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// Package sherpadoc contains types for reading and writing documentation for sherpa API's.
package sherpadoc
const (
// SherpadocVersion is the sherpadoc version generated by this command.
SherpadocVersion = 1
)
// Section represents documentation about a Sherpa API section, as returned by the "_docs" function.
type Section struct {
Name string // Name of an API section.
Docs string // Explanation of the API in text or markdown.
Functions [ ] * Function // Functions in this section.
Sections [ ] * Section // Subsections, each with their own documentation.
Structs [ ] Struct // Structs as named types.
Ints [ ] Ints // Int enums as named types.
Strings [ ] Strings // String enums used as named types.
Version string ` json:",omitempty" ` // Version if this API, only relevant for the top-level section of an API. Typically filled in by server at startup.
SherpaVersion int // Version of sherpa this API implements. Currently at 0. Typically filled in by server at startup.
SherpadocVersion int ` json:",omitempty" ` // Version of the sherpadoc format. Currently at 1, the first defined version. Only relevant for the top-level section of an API.
}
// Function contains the documentation for a single function.
type Function struct {
Name string // Name of the function.
Docs string // Text or markdown, describing the function, its parameters, return types and possible errors.
Params [ ] Arg
Returns [ ] Arg
}
// Arg is the name and type of a function parameter or return value.
//
// Production rules:
//
// basictype := "bool" | "int8", "uint8" | "int16" | "uint16" | "int32" | "uint32" | "int64" | "uint64" | "int64s" | "uint64s" | "float32" | "float64" | "string" | "timestamp"
// array := "[]"
// map := "{}"
// identifier := [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
// type := "nullable"? ("any" | basictype | identifier | array type | map type)
//
// It is not possible to have inline structs in an Arg. Those must be encoded as a
// named type.
type Arg struct {
Name string // Name of the argument.
Typewords [ ] string // Typewords is an array of tokens describing the type.
}
// Struct is a named compound type.
type Struct struct {
Name string
Docs string
Fields [ ] Field
}
// Field is a single field of a struct type.
// The type can reference another named type.
type Field struct {
Name string
Docs string
Typewords [ ] string
}
// Ints is a type representing an enum with integers as types.
type Ints struct {
Name string
Docs string
Values [ ] struct {
Name string
add webmail
it was far down on the roadmap, but implemented earlier, because it's
interesting, and to help prepare for a jmap implementation. for jmap we need to
implement more client-like functionality than with just imap. internal data
structures need to change. jmap has lots of other requirements, so it's already
a big project. by implementing a webmail now, some of the required data
structure changes become clear and can be made now, so the later jmap
implementation can do things similarly to the webmail code. the webmail
frontend and webmail are written together, making their interface/api much
smaller and simpler than jmap.
one of the internal changes is that we now keep track of per-mailbox
total/unread/unseen/deleted message counts and mailbox sizes. keeping this
data consistent after any change to the stored messages (through the code base)
is tricky, so mox now has a consistency check that verifies the counts are
correct, which runs only during tests, each time an internal account reference
is closed. we have a few more internal "changes" that are propagated for the
webmail frontend (that imap doesn't have a way to propagate on a connection),
like changes to the special-use flags on mailboxes, and used keywords in a
mailbox. more changes that will be required have revealed themselves while
implementing the webmail, and will be implemented next.
the webmail user interface is modeled after the mail clients i use or have
used: thunderbird, macos mail, mutt; and webmails i normally only use for
testing: gmail, proton, yahoo, outlook. a somewhat technical user is assumed,
but still the goal is to make this webmail client easy to use for everyone. the
user interface looks like most other mail clients: a list of mailboxes, a
search bar, a message list view, and message details. there is a top/bottom and
a left/right layout for the list/message view, default is automatic based on
screen size. the panes can be resized by the user. buttons for actions are just
text, not icons. clicking a button briefly shows the shortcut for the action in
the bottom right, helping with learning to operate quickly. any text that is
underdotted has a title attribute that causes more information to be displayed,
e.g. what a button does or a field is about. to highlight potential phishing
attempts, any text (anywhere in the webclient) that switches unicode "blocks"
(a rough approximation to (language) scripts) within a word is underlined
orange. multiple messages can be selected with familiar ui interaction:
clicking while holding control and/or shift keys. keyboard navigation works
with arrows/page up/down and home/end keys, and also with a few basic vi-like
keys for list/message navigation. we prefer showing the text instead of
html (with inlined images only) version of a message. html messages are shown
in an iframe served from an endpoint with CSP headers to prevent dangerous
resources (scripts, external images) from being loaded. the html is also
sanitized, with javascript removed. a user can choose to load external
resources (e.g. images for tracking purposes).
the frontend is just (strict) typescript, no external frameworks. all
incoming/outgoing data is typechecked, both the api request parameters and
response types, and the data coming in over SSE. the types and checking code
are generated with sherpats, which uses the api definitions generated by
sherpadoc based on the Go code. so types from the backend are automatically
propagated to the frontend. since there is no framework to automatically
propagate properties and rerender components, changes coming in over the SSE
connection are propagated explicitly with regular function calls. the ui is
separated into "views", each with a "root" dom element that is added to the
visible document. these views have additional functions for getting changes
propagated, often resulting in the view updating its (internal) ui state (dom).
we keep the frontend compilation simple, it's just a few typescript files that
get compiled (combined and types stripped) into a single js file, no additional
runtime code needed or complicated build processes used. the webmail is served
is served from a compressed, cachable html file that includes style and the
javascript, currently just over 225kb uncompressed, under 60kb compressed (not
minified, including comments). we include the generated js files in the
repository, to keep Go's easily buildable self-contained binaries.
authentication is basic http, as with the account and admin pages. most data
comes in over one long-term SSE connection to the backend. api requests signal
which mailbox/search/messages are requested over the SSE connection. fetching
individual messages, and making changes, are done through api calls. the
operations are similar to imap, so some code has been moved from package
imapserver to package store. the future jmap implementation will benefit from
these changes too. more functionality will probably be moved to the store
package in the future.
the quickstart enables webmail on the internal listener by default (for new
installs). users can enable it on the public listener if they want to. mox
localserve enables it too. to enable webmail on existing installs, add settings
like the following to the listeners in mox.conf, similar to AccountHTTP(S):
WebmailHTTP:
Enabled: true
WebmailHTTPS:
Enabled: true
special thanks to liesbeth, gerben, andrii for early user feedback.
there is plenty still to do, see the list at the top of webmail/webmail.ts.
feedback welcome as always.
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Value int64
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Docs string
}
}
// Strings is a type representing an enum with strings as values.
type Strings struct {
Name string
Docs string
Values [ ] struct {
Name string
Value string
Docs string
}
}