fix: encoding when reading a cloud sketch

Closes #449
Closes #634

Signed-off-by: Akos Kitta <a.kitta@arduino.cc>

Author: Akos Kitta

arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/create/create-api.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { MaybePromise } from '@theia/core/lib/common/types';
 import { inject, injectable } from '@theia/core/shared/inversify';
 import { fetch } from 'cross-fetch';
 import { SketchesService } from '../../common/protocol';
+import { unit8ArrayToString } from '../../common/utils';
 import { ArduinoPreferences } from '../arduino-preferences';
 import { AuthenticationClientService } from '../auth/authentication-client-service';
 import { SketchCache } from '../widgets/cloud-sketchbook/cloud-sketch-cache';
@@ -19,49 +20,6 @@ export namespace ResponseResultProvider {
   export const JSON: ResponseResultProvider = (response) => response.json();
 }
 
-// TODO: check if this is still needed: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18733
-// The original issue was reported for Electron 5.x and 6.x. Theia uses 15.x
-export function Utf8ArrayToStr(array: Uint8Array): string {
-  let out, i, c;
-  let char2, char3;
-
-  out = '';
-  const len = array.length;
-  i = 0;
-  while (i < len) {
-    c = array[i++];
-    switch (c >> 4) {
-      case 0:
-      case 1:
-      case 2:
-      case 3:
-      case 4:
-      case 5:
-      case 6:
-      case 7:
-        // 0xxxxxxx
-        out += String.fromCharCode(c);
-        break;
-      case 12:
-      case 13:
-        // 110x xxxx   10xx xxxx
-        char2 = array[i++];
-        out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x1f) << 6) | (char2 & 0x3f));
-        break;
-      case 14:
-        // 1110 xxxx  10xx xxxx  10xx xxxx
-        char2 = array[i++];
-        char3 = array[i++];
-        out += String.fromCharCode(
-          ((c & 0x0f) << 12) | ((char2 & 0x3f) << 6) | ((char3 & 0x3f) << 0)
-        );
-        break;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return out;
-}
-
 type ResourceType = 'f' | 'd';
 
 @injectable()
@@ -333,7 +291,7 @@ export class CreateApi {
 
         // parse the secret file
         const secrets = (
-          typeof content === 'string' ? content : Utf8ArrayToStr(content)
+          typeof content === 'string' ? content : unit8ArrayToString(content)
         )
           .split(/\r?\n/)
           .reduce((prev, curr) => {
@@ -397,7 +355,7 @@ export class CreateApi {
     const headers = await this.headers();
 
     let data: string =
-      typeof content === 'string' ? content : Utf8ArrayToStr(content);
+      typeof content === 'string' ? content : unit8ArrayToString(content);
     data = await this.toggleSecretsInclude(posixPath, data, 'remove');
 
     const payload = { data: btoa(data) };

arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/create/create-fs-provider.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { CreateUri } from './create-uri';
 import { SketchesService } from '../../common/protocol';
 import { ArduinoPreferences } from '../arduino-preferences';
 import { Create } from './typings';
+import { stringToUint8Array } from '../../common/utils';
 
 @injectable()
 export class CreateFsProvider
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@ export class CreateFsProvider
 
   async readFile(uri: URI): Promise<Uint8Array> {
     const content = await this.getCreateApi.readFile(uri.path.toString());
-    return new TextEncoder().encode(content);
+    return stringToUint8Array(content);
   }
 
   async writeFile(

arduino-ide-extension/src/common/utils.ts

@@ -20,3 +20,14 @@ export function startsWithUpperCase(what: string): boolean {
 export function isNullOrUndefined(what: unknown): what is undefined | null {
   return what === undefined || what === null;
 }
+
+// Text encoder can crash in electron browser: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/634#issuecomment-1440039171
+export function unit8ArrayToString(uint8Array: Uint8Array): string {
+  return uint8Array.reduce(
+    (text, byte) => text + String.fromCharCode(byte),
+    ''
+  );
+}
+export function stringToUint8Array(text: string): Uint8Array {
+  return Uint8Array.from(text, (char) => char.charCodeAt(0));
+}