Fix Buffer.from uses to handle node 5.4.1 bug (#25659)

src/compiler/sys.ts

@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ namespace ts {
         /*@internal*/ setBlocking?(): void;
         base64decode?(input: string): string;
         base64encode?(input: string): string;
+        /*@internal*/ bufferFrom?(input: string, encoding?: string): Buffer;
     }
 
     export interface FileWatcher {
@@ -558,7 +559,7 @@ namespace ts {
         getEnvironmentVariable?(name: string): string;
     };
 
-    // TODO: this is used as if it's certainly defined in many places.
+    // TODO: GH#18217 this is used as if it's certainly defined in many places.
     export let sys: System = (() => {
         // NodeJS detects "\uFEFF" at the start of the string and *replaces* it with the actual
         // byte order mark from the specified encoding. Using any other byte order mark does
@@ -675,19 +676,19 @@ namespace ts {
                         process.stdout._handle.setBlocking(true);
                     }
                 },
-                base64decode: Buffer.from ? input => {
-                    return Buffer.from!(input, "base64").toString("utf8");
-                } : input => {
-                    return new Buffer(input, "base64").toString("utf8");
-                },
-                base64encode: Buffer.from ? input => {
-                    return Buffer.from!(input).toString("base64");
-                } : input => {
-                    return new Buffer(input).toString("base64");
-                }
+                bufferFrom,
+                base64decode: input => bufferFrom(input, "base64").toString("utf8"),
+                base64encode: input => bufferFrom(input).toString("base64"),
             };
             return nodeSystem;
 
+            function bufferFrom(input: string, encoding?: string): Buffer {
+                // See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/25652
+                return Buffer.from && (Buffer.from as Function) !== Int8Array.from
+                    ? Buffer.from(input, encoding)
+                    : new Buffer(input, encoding);
+            }
+
             function isFileSystemCaseSensitive(): boolean {
                 // win32\win64 are case insensitive platforms
                 if (platform === "win32" || platform === "win64") {

src/harness/documents.ts

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ namespace documents {
 
         public static fromUrl(url: string) {
             const match = SourceMap._dataURLRegExp.exec(url);
-            return match ? new SourceMap(/*mapFile*/ undefined, (Buffer.from ? Buffer.from(match[1], "base64") : new Buffer(match[1], "base64")).toString("utf8")) : undefined;
+            return match ? new SourceMap(/*mapFile*/ undefined, ts.sys.base64decode!(match[1])) : undefined;
         }
 
         public static fromSource(text: string): SourceMap | undefined {

src/harness/harness.ts

@@ -66,11 +66,8 @@ namespace Utils {
 
     export let currentExecutionEnvironment = getExecutionEnvironment();
 
-    // Thanks to browserify, Buffer is always available nowadays
-    const Buffer: typeof global.Buffer = require("buffer").Buffer;
-
     export function encodeString(s: string): string {
-        return Buffer.from(s).toString("utf8");
+        return ts.sys.bufferFrom!(s).toString("utf8");
     }
 
     export function byteLength(s: string, encoding?: string): number {

src/harness/vfs.ts

@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ namespace vfs {
 
             if (isDirectory(node)) throw createIOError("EISDIR");
             if (!isFile(node)) throw createIOError("EBADF");
-            node.buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(data) ? data.slice() : Buffer.from("" + data, encoding || "utf8");
+            node.buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(data) ? data.slice() : ts.sys.bufferFrom!("" + data, encoding || "utf8");
             node.size = node.buffer.byteLength;
             node.mtimeMs = time;
             node.ctimeMs = time;
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ namespace vfs {
                 }
             },
             readFileSync(path: string): Buffer {
-                return Buffer.from(host.readFile(path)!, "utf8"); // TODO: GH#18217
+                return ts.sys.bufferFrom!(host.readFile(path)!, "utf8"); // TODO: GH#18217
             }
         };
     }

src/testRunner/unittests/convertToBase64.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ namespace ts {
     describe("convertToBase64", () => {
         function runTest(input: string): void {
             const actual = convertToBase64(input);
-            const expected = (Buffer.from ? Buffer.from(input) : new Buffer(input)).toString("base64");
+            const expected = sys.base64encode!(input);
             assert.equal(actual, expected, "Encoded string using convertToBase64 does not match buffer.toString('base64')");
         }
 

src/tsserver/server.ts

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ namespace ts.server {
 
         private write(s: string) {
             if (this.fd >= 0) {
-                const buf = Buffer.from ? Buffer.from(s) : new Buffer(s);
+                const buf = sys.bufferFrom!(s);
                 // tslint:disable-next-line no-null-keyword
                 fs.writeSync(this.fd, buf, 0, buf.length, /*position*/ null!); // TODO: GH#18217
             }
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ namespace ts.server {
     }
 
     // Override sys.write because fs.writeSync is not reliable on Node 4
-    sys.write = (s: string) => writeMessage(Buffer.from ? Buffer.from(s, "utf8") : new Buffer(s, "utf8"));
+    sys.write = (s: string) => writeMessage(sys.bufferFrom!(s, "utf8"));
     sys.watchFile = (fileName, callback) => {
         const watchedFile = pollingWatchedFileSet.addFile(fileName, callback);
         return {