2024 07 09 chat user seeks help with command registration execution issues - bizkite-co/handterm GitHub Wiki


original file name: Codeium Chat - VK4I52P5GW1aZXNMj2xaDc55jxsy1nb0.md summary: The user was facing issues with connecting their command registration setup to the rest of the application, particularly with executing commands in the HandTerm component. After analyzing the provided code snippets and the user's description, suggestions were made to ensure that commands are registered before use, to verify the integration of CommandProvider, to check the command execution logic, to debug the command registry for population issues, to explicitly import command registration, and to ensure proper use of CommandProvider. Ultimately, the user discovered that a missing import in main.tsx was causing the issue, and after adding it, the problem was resolved. date: 2024-07-09T17:12

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User at 5:12 pm, Jul 9, 2024

I have a core component of my app HandTerm.tsx that is declared like this:

class HandTerm extends React.Component<IHandTermProps, IHandTermState> {

In the main.tsx I do this:

import { Buffer } from 'buffer';
window.Buffer = Buffer;

// Define 'global' if it's undefined (for browser environments)
if (typeof global === 'undefined') {
 window.global = window;
}
(async () => {
 const ReactDOM = await import('react-dom/client');
 const App = await import('./App');

 ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <App.default />
 );
})();

and in the App.tsx I do this:

// App.tsx
import React, { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
import HandTerm from './components/HandTerm';
import { CommandProvider } from './commands/CommandProvider';
import { TerminalCssClasses } from './types/TerminalTypes';
import { useAuth } from './lib/useAuth';

const App = () => {
 const containerRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
 const [containerWidth, setContainerWidth] = React.useState<number>(0);
 const handexTermRef = useRef<HandTerm>(null);

 useEffect(() => {
  const w = getContainerWidth();
  setContainerWidth(w);

  const handleClickOutsideTerminal = (event: UIEvent) => {
   // Check if the click is outside of the terminal area
   if (
    handexTermRef.current &&
    handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current
    && (event.target as HTMLElement).id !== TerminalCssClasses.Terminal
   ) {
    event.stopPropagation();
    window.scrollTo(0, window.screen.height)
    handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current.focusTerminal();

    if (event instanceof MouseEvent || (event instanceof TouchEvent && event.touches.length === 1)) {
     handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current.focusTerminal();

     setTimeout(() => {
      if (
       handexTermRef.current &&
       handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current
      ) {
       handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current.focusTerminal();
      }
     }, 1000);
     // type a character to trigger the focus event
     // handexTermRef.current.adapterRef.current.terminalWrite('a');
    }
   }
  };

  // Attach the event listener to the document body
  document.body.addEventListener('click', handleClickOutsideTerminal);
  document.body.addEventListener('touchstart', handleClickOutsideTerminal);

  // Clean up the event listener
  return () => {
   document.body.removeEventListener('click', handleClickOutsideTerminal);
  };
 }, [])

 const getContainerWidth = () => {
  return containerRef.current?.clientWidth ?? 0
 }

 useEffect(() => {
  const handleResize = () => {
   const w = getContainerWidth();
   setContainerWidth(w);
  };

  window.addEventListener('resize', handleResize);
  return () => window.removeEventListener('resize', handleResize);
 })

 return (
  <CommandProvider handTermRef={handexTermRef}>
   <div ref={containerRef}>
    <HandTerm
     ref={handexTermRef}
     auth={useAuth()}
     terminalWidth={containerWidth}
    />
   </div>
  </CommandProvider>
 );
};

export default App;

I want to instantiate this commands folder:

// src/commands/index.ts

import { commandRegistry } from './commandRegistry';
import { clearCommand } from './clearCommand';
import { ListPhrasesCommand } from "./ListPhrasesCommand";
import { archiveCommand } from './archiveCommand';

commandRegistry.register(clearCommand);
commandRegistry.register(ListPhrasesCommand);
commandRegistry.register(archiveCommand);

Having this CommandProvider

// src/commands/CommandProvider.tsx
import React, { useCallback, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
import { CommandContext, ICommandContext } from './CommandContext';
import { commandRegistry } from './commandRegistry';
import HandTerm from '../components/HandTerm';

interface CommandProviderProps {
 children?: React.ReactNode;
 handTermRef: React.RefObject<HandTerm>;
}

export const CommandProvider: React.FC<CommandProviderProps> = (props: CommandProviderProps) => {

 const [commandHistory ] = useState<string[]>([]);
  

 const executeCommand = useCallback((commandName: string, args?: string[], switches?: Record<string, boolean | string>) => {
  const handTerm = props.handTermRef.current;
  if (!handTerm) {
   console.error('CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL');
   return {status: 404, message: 'CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL'};
  }
  const command = commandRegistry.getCommand(commandName);
  if (command) {
   // Execute the command and return the result
   return {status: 200, message: command.execute(commandName, args, switches, handTerm).message };
  }
  return { status: 404, message: `CommandProvider: Command not found: ${commandName}`};
 }, []);

 const appendToOutput = useCallback((element: React.ReactNode) => {
  const handTerm = props.handTermRef.current;
  if (!handTerm) {
   console.error('CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL');
   return 'CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL';
  }
  if(element) handTerm.writeOutput(element.toString());
 }, []);

 const clearOuput = useCallback(() => {
  const handTerm = props.handTermRef.current;
  if (!handTerm) {
   console.error('CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL');
   return 'CommandProvider: handTermRef.current is NULL';
  }
  handTerm.clearCommandHistory("clear");
 }, []);

 // Provide the context with the necessary values
 const contextValue = useMemo<ICommandContext>(() => ({
  commandHistory,
  executeCommand,
  appendToOutput: appendToOutput,
  clearOuput: clearOuput
 }), [commandHistory, executeCommand]);

 return (
  <CommandContext.Provider value={contextValue}>
   {props.children}
  </CommandContext.Provider>
 );
};

and commandRegistry.ts

// src/commands/commandRegistry.ts

import { ICommand } from './ICommand';

class CommandRegistry {
  private commands: Record<string, ICommand> = {};

  register(command: ICommand) {
    this.commands[command.name] = command;
  }

  getCommand(name: string): ICommand | undefined {
    return this.commands[name];
  }

  getHelp(filter?: string): string {
    return Object.values(this.commands)
      .filter(cmd => !filter || cmd.name.includes(filter))
      .map(cmd => `${cmd.name}: ${cmd.description}`)
      .join('\n\n');
  }

}

export const commandRegistry = new CommandRegistry();

But I seem to have dropped the ball somewhere and it is not all connecting up.

The commands are not called in the handleCommand in HandTerm that starts like this:

 public handleCommand = (cmd: string) => {
  this.setState(
   // Update the command history
   prevState => ({
    commandHistory: [cmd, ...prevState.commandHistory],
    currentCommandIndex: -1,
   }),
   () => this.saveCommandHistory(this.state.commandHistory)
  );
  // TODO: handle achievement unlocks
  if (this.state.isInTutorial) {
   // Unlock the next achievement and decide if we are still in tutorial mode
   if (cmd === '') cmd = 'Return (ENTER)';
   if (this.state.nextAchievement?.phrase.join('') === cmd
   ) {
    this.unlockAchievement(cmd);
   }
  }
  const { command, args, switches } = this.parseCommand(cmd);
  if (this.context) {
   const output = this.context
    .executeCommand(
     command,
     args,
     switches,
    );
   if (output.status === 200) return;
  }

The commandsRegistry.commands is never populated.


Codeium at 5:13 pm, Jul 9, 2024

The issue seems to be with how the commands are registered and how they are supposed to be executed within HandTerm. From your description, it appears the command registration process is correctly set up in src/commands/index.ts, where you import and register your commands with the commandRegistry. However, the problem might lie in how you integrate this setup with the rest of your application, particularly in ensuring the commands are registered before they are needed.

Here are a few things to check and steps to ensure everything connects properly:

  1. Ensure Commands Are Registered Before Use: Make sure that the commands are registered before any component tries to execute them. Since you're using the CommandProvider to wrap your HandTerm component in App.tsx, the registration should ideally happen before App.tsx is executed. This can be achieved by ensuring the command registration code (src/commands/index.ts) is executed early enough. One way to do this is to explicitly import src/commands/index.ts in your App.tsx or in the entry point of your application (main.tsx).

  2. Verify CommandProvider Integration: Your CommandProvider is designed to pass down command execution logic via context to the HandTerm component. Ensure that HandTerm properly consumes this context to execute commands. Since HandTerm is a class component, you've correctly used HandTerm.contextType = CommandContext; to make the context available via this.context. Make sure that the CommandContext you're importing in HandTerm.tsx is exactly the same context you're providing in CommandProvider.

  3. Check Command Execution Logic: In the executeCommand method within your CommandProvider, you're attempting to execute a command from the commandRegistry. Ensure that the execute method of your command objects (clearCommand, ListPhrasesCommand, archiveCommand) is correctly implemented and returns the expected result. It's also important to ensure these commands' execute methods are compatible with how you're calling them in CommandProvider.

  4. Debugging Command Registry: To debug why commandsRegistry.commands is never populated, try adding a log statement inside the register method of CommandRegistry to ensure it's being called. Also, confirm that there are no import errors or circular dependencies that might prevent src/commands/index.ts from being executed correctly.

  5. Explicitly Import Command Registration: If the automatic registration isn't working due to module loading order, you can explicitly force the registration by importing src/commands/index.ts in your application's entry point (main.tsx) or anywhere before App.tsx is rendered. This ensures that the command registration code is executed.

// main.tsx or App.tsx
import './commands'; // Adjust the path as necessary to point to src/commands/index.ts
  1. Ensure Proper Use of CommandProvider: You've passed handTermRef to CommandProvider, which is good. Make sure that CommandProvider's logic correctly handles this ref and that the commands are capable of interacting with HandTerm through this ref as intended.

By following these steps and ensuring that each part of the system is correctly integrated and executed in the right order, you should be able to resolve the issue with command execution in HandTerm.


User at 5:19 pm, Jul 9, 2024

I was just that import missing from main.tsx


Codeium at 5:19 pm, Jul 9, 2024

Great to hear that the issue was resolved by adding the missing import in main.tsx! It's often these small things that can trip us up, but they also remind us of the importance of ensuring that all parts of our application are correctly wired up from the start. If you have any more questions or need further assistance with your project, feel free to ask. Happy coding!

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