Firewalker breaks on Node.js 14/16

[Qantas94Heavy]

Summary

When running firewalker on Node 14 or 16, firewalker will throw an error. Node <= 12 or >= 17.4.0 does not have this issue.

This is likely caused by node-ffi-napi/ref-napi#47.

Results of yarn test:

qantas94heavy@MBP % yarn test     
yarn run v1.22.18
$ jest

 RUNS  test/firewall.tests.ts


#
# Fatal error in , line 0
# Check failed: result.second.
#
#
#
#FailureMessage Object: 0x7ff7bfef45d0
 1: 0x100124c02 node::NodePlatform::GetStackTracePrinter()::$_3::__invoke() [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
 2: 0x10104fca3 V8_Fatal(char const*, ...) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
 3: 0x1004ee80d v8::internal::GlobalBackingStoreRegistry::Register(std::__1::shared_ptr<v8::internal::BackingStore>) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
 4: 0x100213a06 v8::ArrayBuffer::GetBackingStore() [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
 5: 0x1000750ee napi_get_typedarray_info [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
 6: 0x104a4a981 (anonymous namespace)::GetBufferData(Napi::Value) [/Users/qantas94heavy/code/firewalker/node_modules/ref-napi/prebuilds/darwin-x64/node.napi.node]
 7: 0x104a4bdd5 (anonymous namespace)::AddressForArgs(Napi::CallbackInfo const&, unsigned long) [/Users/qantas94heavy/code/firewalker/node_modules/ref-napi/prebuilds/darwin-x64/node.napi.node]
 8: 0x104a49072 (anonymous namespace)::WritePointer(Napi::CallbackInfo const&) [/Users/qantas94heavy/code/firewalker/node_modules/ref-napi/prebuilds/darwin-x64/node.napi.node]
 9: 0x104a4c7ef napi_value__* Napi::details::WrapCallback<Napi::details::CallbackData<void (*)(Napi::CallbackInfo const&), void>::Wrapper(napi_env__*, napi_callback_info__*)::'lambda'()>(Napi::details::CallbackData<void (*)(Napi::CallbackInfo const&), void>::Wrapper(napi_env__*, napi_callback_info__*)::'lambda'()) [/Users/qantas94heavy/code/firewalker/node_modules/ref-napi/prebuilds/darwin-x64/node.napi.node]
10: 0x104a4c78d Napi::details::CallbackData<void (*)(Napi::CallbackInfo const&), void>::Wrapper(napi_env__*, napi_callback_info__*) [/Users/qantas94heavy/code/firewalker/node_modules/ref-napi/prebuilds/darwin-x64/node.napi.node]
11: 0x100076a08 v8impl::(anonymous namespace)::FunctionCallbackWrapper::Invoke(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
12: 0x100272048 v8::internal::FunctionCallbackArguments::Call(v8::internal::CallHandlerInfo) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
13: 0x1002715dc v8::internal::MaybeHandle<v8::internal::Object> v8::internal::(anonymous namespace)::HandleApiCallHelper<false>(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::HeapObject>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::HeapObject>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::FunctionTemplateInfo>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Object>, v8::internal::BuiltinArguments) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
14: 0x100270d42 v8::internal::Builtin_Impl_HandleApiCall(v8::internal::BuiltinArguments, v8::internal::Isolate*) [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]
15: 0x100a8e8d9 Builtins_CEntry_Return1_DontSaveFPRegs_ArgvOnStack_BuiltinExit [/Users/qantas94heavy/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.3/bin/node]

Steps to reproduce

Either run yarn test or (intermittently) the following script:

const { Firewall, Request } = require('firewalker');
const firewall = new Firewall();
const rule = firewall.createRule(`
    http.host eq "www.example.org"
`);

// Expected: true
// Actual: Node.js crashes (intermittent)
rule.match(new Request('http://www.example.org'));

Related issues

Related: node-ffi-napi/ref-napi#47
Related: nodejs/node#32463
Related: nodejs/node#43617

[Qantas94Heavy]

While the fix has not been merged into ref-napi, there have been forks e.g. @rclnodejs/ref-napi which include this fix.

Would it make sense to use one of these forks, maintain our own version until the fix is upstreamed, or some alternative solution?