We had a similar issue when introducing the WHATWG URL parser which is why we have so many test-whatwg-url-* tests and don't rely so much on the WPT tests for those. I suspect we'll have to do the same.

When I tried porting web-platform-tests/wpt:dom/events/AddEventListenerOptions-once.html@master#L36-L57 it threw ERR_EVENT_RECURSION indicating that that behavior is probably not spec compliant. @jasnell any objections to changing it to align with the spec and allow dispatching an event while in an event handler for the same handler?

Yeah, I suspect we should actually file this as an issue with the EventTarget standard itself. The following test case actually crashes Chrome for me and Firefox throws with an error about too much recursion:

const et = new EventTarget();
et.addEventListener('foo', () => et.dispatchEvent(new Event('foo')));
et.dispatchEvent(new Event('foo'));

It's an obvious footgun that really shouldn't be allowed. Note that we currently have the same issue with EventEmitter in that we allow ee.on('foo', () => ee.emit('foo')) which throws a max call stack exceeded error. It's a deeper problem with EventTarget because the error is just pushed to uncaught error and does not necessarily stop the progression of the code in browsers. The ERR_EVENT_RECURSION may not be fully spec compliant here but it prevents these issues and should be kept.

@jasnell

. I suspect we'll have to do the same.

Roger, I'll start porting the whatwg tests that route. I'm also checking with the #whatwg people on IRC to see if they're interesting in upstreaming those tests (for example: tests directly testing EventTarget rather than document)

I think I fixed the root cause for the recursion issue in #33624 - it's fine to dispatch events from events with the same type as long as they're not the same isntance.

If you'd like we can add a "max call depth" or similar check though I would rather not and have the user just reach "Maximum call stack exceeded" like any other non-event-related recusion and like browsers do.

I'll add a "WIP" to the title in the meantime (at least until #33624 and some other fixes land).

@jasnell any feelings regarding just porting all the WPTs in one PR (with a pass/fail status, a bunch failing) rather than make a lot of smaller changes?

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I'll land it manually

Landed in 2a1273c 🎉

this creates conflicts with tests added in #34169