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What and why

A filter plug-in could reshape and repaint objects, but it couldn't set a stroke's join, cap or miter limit, nor the effects in an object's appearance (G17). A tool that prepares objects for a live effect, such as a sheet of samples each with the effect at its own settings, had to leave the user to apply the effect to every object by hand.

  • Input. Each stroke now has join, cap and miterLimit beside its paint and width (live effects get the same, through the shared encoder), and each object its own effect records, [{id, params, visible}].
  • Output. A stroke may set them (the miter limit is clamped to 1–500), and an object's effects replaces its own effects.
  • Admission. The host admits each record as effect.apply does: an effect effect.list lists or an installed live-effect plug-in, with parameters it takes (filled in to their defaults; a plug-in's are checked against its manifest), one 3D effect that fits the object (its fills' and strokes' own effects counted), and a Glass texture as Glass stores it, never a file to read. A record the object already had stays as it is, so a filter that hands its input back changes nothing. One refused record refuses the whole output, and the document stays as it was.

The plug-ins crate checks the records' form; which effects exist is the engine's to say (objects::AdmitEffects, plugin::admit_effects). effects::validate_three_d is now the one check of whether a 3D effect fits an object, for effect.apply, effect.setParams and filters alike.

Fixed on the way: a path a filter hands back as it was now stays the live shape it was. The host dropped a live rectangle's or ellipse's parameters whenever the output held a path, changed or not, so a filter that returned its input turned a live rectangle into a plain path and its corner widgets went away. A changed path still makes it a plain path.

It builds on the live-effect paints PR: its first commit is that PR's.

How it was tested

Pictures. A test filter that adds a frame with a round-joined 6 pt stroke and a Roughen effect. Before running it, with nothing selected:

Before: a star, nothing selected

After: the frame it added around the star, with its Roughen effect in the Appearance panel:

After: the frame, with Roughen in the Appearance panel

And its round joins and caps in the Stroke panel:

The Stroke panel: round cap and round corners

The app ran under Xvfb, driven over --control. CRAFT_PLUGIN_FRAME_WASM=<folder> cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine rough_frame_test_filter writes the filter (rough-frame-test-filter.wasm).

Tests.

  • crates/plugins/src/objects/tests.rs: strokes' styles and effect records round-trip; styles on existing and new strokes; the host's refusal leaves the document as it was; bad forms are refused; a live rectangle handed back unchanged stays live (before the fix it became a plain path) and a moved one doesn't.
  • crates/engine/src/tests_plugins.rs: filters that set a built-in and a plug-in effect (filled in, visibility kept), an echo that changes nothing, and six refused outputs: an unknown effect, a key it doesn't take, a plug-in that isn't installed, a parameter its manifest refuses, a texture to read from a file, two 3D effects.

Docs: docs/plugins.md (input, output, admission and live shapes), docs/gaps.md G17 and docs/target-app-parity.md (evidence; scores and hours unchanged).

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  • cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm). Everything but wasm passed on this branch: fmt, clippy with -D warnings, cargo test --workspace (8,457 passed, 0 failed), no-bundled-fonts, pdf-deps, assets, brands, cursors and layers. These ran before the branch was rebased onto today's main, which it applies to without conflicts. wasm couldn't run: the wasm32-unknown-unknown target can't be downloaded where this was built. The new library code uses no files, threads or clocks.
  • No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
    unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
    messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
    (why and how).
  • Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
  • Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md (no new assets; the pictures are hosted outside the repository).

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New Features

  • Plug-in filters can read and modify stroke joins, caps, miter limits, and object effects.
  • Effect parameters, 3D effects, texture references, and visibility are validated before application.
  • Unchanged filtered paths remain live shapes; modified paths become plain paths.
  • Filter output preserves stroke styles and effects, applying defaults where needed.

Bug Fixes

  • Invalid effects or stroke settings reject the complete filter result without altering the document.

Documentation

  • Updated plug-in schemas and compatibility documentation for these capabilities.

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Filter plug-ins can now read and return stroke join, cap, miter-limit, and effect records. The engine validates returned effects before applying them. Unchanged paths retain live-shape state, while changed paths become plain paths.

Changes: Filter plug-in object output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Object data and validation
crates/plugins/src/objects.rs, crates/plugins/src/objects/tests.rs, docs/plugins.md
Object records encode stroke styles and effect lists. Decoding validates values and enforces limits.
Apply stroke and effect updates
crates/plugins/src/objects.rs, crates/plugins/src/objects/tests.rs
Object output applies stroke updates and replaces effects after admission. Unchanged paths retain live-shape state, while changed paths become plain paths.
Host effect admission
crates/effects/src/*, crates/engine/src/cmd/*, crates/engine/src/tests_plugins.rs
The engine validates returned effects against installed or built-in definitions, including parameter, Glass texture, visibility, and 3D-effect constraints. Effect commands use a shared 3D validator.
Plugin capability documentation
docs/gaps.md, docs/plugins.md, docs/target-app-parity.md
Documentation records filter access to effects and stroke attributes, validation rules, unchanged-path behavior, and revision history.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FilterPlugin
  participant plugin.run
  participant apply_output
  participant admit_effects
  FilterPlugin->>plugin.run: return object output
  plugin.run->>apply_output: apply returned objects
  apply_output->>admit_effects: submit effect records
  admit_effects-->>apply_output: admitted effects or error
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Approved at 7b16abe. FreeBSD build + test is green at this head. I read the full diff: plug-in filters now receive and may return stroke join, cap and miter limit and the object's effect records. Output is decoded and range-checked, effects are admitted through the same checks as effect.apply (known effect, valid parameters, one 3D effect, no file-path Glass texture), a refused record rejects the whole output with the document unchanged, and an unchanged path keeps its live shape. The tests cover the round trip, each refusal, and the unchanged case.

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Read the full diff at 7b16abe. Filters now see and return effect records and stroke join, cap and miter limit; the host admits records through the same checks as effect.apply (known effect, params resolved, one 3D effect counting the fills and strokes own, Glass textureImage never read from a file), and a refused record leaves the document untouched. The validate_three_d extraction keeps effect.apply and effect.setParams behaviour. Unchanged live shapes and echoed records change nothing, and the tests cover both and the refusal cases. FreeBSD build + test green at this head.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve existing effects returned by ID. · plugin.rs:110-134

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Preserve existing effects returned by ID.

When a filter returns an existing effect as { "id": "..." }, the decoder sets params to null and visible to true. The complete-record check then fails for an existing effect with non-default parameters or visible: false. The admission path creates a new default-parameter effect, sets visible to true, and replaces the object's effect list with that record. This violates the documented requirement that an existing effect record remains unchanged.

Look up an existing effect by ID before the complete-record check and preserve its full record. Apply default parameters and visibility only when the effect ID is new.

Suggested fix
     for (j, e) in fx.iter().enumerate() {
+        if let Some(existing) = n.appearance.effects.iter().find(|existing| existing.id == e.id) {
+            out.push(existing.clone());
+            continue;
+        }
         if n.appearance.effects.contains(e) {
             out.push(e.clone());
             continue;
         }
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Thanks @KaboomFox. This fills a listed G17 gap and the admission rule (as effect.apply admits, one refused record refuses the whole output) is the right shape. It conflicts with main now; could you merge or rebase onto current main? I'll review it in full for the next batch once it's clean.

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- Line 120: Store the resolved parameters returned by
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let params = if e.params.is_null() { json!({}) } else { e.params.clone() };
match effect::installed(&e.id) {
Some(plugin) => {
plugin.manifest().resolve_params(&params).map_err(|why| refuse(why.to_string()))?;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Store the resolved installed-effect parameters.

resolve_params clamps and rounds values and removes unknown keys, but this call discards its result. If a filter returns an out-of-range parameter, new_effect stores the original value while live-effect execution uses the resolved value. effect.list and the saved document then report a value different from the one applied. Pass the resolved object to new_effect. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Store the resolved parameters returned by plugin.manifest().resolve_params
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A filter could reshape and repaint objects, but not set the stroke's
join, cap or miter limit, nor the effects an object's appearance holds.
A tool that prepares objects for a live effect (a sheet of samples,
each with the effect at its own settings) had to leave the user to
apply the effect to each object by hand.

- Each input stroke has its join, cap and miterLimit beside its paint
  and width (live effects get the same, through the shared encoder),
  and each object its own effect records, {id, params, visible}.
- An output stroke may set them (miter limit clamped to 1-500), and an
  output object's "effects" replaces its own effects.
- The host admits each record as effect.apply does: an effect that
  effect.list lists or an installed live-effect plug-in, parameters it
  takes (filled in to their defaults; a plug-in's checked against its
  manifest), one 3D effect that fits the object (its fills' and
  strokes' own effects counted), and the texture of an effect with
  Load Texture (Glass, Texturizer) as the effect stores it, never a
  file to read. A record the object already had stays as
  it is, so a filter that hands its input back changes nothing. One
  refused record refuses the whole output and the document stays as
  it was.

The plug-ins crate checks the records' form; which effects exist is the
engine's to say (objects::AdmitEffects, engine plugin::admit_effects).
effects::validate_three_d is the one check of whether a 3D effect fits
an object, for effect.apply, effect.setParams and the filters.

A path handed back as it was now stays the live shape it was: write()
dropped a live rectangle's or ellipse's parameters whenever the output
held a path, changed or not, so a filter that returned its input
turned a live rectangle into a plain path.

objects/tests.rs checks the round trip, stroke styles on existing and
new strokes, the host's refusal, the bad forms refused, and a live
rectangle handed back unchanged (a plain path before the fix);
tests_plugins.rs runs filters that set a built-in and a plug-in effect,
an echo that changes nothing, and six refused outputs.
CRAFT_PLUGIN_FRAME_WASM=<folder> saves a test filter to try in the app.

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🟡 Minor · Reject a stroke that omits paint. · objects.rs:324-373

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Reject a stroke that omits paint.

paint is required by the stroke contract. When a filter returns {"width": 2} or another style-only stroke, decode_stroke currently substitutes Paint::None. style then assigns that value and removes the existing stroke paint. Reject the missing field in decode_stroke; keep explicit "paint": null as the supported way to remove a paint.

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-        paint: decode_paint(s.get("paint").unwrap_or(&Value::Null), at)?,
+        paint: decode_paint(s.get("paint").ok_or_else(|| out_err(at, "`paint` is required"))?, at)?,
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Update decode_stroke so it requires the paint field before calling decode_paint,
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