[robobun]

Decisions needed (see Notes): land this before draft #48121, or land only #48121. Keep this in-file result for vi.spyOn() spies, or Vitest's.

Problem

• Stub a global that holds a spy, restore the spy, unstub: the restored spy is back. The file end runs that order (src/runtime/test_runner/vi_utils.rs:80), so setTimeout() returns undefined in later files.
• restoreGlobal (src/jsc/bindings/ViUtils.cpp:86) defines the descriptor from the first stub, which names the spy. The spy's restore erased what it replaced.

Fix

• The first stub of a name records what each spy on that global replaced. The unstub puts that back if the spy was restored since.
• A spy that is still installed goes back as before. Two spies end as their restores end without the stub, the later spy first.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts (216 new tests, 167 fail on main). Self-reviewed twice: 53 concerns raised, 45 addressed, 8 in Notes.

Background

• A spy keeps what it replaced. mockRestore() writes that back and clears it. vi.stubGlobal() keeps the descriptor from before the first stub.
• Considered the spy restore: a branch in every mockRestore(). A skip at the unstub leaves the stub on every accessor.

Downsides

• Inside one file, vi.spyOn(), stub, restore, unstub ends on the original. Vitest 5.0.3 puts the restored spy back.
• vi.stubGlobal() + unstub, no spy: +15 instructions per name (5,658 to 5,673). .text: +1,856 bytes. Spy paths: identical disassembly.
• Still wrong: fake timers over a spy, a spy over a stub (bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121), a plain store between two spies, mock.module() exports, vi.stubEnv(), the DOM environment.

Notes

Repro. Nobody reported this. It was found in a review of the file-end order. #44833 (unreleased, it added vi.stubGlobal) says that spies and vi.stubGlobal "no longer leak into the next test file". bun test ./a.test.ts ./b.test.ts:

// a.test.ts
import { spyOn, test, vi } from "bun:test";
spyOn(globalThis, "setTimeout");
vi.stubGlobal("setTimeout", () => "stub");
test("a", () => {});

// b.test.ts
import { test } from "bun:test";
test("b", () => console.log(setTimeout(() => {}, 0))); // main: undefined

The same happens inside one file. The spy is restored by mockRestore(), mock.restore(), using, or the restoreMocks option. The stub is undone by vi.unstubAllGlobals() in a hook or by the unstubGlobals option. The options run in that order, as in Vitest. A later spyOn() of the global returns the restored spy and installs nothing, so the test cannot repair it.

Decision 1: the order with #48121. Draft #48121 (same account, opened the same day) replaces the three private copies of a spy, a stub and the fake clock with one shared record. It also fixes the two orders that this PR leaves: a spy restored under fake timers (its repro prints false undefined on main and on this branch, true object there), and a spy made over a stub. Its status comment says that its head b6b67ce is in rework and must not merge. Every line that this PR adds to src/ is in the code that #48121 plans to replace, so the tests are the part that stays.

• The two records do not go together. Each keeps its own layout in mockModule.stubbedGlobals. A trial merge conflicts in JSMockFunction.cpp and mocks.mdx. ViUtils.cpp merges with no conflict marker into a check of both.
• On a release build of bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 at b6b67ce, 22 of the 136 tests of the first commit fail: 21 of the 24 tests named "one or two spies", and the two-file test with a spy on each half of an accessor. The tests of the second commit did not run there.
• Those 24 tests try 864 sequences. spyOn() refuses the spies of 330, and each test now lists the refused ones. The other 534 are compared with what the restores leave without the stub, the later spy first: 114 with one spy, 60 where the second spyOn() returns the first spy, 360 with two spies. This branch differs in 0. Main (2596ac5) differs in 381 and ends on a restored spy in 369. bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 at b6b67ce differs in 156 and ends on a restored spy in 144, all with two spies on the property.
• Proposed order: this PR first. bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 then rebases, deletes withWhatSpiesReplaced() and putBackWhatRestoredSpyReplaced(), and keeps JSMockFunction::putBack() and the tests. If bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 lands alone, the tests move there.
• The tests pin only the state after every undo. What the global is between the restore and the unstub is not pinned. On this branch it is as on main. bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 changes it.

Decision 2: vi.spyOn() spies inside one file. Run here with node 26.3, Vitest 4.1.9 and 5.0.3 give the same results:

• spy, stub, spy.mockRestore(), unstub: the global is the restored spy. It calls the original and records the call.
• spy with mockReturnValue("mocked"), stub, vi.restoreAllMocks(), unstub: the global is the restored spy and still returns "mocked".

Main does the same for vi.spyOn() spies. With the shared global, that spy then reaches every later file. This PR ends on the original for all three spy makers, in the file and at its end. Main already has that rule for a spy under the fake clock ("a spy restored while the clock is faked stays away", fake-timers.test.ts:1305, for vi too). The other choice keeps Vitest's result for vi.spyOn() spies on vi.unstubAllGlobals() and the unstubGlobals option, and uses the new result at the end of a file. That needs a flag for the route, and vi.restoreAllMocks() plus vi.unstubAllGlobals() then leaves the mocked value on the global.

What changes against main

spy, vi.stubGlobal(), then ...	main	this PR
restore, unstub: spyOn() or jest.spyOn() on a function	restored spy, returns undefined	original
the same with vi.spyOn()	restored spy, calls the original or the mock implementation	original
restore, unstub: getter, setter, or a method that a getter returns	accessor with the restored spy, the original accessor is lost	original accessor
restore, unstub: a global that did not exist or was inherited	restored spy as an own property	no own property
restore, a second stub, unstub	restored spy	original
onerror or onmessage, restore, unstub	accessor with the restored spy, an assignment throws	native property
two spies on one property, restore one or both, unstub	a restored spy stays	as their restores without the stub, the later spy first
unstub, restore	spy back, then original	same
nothing undone by the test, next file	restored spy	original
a preload spies and stubs, a file calls mock.restore(), later files unstub	restored spy	original
between the restore and the unstub	the original, or the stub if the spy is on an accessor	same
restore, Object.defineProperty() with configurable: false, unstub	TypeError, the global keeps that property	same
the test stores a getter spy as the value of its own global, then stub, restore, unstub	that value	same
the test puts one or two spies in the property by hand (as value, getter, setter or bound getter), stub, restore, unstub	a restored spy stays	as their restores without the stub

How it works. vi.stubGlobal() reads the property descriptor at the first stub of a name. If that descriptor holds a spy that is installed on this global under this name (as the value, the getter, the setter, or the bound getter of a method spy), the map entry becomes a record: the spy, a copy of what it replaced, and the next record or the saved descriptor. A replaced accessor can hold another installed spy (one on each half, or a method spy over a getter spy), so the record is a chain. The unstub undoes the restored spies as putBackOriginal() undoes them, the one that was installed last first: a spy on an accessor counts only if the accessor still has it. For that it keeps the property as putBackOriginal() reads it, a value or a GetterSetter, and asks the same isAccessorOf(). It cannot see the order of the restores, so it takes the one that leaves no spy behind. If no spy counts, the saved descriptor is defined as before. The write goes through JSMockFunction::putBack(), which is the tail of putBackOriginal() moved into a function, so the spy's undo has one writer. That writer asks no attribute. So the unstub first validates the saved descriptor against the property (validateAndApplyPropertyDescriptor() with no object, which writes nothing) and throws what the unstub of a plain stub throws. This is the throw of that one define, not a rule for locked globals: a spy's own restore still writes over a non-configurable property, as it does in released versions. The record is made of InternalFieldTuple cells, three per spy.

Measured. Release builds (bun run build:release) of main 2596ac5 and of this branch at its second commit (bcede03), linux-x64. The two commits after it change comments, the docs wording and one test.

• Instructions are user-space counts of the JS thread from perf_event_open (perf and valgrind are not installed here), with BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, non-concurrent GC and no ASLR. Per call is the slope between N and 2N, minimum of 5 interleaved runs.
• spyOn() + mockRestore() on a plain object, N = 1e6: 3,547.8 to 3,549.2 per pair (spread 4.1 and 1.2).
• vi.stubGlobal() + unstub of N existing function globals with no spy, minus a control that only creates them, N = 1e4: 5,657.5 to 5,672.7 per name (spread 2.9 and 7.7).
• Disassembly (llvm-objdump -d, addresses removed): 0 differing lines in clearSpy (60 instructions), jsMockFunctionMockRestore (44), putBackOriginal (247), restoreAll (111), didFinishTestFile (248), spyOn (3,545), didInstall and jsMockFunctionWithImplementation (464).
• .text 108,257,833 to 108,259,689 bytes (+1,856, llvm-size -A). The stripped file grows by one page, 138,119,440 to 138,123,536 bytes. Of 154,203 text symbols (llvm-nm -S), 2 change: stubGlobal 1,007 to 1,083 bytes and restoreGlobal 265 to 372. 6 are new (1,732 bytes): recordWhatSpiesReplaced (649), putBackWhatRestoredSpyReplaced (822), spyInstalledAs (146), a PropertyHalves constructor (60), a 28-byte JSObject::isExtensible that only the new code calls, and a 27-byte toPropertyDescriptor stub.
• Cells per first stub of 10,000 names (heapStats(), first commit): 1 Object and 1 string on both builds with no spy. Over a spy, 3 more InternalFieldTuple. By reading of the second commit, the unstub of a name that had a spy on an accessor also makes one GetterSetter, which is garbage after the call.
• sizeof(JSMockFunction) 200 and sizeof(JSMockModule) 160 bytes (lldb, debug build of this branch). The diff adds no data member.
• A first version kept the record in the cell class of mockFn.withImplementation(). Its constructor was then no longer inlined there, and withImplementation() with an async callback went from 3,984 to 4,004 instructions. InternalFieldTuple avoids that. In the same way, the replay calls the GetterSetter::create() overload that takes objects: with the one that takes values, spyOn changed from 3,545 to 3,527 instructions.

Each clause has a test. A debug build with nine switchable mutations of the new code ran the 136 tests of the first commit once per mutation. Each mutation fails between 3 and 49 of them: either half of the installed check, the bound getter lookup, the three parts of the "counts" rule, the order of two spies, the walk to the spy underneath, and the update after an undo. For the second commit, two earlier versions of JSMockFunction.cpp ran its 407 tests. The first commit's version fails 20: the test of the throw, the rows with a spy stored by hand as a value or behind a bound setter, and 7 of the tests with a write by hand. A version that asked the accessor question in the recorder too fails 10: the rows with two spies in one accessor, and 4 of the tests with a write by hand.

Still wrong, not changed here. Each was run on release builds of main and of this branch, with the same result.

• Fake timers over a spy: spyOn(globalThis, "setTimeout"), useFakeTimers(), restore, useRealTimers() leaves the restored spy. bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 fixes it.
• A spy over a stub: vi.stubGlobal(), spyOn(), unstub. At the end of the file the spy's restore writes the stub back, and the next file has it. bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 changes this order.
• mock.module() over a spied export: spyOn(fs, "existsSync"), then mock.module("node:fs", ...) in a test. In the next file fs.existsSync("/") returns undefined. No issue is open for it.
• vi.stubEnv() over a spied variable: the next file reads the spy's mocked value. No issue is open for it.
• The DOM environment: with environment = "happy-dom", restoreMocks = true and a preload that spies window.matchMedia, a DOM file after a node file has the restored spy. No vi.stubGlobal() is involved. bun test: take a preload's vi.stubGlobal() stubs off globalThis while a window's names move #48219 lists it as not covered.
• A spy, a plain assignment or a delete over it, a second spy, then the stub: the end of the file leaves what the second spy replaced, not the original. The record has the spies that the property leads to, and the assignment hides the first one. Main leaves the second spy, restored.
• Other writes by hand before the first stub. The unstub is exact when spyOn() and mockRestore() are the only writers of the global before that stub. The tests also pin one or two spies that the test puts in the property by hand, as themselves. Outside that it is not exact: with a value spy, a getter spy and a setter spy, and then { get: valueSpy, set: setterSpy } by hand, the unstub leaves the restored setter spy. A function that is bound to a spy and stored as the value is a plain store.
• A stub that was refused: spy on a global that is not writable and not configurable, vi.stubGlobal() throws, restore the spy. The unstub then throws Attempting to change value of a readonly property. although the global is right. Main throws the same, and the first commit did not.
• jest.replaceProperty() of bun test: add jest.replaceProperty() #48242, then a stub, jest.restoreAllMocks() and the unstub: by reading of the merged tree the replacement stays on the global, because it is a plain value there. This was not run.
• Spies alone: a getter spy under a method spy, restored first, stays on the property (o.k is undefined). mock.restore() and the end of a file undo two live spies on one name in the order of a set (forEachIn, JSMockFunction.cpp:1168), which changes from run to run, so a later file sometimes finds what lay between the two spies. bun test: restore spies in the order they were made, and keep mocks in ordered weak lists #48098 orders them. The "one or two spies" tests call mockRestore() on the later spy first without the stub for this reason.

Second commit, after review. Review bots found two cases where the first commit was worse than main. No user reported either, and both end as on main now.

• The unstub wrote over a global that the test had made non-configurable after the spy's restore. Main throws a TypeError there. The unstub now validates first, as "How it works" says.
• A data property with an accessor spy as its value, or a setter bound to that spy, counted as the spy on its accessor, and the unstub wrote the old accessor back. The spy's own restore leaves such a property alone. The replay now asks isAccessorOf() itself.
• The "one or two spies" tests passed over a combination that spyOn() refuses. They now compare the refused ones with a list, and 64 more of them put the spies in the property by hand.
• The tests of onerror and onmessage run in a process of their own, because Object.defineProperty() with another value replaces what native code stores.

Self-review concerns that this PR does not take

1. A fix for mock.module() exports, vi.stubEnv() and the DOM environment in this PR. They are three other savers. They are listed above.
2. A mask in the recorder for attribute bits that only open PRs define. The new onerror and onmessage tests cover the case: bun:test: store a spy on a native custom value the way an assignment does #47883 merges with this PR without a conflict, and that merge would store its new encoding through the stub. Whichever lands second then fails those tests.
3. Vitest's in-file result for vi.spyOn() as the default. It is decision 2.
4. test.todo entries for the orders that bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 owns.
5. Tracking issues for the sites above. None was opened.
6. Names of projects that run this order. They were not checked here.
7. A special case for a vi.stubGlobal() that threw over a spy. The unstub then throws as on main. It is listed above.
8. More rules for a global that the test writes by hand, or a number per spy for their order. bun test: restore spies in the order they were made, and keep mocks in ordered weak lists #48098 has such a number, and bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 plans to replace this code.

Neighbours. Trial merges with the open PRs that touch these files:

• bun:test: restore a spy when its object refuses to delete it #48071 rewrites the tail of putBackOriginal(), which this PR moves into putBack(). The merge conflicts there, and the one that lands second resolves it.
• bun test: add jest.replaceProperty() #48242 (jest.replaceProperty()) merges with no conflict, and the result does not compile: both PRs add JSMockFunction::isInstalledOn(). The one that lands second deletes its copy.
• bun:test: keep a plain property readable and writable under a getter or setter spy #48197 changes which spies spyOn() refuses on a plain property, so the lists of refused spies in the "one or two spies" tests change with it. The merge conflicts in docs/test/mocks.mdx.
• bun test: restore spies in the order they were made, and keep mocks in ordered weak lists #48098 conflicts in JSMockFunction.cpp.
• bun test: take a preload's vi.stubGlobal() stubs off globalThis while a window's names move #48219 adds callers of stubGlobal() and restoreGlobal() for a preload's stubs. The merge has no conflict, and its callers pass through the changed functions.
• bun:test: store a spy on a native custom value the way an assignment does #47883 merges with no conflict. Item 2 above says what the merge then stores.
• bun test: keep a clock that a preload's beforeAll() or aroundAll() sets for every test file #48070 does not touch these files.

Suites run. Debug build with ASAN, second commit: vi-utils.test.ts (407 pass, also with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1). Release build of the second commit, all pass: vi-utils.test.ts (407), mock-fn.test.js (848), fake-timers.test.ts (497), mock-disposable.test.ts, spyMatchers.test.ts, jest-hooks.test.ts, bun_test.test.ts, rerun-each.test.ts, mock-module.test.ts (307), vitest-flavor.test.ts (191), vitest-apis.test.ts (151), isolation.test.ts (154), test-environment.test.ts (113). The jsdom tests of the last file take about 3 s each and exceeded the 5 s timeout in two runs while the machine was busy. bun check reports no type error in the test file.

Not run: macOS and Windows.

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[human-review] gate passed · iteration 1 · 6 files touched

fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 167 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts:
(pass) vi.stubEnv > sets process.env and import.meta.env, and unstubAllEnvs restores the first original [4.46ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > a variable that was not set is deleted again [1.41ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > undefined deletes the variable until it is restored [1.41ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > null is stored as a string [1.08ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 0 is stored as a string [0.46ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > true is stored as a string [0.34ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > false is stored as a string [0.32ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > {} is stored as a string [0.57ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > [ 1, 2 ] is stored as a string [0.48ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 10n is stored as a string [0.33ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > DEV is a boolean [2.09ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > PROD is a boolean [0.86ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > SSR is a boolean [0.59ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > the name is converted to a string [3.90ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > an inherited property isn't saved as the original value [1.48ms]
(pass) v
... (truncated)

release without fix: 167 FAILED
bun test v1.4.4-canary.1 (bcede03ef)

test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts:
(pass) vi.stubEnv > sets process.env and import.meta.env, and unstubAllEnvs restores the first original [0.12ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > a variable that was not set is deleted again [0.05ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > undefined deletes the variable until it is restored [0.04ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > null is stored as a string [0.02ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 0 is stored as a string [0.01ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > true is stored as a string
(pass) vi.stubEnv > false is stored as a string
(pass) vi.stubEnv > {} is stored as a string [0.04ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > [ 1, 2 ] is stored as a string
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 10n is stored as a string
(pass) vi.stubEnv > DEV is a boolean [0.03ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > PROD is a boolean [0.08ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > SSR is a boolean [0.01ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > the name is converted to a string [0.27ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > an inherited property isn't saved as the original value [0.05ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > TZ takes effect and is restored [9.30ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > follows a process.env that was replaced [0.13ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > Vite's variables in import.meta.env > can be stubbe
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts:
(pass) vi.stubEnv > sets process.env and import.meta.env, and unstubAllEnvs restores the first original [4.88ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > a variable that was not set is deleted again [1.88ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > undefined deletes the variable until it is restored [1.50ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > null is stored as a string [1.30ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 0 is stored as a string [0.56ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > true is stored as a string [0.40ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > false is stored as a string [0.40ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > {} is stored as a string [0.66ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > [ 1, 2 ] is stored as a string [0.66ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > 10n is stored as a string [0.44ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > DEV is a boolean [2.64ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > PROD is a boolean [1.10ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > SSR is a boolean [0.66ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > the name is converted to a string [4.21ms]
(pass) vi.stubEnv > an inherited property isn't saved as the original value [1.56ms]
(pass) v
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 1273ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/357] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[2/357] gen the table of built-ins
builtins table: operands without uses: none
builtins table: 1811 host entries have a result that is not described; 88 properties that native code fills hold a value that is not described; a program in which a value may be anything holds what any host class needs: 0 modules, 15 functions
[3/332] rustc bun_router 
[4/332] gen builtin_sources.bin
[5/331] rustc bun_resolver 
[6/331] rustc bun_react_compiler 
[7/331] rustc bun_css 
[8/331] rustc bun_js_parser 
[9/331] pch pch/root-pch.h.hxx.pch
[10/331] checksum pch/root-pch.h.hxx.pch
[11/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-4.cpp.o
[12/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-0.cpp.o
[13/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-1.cpp.o
[14/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings-5.cpp.o
[15/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node_crypto-1.cpp.o
[16/331] cxx obj/unified/UnifiedSource-src_jsc_bindings_node_http-0.cpp.o
[17/331] cxx o
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

docs/test/mocks.mdx                 |   2 +
 packages/bun-types/test.d.ts        |   1 +
 src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.cpp | 159 ++++++++++-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.h   |   7 +
 src/jsc/bindings/ViUtils.cpp        |   9 +-
 test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts   | 522 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 6 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file

file                                 reads  edits  tests
docs/test/mocks.mdx                      0      0    107
packages/bun-types/test.d.ts             0      0    108
src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.cpp      8      7    106
src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.h        3      2    106
src/jsc/bindings/ViUtils.cpp             1      0    105
test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts        8      9    105

[robobun]

Status

How I reproduced it, on a debug build and a release build of main (2596ac5):

• Two files, bun test ./a.test.ts ./b.test.ts (the files are in the Notes of the PR body). a.test.ts calls spyOn(globalThis, "setTimeout") and then vi.stubGlobal("setTimeout", () => "stub"). In b.test.ts, setTimeout(() => {}, 0) returns undefined.
• One file: spyOn(globalThis, "setTimeout"), vi.stubGlobal("setTimeout", stub), spy.mockRestore(), vi.unstubAllGlobals(). After that, globalThis.setTimeout === spy is true and a call returns undefined.

With this branch, both end on the original setTimeout.

State at 5028d54: test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts fails on main in 167 tests and passes with this branch. Every review thread is resolved. The two decisions in the first line of the PR body need a maintainer.

CI, Build #139145: 184 of 188 jobs passed. The other 4 are the darwin x64 - test-bun jobs. They have not run: each expired twice while it waited for an agent, and it waits again. Five tests failed once and passed on retry on other lanes, and this diff touches none of them.

PR: #48249

[robobun]

^{Updated 3:04 AM PT - Nov 9th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 5028d546e1e779f33801324f66326f93c087c709 passed in Build #139145! 🎉

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That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48249 executable, so you can run:

bun-48249 --bun

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Walkthrough

Global stubbing now records spy-replacement state and uses it during unstubbing. If a spy is restored while its global is stubbed, unstubbing restores the value or descriptor that the spy replaced. Tests cover value and accessor spies, restore order, and runner cleanup.

Changes

Global stubs and spy restoration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and restore replaced spy properties src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.h, src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.cpp	JSMockFunction adds helpers to identify spies, record the properties they replaced, and restore saved properties when those spies are restored.
Use spy state during global restoration src/jsc/bindings/ViUtils.cpp, test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts, docs/test/mocks.mdx, packages/bun-types/test.d.ts	Global stubbing records spy-replacement state, and unstubbing uses it to restore the saved property. Tests cover spy types, restoration order, and runner cleanup. Documentation describes the restoration behavior and its difference from Vitest.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#48071: Both PRs change spy restoration writes in JSMockFunction.cpp, including descriptor validation and behavior when restoration is refused.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to 11f75

The change is mergeable with a small documentation correction: accessor spies moved into data properties do not receive the advertised restoration behavior. Additional failure-continuation coverage is optional.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the main change: when a spy that was installed on a global is restored before the stub, vi.unstubAllGlobals() puts back the value the spy replaced rather than the restored spy. The c…
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Description check		The description is long and detailed. It has a problem statement, a fix, background, downsides, and a verification section. It follows the repository template's two main headings in substance: "What d…

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The title names the main change: when a spy that was installed on a global is restored before the stub, vi.unstubAllGlobals() puts back the value the spy replaced rather than the restored spy. The changeset (JSMockFunction.cpp/.h, ViUtils.cpp, the tests, and the docs) implements exactly that behavior, so the title matches the primary change. It is specific and concise, though it is long at 88 characters.

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The description is long and detailed. It has a problem statement, a fix, background, downsides, and a verification section. It follows the repository template's two main headings in substance: "What does this PR do?" is covered by Problem, Fix, Background, and Downsides, and "How did you verify your code works?" is covered by the Verified line, Measured, Each clause has a test, and Suites run sections. Some of the content is not in the template format. The headings use different names, and the most useful verification detail is buried inside a collapsed Notes block. The description also opens with an unresolved decision about landing order with draft #48121, which the author has not settled. Even so, the required information is present and specific: the root cause, the change, the test count and failure evidence, and the known gaps. The description is mostly complete, so the check passes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/jsc/bindings/JSMockFunction.cpp:
- Around line 2554-2555: Validate the current property descriptor against the
saved descriptor before JSMockFunction::putBack writes the restored global.
Preserve the existing restore behavior when compatible, and ensure an
incompatible restoration respects the locked property’s constraints rather than
overwriting its value or attributes.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts:
- Around line 467-468: Isolate the native event handler test containing this
finally block in a separate process so its setup and cleanup cannot alter the
parent process’s global event-handler state. Preserve the existing test behavior
within the isolated process.
- Around line 405-408: Update the spy setup around accesses.map and spyOn in the
viUtilsSpied test so supported combinations must complete setup; handle only
expected exceptions separately, and ensure a later spy failure cannot turn a
partially configured case into a passing result that skips unstubbing
verification.

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• docs/test/mocks.mdx
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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked: the while (true) walk in recordWhatSpiesReplaced() cannot cycle, since a spy's spyOriginal() is fixed at install and spyOn() returns an already-installed mock instead of stacking a new one over it; the raw first/last tuple pointers held across InternalFieldTuple::create() are stack locals and every tuple is linked into the record stored in stubbedGlobals before stubGlobal() returns; and a spy whose file-end restore threw is marked restored at JSMockFunction.cpp:1247, so the unstub writes back the recorded original rather than re-defining the dead spy as main does.
Not run: BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 over the new putBackWhatRestoredSpyReplaced() -> putBack() tail (scope released before the throwing write; restoreGlobal() in ViUtils.cpp checks the exception and the empty return).

Extended reasoning...

The change adds ~150 lines to the JSC mock bindings (JSMockFunction.cpp/.h, ViUtils.cpp): vi.stubGlobal() now records, as a chain of InternalFieldTuple cells in the stubbedGlobals JSMap, what each spy installed on the stubbed global had replaced, and vi.unstubAllGlobals() writes that back when the spy was restored in between; putBackOriginal()'s write is factored into a static putBack(). It touches no security-sensitive surface. One confirmed finding is posted inline (a data-property redefinition over an accessor spy makes the unstub write the stale accessor back), the PR intentionally diverges from Vitest's result and asks for an ordering decision against a sibling draft, and the GC/exception-check shape of the new C++ was reviewed by reading only, so a human look is still warranted.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/test/mocks.mdx:
- Line 793: Qualify the restoration guarantee for vi.unstubAllGlobals() when a
getter spy installed by spyOn() is moved into the global’s data value before
stubbing: unstubbing restores the spy rather than the property it replaced.
Document this exception alongside the guarantee, in the Vitest comparison, and
in the corresponding test.d.ts documentation.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts:
- Around line 680-684: Update the restored-spy failure test around
spy.mockRestore() to stub a second global after the locked spy-backed global,
then verify vi.unstubAllGlobals() removes that pending global even when it
throws TypeError; retain the existing descriptor assertion for the locked
global.

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[robobun]

#48121 now contains every test line of test/js/bun/test/vi-utils.test.ts from this PR at 5028d54. All of them pass there at 5a26f24. For the orders of this PR it ends where this PR ends: after spyOn, vi.stubGlobal, mockRestore and vi.unstubAllGlobals, the global has what the spy had replaced.

The two PRs cannot both land as they are. Each gives the entries of mockModule.stubbedGlobals its own layout. A merge of the two heads conflicts in 5 files: JSMockFunction.cpp, ViUtils.cpp, vi-utils.test.ts, docs/test/mocks.mdx and packages/bun-types/test.d.ts.

Both PRs wait for the same answer from a maintainer. With vi from "vitest", main ends this order on the restored spy, as Vitest 5.1.0 does. Both PRs end it on what the spy had replaced. The question is the first line of #48121.

• If bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 lands, this PR can close. Nothing of it is missing there.
• If a maintainer wants this smaller change first, bun test: stop a later undo from writing back a restored spy or a removed stub #48121 rebases on it and replaces the record of this PR with its own.