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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-09-06 17:48:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-09-06 17:48:36 +0200 |
| commit | ea56b8c79538323875c00db2e7006b255f7cd494 (patch) | |
| tree | ee08835bc190a75e49a6a8e78755111aef0e678f /docs/apps.md | |
| parent | e76e27868b30a2b00b1ba42dd8e7ee6071e0c0d7 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-ea56b8c79538323875c00db2e7006b255f7cd494.tar.gz | |
fix(groups): finish Phase 1 — MNP root management, upload targets, eject state
Review of the Phase 1 commit found the RO/RW model sound but three paths
unfinished, each of which broke the flow the phase exists to deliver. Plus
29 test failures it introduced and no coverage for anything it added.
Uploads went to the wrong directory. The node read a `root` field on
file_upload that no client ever sent, so every upload landed in the first
writable root while the Files toolbar offered its button based on the root
being browsed — with two writable roots, uploading from one wrote into the
other. Files now names the root it is showing; Chat names one chosen in the
shell (an operator-configured directory arrives in Phase 2); the node refuses
an unknown name rather than falling back, and refuses read-only and ejected
roots by code.
Shared directories were unreachable on the web. The table read its roots
only from the loopback API, which resolves to "not available" in a browser,
so the section rendered for nobody there — while the Uploads controls it
replaced had worked — and the transport.updateRoot/ejectRoot/plugRoot methods
beside it were dead. MNP is now the path, loopback the fallback for a local
node with no live connection, and adding a root over MNP takes a typed path
since no web page can browse a remote disk.
Ejecting updated nobody's screen. transport.js resolves an admin ack against
the pending request and returns, which is right for every op whose caller
knows the value it chose; the root acks carry state only the node can compute,
so the operator who clicked Eject was the one client that never saw it happen.
And the ejected flag reached roster.db but was never read back, so a restart
undid it and the next scan read an empty mount point as an erased library.
Also: the member-upload endpoint answered 200 and did nothing (removed); the
wizard ignored the first root's RW switch; reload compared roots on name and
path, so editing writable in node.toml did nothing; the table had no path
column, which is the only thing separating two libraries sharing a basename;
apps_enabled normalisation differed between the two sides of a signed subject.
Tests: eject/plug, per-root upload refusal and the node.toml rewrite had no
coverage at all. test_member_upload_policy.py is replaced by
test_root_writable_policy.py — it tested a removed feature — and every
property worth keeping from it moved rather than being dropped.
Docs: draft-v6 structural decision 9 is annotated as superseded (the operator
can no longer have a directory only they may write to — a real capability
removed, flagged rather than hidden), the man page documents the root verb and
the RO/RW fields, and refactor-groups.md §7b records what the plan got wrong.
Suite: 41 failures before, 13 after — all 13 pre-existing on main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011pvMdvLBG92jyhvD5pD6us
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/apps.md b/docs/apps.md index ef8cc1a..7ce1e73 100644 --- a/docs/apps.md +++ b/docs/apps.md @@ -130,9 +130,10 @@ any app with similar per-group local state. ## 3. Enable/disable: the mechanism -Same shape as `member_upload` (`meshbay-draft-v6.md` §2.1b) — an +Same shape as a root's `writable` flag (`refactor-groups.md` §1.1) — an operator-signed setting, stored on the node, enforced by absence rather than -by the client's honesty. +by the client's honesty. It used to be described against `member_upload`, +which was the group-wide upload switch; that was removed in the same refactor. **Node side** (`meshbay_node/roster.py`): ```python @@ -148,8 +149,13 @@ from exactly one place: `webrtc_server.py`'s `_admin_exec_apps_enabled`, after `_do_apps_enabled` in `webrtc_server.py` validates before it ever issues a challenge: - `apps` non-empty — the operator can never lock a group down to nothing. -- every entry in `WebRTCPeerSession.ALLOWED_APPS` (`{"chat", "files"}` today) - — **this is the line a new app's node-side registration touches.** +- every entry in `WebRTCPeerSession.ALLOWED_APPS` + (`{"chat", "files", "video", "music", "photo"}` today) — **this is the line + a new app's node-side registration touches.** +- `files` is added to the list if it is absent, at both writers + (`_do_apps_enabled` and `ops.set_enabled_apps`, both at the front so the two + agree). It is not a toggle: MNP permits root exploration regardless of what + this list says, so hiding the tab only ever misled. The whole set is signed in one message (`apps_enabled`, `OP_APPS_ENABLED` in `meshbay_common.adminop`) rather than one op per app — ticking several boxes @@ -158,11 +164,11 @@ sorted, comma-joined app list (`"chat,files"`), built the same way on both sides so the operator's browser and the node arrive at identical bytes to sign/verify. -`enabled_apps` rides in `handshake_ack` and `node_status`, next to -`member_upload`. Changing it broadcasts `apps_enabled_ack` to everyone already -connected — `transport.js`'s `onAppsEnabled` — so a disabled tab disappears -without waiting for a reconnection, the same as `member_upload`'s live -broadcast. +`enabled_apps` rides in `handshake_ack` and `node_status`, next to the roots +table. Changing it broadcasts `apps_enabled_ack` to everyone already connected +— `transport.js`'s `onAppsEnabled` — so a disabled tab disappears without +waiting for a reconnection. The root ops (`root_update_ack`, `root_eject_ack`, +`root_plug_ack`) broadcast the same way, through `onRootsChanged`. **Client side:** `apps.js`'s `visibleApps(enabledKeys)` filters the registry; `group-page.js` calls it with `enabledApps` state (from the ack, `null` until @@ -234,9 +240,17 @@ the only node-side touches, and both are allow-lists, not new wire messages. machinery again; unlike Videos/Music it needs several root folders per group rather than one, has a single album-grid view with no third-party matching step, and reads EXIF locally on the node instead. -- **The offline/loopback settings path.** `member_upload` can be toggled two - ways: over a live MNP connection, or (Electron only) via the node's local - HTTP API when MNP isn't connected (`platform.node.call('PUT', .../member- - upload')`, `group-settings.js`). `apps_enabled` only has the MNP path today. - Adding the loopback twin is a `meshbay_node.ui` endpoint plus a - `group-settings.js` branch, mirroring the existing `member_upload` one. +- **The offline/loopback settings path.** A root's flags can be changed two + ways: over a live MNP connection (any browser, anywhere), or — Electron + only, and only when MNP is not connected — via the node's local HTTP API + (`platform.node.call('PATCH', '/api/groups/<id>/roots/<name>')`, + `SharedDirectoriesTable` in `group-settings.js`). `apps_enabled` only has + the MNP path today. Adding the loopback twin is a `meshbay_node.ui` endpoint + plus a branch in the table's `run()` helper, mirroring the root ops. + + **MNP is the path that must exist, not the fallback.** The operator of a + node is not necessarily sitting at it. The first version of the shared + directories table read its roots exclusively from the loopback API, which + resolves to "not available" in a browser — so the whole section rendered for + nobody on the web, while the controls it replaced had worked there. Any + operator-facing setting added here needs the MNP route first. |