Issue 5039 - add support of nullable non-object values in settings

lib/prefs.js

 /*
  * This file is part of Adblock Plus <https://adblockplus.org/>,
  * Copyright (C) 2006-2017 eyeo GmbH
  *
  * Adblock Plus is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  *
  * Adblock Plus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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   update_last_error: 0,
   update_soft_expiration: 0,
   update_hard_expiration: 0,
   currentVersion: "0.0",
   notificationdata: {},
   notificationurl: "https://notification.adblockplus.org/notification.json",
   suppress_first_run_page: false,
   disable_auto_updates: false,
   first_run_subscription_auto_select: true,
   notifications_ignoredcategories: [],
+  allowed_connection_type: null

[Oleksandr, 2017/03/28 14:45:01]

I think it would be better to have an empty string here instead. 

allowed_connection_type: ""

This would remove the need for all the other changes file too. 

[sergei, 2017/03/28 14:46:35]

That where we started from, an empty string is a magic value.

+};
+
+// It is for non-objects, e.g. for string, number, etc.
+let nullableValues_ExpectedTypes = {
+  __proto__: null,
+  allowed_connection_type: "string"
 };
 
 let preconfigurable = ["suppress_first_run_page", "disable_auto_updates",
   "first_run_subscription_auto_select", "allowed_connection_type"];
 
 let values;
 let path = _fileSystem.resolve("prefs.json");
 let listeners = [];
 let isDirty = false;
 let isSaving = false;
 
+function isValueTypeCorrect(key, value)
+{
+  let nullableValue_ExpectedType = nullableValues_ExpectedTypes[key];
+  return !nullableValue_ExpectedType ?
+    typeof value == typeof defaults[key] :
+    value === null || typeof value == nullableValue_ExpectedType;
+}
+
 function defineProperty(key)
 {
   Object.defineProperty(Prefs, key,
   {
     get: () => values[key],
     set: function(value)
     {
-      if (typeof value != typeof defaults[key])
+      if (!isValueTypeCorrect(key, value))
         throw new Error("Attempt to change preference type");
 
       if (value == defaults[key])
         delete values[key];
       else
         values[key] = value;
       save();
 
       for (let listener of listeners)
         listener(key);
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   {
     let index = listeners.indexOf(listener);
     if (index >= 0)
       listeners.splice(index, 1);
   },
 };
 
 // Update the default prefs with what was preconfigured
 for (let key in _preconfiguredPrefs)
   if (preconfigurable.indexOf(key) != -1)
-    defaults[key] = _preconfiguredPrefs[key];
+  {
+    let value = _preconfiguredPrefs[key];
+    if (!isValueTypeCorrect(key, value))
+      throw new Error("Unexpected value type in preconfigured preferences");
+
+    defaults[key] = value;
+  }
 
 // Define defaults
 for (let key in defaults)
   defineProperty(key);
 
 // Set values of prefs based on defaults
 values = Object.create(defaults);
 
 load();