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json-bgon: pull changes from urbit/urbit:#5877 #4

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@xiphiness xiphiness commented Mar 16, 2023

Missing aura.js, need to figure this out. Also have not confirmed it builds.

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Fang- commented Mar 16, 2023

As @xiphiness and I discussed out of band, these are the http-api changes from urbit/urbit#5877 forward-ported to be on top of the new, separate repo. See that PR for further discussion/context.

Some of the questions raised therein remain open. Namely:

  • In addition to having its Nouns api touched up a bit, nockjs should clearly be in its own package. But thinking one step further: if it's going to ship with noun<->object conversions, shouldn't it also ship with aura de/serialization? Certainly if you use http-api you're going to want to deal with nockjs.
    It feels like there's strong relations between these three libraries. How should this be dealt with? Do they get merged, or just re-expose each other's utilities, or expect the developer to figure it out? Notable danger: a Noun constructed in http-api doesn't instanceof correctly with the Noun a client application independently imports.
    (http-api already re-exposes nockjs's enjs stuff, but that's mostly incidental, I wanted to get up-and-running quickly.)
    UPDATE: after talking with @arthyn we concluded that it's probably best to keep these libraries separate, but have http-api re-expose all of their functions, so that it acts as a "package deal", which you likely want/need when working with this library.
  • @polwex is working on fixing the nockjs bignum and typescript situations. Last time I talked to him it sounded like he was closing in on something workable. We'll probably want to await those improvements before we ship anything here. See also convert to typescript, add noun->jso helpers nockjs#1
  • Should clients be able to bind per-mark conversion functions when they subscribe, so that they don't have to manually check the mark & convert as appropriate?
  • We still use .json for scrying. Should probably change that over to .jam while we're at it.
  • We may want to pre-render tangs in all the nack cases, or at least provide a utility for rendering tanks.

And of course, we may want to ship this as a separate library, or different opt-in mode, or whatever else seems appropriate, until such a time where we have the gall to make js developers write conversions themselves.

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arthyn commented May 31, 2023

@jalehman I think we need to get urbit/nockjs#1 merged first and this should use that. a good bit of mark's other comments here should also probably be addressed.

@Fang- @xiphiness do y'all want to meet sometime soon about this?

src/Urbit.ts Outdated
@@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ export class Urbit {

/** This is basic interpolation to get the channel URL of an instantiated Urbit connection. */
private get channelUrl(): string {
return `${this.url}/~/channel/${this.uid}`;
return `${this.url}/~/channel-jam/${this.uid}`;
}

private get fetchOptions(): any {

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on line 111 we still have 'Content-Type': 'application/json', even though we are sending jammed nouns. Is this intentional?

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Good catch, that should become application/x-urb-jam.

Other parts of this PR are outdated as well (wrt the released version from urbit/urbit#6472), like the channel URLs now being the same as normal, and only that Content-Type header indicating the difference.

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ilyakooo0 commented Jun 5, 2023

@xiphiness @Fang- @arthyn I am working on the same thing for Elm. I would like to join the conversations if possible. I am ~racfer-hattes.

Fang- and others added 11 commits September 11, 2023 18:13
Since the nockjs api has changed lightly since the code herein was
written, we have to make some small adjustments.

Note that this also changes the interface for the .err() subscription
interface callback, to bring it in line with the changed to the .event()
interface we introduced during earlier cleanup.
We no longer use a special path (/~/channel-jam), but instead make use
of request headers to indicate what mode to open a channel in, and how
to interpret a channel event.

This required loosening up the headers type a little bit, making changes
to the fetchOptions, making them dynamic rather than static.
Previously, the poke() function was asynchronous on _both_ its PUT
request _and_ the poke-n/ack. In the nack case, it would *reject* the
latter promise instead of resolving it, causing the whole to throw an
error. Due to implementation mishap, this would always throw undefined.

Here, we update this behavior, so that it's asynchronous on _only_ the
PUT request, and returns the event id as soon as that resolves. The
callbacks passed as arguments still get called as normal.

This misbehavior was discovered while finishing the implementation of
the "handle poke nack" test, whose final form has been included.

Note that this is a subtle breaking change. Clients who were awaiting on
their poke() call will now see different/faster behavior, and no longer
need to fold it into a catch block.
It includes the desk, so that mark files can be picked from the correct
desk by eyre internally. This implementation detail ends up leaking into
its interface right now, so we must account for it when unpacking the
fact.
We were going out of and back into Atom shape, but we can just toString
it in-place.
Replace json with nouns, make sure to test nouns for equality properly.
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Fang- and others added 10 commits January 19, 2024 22:34
There were shenanigans aronud .eventSource getting recursively called
into by .sendNounToChannel. This whole structure was unnecessarily
recursive and hard to follow.

Here we flatten it out a little bit, making .eventSource responsible for
continuing after an initialization poke, in the "not yet initialized"
case.

This means that developers using this library need to explicitly call
.eventSource() in order to establish a connection. This probably makes
for a better API, although we should add a success/failure return value
to it in the near future.
Eyre takes a list of commands for each incoming PUT. Here, we update
sendNounToChannel() into sendNounsToChannel(), taking a variable number
of arguments, which get converted into "real" Nouns inside of the
function, using nockjs's dwim logic. (Of course, this means callers are
still free to pass pre-built Nouns also.) This way, we don't end up with
Noun construction boilerplate all over the place, and this lets us send
the list of empty commands, which we want to use for channel
initialization.
- renamed eventSource to connect
- renamed authenticate to setupChannel
- renamed connect to authenticate
- no longer accept ship in the constructor
- refactored constructor to take object instead of individual arguments
- consistently follow patp syntax for ship and our
- removed desk as a parameter and now require for thread
- onReconnect removed in favor of onOpen, reconnect still signalled with param
- various comment fixes and formatting
Instead of any, we can use Noun in many places. We also don't want/need
to parameterize types as often as we used to.

Also throws away unused types from types.ts.
Necessarily includes logic for turning the jambuffer in the response,
into a proper Noun object.

Only somewhat surprisingly, we need to reverse the byte order in the
response, even though to accurately mock it, we don't need to reverse
the bytes from the jam generated by nockjs.

It would be most prudent to manually test this in the browser, to make
sure we didn't trip ourselves up over endianness shenanigans here.
Fang- and others added 28 commits February 6, 2024 20:08
This adds a `fetch` option to the `Urbit` class, which allows you to
pass in the local fetch implementation that works for you. Notably we
did this to support React Native, which needs special fetch parameters.

We also removed todos that were no longer relevant.
As currently written, the library really only supports the one mode.
This is probably the way forward, too. So here we remove vestigial
references to mode switching within the library.
This makes sure we re-export important functions from @urbit/nockjs. We
also removed the URL prefixing which was causing issues with passing empty
string as the URL. Finally, we reconfigured the setup so that the Urbit
instance returned is immediately available and all interactions wait for
the connection to be established.
Which just does a scry() call, but enforces a json mark, and handles the
parsing of the ReadableStream for you.
Accept it as either pre-interpolated string, array of segments, or
directly as a Noun.

The conversion logic in subscribe() should maybe be factored out.
Now defaults to speaking raw nouns with spider, as supported through
urbit/urbit#6943.

Provides a jsonThread() fallback for speaking json. Doesn't yet support
the "json one way, nouns the other" case.

Factors out noun<->bytebuffer conversions into utility functions.
Make sure we use Path instead of flat strings where appropriate.

Rename subscription callbacks, and unify callbacks into their
"interface" types. Store those interface types, even if we strictly only
need the callbacks themselves, it's useful data to keep around.
We do remove the eventId from the callback interfaces though, you can't
know them ahead of time, and client software is generally better off
rolling their own identifiers if they really don't want to do anonymous
callback function or similar.

Updates tests to match.
Canonical aura formatting or bust.
This has the same kind of bignums that nockjs uses, letting us skip a
double-conversion.
When initializing a channel connection, you may now optionally specify
the channel mode, either 'noun' (default) or 'json'. This mode
determines the shape of the responses that come back out of the library
into your callbacks.

Sending pokes may be done with either nouns or js data. Scries and
threads retain their separate functions depending on what kind of
response you want.
Typescript can't check these correctly, but we do want to give either a
Noun or js-object depending on the channel mode. The function signatures
should've been checked when they were first provided by the client.
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