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EthanHealy01andAnthony Stirling cff6549a40 fix(frontend): keep file persistence working when IndexedDB refuses blobs (#7314)
# Description of Changes

Fixes the WebKit nightly failures ([run
31067620195](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/actions/runs/31067620195/attempts/1)):
8 tests failed on `stubbed-webkit` only, and every one of them logs the
same thing in its trace:

```
IndexedDB add error: UnknownError: Error preparing Blob/File data to be stored in object store
```

## What broke

`storeStirlingFile` stores the `File` itself in IndexedDB, so multi-GB
uploads are persisted by reference and never materialize in JS memory.
That came in with #7175 (`data: stirlingFile` replacing `data: await
stirlingFile.arrayBuffer()`), which is a real memory win and worth
keeping.

WebKit refuses blob values whenever it can't write the blob's backing
file, and rejects the request with the error above. The rejection was
only `console.error`d, so on WebKit **no upload ever persisted**, and
everything that reads the bytes back behaved as if the upload never
happened:

- `file-state-across-tools` — file gone after navigating; the sidebar
shows "No files yet"
- `compare` — `FileSelectorPicker: upload failed`, so the slot stays
`data-slot-state="empty"`
- `classification-grouping` / `classification-heuristic-upload` — the
label backfill and thumbnails read from IDB (`not in IndexedDB (likely
remote-only stub)`), so files land in "Recent" with no category headers

Chromium and Firefox store blobs fine, and PR CI only runs the `stubbed`
(chromium) project, so nightly was the only gate that could catch it.

## The fix

Try the blob first, keep a fallback:

- `storeStirlingFile`'s `add` is extracted into `addFileRecord` so it
can run twice
- if the value was a Blob and the failure is `UnknownError` /
`DataCloneError`, re-add the record with an `ArrayBuffer` copy and set
`blobValuesSupported = false`, so later files in that session go
straight to the copy path instead of losing the blob attempt every time
- deliberately narrow: `QuotaExceededError` and `ConstraintError` still
propagate, because a copy would fail the same way and retrying would
hide the real cause
- dropped two internal `console.error`s: every caller already reports
(`addFiles`, `FileSelectorPicker`, `zipFileService` collects into
`result.errors`), so they were duplicate noise

Every writer goes through `storeStirlingFile` (uploads, the file picker,
zip extraction, folder automation, `IndexedDBContext`), so this one seam
covers all of them. The read paths already accept either shape (`new
Blob([record.data], ...)`).

Net effect: Chromium and Firefox keep the no-copy path; engines that
refuse blobs degrade to the pre-#7175 behaviour instead of silently
losing files. On such an engine a very large file can still exhaust
renderer memory — the fallback warns about exactly that. Fixing that
properly means chunked storage, which is out of scope here.

## Verification

Reproduced and confirmed the cause by A/B on a branch that predates
#7175: as-is 8/8 pass on WebKit, and applying only #7175's `data:
stirlingFile` line reproduces the exact CI failure set.

| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| `stubbed-webkit`: the 8 nightly failures +
`classification-heuristic-upload` | 9 passed |
| `stubbed-webkit`: `files-page`, `page-editor-rotation`,
`encrypted-pdf-unlock` | 32 passed, 1 skipped |
| `stubbed` (chromium): the same specs + `files-page` | 35 passed, 1
skipped |
| Frontend unit suite | 210 files, 1797 passed |
| `typecheck:core`, `typecheck:proprietary`, eslint, prettier | clean |

New unit coverage in `fileStorage.blobFallback.test.ts` pins the
contract over `fake-indexeddb` with `add` instrumented to count blob vs
copy attempts: blob path when accepted, blob-then-copy when refused (and
readable back), one attempt only for later files, and quota not retried.

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## Checklist

### General

- [x] I have read the [Contribution
Guidelines](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [x] I have read the [Stirling-PDF Developer
Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/DeveloperGuide.md)
(if applicable)
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings

### Testing (if applicable)

- [x] Frontend typecheck (core + proprietary), eslint, prettier, the
unit suite, and the affected Playwright specs on chromium and webkit all
pass

Co-authored-by: Anthony Stirling <77850077+Frooodle@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-07 14:36:46 +01:00
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2026-08-04 14:40:41 +01:00