Historically, computers tracked whether any world-visible state
(on/off/blinking, label and redstone outputs) had changed with a single
"has changed" flag. While this is simple to use, this has the curious
side effect of that term.setCursorBlink() or os.setComputerLabel() would
cause a block update!
This isn't really a problem in practice - it just means slightly more
block updates. However, the redstone propagation sometimes causes the
computer to invalidate/recheck peripherals, which masks several other
(yet unfixed) bugs.
This commit adds abstract classes to describe the interface for our
mod-loader-specific generic peripherals (inventories, fluid storage,
item storage).
This offers several advantages:
- Javadoc to illuaminate conversion no longer needs the Forge project
(just core and common).
- Ensures we have a consistent interface between Forge and Fabric.
Note, this does /not/ implement fluid or energy storage for Fabric. We
probably could do fluid without issue, but not something worth doing
right now.
Historically CC has supported two modes when working with file handles
(and HTTP requests):
- Text mode, which reads/write using UTF-8.
- Binary mode, which reads/writes the raw bytes.
However, this can be confusing at times. CC/Lua doesn't actually support
unicode, so any characters beyond the 0.255 range were replaced with
'?'. This meant that most of the time you were better off just using
binary mode.
This commit unifies text and binary mode - we now /always/ read the raw
bytes of the file, rather than converting to/from UTF-8. Binary mode now
only specifies whether handle.read() returns a number (and .write(123)
writes a byte rather than coercing to a string).
- Refactor the entire handle hierarchy. We now have an AbstractMount
base class, which has the concrete implementation of all methods. The
public-facing classes then re-export these methods by annotating
them with @LuaFunction.
These implementations are based on the
Binary{Readable,Writable}Handle classes. The Encoded{..}Handle
versions are now entirely removed.
- As we no longer need to use BufferedReader/BufferedWriter, we can
remove quite a lot of logic in Filesystem to handle wrapping
closeable objects.
- Add a new WritableMount.openFile method, which generalises
openForWrite/openForAppend to accept OpenOptions. This allows us to
support update mode (r+, w+) in fs.open.
- fs.open now uses the new handle types, and supports update (r+, w+)
mode.
- http.request now uses the new readable handle type. We no longer
encode the request body to UTF-8, nor decode the response from UTF-8.
- Websockets now return text frame's contents directly, rather than
converting it from UTF-8. Sending text frames now attempts to treat
the passed string as UTF-8, rather than treating it as latin1.
Does it count as an emulator when it's official? I hope not, as this'd
make it my fourth or fifth emulator at this point.
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Developing/debugging CraftOS is a massive pain to do inside Minecraft,
as any change to resources requires a compile+hot swap cycle (and
sometimes a `/reload` in-game). As such, it's often more convenient to
spin up an emulator, pointing it to load the ROM from CC:T's sources.
However, this isn't practical when also making changes to the Java
classes. In this case, we either need to go in-game, or build a custom
version of CCEmuX.
This commit offers an alternative option: we now have our own emulator,
which allows us to hot swap both Lua and Java to our heart's content.
Most of the code here is based on our monitor TBO renderer. We probably
could share some more of this, but there's not really a good place for
it - feels a bit weird just to chuck it in :core.
This is *not* a general-purpose emulator. It's limited in a lot of
ways (won't launch on Mac[^1], no support for multiple computers) - just
stick to what's there already.
[^1]: We require OpenGL 4.5 due to our use of DSA.
In practice, we're never going to change this to true by default. The
old Tekkit Legends pack enabled this[^1], and that caused a lot of
problems, though admittedly back in 2016 so things might be better now.
If people do want this functionality, it should be fairly easy to
replicate with a datapack, adding a file to rom/autorun.
[^1]: See https://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/27663-
Hate that I remember this, why is this still in my brain?
The two implementations aren't entirely compatible - the implementation
returned by .of will throw an NPE on .contains(null), whereas the
Collections implementations just return false. However, we try to avoid
passing null to collections methods, so this should be safe.
There's no strong reason to do this, but it helps make the code a little
more consistent
This is an attempt to enforce better separation between ComputerThread
and ComputerExecutor. Both of these classes are pretty complex in their
own right, and the way the two bleed into each other makes it all the
more confusing!
This effectively splits the ComputerExecutor into two separate classes:
- ComputerScheduler.Executor (with the actual implementation inside
ComputerThread): This holds all the ComputerThread-related logic
which used to be in ComputerExecutor, including:
- before/after work hooks
- is-on-thread tracking
- virtual runtime computation
- ComputerScheduler.Worker: This encapsulates all the computer-related
behaviour. The actual implementation remains in ComputerExecutor.
The boundaries are still a little fuzzy here, and it's all definitely
more coupled then I'd like, but still an improvement!
There are several additional changes at the same time:
- TimeoutState has also been split up, to better define the boundary
between consumers (such as ComputerExecutor and ILuaMachine) and
controllers (ComputerThread).
The getters still live in TimeoutState, but the core logic lives in
ManagedTimeoutState.
- We no longer track cumulative time in the TimeoutState. Instead, we
allow varying the timeout of a computer. When a computer is paused,
we store the remaining time, and restore it when resuming again.
This also allows us give a longer timeout for computer
startup/shutdown, hopefully avoiding some of those class-not-found
issues we've seen.
- We try to make the state machine of how ComputerExecutors live on the
queue a little more explicit. This is very messy/confusing -
something I want to property test in the future.
I'm sure there's more to be done here, especially in ComputerExecutor,
but hopefully this makes future changes a little less intimidating.
This is the second time I've rewritten our class generation in a little
over a month. Oh dear!
Back in d562a051c7 we started using method
handles inside our generated ASM, effectively replacing a direct call
with .invokeExact on a constant method handle.
This goes one step further and removes our ASM entirely, building up a
MethodHandle that checks arguments and then wraps the return value.
Rather than generating a class, we just return a new LuaFunction
instance that invokeExacts the method handle.
This is definitely slower than what we had before, but in the order of
8ns vs 12ns (in the worst case, sometimes they're much more comparable),
so I'm not too worried in practice.
However, generation of the actual method is now a bit faster. I've not
done any proper benchmarking, but it's about 20-30% faster.
This also gives us a bit more flexibility in the future, for instance
uisng bound MethodHandles in generation (e.g. for instance methods on
GenericSources). Not something I'm planning on doing right now, but is
an option.
Currently redirects would be returned from the proxy, and then
immediately followed by XMLHTTPRequest. The proxy now follows requests
(when requested), so that should no longer happen.
We should probably switch over to fetch(...) here, to allow setting
follow_redirects to false, but that's a job for another day.
Haha, so many web emulator related commits of late. This'll die down
soon.
- Update to Rollup 4.x
- Replace terser and postcss with swc and lightningcss. This is
definitely more code for us to write (maybe I should turn them into
proper plugins we can depend on), but both speedier and fewer
dependencies.
- Drop dependency on glob - we can get away with fs.readdir for what we
needed it for.
Historically we've used copy-cat to provide a web-based emulator for
running example code on our documentation site. However, copy-cat is
often out-of-date with CC:T, which means example snippets fail when you
try to run them!
This commit vendors in copy-cat (or rather an updated version of it)
into CC:T itself, allowing us to ensure the emulator is always in sync
with the mod.
While the ARCHITECTURE.md documentation goes into a little bit more
detail here, the general implementation is as follows
- In project/src/main we implement the core of the emulator. This
includes a basic reimplementation of some of CC's classes to work on
the web (mostly the HTTP API and ComputerThread), and some additional
code to expose the computers to Javascript.
- This is all then compiled to Javascript using [TeaVM][1] (we actually
use a [personal fork of it][2] as there's a couple of changes I've
not upstreamed yet).
- The Javascript side then pulls in the these compiled classes (and
the CC ROM) and hooks them up to [cc-web-term][3] to display the
actual computer.
- As we're no longer pulling in copy-cat, we can simplify our bundling
system a little - we now just compile to ESM modules directly.
[1]: https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
[2]: https://github.com/SquidDev/teavm/tree/squid-patches
[3]: https://github.com/squiddev-cc/cc-web-term
- Move the frontend code into src/frontend
- Move our custom element SSR system into src/htmlTransform.
This is mostly in prep for merging in copy-cat's core, as that's a whole
bunch of extra code.
We already use preact for the copy-cat integration, so it makes sense to
use it during the static pass too. This allows us to drop a dependency
on react.
- Several files where @MCJack123 is the exclusive contributor. He has
signed over all contributions to "any OSI-approved license". Thank
you!
- Various the file handle classes: Looking at these again, I don't
think they contain any of the original code.
This adds SPDX license headers to all source code files, following the
REUSE[1] specification. This does not include any asset files (such as
generated JSON files, or textures). While REUSE does support doing so
with ".license" files, for now we define these licences using the
.reuse/dep5 file.
[1]: https://reuse.software/
Mostly in prep for 1.19.4.
- Update to Loom 1.1.
- Simplifies our handling of remapped configurations a little.
- Removes the need for a fake fabric.mod.json in the API jar.
For reasons I don't quite understand, this required us to bump the
Fabric API version. Otherwise interfaces are not injected.
- Update to Rollup 3.0.
- Do NOT update NullAway: It now correctly checks @Nullable fields in
inherited classes. This is good, but also a pain as Minecraft is a
little over-eager in where it puts @Nullable.
After several weeks of carefully arranging ribbons, we pull the string
and end up with, ... a bit of a messy bow. There were still some things
I'd missed.
- Split the mod into a common (vanilla-only) project and Forge-specific
project. This gives us room to add Fabric support later on.
- Split the project into main/client source sets. This is not currently
statically checked: we'll do that soon.
- Rename block/item/tile entities to use suffixes rather than prefixes.
