loadImage causes the process to terminate

[alchemist-ifz]

Issue

A problem appeared in one of the projects, the process was silently terminating. In the end, the reason was determined - loadImage. A URL object was passed to the function as src instead of a string or buffer. But, what is strange is the process termination with no way to understand what is happening. Even the debugger (Node.js) could not help.

I think it would be more informative to throw an exception in canvas/lib/image.js when an invalid parameter is passed to setter. At the moment it is checking for a string or buffer and nothing else.

I was expecting an exception to be thrown that I could catch or at least a process crash with some information about the problem, but the process silently terminates. Is this a problem in bindings? Can someone explain the mechanism of this error? (I don't know C++ and bindings.)

Steps to Reproduce

const { loadImage } = require("canvas");
const { URL } = require("node:url");

async function main() {

  console.log("Start...");

  try {

    const userPhotoUrl = new URL("https://placehold.co/600x400");

    await loadImage(userPhotoUrl);

    console.log("Image loaded!");

  } catch (err) {

    console.error(err);

  }

  console.log("Done.");

}

main();

/*

Expected:
Start...
Image loaded!
Done.

Or:
Start...
<ERROR>
Done.

Result:
Start...

*/

Your Environment

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Node.js: 16.16.0, 18.12.1, 18.16.1
node-canvas: 2.11.2, 2.10.0, 2.8.0, 2.6.0