From 005f3cf83559eaf84fd307584477c40676be1dd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 19:27:38 +0200 Subject: fix(client): degrade against a node still speaking MNP 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The SPA is served by the hub, so deploying the hub puts this client in front of every node — including the ones not updated yet. That window is the normal state for as long as an operator takes, and for a node someone else runs it may be indefinite. Three controls were broken across it, and the failure mode is quiet: an unknown message type is logged by the node and never answered, so the click produces a thirty-second wait ending in a timeout with nothing on screen to say the node simply cannot do this. Files' Upload button read `root.writable`, which a 1.0 node does not send — it says `upload`, the same answer under the older name. The button disappeared on every un-upgraded node. It reads both now, and still respects an explicit `writable: false` rather than falling through to the legacy flag. The per-app folder pickers spoke `app_directories`. Videos, Music and Photos each had their own message before that and those still work, so the page chooses by version: an operator on an older node keeps the ability they had. `video_root` and `audio_root` hold one folder, so several are refused with a reason rather than stored as the first and silently truncated. Root management — writable, removable, eject, plug — has no older equivalent to route to, so the table goes read-only with a line saying why and pointing at the `meshbay-node root` commands. Chat's two settings are new with nothing before them and are hidden the same way. None of this was inferred from a payload's shape: `_checkNodeVersion` already parsed the node's version and threw it away, and it is kept now. Coupling a capability to whether some field happens to be present is how a flag flips because an unrelated payload changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011pvMdvLBG92jyhvD5pD6us --- packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js') diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js index 8c5cbe5..d1aca93 100644 --- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js +++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/locales/en.js @@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ export default { 'settings_app.tmdb_token_prompt': 'Sign up on TMDB to generate your own API key.', 'settings_app.tmdb_token_link': 'Get a key', 'settings_node.roots_offline_hint': 'Not connected to the node — changes go through the local node instead, and take effect on its next reload.', + 'settings_node.roots_node_too_old': 'This node is older than this page: it can show its directories but not change them here. Update it, or use the meshbay-node root commands.', + 'settings_node.app_node_too_old': 'This node is older than this page and has no setting for this app yet. Update it to configure this here.', 'settings_node.directories_title': 'App directories', 'settings_node.directories_hint': 'Which shared folders the Videos, Music and Photos apps use as their entry point(s).', -- cgit v1.2.3