This moves monitor networking into its own packet, rather than serialising
using NBT. This allows us to be more flexible with how monitors are
serialised.
We now compress terminal data using gzip. This reduces the packet size
of a max-sized-monitor from ~25kb to as little as 100b.
On my test set of images (what I would consider to be the extreme end of
the "reasonable" case), we have packets from 1.4kb bytes up to 12kb,
with a mean of 6kb. Even in the worst case, this is a 2x reduction in
packet size.
While this is a fantastic win for the common case, it is not abuse-proof.
One can create a terminal with high entropy (and so uncompressible). This
will still be close to the original packet size.
In order to prevent any other abuse, we also limit the amount of monitor
data a client can possibly receive to 1MB (configurable).
When creating a peripheral or custom Lua object, one must implement two
methods:
- getMethodNames(): String[] - Returns the name of the methods
- callMethod(int, ...): Object[] - Invokes the method using an index in
the above array.
This has a couple of problems:
- It's somewhat unwieldy to use - you need to keep track of array
indices, which leads to ugly code.
- Functions which yield (for instance, those which run on the main
thread) are blocking. This means we need to spawn new threads for
each CC-side yield.
We replace this system with a few changes:
- @LuaFunction annotation: One may annotate a public instance method
with this annotation. This then exposes a peripheral/lua object
method.
Furthermore, this method can accept and return a variety of types,
which often makes functions cleaner (e.g. can return an int rather
than an Object[], and specify and int argument rather than
Object[]).
- MethodResult: Instead of returning an Object[] and having blocking
yields, functions return a MethodResult. This either contains an
immediate return, or an instruction to yield with some continuation
to resume with.
MethodResult is then interpreted by the Lua runtime (i.e. Cobalt),
rather than our weird bodgey hacks before. This means we no longer
spawn new threads when yielding within CC.
- Methods accept IArguments instead of a raw Object array. This has a
few benefits:
- Consistent argument handling - people no longer need to use
ArgumentHelper (as it doesn't exist!), or even be aware of its
existence - you're rather forced into using it.
- More efficient code in some cases. We provide a Cobalt-specific
implementation of IArguments, which avoids the boxing/unboxing when
handling numbers and binary strings.
This is sufficiently useful a class, that it's worthwhile exposing it.
Hopefully we can slowly encourage other mods to migrate to it (well, at
least in 1.14), and so make error messages more consistent.
Also:
- Add Javadoc for all public methods
- Clarify the method names a little (getNumber -> getDouble,
getReal -> getFiniteDouble).
- Make the *Table methods return a Map<?,?> instead of
Map<Object, Object>.
OK, so let's get this out of the way, there's some actual changes mixed
in here too. I'm really sorry:
- Turtles can now not be renamed with unnamed item tags (previously it
would clear the name, this seemed a little unideal).
- commands.getBlock(s)Data will also include NBT.
Now, onto the horror story which is these inspection changes:
- Make a lot of methods static
- Typo fixes
- Make utility classes final + private constructor
- Lots of reformatting (ifs -> ternary, invert control flow, etc...)
- ???
- Profit!
I'm so going to regret this - can pretty much guarantee this is going to
break something.
- Move all HTTP tasks to a unified "MonitoredResource" model. This
provides a uniform way of tracking object's lifetimes and disposing
of them when complete.
- Rewrite HTTP requests to use Netty instead of standard Java. This
offers several advantages:
- We have access to more HTTP verbs (mostly PATCH).
- We can now do http -> https redirects.
- We no longer need to spawn in a new thread for each HTTP request.
While we do need to run some tasks off-thread in order to resolve
IPs, it's generally a much shorter task, and so is less likely to
inflate the thread pool.
- Introduce several limits for the http API:
- There's a limit on how many HTTP requests and websockets may exist
at the same time. If the limit is reached, additional ones will be
queued up until pending requests have finished.
- HTTP requests may upload a maximum of 4Mib and download a maximum
of 16Mib (configurable).
- .getResponseCode now returns the status text, as well as the status
code.
This replaces the existing IMount openFor* method with openChannelFor*
ones, which return an appropriate byte channel instead.
As channels are not correctly closed when GCed, we introduce a
FileSystemWrapper. We store a weak reference to this, and when it is
GCed or the file closed, we will remove it from our "open file" set and
ensure any underlying buffers are closed.
While this change may seem a little odd, it does introduce some
benefits:
- We can replace JarMount with a more general FileSystemMount. This
does assume a read-only file system, but could technically be used
for other sources.
- Add support for seekable (binary) handles. We can now look for
instances of SeekableByteChannel and dynamically add it. This works
for all binary filesystem and HTTP streams.
- Rewrite the io library to more accurately emulate PUC Lua's
implementation. We do not correctly implement some elements (most
noticably "*n", but it's a definite improvement.
- Move the encoding/decoding from the Filesystem implementation to the
individual handles.
- Move each handle into an core.apis.handles package from the main fs
API.
- Move the HTTP response to inherit from these handles.
- Allow binary handles' read function to accept a number, specifying
how many characters to read - these will be returned as a Lua string.
- Add readAll to binary handles
- Allow binary handles' write function to accept a string which is
decoded into the individual bytes.
- Add "binary" argument to http.request and friends in order to return
a binary handle.
- Ensure file handles are open when reading from/writing to them.
- Return the error message when opening a file fails.
