docs(toolkit): add a plugin example

Cargo.lock

@@ -1148,10 +1148,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "dirs 4.0.0",
+ "fork",
  "futures",
  "pop-launcher",
  "pop-launcher-plugins",
  "pop-launcher-service",
+ "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]

toolkit/Cargo.toml

@@ -14,4 +14,12 @@ async-trait = "0.1.53"
 tracing = "0.1.32"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.9", default-features = false, features = ["std", "fmt", "env-filter"] }
 dirs = "4.0.0"
-futures = "0.3.21"
+futures = "0.3.21"
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tokio = { version = "1", features = [ "rt" ] }
+fork = "0.1.19"
+
+[[example]]
+name = "man-pages-plugin"
+path = "examples/man-pages-plugin.rs"

toolkit/examples/man-pages-plugin.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+// Copyright © 2021 System76
+
+use fork::{daemon, Fork};
+use pop_launcher::{Indice, PluginResponse, PluginSearchResult};
+use pop_launcher_toolkit::plugin_trait::{async_trait, PluginExt};
+use std::io;
+use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::process::{exit, Command};
+
+// This example demonstrate how to write a pop-launcher plugin using the `PluginExt` helper trait.
+// We are going to build a plugin to display man pages descriptions and open them on activation.
+// To do that we will use `whatis`, a command that searches the manual page names and displays their descriptions.
+
+// For instance running `whatis git` would output the following :
+// ```
+// git (1)              - the stupid content tracker
+// Git (3pm)            - Perl interface to the Git version control system
+// ```
+
+// Run `whatis` and split the output line to get a man page name and its description
+fn run_whatis(arg: &str) -> io::Result<Vec<(String, String)>> {
+    let output = Command::new("whatis").arg(arg).output()?.stdout;
+
+    Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output)
+        .lines()
+        .filter_map(|entry| entry.split_once('-'))
+        .map(|(man_page, description)| {
+            (man_page.trim().to_string(), description.trim().to_string())
+        })
+        .collect())
+}
+
+// Open a new terminal and run `man` with the provided man page name
+fn open_man_page(arg: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
+    //
+    let (terminal, targ) = detect_terminal();
+
+    if let Ok(Fork::Child) = daemon(true, false) {
+        Command::new(terminal).args(&[targ, "man", arg]).exec();
+    }
+
+    exit(0);
+}
+
+// A helper function to detect the user default terminal.
+// If the terminal is not found, fallback to `gnome-termninal
+fn detect_terminal() -> (PathBuf, &'static str) {
+    use std::fs::read_link;
+
+    const SYMLINK: &str = "/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator";
+
+    if let Ok(found) = read_link(SYMLINK) {
+        return (read_link(&found).unwrap_or(found), "-e");
+    }
+
+    (PathBuf::from("/usr/bin/gnome-terminal"), "--")
+}
+
+// Our plugin struct, holding the search results.
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct WhatIsPlugin {
+    entries: Vec<(String, String)>,
+}
+
+// This is the main part of our plugin, defining how it will react to pop-launcher requests.
+#[async_trait]
+impl PluginExt for WhatIsPlugin {
+    // Define the name of our plugin, this is mainly used to write log
+    // emitted by tracing macros to `$HOME/.local/state/pop-launcher/wathis.log.
+    fn name(&self) -> &str {
+        "whatis"
+    }
+
+    // Define how the plugin will react to pop-launcher search requests.
+    // Note that we need to send `PluginResponse::Finished` once we are done,
+    // otherwise pop-launcher will not display our search results and wait forever.
+    async fn search(&mut self, query: &str) {
+        // pop-launcher will only dispatch query matching the regex defined in our `plugin.ron`
+        // file, can safely strip it out.
+        let query = query.strip_prefix("whatis ");
+
+        if let Some(query) = query {
+            // Whenever we get a new query, pass the query to the `whatis` helper function
+            // and update our plugin entries with the result.
+            match run_whatis(query) {
+                Ok(entries) => self.entries = entries,
+                // If we need to produce log, we use the tracing macros.
+                Err(err) => tracing::error!("Error while running 'whatis' command: {err}"),
+            }
+
+            // Now we send our entries back to the launcher. We also need a way to find our entry on activation
+            // requests, here we use the entry index as an idendifier.
+            for (idx, (cmd, description)) in self.entries.iter().enumerate() {
+                self.respond_with(PluginResponse::Append(PluginSearchResult {
+                    id: idx as u32,
+                    name: format!("{cmd} - {description}"),
+                    keywords: None,
+                    description: description.clone(),
+                    icon: None,
+                    exec: None,
+                    window: None,
+                }))
+                .await;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Tell pop-launcher we are done with this search request.
+        self.respond_with(PluginResponse::Finished).await;
+    }
+
+    // pop-launcher is asking for an entry activation.
+    async fn activate(&mut self, id: Indice) {
+        // First we try to find the requested entry in the plugin struct
+        if let Some((command, _description)) = self.entries.get(id as usize) {
+            // Open a new terminal with the requested man page and exit the plugin.
+            if let Err(err) = open_man_page(command) {
+                tracing::error!("Failed to open man page for '{command}': {err}")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// Now we just need to call the `run` function to start our plugin.
+// You can test it by writing request to its stdin.
+// For instance issuing a search request : `{ "Search": "whatis git" }`,
+// or activate one of the search results : `{ "Activate": 0 }`
+#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
+async fn main() {
+    WhatIsPlugin::default().run().await
+}

toolkit/examples/plugin.ron

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+(
+    name: "Find man pages",
+    description: "Syntax: { whatis }\nExample: whatis git",
+    query: (
+        regex: "^(whatis ).+",
+        help: "whatis",
+        isolate: true,
+        no_sort: true,
+    ),
+    bin: (path: "man-pages-plugin"),
+    icon: Name("org.gnome.Documents-symbolic"),
+)