The Angular ServiceWorker always uses a copy of the request without
headers for caching assets (in order to avoid issues with opaque
responses). Therefore, it was previously not possible to retrieve
resources from the cache if the response contained [Vary](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Vary) headers.
In addition to that, `Vary` headers do not work in all browsers (or work
differently) and may not work as intended with ServiceWorker caches. See
[this article](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/understanding-vary-header) and the linked resources for more info.
This commit avoids the aforementioned issues by making sure the Angular
ServiceWorker always sets the `ignoreVary` option passed to
[Cache#match()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/match) to `true`. This allows the ServiceWorker to correctly
retrieve cached responses with `Vary` headers, which was previously not
possible.
Fixes#36638
BREAKING CHANGE:
Previously, [Vary](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Vary)
headers would be taken into account when retrieving resources from the
cache, completely preventing the retrieval of cached assets (due to
ServiceWorker implementation details) and leading to unpredictable
behavior due to inconsistent/buggy implementations in different
browsers.
Now, `Vary` headers are ignored when retrieving resources from the
ServiceWorker caches, which can result in resources being retrieved even
when their headers are different. If your application needs to
differentiate its responses based on request headers, please make sure
the Angular ServiceWorker is [configured](https://angular.io/guide/service-worker-config)
to avoid caching the affected resources.
PR Close#34663
Previously it was not possible to provide `CacheQueryOptions` ([MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache)) for querying the Cache.
This commit introduces a new parameter called `cacheQueryOptions` for `DataGroup` and `AssetGroup`.
Currently only `ignoreSearch` is supported as `ignoreVary` and `ignoreMethod` would require using
the complete Request object for matching which is not possible with the current implementation.
Closes#28443
PR Close#34663
Previously, (presummably due to a typo) the `okToCacheOpaque` argument
of `DataGroup#cacheResponse()` was essentially never taken into account
(since opaque responses have a non-200 status code and thus `res.ok` is
always false).
This commit fixes the typo, which allows opaque responses to be cached
when `okToCacheOpaque` is true (i.e. in data groups using the
`freshness` strategy).
Fixes#30968
PR Close#30977
The tests will not be run anyway, so the artifacts are never used and
there might be errors if creating the testing artifacts relies on APIs
that are not available in that environment (e.g. `URL`).
PR Close#27080
Previously, if an app version contained the same files as an older
version (e.g. making a change, then rolling it back), the SW would not
detect it as the latest version (and update clients).
This commit fixes it by adding a `timestamp` field in `ngsw.json`, which
makes each build unique (with sufficiently high probability).
Fixes#24338
PR Close#26006
The ServiceWorker will redirect navigation requests that don't match any
`asset` or `data` group to the specified index file. The rules for a
request to be classified as a navigation request are as follows:
1. Its `mode` must be `navigation`.
2. It must accept a `text/html` response.
3. Its URL must match certain criteria (see below).
By default, a navigation request can have any URL except for:
1. URLs containing `__`.
2. URLs to files (i.e. containing a file extension in the last path
segment).
While these rules are fine in many cases, sometimes it is desirable to
configure different rules for the URLs of navigation requests (e.g.
ignore specific URLs and pass them through to the server).
This commit adds support for specifying an optional `navigationUrls`
list in `ngsw-config.json`, which contains URLs or simple globs
(currently only recognizing `!`, `*` and `**`).
Only requests whose URLs match any of the positive URLs/patterns and
none of the negative ones (i.e. URLs/patterns starting with `!`) will be
considered navigation requests (and handled accordingly by the SW).
(This is an alternative implementation to #23025.)
Fixes#20404
PR Close#23339
This commit fixes several issues discovered through use in real apps.
* The sha1() function operated on text content, causing issues for binary-format files.
A sha1Binary() function which operates on unparsed data now avoids any encoding issues.
* The characters '?' and '+' were not escaped in Glob-to-regex conversion previously, but
are now.
* URLs from the browser contain the full origin, but were checked against the table of
hashes from the manifest which only has the path for URLs from the same origin. Now the
origin is checked and URLs are relativized to the domain root before comparison if
appropriate.
* ngsw: prefix was missing from data groups, is now added.
* Occasionally servers will return a redirected response for an asset, and caching it could
cause errors for navigation requests. The SW now handles this by detecting such responses
and following the redirect manually, to avoid caching a redirected response.
* The request for known assets is now created from scratch from the URL before fetching from
the network, in order to sanitize it and avoid carrying any special modes or headers that
might result in opaque responses.
* Debugging log for troubleshooting.
* Avoid creating errors by returning 504 responses on error.
* Fix bug where idle queue doesn't run in some circumstances.
* Add tests for the above.
This service worker is a conceptual derivative of the existing @angular/service-worker maintained at github.com/angular/mobile-toolkit, but has been rewritten to support use across a much wider variety of applications.
Entrypoints include:
@angular/service-worker: a library for use within Angular client apps to communicate with the service worker.
@angular/service-worker/gen: a library for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-worker.js: the bundled service worker script itself.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-cli.js: a CLI tool for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
Joey Perrott
Maximilian Koeller
Miško Hevery
George Kalpakas
Alex Rickabaugh