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* Define a generic "Failed" case for app-level errors (and a few others).Owen Jacobson2025-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were previously exporting root causes from one layer of abstraction to the next. For example, anything that called into the database could cause an `sqlx::Error`, so anything that transitively called into that logic exported a `Database(sqlx::Error)` error variant of its own, using `From` to map errors from inner type to outer type. This had a couple of side effects. First, it required each layer of error handling to carry with it a `From` implementation unwrapping and rewrapping root causes from the next layer down. This was particularly apparent in the event and boot endpoints, which had separate error cases unique to crypto key processing errors solely because they happened to involve handling events that contained those keys. There were others, including the pervasive `Database(sqlx::Error)` error variants. Separately, none of the error variants introduced for this purpose were being used for anything other than printing to stderr. All the complexity of From impls and all the structure of the error types was being thrown away at top-level error handlers. This change replaces most of those error types with a generic `Failed` error. A `Failed` carries with it two pieces of information: a (boxed) underlying error, of any boxable `Error` type, and text meant to explain the context and cause of an error. Code which acts on errors can treat `Failed` as a catch-all case, while individually handling errors that signify important cases. Errors can be moved into or out of the `Failed` case by refactoring, as needed. The design of `Failed` is heavily motivated by [anyhow's `context` system][context] as a way for the programmer to capture immediate intention as an explanation for some underlying error. However, instead of accepting the full breadth of types that implement `Display`, a `Failed` can only carry strings as explanation. We don't need the generality at this time, and the implementation underlying it is pretty complex for what it does. [context]: https://docs.rs/anyhow/latest/anyhow/struct.Error.html#method.context This change also means that the full source chain for an error is now available to top-level error handlers, allowing more complete error messages. For example, starting `pilcrow` with an invalid network listen address produces Failed to bind to www.google.com:64209 Caused by: Can't assign requested address (os error 49) instead of the previous Error: Io(Os { code: 49, kind: AddrNotAvailable, message: "Can't assign requested address" }) which previously captured the same _cause_, but without the formatting (see previous commit) and without the _context_ (this commit). Similar improvements are available for many of the error scenarios Pilcrow is designed to give up on. When deciding which errors to use `Failed` with, I've used the heuristic that if something can fail for more than one underlying reason, and if the caller will only ever need to be able to differentiate those reasons after substantial refactoring anyways, then the reasons should collase into `Failed`. If there's either only a single underlying failure reason possible, or only errors arising out of the function body possible, then I've left error handling alone. In the process I've refactored most request-handler-level error mappings to explicitly map `Failed` to `Internal`, rather than having a catch-all mapping for all unhandled errors, to make it easier to remember to add request-level error representations when adding app-level error cases. This also includes helper traits for `Error` and `Result`, to make constructing `Failed` (and errors that include `Failed` as an alternative) easier to do, and some constants for the recurring error messages related to transaction demarcation. I'm not completely happy with the repetitive nature of those error cases, but this is the best I've arrived at so far. As errors are no longer expected to be convertible up the call stack, the `NotFound` and `Duplicate` helper traits for database errors had to change a bit. Those previously assumed that they would be used in the context of an error type implementing `From<sqlx::Error>` (or from another error type with similar characteristics), and that's not the case any more. The resulting idiom for converting a missing value into a domain error is `foo.await.optional().fail(MESSAGE)?.ok_or(DOMAIN ERROR)?`, which is rather clunky, but I've opted not to go further with it. The `Duplicate` helper is just plain gone, as it's not easily generalizable in this structure and using `match` is more tractable for me. Finally, I've changed the convention for error messages from `all lowercase messages in whatever tense i feel like at the moment` to `Sentence-case messages in the past tense`, frequently starting with `Failed to` and a short summary of the task at hand. This, as above, makes error message capitalization between Pilcrow's own messages and messages coming from other libraries/the Rust stdlib much more coherent and less jarring to read.
* Convert the `Setup` component into a freestanding struct.Owen Jacobson2025-10-28
| | | | The changes to the setup-requiring middleware are probably more general than was strictly needed, but they will make it work with anything that can provide a `Setup` component rather than being bolted to `App` specifically, which feels tidier.
* Convert `Invites` into a freestanding component.Owen Jacobson2025-10-28
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* Convert the `Conversations` component into a freestanding struct.Owen Jacobson2025-10-28
| | | | | | | | Unlike the previous example, this involves cloning an event broadcaster, as well. This is, per the documentation, how the type may be used. From <https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/broadcast/fn.channel.html>: > The Sender can be cloned to send to the same channel from multiple points in the process or it can be used concurrently from an `Arc`. The language is less firm than the language sqlx uses for its pool, but the intent is clear enough, and it works in practice.
* Set up a skeleton for swatches.Owen Jacobson2025-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A swatch is a live, and ideally editable, example of an element of the service. They serve as: * Documentation: what is this element, how do you use it, what does it do? * Demonstration: what does this element look like? * Manual test scaffolding: when I change this element like _so_, what happens? Swatches are collectively available under `/.swatch/` on a running instance, and are set up in a separate [group] from the rest of the UI. They do not require setup or login for simplicity's sake and because they don't _do_ anything that requires either of those things. [group]: https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/advanced-routing#Advanced-layouts-(group) Swatches are manually curated, for a couple of reasons: * We lack the technical infrastructure needed to do this based on static analysis; and * Manual curation lets us include affordances like "recommended values," that would be tricky to express as part of the type or schema for the component. The tradeoff, however, is that swatches may fall out of step with the components they depic, if not reviewed regularly. I hope that, by making them part of the development process, this risk will be mitigated through regular use.
* Rename "channel" to "conversation" within the server.Owen Jacobson2025-07-03
| | | | | | I've split this from the schema and API changes because, frankly, it's huge. Annoyingly so. There are no semantic changes in this, it's all symbol changes, but there are a _lot_ of them because the term "channel" leaks all over everything in a service whose primary role is managing messages sent to channels (now, conversations). I found a buggy test while working on this! It's not fixed in this commit, because it felt mean to hide a real change in the middle of this much chaff.
* Handlers are _named operations_, which can be exposed via routes.Owen Jacobson2025-06-18
| | | | | | Each domain module that exposes handlers does so through a `handlers` child module, ideally as a top-level symbol that can be plugged directly into Axum's `MethodRouter`. Modules could make exceptions to this - kill the doctrinaire inside yourself, after all - but none of the API modules that actually exist need such exceptions, and consistency is useful. The related details of request types, URL types, response types, errors, &c &c are then organized into modules under `handlers`, along with their respective tests.
* Reorganize and consolidate HTTP routes.Owen Jacobson2025-06-18
| | | | | | | | HTTP routes are now defined in a single, unified module, pulling them out of the topical modules they were formerly part of. This is intended to improve the navigability of the codebase. Previously, finding the handler corresponding to a specific endpoint required prior familiarity, though in practice you could usually guess from topic area. Now, all routes are defined in `crate::routes`. Other than changing visibility, I've avoided making changes to the handlers at the ends of those routes.
* Use a fluent style for the middleware layers.Owen Jacobson2025-06-17
| | | | | | For endpoints that are unavailable, that default behaviour no longer needs to be specified: `Required(app)` will do that for you. For endpoints that are redirects until setup is completed, `Require(app).with_fallback(…response…)` will do that. To make this a bit harder to break by accident, the default unavailable response is now its own type.
* Unify `setup_required` middlewares.Owen Jacobson2025-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The two middlewares were identical but for the specific `IntoResponse` impl used to generate the response when setup has not been completed. However, unifying them while still using `from_fn_with_state` lead to this horrorshow: .route_layer(middleware::from_fn_with_state( app.clone(), |state, req, next| { setup::middeware::setup_required(UNAVAILABLE, state, req, next) } )) It's a lot to read, and it surfaces the entire signature of a state-driven middleware `fn` into the call site solely to close over one argument (`UNAVAILABLE`). Rather than doing that, I've converted this middleware into a full blown Tower middleware, following <https://docs.rs/axum/latest/axum/middleware/index.html#towerservice-and-pinboxdyn-future>. I considered taking this further and implementing a custom future to remove the allocation for `Box::pin`, but honestly, that allocation isn't hurting anyone and this code already got long enough in the translation. The new API looks like: .route_layer(setup::Required::or_unavailable(app.clone())) Or like: .route_layer(setup::Required::with_fallback(app.clone(), RESPONSE)) One thing I would have liked to have avoided is the additional `app.clone()` argument, but there isn't a way to extract the _state_ from a request inside of an Axum middleware. It has to be passed in externally - that's what `from_fn_with_state` is doing under the hood, as well. Using `State` as an extractor doesn't work; the `State` extractor is special in a _bunch_ of ways, and this is one of them. Other extractors would work. Realistically, I'd probably want to explore interfaces like .route_layer(setup::Required(app).or_unavailable()) or .route_layer(app.setup().required().or_unavailable())
* Build the Sveltekit UI into Cargo's OUT_DIR.Owen Jacobson2025-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This has a couple of material consequences: * It will be (much) easier to reorganize the source tree, as the path to the output is no longer relative to where the config files are when building the final binary. If we do decide to move `ui` into its own child crate, we won't have to make a bunch of (very similar) changes to the Svelte build process at that time. * There is less chance of a stale build contaminating a new one, since changes to the crate change the project hash in `OUT_DIR`. For example, while working on this change, `OUT_DIR` was at various points: * `target/debug/build/pilcrow-7cfeef3536ddd3e7/out` * `target/debug/build/pilcrow-09d4ddbc12bef36b/out` * `target/release/build/pilcrow-070d373bd5f850a1` This may use more space on disk, but it's all reclaimable with `cargo clean` and Rust is _far_ more profligate with disk space than Svelte will ever be. * It's more consistent with Cargo's expectations around generated source files, and thus potentially easier to onboard Rust developers into.
* Remove a bunch of clippy suppressions.Owen Jacobson2025-05-21
| | | | Notably, one of them was hiding a real (if unreachable) bug, by converting a "the token you have presented is not valid" scenario into an internal server error.
* Upgrade to Rust 1.85 and Rust 2024 edition.Owen Jacobson2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | There are a couple of migration suggestions from `cargo fix --edition` that I have deliberately skipped, which are intended to make sure that the changes to `if let` scoping don't bite us. They don't, I'm pretty sure, and if I turn out to be wrong, I'd rather fix the scoping issues (as they arise) than use `match` (`cargo fix --edition`'s suggestion). This change also includes a bulk reformat and a clippy cleanup. NOTA BENE: As this requires a new Rust toolchain, you'll need to update Rust (`rustup update`, normally) or the server won't build. This also applies to the Debian builder Docker image; it'll need to be rebuilt (from scratch, pulling its base image again) as well.
* Upgrade Axum to 0.8.1.Owen Jacobson2025-02-19
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* Add `change password` UI + API.Owen Jacobson2024-10-29
| | | | The protocol here re-checks the caller's password, as a "I left myself logged in" anti-pranking check.
* Tests for purged channels and messages.Owen Jacobson2024-10-25
| | | | This required a re-think of the `.immediately()` combinator, to generalize it to cases where a message is _not_ expected. That (more or less immediately) suggested some mixed combinators, particularly for stream futures (futures of `Option<T>`).
* Sort out the naming of the various parts of an identity.Owen Jacobson2024-10-22
| | | | | | | | | * A `cookie::Identity` (`IdentityCookie`) is a specialized CookieJar for working with identities. * An `Identity` is a token/login pair. I hope for this to be a bit more legible. In service of this, `Login` is no longer extractable. You have to get an identity.
* Set `charset` params on returned content types.Owen Jacobson2024-10-22
| | | | This is a somewhat indirect change; it removes `mime_guess` in favour of some very, uh, "bespoke" mime detection logic that hardcodes mime types for the small repertoire of file extensions actually present in the UI. `mime_guess` doesn't provide a way to set params as it exports its own `Mime` struct, which doesn't provide `with_params()`.
* Organizational pass on endpoints and routes.Owen Jacobson2024-10-16