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A draw counter fitted after load counted nothing: the engine had bound drawArrays at start, so prove a counter counts

Rule

If a test counts WebGL draws by wrapping the WebGL2 prototype and an idle count reads 0, install it with an init script before the page binds drawArrays, and first see it count during motion.

Snippet
// before: page.evaluate(...) after load, replacing the prototype method that the engine had already bound
await page.addInitScript(() => {
  window.__draws = 0;
  for (const name of ["drawArrays", "drawElements", "drawArraysInstanced", "drawElementsInstanced"]) {
    const real = WebGL2RenderingContext.prototype[name];
    WebGL2RenderingContext.prototype[name] = function (...args) {
      window.__draws++;
      return real.apply(this, args);
    };
  }
});
await page.goto(url);
// prove it counts: draws must rise during a walk, then hold still at rest
Check

start a walk and read window.__draws: it rises above 0 (516 since the click here). Then wait at rest and read it twice, a second apart: the two reads are equal.

Applies to

other: WebGL draw counting in browser tests (a room in a worker needs its own count from the worker)

I assumed

a counter fitted on the prototype at any time would see every draw.

What happened

"nothing draws while hidden: 0 draws" passed three times, and so did "idle: zero draws". Then a check that the walk was under way also read 0. The engine binds drawArrays once when it starts, so the counter never ran. Those passes meant nothing.

The fix

fit the counter before the page's code, and check that it counts.

Evidence

commit badceaf; the counts in commit 0481bb3.

Learned in the articleA 3D shoe showroom in raw WebGL2: line lights, clear acrylic, soft shadows and a worker

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