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Native object wrappers wrapped in a JS Proxy — which is what Vue 3's reactive() does to anything stored in component data() — expose no internal fields, so the runtime could not find the native object behind them:

Call through a Proxy Before
proxy.someMethod() dispatched as a class method → NSInvalidArgumentException: +[Klass someMethod]: unrecognized selector sent to class
proxy.someProperty undefined
String(proxy) / console.log TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value
nsArray.addObject(proxy) process abort (tns::Assert in Interop::ToArray — a Proxy has no creation context)

The same behavior exists on every previous release (the gates are identical in 8.9.2), so this is not a 9.1 regression; Vue 3 users have been working around it with markRaw/toRaw.

Changes

  • tns::UnwrapProxy walks Proxy::GetTarget() chains (empty when revoked). tns::GetValue resolves through it, so every wrapper lookup sees the target.
  • MethodCallback, property getter/setter and toString resolve a Proxy receiver to its native target (or class constructor, for methods) and dispatch exactly as on the target. A revoked Proxy, or one whose target is not a native object, throws a catchable TypeError instead of a static call or an assert.
  • WriteValue / WriteTypeValue / ToArray unwrap arguments before marshalling, so proxied native objects, proxied JS arrays of native objects, proxied dictionaries and struct initializers all convert as their targets do. A revoked Proxy argument throws a TypeError. ToObject and ffi-closure return values (where a C++ throw can't propagate) treat a revoked Proxy as nil.
  • Every GetCreationContext() on a caller-supplied value falls back to the current context instead of asserting (incl. setTimeout/requestAnimationFrame callbacks that are callable Proxies).

Proxy traps are consulted only for the JS-side lookup; the native call runs on the target (no reactivity tracking of native state — expected, same as Vue's own guidance for third-party class instances).

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Tests

TestRunner/app/tests/ProxyReceiverTests.js — 14 specs (instance/nested/class-constructor receivers, property get/set, string coercion, proxied object/array/dictionary/struct arguments, revoked-proxy receiver and argument, non-native target, traps-are-consulted). Full suite: 1748 specs, 0 failures.

Shared-submodule versions of these specs can follow once both runtimes land.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved compatibility when using proxied native objects with methods, properties, and native APIs, including nested proxies and proxied arguments.
    • Native operations now report a TypeError for revoked proxies and unsupported proxy targets.
    • Improved handling of proxy errors during array, dictionary, and struct conversions.
    • Improved callback handling when an object’s creation context is unavailable, including for timers and animation frames.
    • Improved handling of proxied objects during native counterpart release and struct comparisons.
    • Empty, null, or undefined callback results now produce zeroed native return values.

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The runtime unwraps proxies during native value conversion, receiver dispatch, wrapper lookup, and native counterpart release. It adds fallback context lookup for objects and callbacks. Tests cover proxied native receivers and arguments, revoked proxies, invalid targets, callback results, and proxy traps.

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Proxy Runtime Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Proxy and context helpers
NativeScript/runtime/Helpers.h, NativeScript/runtime/Helpers.mm, NativeScript/runtime/AnimationFrame.mm, NativeScript/runtime/Timers.cpp, NativeScript/runtime/Reference.cpp
Adds proxy unwrapping, proxy read-source selection, and fallback context helpers. Wrapper operations and array-like checks use unwrapped targets. Callback and private-value context lookup use fallback contexts; Reference.cpp removes its creation-context retrieval and assertion.
Proxy handling in native conversion
NativeScript/runtime/ArgConverter.h, NativeScript/runtime/ArgConverter.mm, NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm, NativeScript/runtime/DictionaryAdapter.mm, NativeScript/runtime/ClassBuilder.mm, NativeScript/runtime/MetadataBuilder.mm
Argument and interop conversion preserve proxy-backed reads and report failures from proxy traps. Return conversion receives the FFI return-slot size and zeroes the required slot for empty or nullish values. Dictionary adapters track the target associated with their wrapper claim.
Proxy native receiver dispatch
NativeScript/runtime/MetadataBuilder.mm, NativeScript/runtime/ObjectManager.mm, TestRunner/app/tests/ProxyReceiverTests.js, TestRunner/app/tests/index.js
Native callbacks resolve proxy receivers before dispatch, and native counterpart release unwraps its argument. Tests cover proxied receivers and values, revoked proxies, invalid targets, callback results, release behavior, and proxy traps.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant JavaScriptCaller
  participant MethodCallback
  participant ResolveProxyReceiver
  participant NativeMethod
  JavaScriptCaller->>MethodCallback: Invoke method through proxy
  MethodCallback->>ResolveProxyReceiver: Resolve receiver
  ResolveProxyReceiver-->>MethodCallback: Return target or throw TypeError
  MethodCallback->>NativeMethod: Invoke with resolved receiver
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 68601

With the throw policy enabled, a failed proxy-array conversion can let a native call continue with a nil value. Propagate the exception before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4df0

Native object validation remains intact, but the new revoked-proxy recovery behavior can leave large callback results incompletely initialized. This creates a data-integrity and possible stale-data exposure risk within the application process. Some callback exception paths remain insufficiently established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new revoked-callback-result recovery state does not preserve complete aggregate return initialization. A successful callback returning a revoked Proxy becomes an empty value, and SetValue clears only one ffi_arg before returning. For a larger declared struct, the remaining bytes are untouched, potentially propagating stale data into native code. The same clearing defect predates this PR for null and undefined; the changed contract extends it to revoked results rather than introducing a new privilege boundary.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated boundary surface is JavaScript execution with access to native wrappers or registered native callbacks in the hosting application. Aggregate return corruption could affect native consumers within that process. No inspected evidence establishes additional tenant, service, credential, or environment authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A JavaScript callback supplying a revoked Proxy can complete successfully, be normalized to empty, and return after only one ABI word is cleared. A native caller expecting a larger struct can receive untouched trailing bytes. Stale-data disclosure is a potential consequence, not a demonstrated exploit; null and undefined already exposed the underlying clearing defect at the PR base.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Receiver unwrapping aliases an already-held native wrapper rather than granting native identity to an arbitrary target. Callback context fallback stays within the supplied isolate and its cache; runtime initialization and worker creation provide counterevidence to cross-worker authority transfer. Authority equivalence for additional embedding-created contexts remains unestablished.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Returned native block and function-pointer V8 callbacks invoke argument conversion without a local NativeScriptException catch. The new revoked-argument helper throws that exception type. Other conversion throws already existed at the base, so incomplete containment is not established as a wholly new security condition; complete outer recovery remains unresolved.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make revoked and nil callback recovery type-aware and initialize the complete ABI return storage for aggregate types. Validate successful revoked-result recovery with a struct larger than ffi_arg, including repetition after a nonzero prior result.
  • proposed — Establish a local exception-to-JavaScript boundary for returned native callables, covering revoked arguments and existing conversion errors before native invocation. Validate that rejection remains catchable and that neither native execution nor unsupported unwinding occurs.

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- Around line 806-811: Update ResolveProxyReceiver so allowClass does not accept
every function target: accept a function only when GetValue resolves it to an
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- Line 457: Update the empty-value branch in SetValue after UnwrapProxy so it
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Comment thread NativeScript/runtime/ArgConverter.mm
…atch

Native wrappers wrapped in a JS Proxy (e.g. by Vue's reactive()) expose no
internal fields, so method calls were dispatched as class methods, property
accessors returned undefined, toString returned an object, and passing a
proxy as an argument aborted the process in GetCreationContext.

- tns::UnwrapProxy walks Proxy::GetTarget chains; tns::GetValue resolves
  through it, so every wrapper lookup sees the target.
- MethodCallback, property getter/setter and toString resolve a proxy
  receiver to its native target (or class constructor for methods) and throw
  a TypeError for revoked proxies or non-native targets.
- WriteValue/WriteTypeValue/ToArray unwrap before marshalling and throw a
  TypeError for revoked proxies; ToObject and callback return values treat
  a revoked proxy as nil.
- GetCreationContext call sites fall back to the current context instead of
  asserting when the object has none.
…eValue

GetValue resolves through proxies while SetValue and DeleteValue addressed
the object they were handed, so __releaseNativeCounterpart(proxy) deleted
the target's wrapper and then cleared the slot on the Proxy, leaving the
target's internal field dangling. All three now resolve to the same target.

ResolveProxyReceiver accepts a function target only when it carries an
ObjCClass wrapper; a proxied plain function is a TypeError instead of a
static call on the metadata class.
ArgConverter::SetValue wrote a single ffi_arg when a JS callback returned
null, undefined or a revoked Proxy, so struct-valued returns handed native
code stale bytes past the first word. Callers now pass cif->rtype->size
and the empty branch clears the full slot.

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- Line 294: Preserve JavaScript Proxy traps when reading JavaScript-backed
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JavaScript-backed array and object adapters and use the target only for
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Comment thread NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm
JS-to-native conversion unwrapped every Proxy and read its target, which
bypasses the get/ownKeys/has traps for ordinary objects and arrays, so
native code saw different data than JS. Vue's reactive() get trap
auto-unwraps refs, so dictionaryWithDictionary(reactive({ a: ref(1) }))
produced { a: <RefImpl> } instead of { a: 1 }.

Rule, applied at every conversion site via tns::ProxyReadSource: the
unwrapped target is still used for classification and native-wrapper
lookups (a revoked Proxy still throws a TypeError). When the target is an
ordinary object or Array, the original Proxy is what gets read. Map, Set,
WeakMap/WeakSet, ArrayBuffer/views, Date, RegExp, boxed primitives,
Promises, functions and objects with internal fields stay on the target:
their prototype methods reject a Proxy receiver, and reactive(new Map())
only works through the raw Map.

Sites:
- Interop::WriteValue / WriteTypeValue: array-like -> ArrayAdapter,
  DictionaryAdapter, constant arrays and all struct-from-object
  initializers read the Proxy.
- Interop::ToObject: plain objects hand the Proxy to DictionaryAdapter;
  proxied arrays are snapshotted through the traps before ArrayAdapter
  (which needs a real v8::Array). A snapshot failure is reported like the
  adapters' other read failures and yields nil.
- Interop::ToArray runs Array.prototype.slice on the Proxy and throws a
  NativeScriptException carrying the trap's error instead of asserting.
- Interop::InitializeStruct and ArgConverter::GetInitializerArgs throw a
  catchable error when a field read throws instead of asserting.
- ArgConverter::FindInitializer passes the Proxy to GetInitializerArgs.
- ArgConverter::SetValue (callback return) hands the Proxy to
  DictionaryAdapter; struct returns stay on the target because a throw
  cannot leave the ffi closure.
- DictionaryAdapter remembers the Proxy target that holds its claim, so
  dealloc still finds and frees the claim after the Proxy is revoked.

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🟡 Minor · Propagate policy throws from proxy-array conversion. · Interop.mm:839-851

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Propagate policy throws from proxy-array conversion.

Under uncaughtErrorPolicy: "throw", a proxy trap failure returns an NSException* from HandleBoundaryException. Interop::ToObject ignores that value and returns nil. The ArrayAdapter then returns nil to the native caller, which can continue through ffi_call. Propagate the exception through Interop::ToObject and throw it after the adapter's V8 scopes close. The default report policy may retain its existing nil fallback.

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Review comment at @NativeScript/runtime/Interop.mm around lines 839 - 851:
Update Interop::ToObject’s proxy-array conversion path to retain the NSException
returned by ArgConverter::HandleBoundaryException and propagate it after the
adapter’s V8 scopes have closed when the policy is “throw”; preserve the
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