The "run" command is old. I'm not sure why the separate Lua
implementation was added. But maybe it as because the "run" command used
to be limited to a small number of arguments. This limit has been
removed a while ago. In any case, the old implementation is not needed
anymore.
We keep mp.subprocess() with roughly the same semantics for
compatibility with scripts (including the internal ytdl script).
Seems to work with rhe ytdl wrapper. Not tested further.
Named arguments should make it easier to have long time compatibility,
even if command arguments get added or removed. They're also much nicer
for commands with a large number of arguments, especially if many
arguments are optional.
As of this commit, this can not be used, because there is no command yet
which supports them. See the following commit.
Fundamentally, scripts are loaded asynchronously, but as a feature,
there was code to wait until a script is loaded (for a certain arbitrary
definition of "loaded"). This was done in scripting.c with the
wait_loaded() function.
This called mp_idle(), and since there are commands to load/unload
scripts, it meant the player core loop could be entered recursively. I
think this is a major complication and has some problems. For example,
if you had a script that does 'os.execute("sleep inf")', then every time
you ran a command to load an instance of the script would add a new
stack frame of mp_idle(). This would lead to some sort of reentrancy
horror that is hard to debug. Also misc/dispatch.c contains a somewhat
tricky mess to support such recursive invocations. There were also some
bugs due to this and due to unforeseen interactions with other messes.
This scripting stuff was the only thing making use of that reentrancy,
and future commands that have "logical" waiting for something should be
implemented differently. So get rid of it.
Change the code to wait only in the player initialization phase: the
only place where it really has to wait is before playback is started,
because scripts might want to set options or hooks that interact with
playback initialization. Unloading of builtin scripts (can happen with
e.g. "set osc no") is left asynchronous; the unloading wasn't too robust
anyway, and this change won't make a difference if someone is trying to
break it intentionally. Note that this is not in mp_initialize(),
because mpv_initialize() uses this by locking the core, which would have
the same problem.
In the future, commands which logically wait should use different
mechanisms. Originally I thought the current approach (that is removed
with this commit) should be used, but it's too much of a mess and can't
even be used in some cases. Examples are:
- "loadfile" should be made blocking (needs to run the normal player
code and manually unblock the thread issuing the command)
- "add-sub" should not freeze the player until the URL is opened (needs
to run opening on a separate thread)
Possibly the current scripting behavior could be restored once new
mechanisms exist, and if it turns out that anyone needs it.
With this commit there should be no further instances of recursive
playloop invocations (other than the case in the following commit),
since all mp_idle()/mp_wait_events() calls are done strictly from the
main thread (and not commands/properties or libmpv client API that
"lock" the main thread).
Usable for uniquely identifying mpv instances from
subprocesses, controlling mpv with AppleScript, ...
Adds a new mp_getpid() wrapper for cross-platform reasons.
This commit introduces mp.utils.file_info() for querying information
on file paths, implemented for both Lua and Javascript.
The function takes a file path as an argument and returns a Lua table /
JS object upon success. The table/object will contain the values:
mode, size, atime, mtime, ctime and the convenience booleans is_file, is_dir.
On error, the Lua side will return `nil, error` and the Javascript side
will return `undefined` (and mark the last error).
This feature utilizes the already existing cross-platform `mp_stat()`
function.
As threatened by the API changes document.
This commit also removes or stubs equivalent calls in IPC and Lua
scripting.
The stubs are left to maintain ABI compatibility. The semantics of the
API functions have been close enough to doing nothing that this probably
won't even break existing API users. Probably.
This changes behavior somewhat. The old behavior can be restored by
running "mp.use_suspend=true". It was originally introduced for the OSC,
but I can't reproduce whatever misbehavior I was seeing.
(See mp.suspend()/resume() for explanations what the suspend mechanism
does.)
We want to distinguish actual errors, and just aborting the program
intentionally.
Also be a bit more careful with handling the wait() exit status: do not
called WEXITSTATUS() without checking WIFEXITED() first.
It polluted the global namespace, instead of exporting the function
properly.
For now, keep it compatible by explicitly keeping the bogus export.
Also fix a mistake in the manpage example.
This seems to come up often. I guess '.' vs. ':' for Lua calls is
confusing, and this part of the scripting API is the only one which
requires using it.
This shouldn't exist and for the most part is meant to be used by the
ytdl Lua script, but let's document it anyway. Since the Lua API handles
all the details, it's considered much more "stable" than the raw API,
which is why the raw API wasn't documented.
- --lua and --lua-opts change to --script and --script-opts
- 'lua' default script dirs change to 'scripts'
- DOCS updated
- 'lua-settings' dir was _not_ modified
The old lua-based names/dirs still work, but display a warning.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Yep, Lua is so crappy that the stdlib doesn't provide anything like
this.
Repurposes the undocumented mp.format_table() function and moves it to
mp.utils.
Following the discussion in #1253.
The events won't be removed for a while, though. (Or maybe never, unless
we run out of bits for the uint64_t event mask.)
This is not a real change (the events still work, and the alternative
mechanisms were established a few API revisions earlier), but for the
sake of notifying API users, update DOCS/client-api-changes.rst.
wm4
Avi Halachmi (:avih)
sfan5
TheAMM
TSaaristo
Kevin Mitchell
Nicolas F
Olivier Perret
rr-
Jakub Wilk
Julian
torque
Martin Herkt
rrooij
ChrisK2
Alessandro Ghedini
James Ross-Gowan