feat(lib): add preview streaming - #1188
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Adds another kind of `preview_fn` that's more versatile and allows for longer-running preview callbacks. See `cargo run --example preview_stream` for usage. This also adds `Skim::new()` and `Skim::new_items()` for a middle ground between the fine-grained API and the basic `run` one closes #1174
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSkim adds initialization constructors and streaming preview callbacks. The TUI reads callback output incrementally and passes the current item and selected items to callbacks. PTY previews use ChangesInitialization and item batching
Streaming previews
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant App
participant Preview
participant CallbackWorker
participant ByteChannel
participant PreviewReader
App->>Preview: start callback with current and selected items
Preview->>CallbackWorker: run callback_reader
CallbackWorker->>ByteChannel: write output bytes
PreviewReader->>ByteChannel: read output chunks
PreviewReader->>Preview: publish parsed preview updates
Preview->>App: send PreviewReady when not cancelled
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Streaming previews still have responsiveness and display risks, and item-specific library previews cannot use the new streaming capability. Resolve or explicitly accept these limitations before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Streaming keeps the interface responsive, but cancelling a preview does not stop callbacks blocked outside output writes. Repeated preview changes can therefore accumulate background work. Small writes also trigger repeated processing of all retained text. The demonstrated exposure is within the embedding application; no new command-execution authority was established. Retained concerns
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Full details: Test CoverageExplanation The streaming preview and terminal changes have targeted tests for incremental output, cancellation, errors, PTY parsing, and UTF-8 handling. The Resolution Add tests for
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- Line 622: Add a streaming variant to ItemPreview and update the ItemPreview
match in the preview reader to consume that variant as live output. Preserve
existing handling of non-streaming ItemPreview values and the options.preview_fn
streaming path.
Review comments at @src/tui/preview.rs:
- Line 88: Update the callback invocation in the worker spawned by
`std::thread::spawn` to provide a cancellation signal that streaming callbacks
can check between operations. Connect it to `Preview::kill` so cancellation is
signaled when the preview is stopped, allowing the callback worker to exit.
- Around line 515-518: Reset PreviewContent when starting a new callback in the
surrounding preview-loading flow, before callback_reader waits for output, so
the pane does not retain the previous item’s content if the callback is delayed
or never writes.
- Around line 522-524: Update the `read_bounded_with_interval` call in the
preview flow to avoid publishing and reparsing the full accumulated output after
every small write. Batch publications with a nonzero interval or process only
newly received bytes incrementally, while preserving the bounded-output
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| cancelled: Arc<AtomicBool>, | ||
| ) -> PreviewReader { | ||
| let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::sync_channel(1); | ||
| std::thread::spawn(move || callback(current, items, Box::new(PreviewWriter(sender)))); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Give callback workers a way to observe cancellation.
If a callback blocks on work other than writer.write, Preview::kill stops its reader but leaves the callback worker running. Repeated preview changes can accumulate workers and their captured items indefinitely. Pass a cancellation signal to streaming callbacks so they can stop between operations.
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Update the callback invocation in the worker spawned by `std::thread::spawn` to
provide a cancellation signal that streaming callbacks can check between
operations. Connect it to `Preview::kill` so cancellation is signaled when the
preview is stopped, allowing the callback worker to exit.
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| self.loading = true; | ||
| let cancelled = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)); | ||
| self.plain_cancelled = Some(cancelled.clone()); | ||
| let reader = callback_reader(callback.streaming.clone(), items, current, cancelled.clone()); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Clear the previous callback preview when starting a new one.
If the new callback waits before its first write, the pane continues to show the previous item's content. If the new callback never writes, the old content remains until that callback exits. Reset PreviewContent when starting the callback, before waiting for its output.
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Review comment at @src/tui/preview.rs around lines 515 - 518:
Reset PreviewContent when starting a new callback in the surrounding
preview-loading flow, before callback_reader waits for output, so the pane does
not retain the previous item’s content if the callback is delayed or never
writes.
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| let output = read_bounded_with_interval(reader, Duration::ZERO, |output| { | ||
| update_plain_content(&content, &cancelled, output); | ||
| }); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Avoid reparsing the complete preview on every write.
Duration::ZERO publishes each retained chunk. read_bounded_with_interval passes the complete accumulated output to update_plain_content, which copies it with to_vec() and parses it with ansi_to_tui::IntoText. Many small writes can therefore incur quadratic parsing work before the 1 MiB limit. Batch publications or parse only new bytes incrementally.
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Review comment at @src/tui/preview.rs around lines 522 - 524:
Update the `read_bounded_with_interval` call in the preview flow to avoid
publishing and reparsing the full accumulated output after every small write.
Batch publications with a nonzero interval or process only newly received bytes
incrementally, while preserving the bounded-output behavior.
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- Around line 544-545: Clamp `scroll_y` to the current text’s maximum scroll
offset before `render_text` passes it to `Paragraph::scroll`, using the text
length and available rows. This ensures streamed text cannot retain an offset
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| let output = read_bounded_with_interval(reader, Duration::ZERO, |output| { | ||
| update_plain_content(&content, &cancelled, output); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Clamp the scroll offset to the current text during rendering.
update_plain_content replaces the preview text without updating total_lines. If scroll_down runs while that count is zero, it increases scroll_y without a bound. Rendering later updates total_lines, but render_text still passes the existing offset to Paragraph::scroll without clamping it. Streamed text can therefore render outside the visible area. Clamp scroll_y against the current text before rendering.
🐛 Suggested fix
- PreviewContent::Text(text) => self.total_lines = self.render_text(block, area, buf, text),
+ PreviewContent::Text(text) => {
+ let max_scroll = text
+ .lines
+ .len()
+ .saturating_sub(usize::from(self.rows.saturating_sub(1)));
+ self.scroll_y = self.scroll_y.min(max_scroll);
+ self.total_lines = self.render_text(block, area, buf, text);
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Review comment at @src/tui/preview.rs around lines 544 - 545:
Clamp `scroll_y` to the current text’s maximum scroll offset before
`render_text` passes it to `Paragraph::scroll`, using the text length and
available rows. This ensures streamed text cannot retain an offset beyond its
visible content.
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- Around line 237-242: Move the callback error check after read_bounded
completes so it observes errors stored before EOF; retain the bytes returned by
read_bounded and use them for the output fallback in the Deref flow.
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Adds another kind of
preview_fnthat's more versatile and allows for longer-running preview callbacks.See
cargo run --example preview_streamfor usage.This also adds
Skim::new()andSkim::new_items()for a middle ground between the fine-grained API and the basicrunonecloses #1174
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