We try to load the configuration with every room change, even when there is no
room. There is a bad (corner) case: when we have no config cached (first boot or
wiped app data). In such case the user is trapped in an infinite loop because we
require the config to show the welcome page, oh well.
Pretend we have a configuration by creating the most minimal one to at least get
to the welcome page.
React Native doesn't define __filename nor __dirname so do it artisanally. In
addition, this helps with centralizing the configuration passed to loggers.
This PR changes the logic for connecting / disconnecting conferences. Instead of
doing it in mount / unmount events from the Conference component, it moves the
logic to the appNavigatee action.
This fixes a regression introduced in 774c5ecd when trying to make sure the
conference terminated event is always sent.
By moving the logic to appNavigate we no longer depend on side-effects for
connecting / disconnecting, and the code should be more maintainable moving
forward.
An improvement to this is the concept of sessions, which, while not tackled
here, was taken into consideration.
Yours truly refactored routing in https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/3222
and broke it. When a bare room is entered the pathname was not updated when
applying the default URL.
BaseApp does all the heavy-lifting related to creating the redux store,
navigation, and so on.
App currently handles URL props and actually triggering navigation based on
them.
Move it away from AbstractApp into an auxiliary function. In addition, introduce
a new `getServerURL` function which gets the configured server URL and defaults
to meet.jit.si as before.
Unfortunately, as the Jitsi Meet development evolved the routing mechanism
became more complex and thre logic ended up spread across multiple parts of the
codebase, which made it hard to follow and extend.
This change aims to fix that by rewriting the routing logic and centralizing it
in (pretty much) a single place, with no implicit inter-dependencies.
In order to arrive there, however, some extra changes were needed, which were
not caught early enough and are thus part of this change:
- JitsiMeetJS initialization is now synchronous: there is nothing async about
it, and the only async requirement (Temasys support) was lifted. See [0].
- WebRTC support can be detected early: building on top of the above, WebRTC
support can now be detected immediately, so take advantage of this to simplify
how we handle unsupported browsers. See [0].
The new router takes decissions based on the Redux state at the time of
invocation. A route can be represented by either a component or a URl reference,
with the latter taking precedence. On mobile, obviously, there is no concept of
URL reference so routing is based solely on components.
[0]: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/pull/779
* fix(connection): reload immediately on possible split-brain
There isn't an explicit way to know when a split brain
scenario has happened. It is assumed it arises when an
"item-not-found" connection error is encountered early
on in the conference. So, store when a connection has
happened so it be calculated how much time has
elapsed and if the threshold has not been exceeded
then do an immediate reload of the app instead of
showing the overlay with a reload timer.
* squash: rename isItemNotFoundError -> isShardChangedError
This fix is based on storing the location URL object we are loading the
configuration for in the redux store. Once the config has been loaded (or it has
failed, for that matter!) we'll check if the current "config URL" is the same we
set, and discard the old one if they don't match.
Knowledge is power, man!
The config.js cache predates the feature base/known-domains.
Technically, it's also able to recall more domains that the feature
recent-list can (because the latter limits its entries).
They will be stored in redux and the PageReloadOverlay will be displayed.
Note that this commit also introduces a subtle (and yet important!) change:
the location URL is now always set, regardless of the configuration loading or
not. This is needed in order for the retry logic to pick it up.
ESLint 4.8.0 discovers a lot of error related to formatting. While I
tried to fix as many of them as possible, a portion of them actually go
against our coding style. In such a case, I've disabled the indent rule
which effectively leaves it as it was before ESLint 4.8.0.
Additionally, remove jshint because it's becoming a nuisance with its
lack of understanding of ES2015+.
* Javadoc introduced @code as a replacement of <code> and <tt> which is
better aligned with other javadoc tags such as @link. Use it in the
Java source code. If we switch to Kotlin, then we'll definitely use
Markdown.
* There are more uses of @code in the JavaScript source code than <tt>
so use @code for the sake of consistency. Eventually, I'd rather we
switch to Markdown because it's easier on my eyes.
* Xcode is plain confused by @code and @link. The Internet says that
Xcode supports the backquote character to denote the beginning and end
of a string of characters which should be formatted for display as
code but it doesn't work for me. <tt> is not rendered at all. So use
the backquote which is rendered itself. Hopefully, if we switch to
Markdown, then it'll be common between JavaScript and Objective-C
source code.
The error is stored in the redux store in base/config so other components can
consult it. It is also broadcasted as a new event in the external API for the
SDK.
This only helps iff there is a short transient network error which prevents the
configuration from being loaded. In such case, use the cached version in
localStorage, which may not match the shard, but it's (probably!) better than
nothing.
In case there is no Internet connectivity, an error will be produced as soon as
the XMPP connection is attempted anyway.
This patch loads the config later than we used to, that is, only once we
know the room the user is about to join.
Due to architectural limitations in lib-jitsi-meet, it needs to be
initialized with a configuration in order to properly function. This is
unfortunate because we need to create a video track in the welcome page,
but don't know the room (hence no config) yet. In order to circumvent
this problem an empty configuration is used, which is later swapped with
the appropriate one, once loaded.
Some interesting side-effects of this change are a perceived speed
increase when the app starts or a conference is hangup. They are both
due to the fact that no config needs to be fetched from a remote server
in those cases.
In order to load the configuration from the shard that will actually
host the conference, it's imperative that we add the room= query
parameter:
https://meet.jit.si/config.js?room=example
This implies a departure from our current model, where the config is
discarded if the domain for the next conference is different, but kept
otherwise.
We have already made the implicit decision not to pursue what the
comment describes. If we ever revisit it, it probably won't be handled
where the comment is anyway.
Web's ExternalAPI accepts an object with properties as one of its
constructor arguments and from which it generated a URL. Mobile's
JitsiMeetView.loadURLObject is supposed to accept pretty much the same
object.
robertpin
damencho
Hristo Terezov
Tudor-Ovidiu Avram
Vlad Piersec
Mihai Uscat
Matthias Wuttke
Bettenbuk Zoltan
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Lyubo Marinov
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