fix(core,producer,cli): pre-flight validation for empty/malformed sub-compositions (#1831)

* fix(core,producer,cli): pre-flight validation for empty/malformed sub-compositions

The #1 render failure bucket in production telemetry (PostHog project 356858,
dashboard 1783183 "HyperFrames — Bottom-Line & Activation"; ~65-69K
occurrences / ~27-28K affected users over 30 days, ~80% via AI-agent
authoring flows) is a `data-composition-src` reference pointing at a scene
file that is empty, malformed, or missing.

Root cause, traced end-to-end:
- The literal error "Composition HTML is empty or could not be parsed: <path>"
  is real (not a PostHog paraphrase) — thrown by a since-reverted guard in
  packages/core/src/compiler/inlineSubCompositions.ts (#1364), then changed to
  a silent skip in #1678 to avoid aborting renders on partial content during
  authoring. #1629 added per-assembler guards for 3 skill workflows
  (product-launch-video, faceless-explainer, pr-to-video), but general-video
  and hand-authored flows — where the dominant filename `scene-title.html`
  (40K+/68K of the bucket) originates — have no assembler and thus no guard.
  #1678 assumed the assembler guards from #1629 covered this pre-render; they
  only covered 3 of the many authoring flows.
- On current `main`, an empty/malformed data-composition-src file no longer
  crashes or throws during render — it's silently dropped by the tolerant
  inliner. Reproduced locally: `hyperframes render` on a project with an
  empty scene-title.html "succeeds" after ~93s (two 45s
  pollSubCompositionTimelines timeouts) with the scene silently missing from
  the output video. `hyperframes validate` also reports "No console errors"
  for the same broken project.
- The raw `Cannot destructure property 'firstElementChild' of
  'documentElement' as it is null` crash reproduces directly against
  linkedom (the DOMParser polyfill packages/cli/src/utils/dom.ts installs in
  the real CLI runtime) for empty and non-HTML input — confirmed with a
  standalone repro script, not just inferred. jsdom/happy-dom (used in this
  repo's own test environment) are spec-compliant and never produce a null
  documentElement, which is why this needed a linkedom-specific test file.

Fix:
- New shared helper `checkSubCompositionUsability`
  (packages/core/src/compiler/subCompositionValidity.ts) is the single
  source of truth for "is this data-composition-src file usable" — mirrors
  the inliner's own parse/template/body logic so all callers agree.
- `inlineSubCompositions.ts` (preview/studio bundling) now uses the shared
  helper internally but keeps its #1678 tolerant skip-and-continue behavior
  unchanged — mid-authoring iteration on a partial project must keep
  working. `onMissingComposition` now also receives a human-readable reason.
- New render-only pre-flight (`assertSubCompositionsUsable` in
  packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts) walks every
  data-composition-src reference (including nested ones, root-relative,
  matching parseSubCompositions' own resolution) before any compilation
  work starts, and throws naming every offending file at once. This is
  unconditional — not gated behind --strict — because a render that
  silently drops a scene is strictly worse than one that refuses to start.
  Confirmed locally: render now fails in ~0.4s with an actionable message
  instead of "succeeding" after 93s with a missing scene.
- New `hyperframes lint` rule `missing_or_empty_sub_composition`
  (packages/cli/src/utils/lintProject.ts) surfaces the same check as a
  file-scoped, actionable lint error (already unconditional — lint exits 1
  on any error).
- `hyperframes validate` now also runs this check before launching a
  browser, so it no longer reports "No console errors" for a project with a
  broken sub-composition.
- `packages/core/src/parsers/htmlParser.ts`: guarded every
  `documentElement`-may-be-null access (parseHtml, updateElementInHtml,
  addElementToHtml, removeElementFromHtml, extractCompositionMetadata,
  validateCompositionHtml) with a new typed `CompositionHtmlParseError` (or,
  for validateCompositionHtml's collect-and-report contract, a typed
  validation failure) instead of a raw crash.

Tests: empty file, whitespace-only, malformed/non-HTML, missing file, nested
sub-compositions (both happy path and broken-grandchild), and the happy path
— at the shared-helper, lint, and render pre-flight layers.

Not changed: the AI-agent authoring skills (skills/*). general-video and
hand-authored flows have no assemble-index.mjs equivalent to guard, so the
fix is at the CLI/render layer instead — flow-agnostic, covers every
authoring path, and the skills' existing "run lint/validate and stop on
failure" guidance now actually catches this class of mistake once run.

Not run in this environment: the producer package's full regression-harness
test suite (`bun test` in packages/producer) — it performs heavy real
rendering (S3 asset downloads, Google Fonts fetches, full video encodes) and
did not complete in a reasonable time in this sandbox. Verified instead via
the targeted test file for all touched code (76/76 passing), whole-repo
typecheck/build/oxlint, `fallow audit` (complexity/duplication/dead-code
gate, clean), and manual end-to-end CLI runs (render/lint/validate) against
reproduction projects, including a nested sub-composition scenario. CI
should run the full producer suite before merge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(parsers,lint): port empty-composition pre-flight to extracted packages

Rebased onto main, which extracted @hyperframes/lint from core (lint depends
only on parsers, not core). Relocate checkSubCompositionUsability from core to
@hyperframes/parsers so both core (inliner) and lint can consume it without a
core<->lint cycle; core keeps a @deprecated re-export shim.

Correctness fixes from code review:
- checkSubCompositionUsability now returns "no-composition-root" when the
  <template>/<body> content has no [data-composition-id] element (previously
  a marker-free placeholder body passed both guards).
- lint's missing/empty sub-composition rule now only checks files reachable
  via data-composition-src from the root (matching render pre-flight), instead
  of a raw filesystem walk that false-positived on orphaned files.
- drop `as string` cast in inlineSubCompositions in favor of an explicit
  null guard (per CLAUDE.md).

Review-comment items:
- move EmptyCompositionError JSDoc above the class (was above the adapter fn).
- correct stale circular-ref comment to match actual silent-skip behavior.
- rewrite self-contradicting lint message ("silently drop") to describe the
  new loud render-pre-flight abort.
- add the __PLACEHOLDER__ (/^__[A-Z_]+__$/) skip to the render pre-flight so
  it agrees with lint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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James Russo
2026-07-01 14:25:44 -07:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent 9c4d9e50a0
commit cf573f7f3f
23 changed files with 1335 additions and 35 deletions
@@ -492,31 +492,160 @@ describe("detectRenderModeHints", () => {
}
});
it("compileForRender skips empty sub-composition files instead of aborting", async () => {
const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-empty-subcomp-"));
// Shared fixture builder for the assertSubCompositionsUsable / EmptyCompositionError
// pre-flight tests below. `subCompFiles` is a map of compositions/-relative
// filename to raw file content (empty string / malformed text / valid HTML).
// `hosts` is the data-composition-src host markup injected into the root
// composition's timeline div, in order, at 1s each.
function makeSubCompProject(
dirPrefix: string,
hosts: Array<{ id: string; src: string }>,
subCompFiles: Record<string, string>,
): string {
const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), dirPrefix));
const compositionsDir = join(projectDir, "compositions");
mkdirSync(compositionsDir, { recursive: true });
const hostMarkup = hosts
.map(
(h, i) =>
`<div data-composition-id="${h.id}" data-composition-src="${h.src}" data-start="${i}" data-duration="1"></div>`,
)
.join("\n ");
writeFileSync(
join(projectDir, "index.html"),
`<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div data-composition-id="main" data-width="100" data-height="100" data-start="0" data-duration="1">
<div data-composition-id="intro" data-composition-src="compositions/intro.html" data-start="0" data-duration="1"></div>
<div data-composition-id="main" data-width="100" data-height="100" data-start="0" data-duration="${hosts.length}">
${hostMarkup}
</div>
<script>
window.__timelines = window.__timelines || {};
window.__timelines.main = { duration: function() { return 1; } };
window.__timelines.main = { duration: function() { return ${hosts.length}; } };
</script>
</body>
</html>`,
);
writeFileSync(join(compositionsDir, "intro.html"), "");
for (const [name, content] of Object.entries(subCompFiles)) {
writeFileSync(join(compositionsDir, name), content);
}
return projectDir;
}
function validSubCompHtml(compId: string, label: string, nestedSrc?: string): string {
const inner = nestedSrc
? `<div data-composition-id="${label}" data-composition-src="${nestedSrc}" data-start="0" data-duration="1"></div>`
: `<div class="title">${label}</div>`;
return `<!doctype html><html><body>
<div data-composition-id="${compId}" data-width="100" data-height="100">
${inner}
</div>
</body></html>`;
}
it("compileForRender aborts with EmptyCompositionError when a sub-composition file is empty", async () => {
// The shared inliner (inlineSubCompositions.ts, packages/core) stays
// tolerant of empty/unparsable sub-compositions — it skips the scene and
// keeps going, silently, so preview/studio can keep iterating on a
// partially-authored project. That tolerance is intentional and tested
// separately in packages/core/src/compiler/inlineSubCompositions.test.ts.
//
// But a *render* that silently drops a scene produces a materially
// broken video with no visible error — worse than refusing to render.
// compileForRender (render-only) runs a pre-flight check
// (assertSubCompositionsUsable, using the same checkSubCompositionUsability
// helper the inliner and hyperframes lint use) before any compilation
// work starts, and aborts immediately instead of silently producing a
// broken render 45+ seconds later.
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-empty-subcomp-",
[{ id: "intro", src: "compositions/intro.html" }],
{ "intro.html": "" },
);
await expect(
compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir),
).rejects.toThrow(/compositions\/intro\.html/);
});
it("compileForRender aborts naming every unusable sub-composition at once", async () => {
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-empty-subcomp-multi-",
[
{ id: "intro", src: "compositions/intro.html" },
{ id: "outro", src: "compositions/outro.html" },
],
{ "intro.html": "", "outro.html": "not valid html at all, just text" },
);
await expect(
compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir),
).rejects.toThrow(/compositions\/intro\.html[\s\S]*compositions\/outro\.html/);
});
it("compileForRender aborts when a data-composition-src reference points at a missing file", async () => {
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-missing-subcomp-",
[{ id: "intro", src: "compositions/does-not-exist.html" }],
{},
);
await expect(
compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir),
).rejects.toThrow(/compositions\/does-not-exist\.html/);
});
it("compileForRender succeeds when the sub-composition file is valid (happy path)", async () => {
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-valid-subcomp-",
[{ id: "intro", src: "compositions/intro.html" }],
{ "intro.html": validSubCompHtml("intro", "Hello") },
);
const result = await compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir);
expect(result.html).toContain("data-composition-id");
});
it("compileForRender succeeds when a valid sub-composition itself references a nested valid sub-composition", async () => {
// Regression guard: data-composition-src is always root-relative, even
// from within a nested sub-composition (matches parseSubCompositions,
// which threads the original projectDir unchanged through every
// recursion level — never dirname(parentFile)). The pre-flight check
// must resolve nested references the same way, or it aborts renders
// that would have actually succeeded (false-positive abort).
//
// parent.html lives in compositions/ and references child.html using the
// same root-relative "compositions/..." form — not "./child.html".
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-nested-subcomp-valid-",
[{ id: "parent", src: "compositions/parent.html" }],
{
"parent.html": validSubCompHtml("parent", "child", "compositions/child.html"),
"child.html": validSubCompHtml("child", "Nested Hello"),
},
);
const result = await compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir);
expect(result.html).toContain("data-composition-id");
});
it("compileForRender aborts naming a broken nested (grandchild) sub-composition", async () => {
// child.html is empty — the grandchild scene, referenced root-relative
// from parent.html which itself lives in compositions/.
const projectDir = makeSubCompProject(
"hf-nested-subcomp-broken-",
[{ id: "parent", src: "compositions/parent.html" }],
{
"parent.html": validSubCompHtml("parent", "child", "compositions/child.html"),
"child.html": "",
},
);
await expect(
compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir),
).rejects.toThrow(/compositions\/child\.html/);
});
});
describe("detectShaderTransitionUsage", () => {
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ import {
type UnresolvedElement,
} from "@hyperframes/core";
import { inlineSubCompositions as inlineSubCompositionsShared } from "@hyperframes/core/compiler";
import {
checkSubCompositionUsability,
type ParsableDocumentLike,
} from "@hyperframes/parsers/sub-composition-validity";
import { extractMediaMetadata, extractAudioMetadata } from "../utils/ffprobe.js";
import { isPathInside, toExternalAssetKey } from "../utils/paths.js";
import {
@@ -59,6 +63,131 @@ export interface CompiledComposition {
hasShaderTransitions: boolean;
}
/** Adapts linkedom's `parseHTML` to the `checkSubCompositionUsability` contract. */
function parseSubCompHtmlForValidity(html: string): ParsableDocumentLike {
return parseHTML(html).document as unknown as ParsableDocumentLike;
}
/**
* Thrown by {@link assertSubCompositionsUsable} when one or more
* `data-composition-src` references resolve to a missing, empty, or
* unparsable file. This is the render-path enforcement of the #1 render
* failure bucket in production telemetry: a scene-authoring step (most
* commonly an AI agent) writes the `data-composition-src` reference before,
* or without ever, writing valid content into the scene file.
*
* Unlike the tolerant inliner (`packages/core/src/compiler/inlineSubCompositions.ts`,
* intentionally kept lenient for preview/studio so mid-authoring iteration
* doesn't break bundling), a render that silently drops a scene produces a
* materially broken video with no visible error — strictly worse than
* refusing to render. This check runs before any compilation work starts so
* the failure is immediate and names every offending file at once, instead
* of surfacing 45+ seconds later as a `pollSubCompositionTimelines` timeout
* or a raw `Cannot destructure property 'firstElementChild' of
* 'documentElement' as it is null` crash deep inside linkedom.
*
* Not exported — nothing needs `instanceof` narrowing on this today. Callers
* catch it generically (`catch (err: unknown)`, matching on `.message`) the
* same way they handle every other compile-time failure. Kept as a class
* (not a plain `throw new Error(...)`) so the aggregated multi-file message
* construction has a single, testable home.
*/
class EmptyCompositionError extends Error {
readonly code = "EMPTY_COMPOSITION" as const;
readonly problems: ReadonlyArray<{ srcPath: string; detail: string }>;
constructor(problems: ReadonlyArray<{ srcPath: string; detail: string }>) {
const lines = problems.map((p) => ` - ${p.srcPath}: ${p.detail}`);
super(
`${problems.length} composition file${problems.length === 1 ? "" : "s"} referenced by ` +
`data-composition-src cannot be rendered:\n${lines.join("\n")}\n\n` +
"Check that each file referenced by data-composition-src contains valid HTML with a " +
"<template> or <body> containing a [data-composition-id] element. If a scene-authoring " +
"step is still running, wait for it to finish before referencing the file.",
);
this.name = "EmptyCompositionError";
this.problems = problems;
}
}
/**
* Recursively walk every `data-composition-src` reference reachable from
* `html` (including nested sub-compositions) and verify each resolves to a
* usable file — exists, non-empty, parses to HTML with renderable content.
* Uses the same `checkSubCompositionUsability` helper the tolerant inliner
* and `hyperframes lint` use, so all three agree on what counts as usable.
*
* Throws {@link EmptyCompositionError} naming every offending file at once
* (not just the first one hit) if any reference is unusable. Call this
* before any compilation work starts — it deliberately duplicates a small
* amount of file-reading work that `parseSubCompositions` also does, in
* exchange for failing in milliseconds instead of after the browser has
* already launched and waited out a capture timeout.
*/
// fallow-ignore-next-line complexity
function assertSubCompositionsUsable(
html: string,
projectDir: string,
visited: Set<string> = new Set(),
): void {
const { document } = parseHTML(html);
const hosts = [...document.querySelectorAll("[data-composition-src]")];
const problems: Array<{ srcPath: string; detail: string }> = [];
for (const el of hosts) {
const srcPath = el.getAttribute("data-composition-src");
if (!srcPath) continue;
if (/^__[A-Z_]+__$/.test(srcPath)) continue; // template placeholder, not a real reference — matches lint's skip
const filePath = resolve(projectDir, srcPath);
// Circular reference guard. parseSubCompositions (below) silently
// `continue`s on a repeat visit with no reporting at all — mirror that
// silence here rather than pretend it surfaces an error somewhere else.
if (visited.has(filePath)) continue;
if (!existsSync(filePath)) {
problems.push({ srcPath, detail: "the file does not exist" });
continue;
}
const fileHtml = readFileSync(filePath, "utf-8");
const validity = checkSubCompositionUsability(fileHtml, parseSubCompHtmlForValidity);
if (!validity.ok) {
problems.push({
srcPath,
detail: validity.detail ?? "the file is empty or could not be parsed",
});
continue;
}
// Recurse into nested sub-compositions so a broken scene three levels
// deep is still named directly instead of surfacing as a parent-level
// "no error, just missing content" mystery.
//
// Pass `projectDir` unchanged (not dirname(filePath)) — data-composition-src
// is always resolved root-relative, even from within a nested
// sub-composition. This must match parseSubCompositions' own recursive
// call below exactly (it threads the original projectDir through every
// level too), or this pre-flight check resolves nested references to the
// wrong path and aborts renders that would have actually succeeded.
const nestedVisited = new Set(visited);
nestedVisited.add(filePath);
try {
assertSubCompositionsUsable(fileHtml, projectDir, nestedVisited);
} catch (err) {
if (err instanceof EmptyCompositionError) {
problems.push(...err.problems);
} else {
throw err;
}
}
}
if (problems.length > 0) {
throw new EmptyCompositionError(problems);
}
}
export type RenderModeHintCode = "iframe" | "requestAnimationFrame" | "htmlInCanvas";
export interface RenderModeHint {
@@ -617,8 +746,14 @@ function inlineSubCompositions(
parseHtml: (htmlStr: string) => parseHTML(htmlStr).document as unknown as Document,
scriptErrorLabel: "[Compiler] Composition script failed",
compoundAuthoredRoot: true,
onMissingComposition: (srcPath: string) => {
console.warn(`[Compiler] Composition file missing or empty: ${srcPath}`);
onMissingComposition: (srcPath: string, reason?: string) => {
// In the render path this is normally unreachable — compileForRender
// calls assertSubCompositionsUsable() before any of this runs, so a
// hit here means the file changed on disk between that pre-flight
// check and this later inline step (e.g. a concurrent scene-writer).
console.warn(
`[Compiler] Skipping sub-composition "${srcPath}": ${reason ?? "the file is missing or empty"}.`,
);
},
},
);
@@ -1367,6 +1502,15 @@ export async function compileForRender(
options: CompileForRenderOptions = {},
): Promise<CompiledComposition> {
const rawHtml = rewriteUnresolvableGsapToCdn(readFileSync(htmlPath, "utf-8"), projectDir);
// Pre-flight: every data-composition-src reference must resolve to a
// usable file before we spend any time compiling, launching a browser, or
// waiting out a capture timeout. See EmptyCompositionError for why this is
// unconditional (not gated behind --strict like lint warnings) — a render
// that silently drops a scene is strictly worse than one that refuses to
// start.
assertSubCompositionsUsable(rawHtml, projectDir);
const { html: compiledHtml, unresolvedCompositions } = await compileHtmlFile(
rawHtml,
projectDir,