rsnext/test/production/middleware-environment-variables-in-node-server-reflect-the-usage-inference/index.test.ts
Damien Simonin Feugas bf089562c7
feat(middleware)!: forbids middleware response body (#36835)
_Hello Next.js team! First PR here, I hope I've followed the right practices._

### What's in there?

It has been decided to only support the following uses cases in Next.js' middleware:
- rewrite the URL (`x-middleware-rewrite` response header)
- redirect to another URL (`Location` response header)
- pass on to the next piece in the request pipeline (`x-middleware-next` response header)

1. during development, a warning on console tells developers when they are returning a response (either with `Response` or `NextResponse`).
2. at build time, this warning becomes an error.
3. at run time, returning a response body will trigger a 500 HTTP error with a JSON payload containing the detailed error.

All returned/thrown errors contain a link to the documentation.

This is a breaking feature compared to the _beta_ middleware implementation, and also removes `NextResponse.json()` which makes no sense any more.

### How to try it?
- runtime behavior: `HEADLESS=true yarn jest test/integration/middleware/core`
- build behavior : `yarn jest test/integration/middleware/build-errors`
- development behavior: `HEADLESS=true yarn jest test/development/middleware-warnings`

### Notes to reviewers

The limitation happens in next's web adapter. ~The initial implementation was to check `response.body` existence, but it turns out [`Response.redirect()`](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/server/web/spec-compliant/response.ts#L42-L53) may set the response body (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/31886). Hence why the proposed implementation specifically looks at response headers.~
`Response.redirect()` and `NextResponse.redirect()` do not need to include the final location in their body: it is handled by next server https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/server/next-server.ts#L1142

Because this is a breaking change, I had to adjust several tests cases, previously returning JSON/stream/text bodies. When relevant, these middlewares are returning data using response headers.

About DevEx: relying on AST analysis to detect forbidden use cases is not as good as running the code.
Such cases are easy to detect:
```js
new Response('a text value')
new Response(JSON.stringify({ /* whatever */ })
```
But these are false-positive cases:
```js
function returnNull() { return null }
new Response(returnNull())

function doesNothing() {}
new Response(doesNothing())
```
However, I see no good reasons to let users ship middleware such as the one above, hence why the build will fail, even if _technically speaking_, they are not setting the response body. 



## Feature

- [x] Implements an existing feature request or RFC. Make sure the feature request has been accepted for implementation before opening a PR.
- [ ] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
- [x] Integration tests added
- [x] Documentation added
- [ ] Telemetry added. In case of a feature if it's used or not.
- [x] Errors have helpful link attached, see `contributing.md`

## Documentation / Examples

- [x] Make sure the linting passes by running `yarn lint`
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import { createNext } from 'e2e-utils'
import { NextInstance } from 'test/lib/next-modes/base'
import { fetchViaHTTP } from 'next-test-utils'
describe('middleware environment variables in node server reflect the usage inference', () => {
let next: NextInstance
beforeAll(() => {
process.env.CAN_BE_INFERRED = 'can-be-inferred'
process.env.X_CUSTOM_HEADER = 'x-custom-header'
process.env.IGNORED_ENV_VAR = 'ignored-env-var'
})
beforeAll(async () => {
next = await createNext({
files: {
'pages/index.js': `
export default function () { return <div>Hello, world!</div> }
`,
'middleware.js': `
export default function middleware() {
return new Response(null, {
headers: {
data: JSON.stringify({
canBeInferred: process.env.CAN_BE_INFERRED,
rest: process.env
}),
'X-Custom-Header': process.env.X_CUSTOM_HEADER,
}
})
}
`,
},
dependencies: {},
})
})
afterAll(() => next.destroy())
it('limits process.env to only contain env vars that are inferred from usage', async () => {
const response = await fetchViaHTTP(next.url, '/test')
expect(JSON.parse(response.headers.get('data'))).toEqual({
canBeInferred: 'can-be-inferred',
rest: {
CAN_BE_INFERRED: 'can-be-inferred',
X_CUSTOM_HEADER: 'x-custom-header',
NEXT_RUNTIME: 'edge',
},
})
})
})