fix: avoid retrying user JavaScript errors - #523
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Ollie (CTO) Review: APPROVED ✅
What this does: Correctly identifies Illegal return statement via CDP's className (SyntaxError) instead of fragile string matching on the error message. Prevents retrying genuine user throw errors that happen to mention 'Illegal return' in their message.
Good to merge once CI passes.
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Summary
ErrorandSyntaxErrorvalues.Root cause
The retry decision used a substring of a flattened runtime error. User code could throw that text after changing page state, causing the harness to execute the expression twice.
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uv run --with pytest pytest tests/integration/test_js.py tests/unit/test_helpers.py -qgit diff --checkSummary by cubic
Only retry JavaScript evaluation for Chrome’s exact top‑level return SyntaxError. This prevents double execution and side effects when user code throws errors that mention “Illegal return statement”.
resultfields and raise_IllegalTopLevelReturn;helpers.jsretries once by wrapping the expression.Error/SyntaxErrorthat include “Illegal return statement”.Written for commit 182783e. Summary will update on new commits.