This allows me to not build-depend on blaze-markup, which was causing
me some trouble when tring to build with cabal on debian. Seems debian
ships Text.Blaze.Renderer.String in two packages.
Now the javascript does an ajax call at the start to request the url
to use to poll, and the notification id is generated then, once we know
javascript is working.
Depending on how the webapp was started up and whether the user clicked on
any links in it, window.close() may be disallowed by browser security
policy. Also if that fails, display a modal dialog that nicely blackens out
the webapp.
TODO: avoid Escape closing it. Bootstrap's docs are unclear about how to do
that.
Putting the transfer on the currentTransfers atomically introduced a bug:
It checks to see if the transfer is in progress, and cancels it.
Fixed by moving that check inside the STM transaction.
This may be customised differently than the main page later on, but
for now the important thing is that this constantly refreshed page does not
allocate a new NotificationHandle each time it's loaded.
WebApp now shows changes with no delay. Comparing a running git-annex get
and the webapp side-by-side, they both show each new transfer at the same
time.
The fun part was making it move things from TransferQueue to currentTransfers
entirely atomically. Which will avoid inconsistent display if the WebApp
renders the current status at just the wrong time. STM to the rescue!
I've convinced myself that nothing in DaemonStatus can deadlock,
as it always keepts the TMVar full. That was the only reason it was in the
Annex monad.
This avoids forking another process, avoids polling, fixes a race,
and avoids a rare forkProcess thread hang that I saw once time
when starting the webapp.
Had to switch to toWaiAppPlain to avoid a seeming bug in toWaiApp;
chromium only received a partial copy of jquery. Always the same length
each time, which makes me think it's a bug in the compression, although
a bug in the autohead middleware is also a possibility.
Anyway, there's little need for compression for a local webapp. Not wasting
time compressing things is probably a net gain.
Similarly, I've not worried about minifying this yet. Although that would
avoid bloating the git-annex binary quite so much.
