When loading the plug-in store can't remove the grant of an id whose stored
module lists no permissions, or can't read grants.json, the entry stays on
disk and still approved the bytes it covers. plugin.install has the same case
when the grant can't be removed and no earlier module can be put back.
The session now keeps those ids and does not count their grants in
plugin.inspect, plugin.install, plugin.reload or a later load of the store. A
successful update of the grant for the id ends that, and so does attaching a
different store.
A grants file that can't be opened or read may name the old module once
it reads again. plugin.remove and an install of a module listing no
permissions now fail on it and keep the module. A file over 1 MiB or one
that doesn't hold a list still approves nothing and doesn't stop them.
plugin.install of a module that lists no permissions ignored the result
of removing the id's grant. When grants.json could not be updated, the
formerly approved bytes could still be installed without approval. The
store now gets the old module back, so the grant and the module it
covers stay together. The new module stays when the old one can't be
read back and when grants.json can't be read, since such a file approves
nothing. Deleting the last grant now reports a failure.
plugin.remove had the same fault. It now moves the settings and cache
aside and removes the grant before anything is deleted. When the grant
can't be removed, the folder is moved back, the command returns an
error and the plug-in stays installed.
plugin.install wrote the grant and the module as two separate writes,
and either could fail with only a log record. With a grant tied to the
module's hash, the stored pair then no longer matched and the plug-in
was skipped at the next start.
The module is now written first and its grant only once it is there.
When the grant can't be written, the store gets its old module back, or
loses the new one on a first install, and a disabled plug-in stays
disabled. A stored module that can't be read back is not replaced by
one that needs a grant.
A module that lists no permissions now removes the grant from grants.json only after it has replaced the stored module. When the write fails, the old module stays stored and keeps the grant it needs at the next launch.
Installing a module that lists no permissions under a granted id now
forgets the grant, in the process and in grants.json, so the formerly
approved bytes need a new approval. A refused install leaves the grant.
Attaching a plug-in store forgets the grant of an id whose stored module
lists no permissions. A plug-in folder load forgets the process's grant
for such an id and leaves grants.json alone, because the store keeps the
module its grant covers.
A grant records the module's SHA-256, but only its permissions were
compared, so a module with other bytes under a granted id inherited the
grant when it listed no new permission.
A grant now covers a module only when the id, the SHA-256 and every
listed permission match. plugin.inspect reports needsApproval for a
changed module, plugin.install refuses it without a new grant and leaves
the installed module and its grant as they are, Install Plug-in and
File > Open ask again, and the plug-in store and plug-in folders skip it.
The same bytes install again without asking, and a module with no
permissions list or an empty one needs no grant. A grant whose hash is
not 64 lower-case hexadecimal digits covers nothing.
plugin.install still trusts the client that sends grant; the docs say so.
A live effect whose manifest has "api": 2 and "paintOutput": true returns
{"objects": [...]} as pieces, each drawn by itself in order with fills and
strokes of its own in the forms a filter returns. A piece without fills or
strokes keeps the ones the effect was given, and an empty list paints none.
An effect on a fill returns only fills, one on a stroke only strokes.
The whole result is checked before any of it is drawn: the output limits,
finite numbers in range with nothing clamped, known keys only, and every
swatch and pattern it names in the document. One fault draws that step of
the stack unchanged, keeps the effect record and puts the plug-in's name
and the field in plugin.info's lastError. Each piece counts against the
geometry-effect budget, so the painted effects of one stack make at most
100,000 pieces.
The pieces are drawn, measured and exported to PDF and SVG from the
appearance stack without changing the document, and Expand Appearance
writes them as ordinary paths in one undo step. The plug-in API level
rises to 2; plugin.list and plugin.info give api and paintOutput. Effects
without the key behave as before.
An importer plug-in (kind "importer", permission import.read) lists 1 to 8
file extensions and turns a file's bytes into objects, which open as a new
document whose artboard is their bounds. File › Open lists its extensions,
File › Open With (file.openWith) opens a file with a chosen importer, and
document.open takes importer and params. A built-in format that reads the
file by its content or extension always opens it; among importers listing
the same extension, the one whose id sorts first opens it. An importer reads
at most 128 MiB, and Place still reads only the built-in formats.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A plug-in whose manifest gives "api": 2 and lists the new `progress`
permission may import three host functions from module `env`:
vc_progress(done, total), vc_cancelled() -> i32 and
vc_log(level, ptr, len) -> i32. Installing checks every import and
refuses, by name, one the host doesn't offer, one with another type and
one the manifest doesn't allow.
- Progress is clamped and passed on once per tenth of a percent (past
2,000 reports, once per 1,000 changes). A heavy filter's progress
window and the export's progress window show it as a percentage bar,
and their Cancel makes vc_cancelled return 1. A live effect's progress
is not shown.
- A run cancelled before it returns ends as cancelled, and one that
returns after its time budget ran out ends at that budget, so what a
plug-in returns after it sees vc_cancelled changes nothing. This also
applies to a plug-in of API level 1 that finishes after a Cancel or
past its time budget.
- Log text must lie in the module's memory and be UTF-8. Lines go to the
app's log as "<id>: <text>" with hidden characters escaped, at most
1,024 characters a line, 200 lines and 32 KiB a run, and the host reads
at most 1 MiB of log text a run.
- plugin.list and plugin.info give the manifest's `api`; the install
prompt names the new permission in plain words.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A manifest may list `permissions` (doc.read, doc.write, state,
effect.render, export.write) and an `api` level. doc.read, doc.write
and state follow the capability model proposed in
storytold/photocraft#662; the other names are VectorCraft's own. An
unknown, reserved, duplicate or wrong-kind name is refused by name. A
manifest without the key gets the permissions its kind implies and
installs as before.
- Install Plug-in... and File > Open show the name, id, version, file
SHA-256 and each permission in plain words, with control and
bidirectional characters escaped and each string cut to 64
characters. OK installs the module only if it still has the SHA-256
shown; Cancel installs nothing. The heavy-budget prompt and the
status line show the escaped name too, and OK keeps the `replace` it
was given.
- `plugin.install` needs `grant` listing every permission, and
`plugin.inspect` reports `needsApproval`. `hash` pins the module:
one with another SHA-256 is refused. The grant is kept with the
module's hash in the store's `grants.json`, and only that store's
grants count while it is attached; the same set does not ask again,
more permissions do, and `plugin.remove` forgets it.
- The Additional Plug-ins Folder and `plugin.reload` install only
plug-ins the attached store has granted and report the others as
needing approval. At startup the store skips an ungranted plug-in.
- A filter run without doc.read is given no objects; without state it
neither reads nor writes `documentData`; without doc.write an output
that changes the document is refused and the document is unchanged.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
plugin.run and plug-in commands read `ids` strictly: a value that is not
a list, or an entry that is not a non-negative integer, is an error
naming `ids` ("ids must be an array of non-negative integer object
ids"). Left out or null, `ids` is still the selection.
A new test shows that a plug-in command that runs out of its
instruction budget leaves the document and the undo history unchanged,
and that the error names the plug-in and the command.
docs/plugins.md and docs/mcp.md name MCP's `command_list` and
`list_commands` as the listings that show plug-in commands, and the
params text, docs and progress line describe the `ids` rule.
registry::install now changes the revision while it holds the plug-in set's write lock, so a reader that sees the new revision and lists the plug-ins always finds the new one. command_specs also skips caching a list when the revision changed while it was listing. Before, a menu or shortcut lookup that ran during an install could keep the old command list until the next install or removal.
A filter or live effect may declare up to 32 `commands` in its manifest,
each `{id, label, params?}`. While the plug-in is installed each one is the
command `plugin.<id>.<command>`: listed by `command.list` and in the
plug-in's `plugin.list` entry, run through `run`, MCP and `command.batch`
with its parameters checked before the plug-in runs, and recorded in
actions. A run goes through `vc_run` on the selection with
`_context.mode` "command" and `_context.command`, under the plug-in's
permissions, as one undo step named after the command. A failing run
leaves the document as it was, and its error starts with the plug-in's
name and the command's label. Removing or replacing the plug-in removes
its commands.
In the app, a plug-in with commands is a submenu named after it under
Object › Plug-ins (Effect › Plug-ins for a live effect), holding its own
item and then its commands; a `menu` key in a manifest is ignored. A
command with parameters opens a dialog for them from its menu item or a
shortcut. Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists the commands for the user to
give a shortcut; a manifest cannot set one. Labels and names are shown
with control and bidirectional characters escaped, and a malformed entry
is refused by name when the module is installed.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A manifest may list `permissions` (doc.read, doc.write, state,
effect.render, export.write) and an `api` level. doc.read, doc.write
and state follow the capability model proposed in
storytold/photocraft#662; the other names are VectorCraft's own. An
unknown, reserved, duplicate or wrong-kind name is refused by name. A
manifest without the key gets the permissions its kind implies and
installs as before.
- Install Plug-in... and File > Open show the name, id, version, file
SHA-256 and each permission in plain words, with control and
bidirectional characters escaped and each string cut to 64
characters. OK installs the module only if it still has the SHA-256
shown; Cancel installs nothing. The heavy-budget prompt and the
status line show the escaped name too, and OK keeps the `replace` it
was given.
- `plugin.install` needs `grant` listing every permission, and
`plugin.inspect` reports `needsApproval`. `hash` pins the module:
one with another SHA-256 is refused. The grant is kept with the
module's hash in the store's `grants.json`, and only that store's
grants count while it is attached; the same set does not ask again,
more permissions do, and `plugin.remove` forgets it.
- The Additional Plug-ins Folder and `plugin.reload` install only
plug-ins the attached store has granted and report the others as
needing approval. At startup the store skips an ungranted plug-in.
- A filter run without doc.read is given no objects; without state it
neither reads nor writes `documentData`; without doc.write an output
that changes the document is refused and the document is unchanged.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The remaining flags under crates/engine/src/cmd that read a boolean with
get(..).and_then(Value::as_bool).unwrap_or(..) now go through switch_or,
so a value such as "false" or 1 is an error instead of the default.
Omitting a flag or giving null keeps the old behavior.
- effect.move: copy
- aligned on the appearance.*, stroke.set, transparency.set and effect.*
commands, checked before any early return
- transparency.viewOpacityMask: on
- view.printTiling: on
- plugin.install: replace and allowHeavy, checked for every plug-in
- edit.clear: guides, and path.deleteAnchors' read of it
- text.create and text.createInPath: vertical (already refused by
check_switches, so their behavior is unchanged)
A `color` parameter shows a color button that opens the color picker in plug-in
dialogs and the Appearance panel's effect editor; its default and values may be
a color object or a hex string, and the plug-in gets a color object. A filter's
returned objects may set `guide` and `locked`; objects it locked or made guides
are left out of the selection after the run.
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A filter plug-in gets 50 M instructions and a minute for each run.
Filters that order a plotter's paths, pack shapes or run a simulation
need minutes, and the app shouldn't freeze while they compute.
A filter's manifest may now ask for "budget": "heavy" (Budget): each run
gets HEAVY_FUEL (1 G instructions) and HEAVY_WALL_TIME_MS (300 s). Only a
filter may ask. plugin.install refuses such a filter without allowHeavy:
true, and plugin.inspect returns the entry a module would have without
installing it. Install Plug-in… and File › Open ask the user and install
on OK; the plug-in store keeps the answer, and folder loads skip heavy
filters with a note, since they ask nobody.
The app runs a heavy filter on a thread of its own (plugin_runs), not in
Background Save's queue, with the status bar and a progress window
(Cancel, Continue in Background) that it shares with Background Export
(export_progress::window). FilterRun splits plugin.run: prepared on the
session, run on any thread, its output handed in, and the next
plugin.run with the same params applies that output instead of running
the plug-in again, so the edit stays one guarded, journaled command. A
result whose document or plug-in changed meanwhile is dropped, and the
status bar says to run it again. A cancelled plug-in run is now
EngineError::Cancelled.
What a filter keeps with the document (#3720) goes with the run: it is
given _context.documentData when the run is prepared, and the
documentData of its output is applied with its objects, in the same undo
step, when the run is handed in (FilterRun::finish).
Tests: plugins/tests/abi.rs (100 M loop steps out of a light budget,
within a heavy one; folders skip heavy filters), manifest.rs, engine
tests_plugins.rs (consent, inspect, the store, hand-in, a handed-in
run's document data, cancel) and
ui-egui tests_plugin_runs.rs (installing asks, no Preview, a background
run as one undo step, a stale result kept out, the progress window).
CRAFT_UI_HEAVY_FILTER_WASM=<folder> writes a test filter to try in the
app. Its strings and messages have rows in each complete catalog
(COMPLETE_MESSAGES).
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A filter plug-in had nowhere to keep settings that belong to the whole
document rather than to one object, such as the pens a plotter holds or
a machine profile: it could only ask for them again on every run.
- A filter's output may hold documentData: any JSON of at most 1 MiB
(objects::MAX_DOCUMENT_DATA) that replaces what the plug-in keeps with
the document, null removing it, in the same undo step as its objects
(objects::decode_output). Too much refuses the output and the
document stays as it was.
- A filter gets it back in _context.documentData (null until it keeps
something). A filter reads and writes only its own.
- It is the document's foreign data, Document::unknown["pluginData"] by
plug-in id (vectorcraft_doc::plugin_data), where the perspective grid
and the brushes keep theirs. So the native file needs no section of
its own for it, and hosts from before keep it when they save. An
exporter is given the whole document, so it can read every
plug-in's. Nothing else lists it, as the reference app's Document
Info lists no plug-in data.
A live effect isn't given it: its geometry is worked out from the
object alone wherever it is drawn.
Tests: plugin_data.rs (each plug-in its own entry, forgetting what isn't
kept copies nothing, a damaged value holds nothing), objects/tests.rs
(kept, forgotten, refused over the limit), tests_plugins.rs (one undo
step with the objects, read back, not given to another filter, kept by
the native file among its foreign data, refused over the limit with the
document unchanged, null removes it) and tests/plugin_export.rs (an
exporter finds another plug-in's). The size error has its row in each complete
catalog (COMPLETE_MESSAGES).
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The docstring check of the review counts the functions a pull request
touches: effect.apply, effect.setParams, plugin.run, the line cap
name, the reader of an output object and seven of the object tests had
no doc comment. Each now says what it does or checks; the join and cap
names get one each.
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