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Problem

• bun build --minify prints a copied asset as an unquoted url(): .a{background:url(./my image-2pc7w5rx.png)}, a bad-url token that bun itself rejects: error: Unexpected token: url(./my image-2pc7w5rx.png). In @font-face the src vanishes silently.
• In the quoted form the path and publicPath replace the placeholder verbatim. A dependency's exports can pick a file named x");}body{color:red}a{b:url("y.png, which adds a rule.
• No user reported this. A fuzz probe found it.

Fix

• The CSS printer always quotes a placeholder, as esbuild does since 0.19.5 ([bug] css compressed removes quotes causing incorrect rendering (file name has spaces) evanw/esbuild#3410).
• The join in src/bundler/Chunk.rs takes a SpliceEscape per chunk kind. A CSS chunk writes the spliced text through the CSS string serializer. esbuild copies it raw: a deliberate departure.
• Verified: four css/FileLoaderURL* cases in test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts fail on the released build. Also the bundler CSS, HTML and metafile suites.
• Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 17 addressed. Not taken: a split into two PRs. Each half closes a case the other leaves open.

Background

• A copied asset prints as a placeholder, because the chunk's own path is not final until its output is hashed. The join fills it in.
• Unquoted url(path) is one token and cannot hold whitespace, quotes or parentheses. url("path") takes a string.
• JS, HTML and the metafile use the same join with SpliceEscape::Raw. bundler: JS-escape file-loader asset paths at chunk assembly #34188, bundler: escape what is spliced into JS chunks (ASCII for bun), and fix the column count source map shifts use after non-ASCII text #38666 and bundler(html): percent-encode output paths written into src and href, and serve them under that name #41793 add their escapes there.

Downsides

• Minified CSS grows by 2 bytes per copied-asset url().
• A publicPath with ", \ or a control byte now prints escaped in CSS.
• Not fixed: a name with #, ?, %, a tab or a line break does not load in a browser.

Notes

Repro, unquoted form (bun 1.4.3):

head -c 140000 /dev/zero > "my image.png"
head -c 140000 /dev/zero | tr '\0' b > 'a(b).png'
printf '.a{background:url("my image.png")}\n.b{background:url("a(b).png")}\n' > s.css
bun build ./s.css --minify --outdir out && cat out/s.css
# .a{background:url(./my image-2pc7w5rx.png)}.b{background:url(./a(b)-6mem28ww.png)}

With the fix: .a{background:url("./my image-2pc7w5rx.png")}.b{background:url("./a(b)-6mem28ww.png")}.

--production implies --minify, and a Bun.serve HTML route with development: false minifies by default, so both print the same. In @font-face, bundling src:url(./Brand Fonts/inter-c07y9h2q.woff2) again gives @font-face{font-family:I} with exit code 0 and no message.

Repro, quoted form (no minify needed). The stylesheet says url("icons/logo.png"). node_modules/icons/package.json has "exports": {"./logo.png": "./x\");}body{color:red}a{b:url(\"y.png"} and a 128 KB file of that name:

before: .b{background:url("./x");}body{color:red}a{b:url("y-w49ecq2a.png")}
after:  .b{background:url("./x\");}body{color:red}a{b:url(\"y-w49ecq2a.png")}

publicPath: '");}body{color:red}a{b:url("' now prints url("\");}body{color:red}a{b:url(\"plain-w49ecq2a.png"). esbuild 0.28 prints both inputs raw.

What is copied over the placeholder. The whole output path ([dir], [name], [ext] and any literal text of naming.asset) and publicPath. --asset-naming '[dir]/[name]-[hash].[ext]' with Brand Fonts/inter.woff2 printed url(./Brand Fonts/inter-<hash>.woff2) under --minify.

Reach. Only assets of 128 KB or more are copied from CSS (COPY_THRESHOLD, src/bundler/bundled_ast.rs). Smaller ones are inlined as data: even with the file loader, which hides the bug. #28923 removes that threshold for file-mapped extensions.

Why a placeholder. process_files_to_copy fixes the asset's output path before link(). The printer still writes a placeholder (the asset's unique key) because the text to print is publicPath plus a path relative to the chunk, and the chunk's own path is known only after its output is hashed. break_output_into_pieces splits the output at each key, and IntermediateOutput::code_with_source_map_shifts writes the final text between the pieces. The escape is at that join because it is the one place that sees every printer's placeholder and the publicPath.

The join. It has two passes: one sums the output length, one writes. Both now call spliced_path_parts and write_spliced_path, so they size and write the same bytes. SpliceEscape::for_chunk is an exhaustive match on the chunk kind. The metafile is built through the same join with a stand-in chunk, so it calls the new code_for_metafile, which passes SpliceEscape::Raw and keeps the metafile bytes as they are on main. The enum name and the helper names are the ones open #38666 uses, so #34188, #38666 and #41793 can add arms. All four PRs edit the same two loops, and the second to land has to rebase.

Cost for other chunks. None added. The shared helper normalizes the path into the growable buffer that main uses since #46021: one copy per placeholder in each pass, as on main.

Printers that write a placeholder. Url::to_css and the url() token in a custom property chose the unquoted form. image-set() reaches Url::to_css for the -webkit-image-set copy that bun adds for its default targets, so it printed unquoted too. The unprefixed image-set() and css-modules composes already print a quoted string.

Still wrong after this PR.

• The join writes the path raw into JS strings, HTML attributes and the metafile. In a JS chunk a dependency-chosen name can end the string literal. bundler: JS-escape file-loader asset paths at chunk assembly #34188 and bundler: escape what is spliced into JS chunks (ASCII for bun), and fix the column count source map shifts use after non-ASCII text #38666 cover JS, bundler(html): percent-encode output paths written into src and href, and serve them under that name #41793 covers HTML.
• A name with #, ?, %, a tab, a line break or a trailing space does not load in a browser: the URL parser cuts at # and ? and removes tabs and line breaks. That needs percent-encoding of the path on output and percent-decoding of url() on input, both in one change. It is handed off as separate work and is not part of this PR.
• A Bun.serve production route answers 404 for an asset with a space in its name until bundler(html): percent-encode output paths written into src and href, and serve them under that name #41793 registers the encoded route.

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CSS bundling now resolves placeholder status, normalizes asset paths, and applies content-aware escaping. Metafile output uses raw paths. Sizing and source-map shifts track emitted bytes. Tests cover special characters and emitted assets.

Changes

CSS URL serialization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve placeholder URLs src/css/printer.rs, src/css/properties/custom.rs, src/css/values/url.rs	Import resolution returns URL data with placeholder status. CSS serializers preserve quoted output for placeholder URLs.
Normalize and escape CSS paths src/bundler/Chunk.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/MetafileBuilder.rs, src/css/css_parser.rs, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts	Chunk output shares normalized path parts and escaping rules. Sizing and source-map shifts use emitted byte counts. Metafile generation uses raw paths. Tests cover spaces, parentheses, fragments, public paths, newline and quote characters, and emitted asset names.

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❌ @robobun, your commit dc851b2 has some failures in Build #130480 (All Failures)

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[claude]

LGTM — the earlier doc-comment nits were addressed in ef19ade and a619873, and this run found nothing further.

What was reviewed:

• resolve_import_record_url branches: is_placeholder is true only for the unique-key/copied-asset branch; the inlined data: URL and external-URL branches correctly stay false, so they still get the shorter unquoted form when safe.
• Both url() emission sites (values/url.rs and properties/custom.rs) gate on !is_placeholder; the unsafe lifetime-detach blocks are unchanged in what they borrow.
• The updated URLQueryFragmentPreservedMinified expectation is a legitimate consequence (that asset is a placeholder), not a weakened test; the new test uses itBundled, Buffer.alloc(n, fill), and covers space, parens, custom-property, and a plain-name control case.

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Overview

The PR fixes a CSS minifier correctness bug: when --minify is on, copied-asset url() references were emitted unquoted based on the placeholder text (which has no special chars), then the bundler spliced in the real output path afterwards — producing an invalid bad-url token if the path contained a space or parenthesis. The fix threads an is_placeholder flag out of the printer's import-record resolver via a new ResolvedImportRecordUrl struct, and both url() printing sites (src/css/values/url.rs and src/css/properties/custom.rs) skip the unquoted-url optimization when the URL is a placeholder. get_import_record_url remains as a thin wrapper for callers that only need the bytes.

Security risks

None. This is output-formatting logic in the CSS printer; no untrusted-input parsing, no auth/crypto/permissions surface. The unsafe blocks touched are pre-existing lifetime-detach patterns whose borrowed data (resolved.url) is the same arena-backed slice as before — only the wrapping struct changed.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. The diff is ~50 lines of code plus a test. The mechanism is straightforward (add a boolean, branch on it), and the PR description precisely names the root cause and the alternative considered. I checked that all three return branches of resolve_import_record_url set is_placeholder correctly: only the unique_key_for_additional_file branch (post-print splice target) is true; inlined data: URLs and external URLs are the final text and correctly stay false, preserving the existing minification for them. Per REVIEW.md's "fix the whole class" rule, both sibling url() printers are updated; the PR notes that image-set() and css-modules composes already go through serialize_string and were unaffected.

Other factors

The new itBundled test lives in the right file, uses Buffer.alloc(n, fill).toString() per repo convention, and covers the variant matrix (space, parentheses, custom-property token path, and a plain filename as a control). The one changed existing assertion (#icon fragment test now expects quoted form) is a direct, explained consequence of the fix — that asset resolves through the placeholder branch — not a silent weakening. The two follow-up commits after the earlier inline comments were doc-comment adjustments only; the logic has not changed since the initial commit. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths and there are no outstanding third-party changes-requested reviews.

[robobun]

Status: ready for review. The branch has current main merged in.

Two forms of one bug, both reproduced on bun 1.4.3:

1. With --minify, a copied-asset path went into an unquoted url(). url("my image.png") and url("a(b).png") (140 KB each) printed as url(./my image-2pc7w5rx.png).
2. In the quoted form the path was copied with no escape. A dependency whose exports maps ./logo.png to a file named x");}body{color:red}a{b:url("y.png added a body{color:red} rule to the bundle. A publicPath with a " did the same.

A placeholder is now always printed inside a quoted string, and the join in src/bundler/Chunk.rs escapes the spliced text for that string when the chunk is CSS.

The last push merges main. #46021 changed the same join (a growable buffer for the normalized path, and the same normalization in the sizing pass). The shared helper of this PR now uses that buffer, so both passes still compute the path in one place. test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, metafile.test.ts, bundler_naming.test.ts, bundler_html.test.ts and bundler_loader.test.ts pass on the merged tree (241 tests).

CI (build 130480): 179 jobs passed and none failed. The two macOS x64 test jobs expired before an agent took them, so that lane did not run. The tests the build lists as failed passed on a retry or when run alone, and none of them is in the code this PR changes.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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[robobun]

#45604 adds one return to the body of get_import_record_url in src/css/printer.rs: return Ok(record.original_path); for a resolved record that has no data: URL and no asset key.

This PR moves that body into resolve_import_record_url, which returns ResolvedImportRecordUrl. If #45604 merges first, the rebase here must write that return as ResolvedImportRecordUrl { url: record.original_path, is_placeholder: false }. Git can merge the two texts without a conflict, but the result does not compile.

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[robobun]

#46511 adds the test css/URLPercentEncodedFileLoaderMinified in test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts. It pins today's minified output for a copied asset with a space in its name: .a{background:url(./big asset-mrrzcz3w.bin)}. With this PR the expected text is .a{background:url("./big asset-mrrzcz3w.bin")}. The second of the two PRs to land updates that line.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Part of this landed in #47025 (7942008). Its description says what was taken.

The path of a copied asset spliced into url() is always quoted, so a file name with a space or a parenthesis cannot end the url(). 7 real stylesheets

[robobun]

Thanks. For the record, the part of this PR that is not in #47025 is the escape of the spliced path (the Chunk.rs half). main at 7942008 quotes the url(), and a " in the final path still goes in as it is:

• a file named x"y.png, referenced as url("./x\22 y.png"): .b{background:url("./x"y-4gtgyeyd.png")}
• --public-path '");}body{color:red}a{b:url("': .a{background:url("");}body{color:red}a{b:url("plain-4gtgyeyd.png")}

Both need a " in a file name or in publicPath, so I do not plan a follow-up. If you want the escape, say so and I will open it as a separate PR.