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refactor(clipboard): one text policy and a backend contract suite - #487
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PR #482's data-control fallback re-implemented smithay-clipboard's MIME preference and decode rules, and both the fallback trigger and the arboard path classified native errors inline, including a string match on smithay's "selection is empty" message. Move the MIME vocabulary, the decode rules, the fallback decision, and the two native-error classifiers into the clipboard text_policy module, and give reads a typed answer: TextRead::{Text, NoSelection, TargetUnavailable}. "No owner" and "an owner with no readable text type" are now distinct inside the runtime, and smithay's message strings exist in exactly one adapter. This is behaviour-preserving: execute_command maps the typed answer back to the evaluator-facing Option<String>, with both absences reading as nil, so batch semantics and the oracle pins are untouched.
Add a contract test suite for ClipboardBackend: an absent selection is an answer rather than a transport error, an empty string is text, and CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY never alias. Two deliberate violators -- a backend that reports absence as an error, and one that answers both selections from a single slot -- prove the assertions can fail, and an opt-in live check runs the same contract against the real system clipboard.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClipboard reads now use typed outcomes for text and distinct absence cases. A shared policy handles MIME selection, error classification, and Wayland fallback. Backend tests cover the read outcomes and clipboard contracts. ChangesClipboard reads
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClipboardBackend
participant TextReadPolicy
participant DataControlReader
participant Evaluator
ClipboardBackend->>TextReadPolicy: Provide selection, native result, and fallback
TextReadPolicy->>DataControlReader: Read after a classified clipboard absence
DataControlReader-->>TextReadPolicy: Return typed read result
TextReadPolicy-->>ClipboardBackend: Return policy result
ClipboardBackend->>Evaluator: Convert typed result to Option<String>
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to No concrete behavior regression is established in the inspected clipboard paths, so the change appears mergeable subject to normal checks. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The refactor preserves the external read contract and keeps CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY separate. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Limited uncertainty remains about whether an additional native-error match can activate fallback in previously rejected cases. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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It is platform-specific clipboard I/O code whose Wayland/X11 and live paths cannot be exercised in CI, so despite being a clean behavior-preserving refactor it warrants final human review.
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What changed in this PR
This PR is Stage 1 of a clipboard follow-up to #482. It removes the triplicated "what counts as clipboard text" logic (smithay-clipboard's MIME preference/decode rules reproduced by hand, the fallback trigger matching smithay's error strings, and arboard's inline error mapping) by consolidating all of it into a single new clipboard::text_policy module. It also sharpens the backend contract so ClipboardBackend::text returns a typed TextRead (Text/NoSelection/TargetUnavailable) instead of Option<String>, letting the runtime distinguish "no owner" from "owner without a readable text type" while still collapsing both to nil at the evaluator-facing wire. The change is behavior-preserving and adds a backend contract test suite.
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text_policymodule owning the MIME vocabulary/preference, decode rules, native-error classifiers (classify_smithay,classify_arboard), and the fallback decision (text_or_fallback). ClipboardBackend::textnow returnsResult<TextRead, String>;execute_commandmaps it back toOption<String>viainto_option, keeping the wire semantics unchanged.- Tests reorganized: MIME/policy tests moved into
text_policy_test.rs, data-control tests reduced to transfer mechanics, and a newcontract_test.rsplus opt-in live check added.
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clipboard/text_policy.rs |
New module centralizing MIME choice/decode, absence classifiers, and the smithay→fallback decision. |
clipboard.rs |
Trait returns TextRead; arboard/Wayland backends adapt to it; execute_command maps to Option<String>. |
clipboard/wayland_data_control.rs |
Drops the local TextMime copy; read_text/transfer now return TextRead using the shared policy. |
clipboard/tests/text_policy_test.rs |
New home for MIME/decode/classifier/fallback decision-table tests. |
clipboard/tests/contract_test.rs |
New backend contract suite with fakes proving the assertions and an opt-in live check. |
clipboard/tests/wayland_data_control_test.rs |
Reduced to transfer-mechanics tests after the MIME tests moved out. |
clipboard/tests/clipboard_test.rs |
Updated fakes/assertions to the TextRead type; removed the relocated fallback tests. |
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325-334: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTest Wayland’s selection dispatch.
The policy tests call
text_or_fallbackwith synthetic closures, but no test reachesWaylandClipboard::text. The removed tests also called the old helper directly, so their removal did not remove caller-level coverage. Add a test seam that checks native absence invokes data-control for CLIPBOARD only. Otherwise, changing either caller closure can disable the Hyprland fallback or invoke the CLIPBOARD fallback for PRIMARY without failing these tests.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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`WaylandClipboard::text` dispatch, so add a test seam and caller-level test that
verifies native absence invokes the data-control fallback for CLIPBOARD only,
while PRIMARY does not invoke that fallback. Ensure the test would fail if
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Review follow-ups on #487. Copilot noted that TextReadFailure reads backwards: the classifiers answer Some for a recognized absence and None for a real error, so a type named "failure" lands on the Ok side of a match. Rename it to TextAbsence, which matches the side of the Option it appears on and the module's thesis that an absence is an answer. CodeRabbit noted that no test reached the CLIPBOARD-versus-PRIMARY fallback routing, so changing either caller closure could disable the Hyprland fallback, or route a PRIMARY absence through data-control, without failing anything. Move the routing into text_policy::wayland_read, with the native result passed in, so it is testable without a live display, and pin the outcomes: CLIPBOARD consults the fallback, PRIMARY never does.
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- Line 158: Update the `TextAbsence` and `TextRead` representations in
`text_policy.rs` to add an ambiguous content-unavailable variant, and map
`arboard::Error::ContentNotAvailable` to it rather than `NoSelection`. Keep
`TextRead::into_option` mapping all absence variants to `None`, and update the
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CodeRabbit noted on #487 that arboard reports an empty clipboard and contents in an unreadable format with one error, so mapping ContentNotAvailable to NoSelection asserts a fact arboard does not know. Add TextAbsence::Indeterminate, and the matching TextRead variant, for that case. The evaluator-facing wire is unchanged: into_option answers nil for every absence, and only the contract wording grows a third name.
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TextAbsence::TargetUnavailable is never constructed on non-Linux targets, producing a dead_code compiler warning in the macOS/Windows cargo check --all-targets build-gate jobs.
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Copilot noted that TextAbsence::TargetUnavailable is never constructed off Linux -- only the Wayland classifier produces it -- so the macOS/Windows cargo check jobs would report the variant as dead code. The same holds for the matching TextRead variant, and the ambiguous absence change had left TextAbsence::NoSelection unconstructed there too. Gate both TargetUnavailable variants on Linux, with their match arms, and route the process-local PRIMARY vacancy through TextAbsence::NoSelection so every remaining variant is constructed on every platform. The display-crate layout guide forbids allow(dead_code), so the variants that cannot occur are removed from those builds instead of silenced.
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It reshapes a cross-platform, cfg-gated clipboard subsystem with nearby unsafe Wayland FFI, and multi-target compile/behavior correctness cannot be fully confirmed here, so final human review is warranted despite finding no concrete issues.
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Tested 824f44e (release build) on a real Hyprland 0.56.2 session, side by side with a build whose clipboard sources match this PR's base. All 24 shared checks behaved identically:
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Review follow-ups on #487. Copilot noted that TextReadFailure reads backwards: the classifiers answer Some for a recognized absence and None for a real error, so a type named "failure" lands on the Ok side of a match. Rename it to TextAbsence, which matches the side of the Option it appears on and the module's thesis that an absence is an answer. CodeRabbit noted that no test reached the CLIPBOARD-versus-PRIMARY fallback routing, so changing either caller closure could disable the Hyprland fallback, or route a PRIMARY absence through data-control, without failing anything. Move the routing into text_policy::wayland_read, with the native result passed in, so it is testable without a live display, and pin the outcomes: CLIPBOARD consults the fallback, PRIMARY never does.
CodeRabbit noted on #487 that arboard reports an empty clipboard and contents in an unreadable format with one error, so mapping ContentNotAvailable to NoSelection asserts a fact arboard does not know. Add TextAbsence::Indeterminate, and the matching TextRead variant, for that case. The evaluator-facing wire is unchanged: into_option answers nil for every absence, and only the contract wording grows a third name.
Stage 1 of the clipboard follow-up roadmap from #482's review. Stage 2 (target/MIME-aware reads), ownership/serving, and the remaining #482 nits are deliberately out of scope.
Why
PR #482's data-control fallback re-implemented smithay-clipboard's MIME preference and decode rules, so the same text policy existed in three places: smithay's behaviour reproduced by hand, the fallback trigger matching smithay's error strings, and the arboard path mapping its own error inline.
What changed
clipboard::text_policymodule: the MIME vocabulary and preference (TextMime::choose, matching smithay'sfind_allowed), the decode rules (TextMime::decode, matching its post-processing), the fallback decision (text_or_fallback), and both native-error classifiers. smithay's message strings now exist in exactly one adapter.ClipboardBackend::textreturns a typed answer:TextRead::{Text, NoSelection, TargetUnavailable}. "No owner" and "an owner with no readable text type" are now distinct inside the runtime — the signal a later TARGETS/per-MIME API will need.execute_commandmaps the typed answer back to the evaluator-facingOption<String>(both absences read as nil), so batch semantics and the oracle pins do not move.Text("")is text, and CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY never alias. Two deliberate violators prove the assertions can fail, and an opt-in live check (NEOMACS_CLIPBOARD_LIVE_TEST=1) runs the contract against the real system clipboard.Testing
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-display-runtime -E 'test(/clipboard/)'— 27 passed (14 policy + 4 contract + existing service/transfer tests;the four MIME tests moved from
wayland_data_control_test.rsintotext_policy_test.rs).cargo nextest run -p neovm-core -E 'test(clipboard) or test(selection)'— 42 passed.cargo nextest run -p neomacs -E 'test(clipboard) or test(primary_window_display_host)'— 5 passed, including the renderer round-trip pin.div_cx416_gui_selection,div_cx432_gui_backend_selection,div_cx432_x_own_get_selection— 3 passed.cargo fmt --all --checkclean. Clippy is clean for the touched crate; the repo-wide clippy gate is already red onmainfor unrelated pre-existing lints (input_latency.rs,frame_ingest.rs,child_frames.rs,damage.rs,presentation_feedback/mod.rs,frame_mailbox.rs).Not in this PR
TARGETS/ per-MIME reads andgui-get-selectionTYPE wiring foryank-media.x-own-selection-internal) and the exit-persistence policy.Unavailable, fallback telemetry.This PR is agent-assisted.