Host not connected, host shutting down and instance not running are
now UnavailableError (503) instead of ConflictError. The request error
migration notes move to a new 2.1 guide, since this ships in 2.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Error responses now carry the registered name of the thrown error's
class, and the requester rejects with an instance of that class instead
of a generic RequestError. Error classes are registered like message
classes, and plugins list their own in `errors`.
RequestError is replaced by a hierarchy following the HTTP status codes:
ClientError (ValidationError, ForbiddenError, NotFoundError,
TimeoutError, ConflictError) and ServerError (InternalServerError).
PermissionError is PermissionDeniedError and the config errors
InvalidValue, InvalidField and InvalidAccess gain an Error suffix.
Link logs only errors whose class is not registered. These arrive on the
other side as InternalServerError with the original message and stack,
so an error forwarded through the controller is logged once, where it
was thrown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugins that still want a class for state use a private constructor,
an async static fromContext and a static WeakMap lookup, which also
replaces controller.plugins.get() for cross-plugin access. Check
loadedPlugins with Set.has on the info from pluginInfos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the plugin API changes between 2.0.0-alpha.27 and 2.0.0: ESM,
entrypoint functions and hooks, loadedPlugins, permissions on the
plugin declaration, the ctl renames, staticRoot and optional peer
dependencies.
Document that from 2.0 major versions contain breaking changes for end
users while minor versions may contain breaking changes for the plugin
API, and fix stale examples and names in writing-plugins.md and
managing-a-cluster.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ctl ended up calling its main class for "Control" for historical
reasons, along with its config file and plugin entrypoint.
The plugin entrypoint was renamed to ctl in 808eda0513. This
finishes that renaming by also renaming the main class, default config
file, config-control command, and main entrypoint.
The config-control command is renamed to config to be consistent with
the host and controller's config commands.
The term "control" is still kept in the config and message locations as
a common specifier for both ctl and web_ui.
Migrate the usage of CommonJS specific code and imports to ESM. Roughly
summarised this:
- Changes all require() calls to import statement or expressions.
- Changes usage of module.exports to export statements.
- Replaces require.resolve with import.meta.resolve.
- Replaces conditional imports with conditional subpath imports.
- Replaces module === require.main with import.meta.main.
- Adds the full filename with extention to all relative imports.
- Changes all usage of __dirname and __filename to their import.meta
equivalents.
- Sets "type": "module" in package.json files.
- Removes usage of "use strict".
- Adds .ts an an alias of .js for the webpack build.
Due to differences in how require and import resolves files the plugin
entrypoints will have to include the filename and extension after this
migration in order to work.
Use a separate folder for the TypeScript build for Node.js in the dist
folder. This makes each type of build consistently have its own output
folder instead of being interleaved with the Node.js build.
Split out host specific data from RegisterHostData that is not related
to the establishment of a connection to the controller into it's own
HostInfoUpdate event. This allows this data to be updated when the
config values they are taken from are changed.
The agent string was inspired by the HTTP User-Agent header to serve as
a way to identify what's connecting to the cluster. While there may
have been vision of other software connecting to a controller than the
Clusterio provided ones this seems highly unlikely to ever happen.
Remove redundant agent string for now.
Reverse the direction of the API for sending messages from
messageDefinition.send(link, { content });
to
link.send(new MessageClass(content));
and convert all message definitions to use the JSON serialisable class
pattern and explicit registration of message handlers, along with a
end-to-end based routing of messages instead of link to link.
The experience I gained from the existing way messages were defined and
sent over links was that it was difficult to understand for people
unfamiliar with the system. The automatic registration of message
handlers ment that code was being called as if by magic from nowhere
with no easy way to discover it. The manual forwarding and rules for
what can be sent where and how obscured its working.
The use of pure JSON as both input and output from message handlers made
it tedious to work with. Data had to be manually converted between the
program representation and the over the wire format, which made handler
code unplesant to write. Particularly because the over the wire format
used snake_case while the program code uses camelCase for variables.
The idea behind the decision to do it this way was to make it more clear
which data came from the wire and which from the program, and while this
worked it didn't make message handlers any nicer to write.
The direction of the API and magic registration of message handlers also
meant that a future migration to TypeScript would be troublesome. While
it may be possible to implement, the degree of TypeScript magic required
would go starkly against the principle of keep it simple stupid.
By refactoring to using the JSON serialisable class pattern most of
these issues go away. There is no longer a need to distinguish the on
wire format of messages with the program representation because the only
place that deals with the wire format of messages are the toJSON and
fromJSON methods on the classes themselves. Message handlers will work
with proper instances of classes instead of raw data, something that
makes them easier to write, and trivial to type with TypeScript.
End-to-end routing also simplifies sending messages that need to do
mulitple hops to reach the destination. And removes the need for having
all messages be specified in plugin's info module, as they can be routed
without having to be parsed completely.
The explicit registration of message handlers is something that I
thought would be tedious boilerplate code that could be automated away.
But experience now shows it to be the opposite. Allthough dull
repetition, the purpose it serves is to link together the code in a way
that humans can easily find. With explicit registration searching the
name of the message handler in the editor will show the registration that
ties it together with the type of message it handles and the kind of
registration. With implicit registration searching the name of the
message handler turns up only the handler with no clue as to what calls
it.
Change the JSON seriasiable data classes to use an explicit static
fromJSON method and an optional toJSON method for turning them to and
from JSON.
This improves over the previous pattern of passing the JSON to the
constructor as it frees up the constructor to be able to take whichever
argument types suits the code instead of being beholden to the JSON
serialised form.
The role of a slave as a host for Factorio servers is not well reflected
in its name and has caused confusion among users. Rename slave to host
to better reflect its role as a host of Factorio servers.
The role of the master server as the party controlling every part of the
cluster is not well reflected in its name and has caused confusion among
users on several occasions. Rename master to controller to better
reflects its role.
Refine the state flow used in the connector abstractions to better
handle close while connecting and resuming. The new logic is to close
the connection immediately in these two states instead of continuing
trying to connect and then giving up some point later.
For the connectors the handshake state is split into connecting
and resuming, new is replaced by closed, and the closing state is turned
into a boolean flag as it's possible that closing is desired while
connecting, connected or resuming. The connecting state is not present
in the server connector because there's nothing for the server to do in
that connector state.
The timeout logic is completely removed, once a connection attempt is
started for the client it will continue to attempt to connect, attempt
to resume dropped connections and attempt reconnects until either an
authentication error occurs or the client explicitly requests to close
the connection.
A new session timeout is added to control how long to attempt to resume
the connection until it's considered dead and invalidated. This allows
stale connections to give up earlier, and swallow up less data while in
the dropped but not yet invalidated state.
For the client side sending messages while it's connecting has been
changed to throw an error instead of queuing up the message and
(possibly) sending it after the connection is established. Code
shouldn't try to send messages without knowing if the connection it's
trying to send them over is active or not.
