Verify the response string length overflow and throw a specific error

packages/client-common/__tests__/integration/invalid_string_length.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import type { ClickHouseClient } from '@clickhouse/client-common'
+import { createTestClient } from '@test/utils'
+
+// See https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-js/issues/106
+describe('invalid string length', () => {
+  let client: ClickHouseClient
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await client.close()
+  })
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    client = createTestClient()
+  })
+
+  const errorMessageMatcher = jasmine.stringContaining(
+    'consider limiting the amount of requested rows',
+  )
+
+  // The client will buffer the entire response in a string for non-streamable formats.
+  // A large amount of system.numbers selected should overflow the max allowed allocation size for a string.
+  it('should fail with a specific error when the response string is too large - json() call', async () => {
+    const rs = await client.query({
+      query: 'SELECT number FROM numbers(50000000)',
+      format: 'JSON',
+    })
+    await expectAsync(rs.json()).toBeRejectedWith(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        message: errorMessageMatcher,
+      }),
+    )
+    expect().nothing()
+  })
+
+  it('should fail with a specific error when the response string is too large - text() call', async () => {
+    const rs = await client.query({
+      query: 'SELECT number FROM numbers(50000000)',
+      format: 'JSON',
+    })
+    await expectAsync(rs.text()).toBeRejectedWith(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        message: errorMessageMatcher,
+      }),
+    )
+    expect().nothing()
+  })
+})

packages/client-node/src/utils/stream.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import Stream from 'stream'
 
+// See https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/ea56bf5513d0cbd2a35a9035c5c2996272b8b728
+const MaxStringLength = Math.pow(2, 29) - 24
+
 export function isStream(obj: any): obj is Stream.Readable {
   return obj !== null && typeof obj.pipe === 'function'
 }
@@ -9,7 +12,14 @@ export async function getAsText(stream: Stream.Readable): Promise<string> {
 
   const textDecoder = new TextDecoder()
   for await (const chunk of stream) {
-    text += textDecoder.decode(chunk, { stream: true })
+    const decoded = textDecoder.decode(chunk, { stream: true })
+    if (decoded.length + text.length > MaxStringLength) {
+      throw new Error(
+        'The response length exceeds the maximum allowed size of V8 String: ' +
+          `${MaxStringLength}; consider limiting the amount of requested rows.`,
+      )
+    }
+    text += decoded
   }
 
   // flush

packages/client-web/src/utils/stream.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// See https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/ea56bf5513d0cbd2a35a9035c5c2996272b8b728
+const MaxStringLength = Math.pow(2, 29) - 24
+
 export function isStream(obj: any): obj is ReadableStream {
   return (
     obj !== null && obj !== undefined && typeof obj.pipeThrough === 'function'
@@ -13,7 +16,14 @@ export async function getAsText(stream: ReadableStream): Promise<string> {
 
   while (!isDone) {
     const { done, value } = await reader.read()
-    result += textDecoder.decode(value, { stream: true })
+    const decoded = textDecoder.decode(value, { stream: true })
+    if (decoded.length + result.length > MaxStringLength) {
+      throw new Error(
+        'The response length exceeds the maximum allowed size of V8 String: ' +
+          `${MaxStringLength}; consider limiting the amount of requested rows.`,
+      )
+    }
+    result += decoded
     isDone = done
   }