently.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance covering empty, invalid, and changing PDF sources, including viewer reference behavior.

PdfView now accepts nullish sources and validates inputs before native rendering. Shared validation covers PdfView, PdfDocument, and PdfCache. Empty-source failures on Android and iOS no longer report source index zero.

Changes: Source handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Source inspection and normalization package/src/source.ts, package/src/source.test.ts, docs/performance/audit.md	Source helpers validate runtime inputs, normalize valid sources, and classify inputs as empty, valid, or invalid. Invalid list items include their index.
Viewer empty and invalid source handling package/src/PdfView.tsx, package/src/PdfView.test.tsx, docs/api.md, docs/api-design.md, docs/guides/sources-and-loading.md	PdfView accepts optional or null sources. Empty sources render without the native view. Invalid sources report a deduplicated invalid-source error. Tests cover empty, invalid, and changing sources. Documentation describes empty-state and pre-mount method behavior.
Document and cache source validation package/src/PdfDocument.ts, package/src/PdfDocument.test.ts, package/src/PdfCache.ts, package/src/PdfCache.test.ts, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/betterpdf/DocumentSources.kt, package/ios/DocumentSetLoader.swift	PdfDocument and PdfCache reject invalid inputs with API-specific errors. Invalid cache lookup and removal operations reject asynchronously. Android and iOS empty-source failures no longer assign index zero.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PdfView
  participant inspectSources
  participant NativeBetterPdfView
  participant onError
  PdfView->>inspectSources: Inspect source
  inspectSources-->>PdfView: Return empty, valid, or invalid result
  alt Valid source
    PdfView->>NativeBetterPdfView: Render normalized sources
  else Invalid source
    PdfView->>onError: Report invalid-source
  end

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 446b8

No merge-blocking issue was identified. The checked unresolved-asset path reports an invalid-source error as intended.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ee391

Source validation preserves existing document-loading capabilities and rejects malformed inputs earlier. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Some uncertainty remains around imperative calls and operations already in flight when the viewer becomes empty or invalid.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The traced impact is on caller-provided PDF inputs, native viewer/document operations, and the document cache shared with viewers. The changed validation paths do not establish new loading authority beyond those existing consumers.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new checks enforce source shape before native loading; they are not a new URI or filesystem authorization policy. Accepted URI, file-path, header, and cache fields continue through the existing normalized payload.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Native teardown provides substantial stale-state containment: Android clears callbacks and closes its session; iOS cancels loading and releases displayed documents and cache pins. Nevertheless, JS ref clearing is deferred to a passive effect, so immediate imperative-call behavior and completion of previously started operations across empty or invalid transitions remain incompletely established. This does not demonstrate cross-document disclosure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define imperative-call availability and in-flight operation semantics across source invalidation, and align ref invalidation with that contract before treating source=null as an immediate security revocation mechanism.

Pre-merge checks: 6

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is concise, uses the required fix: prefix, and accurately describes handling null and undefined sources.
Description check		The description clearly explains the source-handling changes, validation behavior, tests, documentation, and known native-validation limitation.
Linked Issues check		Issue #66 requirements are implemented. PdfViewProps.source is optional and nullable. inspectSources treats null and undefined as empty, validates malformed runtime values without render-time …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #66. Source validation, typed error handling, empty-list native fixes, transition and overlay tests, and API and guide documentation directly support the issue. `docs/api…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 84.62% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 10 files. (2 skipped: 2…
Security Check		The supplied earlier review threads are functional-correctness findings, not security findings, and all are marked discussion=resolved. The current review reports zero actionable findings. Direct diff…

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Explanation

Issue #66 requirements are implemented. PdfViewProps.source is optional and nullable. inspectSources treats null and undefined as empty, validates malformed runtime values without render-time throws, and reports indexed invalid-source errors. PdfView mounts the native view only for valid inspected sources and supports source transitions. PdfDocument.open, PdfCache.download, getEntry, and remove use rejection paths with typed invalid-source errors. Empty lists omit sourceIndex, with Android and iOS fixes. Tests cover the view, source inspection, document, and cache behavior. docs/api.md and docs/guides/sources-and-loading.md document the new behavior.

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Explanation

The changes stay within issue #66. Source validation, typed error handling, empty-list native fixes, transition and overlay tests, and API and guide documentation directly support the issue. docs/api-design.md updates the matching public type. docs/performance/audit.md updates a reference to the renamed internal inspection function. No unrelated feature or behavior is evident.

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Docstring coverage is 84.62% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 10 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/guides/sources-and-loading.md:
- Around line 32-35: Update the PdfView empty-state documentation to accurately
describe ref behavior: navigation and search methods are ignored, getStats()
returns null, and only promise-returning methods reject before mount. Remove the
blanket claim that all ref methods reject.

Review comments at @package/src/source.ts:
- Around line 281-285: Update the invalid-source return branch in the source
validation flow to always set sourceIndex from index, including for a single
source, so it reports 0 consistently with the documented contract and native
loaders. Update the corresponding expectations in source.test.ts and
PdfView.test.tsx from undefined to 0.
- Around line 212-220: Update normalizeUriSource to use a URI-specific
description for invalid object inputs lacking a uri property, while retaining
describeSourceType for other invalid values. Use that description in the thrown
“source must be an object with uri” error so valid filePath objects are reported
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[jkasprzyk17]

Hey @duquerson, thanks a lot for picking up #66, it's really great to get a PR like this! It follows the issue closely, the tests are thorough, and you handled the CodeRabbit points quickly: sourceIndex: 0 for a single source and the ref behaviour in the docs are exactly right.

There's one thing left to fix and a few small ones. Once those are in, I'm happy to merge 🙌

PdfPageOverlay children still throw while the source is empty or invalid

The early return renders children without OverlayRegistryContext.Provider, so

<PdfView source={null}>
  <PdfPageOverlay page={0} x={0} y={0} width={10} height={10} />
</PdfView>

throws PdfPageOverlay must be rendered inside a PdfView during render. That is the same failure #66 is about, for apps that keep their overlays mounted while the document isn't known yet. An invalid source takes the same path.

One way to fix it: drop the early return and render only the native view conditionally, so children keep their provider and layer in every state:

return (
  <View {...viewProps} style={[styles.box, style]} collapsable={false}>
    {inspection.status === 'valid' && (
      <NativeBetterPdfView
        …
      />
    )}
    {children != null && (
      // unchanged
    )}
  </View>
);

I tried this on top of 17c35dc: tests, lint and typecheck pass. With it, an overlay mounted while source is null reaches native in overlays once a source arrives, and children are no longer remounted on null → source (today they are, because the tree under the box changes shape). A test for the overlay case would be great too.

Smaller things

• normalizeSource and normalizeSources are only called by tests now, and normalizeSources quietly turns an invalid source into []. I'd move their existing tests to inspectSources / validateSourceItem and remove both.
• sourceIndex: isList ? index : 0 is always index: a single source is item 0 of [source].
• Formatting: seven files in package/src don't match .prettierrc; the rest of package/src on main does. bunx prettier --write package/src fixes it (bun run format would also reformat unrelated docs).
• docs/api-design.md, which you flagged: CONTRIBUTING asks for it on public API changes. The source row in its Props table still says PdfSource, required. Changing it to PdfSource | PdfSource[] | null, optional, covers this PR, and also the list form that #60 missed there.

Thanks again!

[duquerson]

Thanks for the thorough review @jkasprzyk17, and for the pointers! I've pushed two commits addressing everything:

Main fix: overlays with an empty or invalid source

• Dropped the early return in PdfView. The View and OverlayRegistryContext.Provider are now always rendered, and only NativeBetterPdfView is conditionally mounted (inspection.status === 'valid').
• PdfPageOverlay children no longer throw when source is null, undefined or invalid, and they are no longer remounted on null → source.
• Added 4 tests in PdfView.test.tsx:
  • overlay with source={null} doesn't throw
  • overlay with an invalid source doesn't throw, and onError still reports invalid-source
  • overlay mounted while source is null reaches native overlays once a valid source arrives
  • children aren't remounted on null → source

Smaller items

• Removed normalizeSource and normalizeSources; their tests now cover validateSourceItem / inspectSources. docs/performance/audit.md still referenced the removed function, so I updated those two references to inspectSources.
• sourceIndex is now just index (no more isList ? index : 0).
• Ran bunx prettier --write package/src (7 files: PdfCache.ts, PdfCache.test.ts, PdfDocument.test.ts, PdfView.tsx, PdfView.test.tsx, source.ts, source.test.ts). No unrelated docs were reformatted.
• docs/api-design.md: the source row now reads PdfSource | PdfSource[] | null, optional.

Verification

• bun run lint and bun run typecheck pass.
• bun run test passes in a Linux container (oven/bun, Bun 1.4.3, Debian 13, g++ 14.2.0, bun install --frozen-lockfile): 124 pass, 1 skip, 0 fail. The skip is the C++ vs Swift comparison, since the image has no swiftc. I used the container because the base64/coverage harnesses need a c++ compiler, which my Windows machine doesn't have.
• commitlint passes locally for both commits (fix: and docs:).
• package/nitrogen/ was not modified.
• Native device/emulator validation was not run.

The two required workflows (commitlint and quality) are still waiting for approval whenever you have a moment. Thanks again!

[duquerson]

Conflicts resolved
Sunk latest main into fix/source-null-undefined-error-66 (commit 12ae065). Merged updates from PR #72 (PdfMethodError and redirect docs) alongside the null/invalid source changes. All 47 tests in PdfView.test.tsx are passing. Ready for final checks!

[jkasprzyk17]

Thanks @duquerson, this looks great! I went through 12ae065: the overlay fix, the new tests, the moved source.test.ts cases and the merge with main all check out. Tests, lint, typecheck and Prettier pass on my side too.

I pushed one small docs commit on top (446b84b). #73 landed while you were working on this, and since then the ref's promise methods reject with a PdfMethodError whose code apps match on. So the empty-state docs now name not-loaded instead of quoting the message. If you push again, pull first.

Once the workflow runs are green, we'll merge 🚀