fix(store): update_plugin silently did nothing for four installed plugins (#536)

install_plugin() deliberately renames a plugin's directory to the MANIFEST id
when it differs from the REGISTRY id, so registry `stocks` lands in
`ledmatrix-stocks/`. Every lookup in _find_plugin_path() is by directory name,
so update_plugin("stocks") found nothing, logged "Plugin not installed", and
returned False.

Nothing surfaced that to the user. Clicking update in the web UI was a no-op
with no error, and the plugin stayed on a stale version indefinitely. Four
installed plugins hit this on a real device -- leaderboard, music, stocks and
weather -- found because a scripted update of eleven plugins failed on exactly
those four.

Adds a manifest-id scan as the LAST step of the resolution chain, so the two
documented lookups above it (configured dir, then the sibling plugins/
fallback) keep their exact meaning and ordering. That ordering is pinned by
test_discovery_path_contract.py, which characterises the divergence between
the three resolvers on purpose; this extends the chain rather than reordering
it. Directories renamed aside with '.standalone-backup-' during an install or
rollback are skipped, since matching one would report a half-finished install
as a live plugin.

Also adds scripts/audit_render_path.py, which walks the call graph from
display() and reports blocking calls reachable from it. display() runs on the
render thread, so anything slow there stalls the panel; on a vsync-paced loop
a single 15ms call drops a frame and a network round trip freezes the marquee.
Two instances were already found the slow way, by reading frame-time
histograms -- odds-ticker reading the scoreboard cache per frame, and
soccer-scoreboard timing out inside update(). The audit finds that shape in
the source instead. It is a heuristic and says so: a hit behind an interval
check may be fine.

It currently flags 23 calls across six plugins. The clearest is
ledmatrix-music, whose display() falls back to an inline
requests.get(timeout=5) when album art has not been prefetched -- a deliberate
"show the art rather than go blank" tradeoff by its author, but up to five
seconds of frozen panel. Reported, not changed; that is its owner's call.

185 store tests pass. Three of the six new tests fail without the fix.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Find blocking work reachable from a plugin's render path.
`display()` runs on the render thread. Anything slow reached from it stalls the
panel for its whole duration, and on a vsync-paced loop that is immediately
visible: a single 15ms call on a 100Hz panel drops a frame, and a network round
trip freezes the marquee outright.
This has bitten twice already. odds-ticker called `_has_live_games()` every
frame, whose slow path read the scoreboard cache from disk and parsed JSON per
enabled league -- one stalled frame every few minutes. soccer-scoreboard timed
out inside `update()` during a cache refresh. Both were found by staring at
frame-time histograms, which is a slow way to find a bug that is visible in the
source.
The audit walks the call graph from `display()` through same-class `self.*`
methods and reports anything that reaches a known-blocking API. It is a
heuristic, not a proof: it cannot see through indirection, and a hit is not
automatically a bug -- a call guarded by an interval check may be fine. It is a
list of places worth a human look.
python3 scripts/audit_render_path.py # all plugins
python3 scripts/audit_render_path.py --dir plugin-repos # a specific tree
python3 scripts/audit_render_path.py --plugin odds-ticker
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import ast
import sys
from pathlib import Path
#: Calls that can block for longer than a frame. Matched on the attribute or
#: function name, so `requests.get`, `self.session.get` and a bare `get` on a
#: requests-ish object all register.
BLOCKING = {
"get": "network or cache read",
"post": "network",
"put": "network",
"request": "network",
"urlopen": "network",
"read": "I/O",
"open": "file I/O",
"load": "JSON/file parse",
"loads": "JSON parse",
"dump": "file write",
"dumps": "serialise",
"sleep": "sleep on the render thread",
"run": "subprocess",
"check_output": "subprocess",
"connect": "network",
"download_logo": "network",
"_fetch": "fetch",
}
#: Names that make a hit far more likely to matter.
HIGH_SIGNAL = ("requests", "urllib", "session", "cache_manager", "subprocess",
"socket", "http")
RENDER_ENTRY = "display"
class Analyzer:
def __init__(self, tree: ast.AST):
self.methods: dict[str, ast.FunctionDef] = {}
for node in ast.walk(tree):
if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)):
self.methods.setdefault(node.name, node)
def calls_in(self, fn: ast.AST):
"""(self-method names called, blocking hits) inside one function."""
self_calls, hits = set(), []
for node in ast.walk(fn):
if not isinstance(node, ast.Call):
continue
func = node.func
if isinstance(func, ast.Attribute):
name = func.attr
base = ast.unparse(func.value) if hasattr(ast, "unparse") else ""
if base == "self" and name in self.methods:
self_calls.add(name)
continue
if name in BLOCKING:
hits.append((name, base, BLOCKING[name], node.lineno))
elif isinstance(func, ast.Name) and func.id in BLOCKING:
hits.append((func.id, "", BLOCKING[func.id], node.lineno))
return self_calls, hits
def reachable_from(self, entry: str, max_depth: int = 3):
"""Blocking hits reachable from `entry`, with the path that reaches them."""
if entry not in self.methods:
return []
found, seen = [], set()
stack = [(entry, [entry], 0)]
while stack:
name, path, depth = stack.pop()
if name in seen or depth > max_depth:
continue
seen.add(name)
self_calls, hits = self.calls_in(self.methods[name])
for hit in hits:
found.append((path, hit))
for callee in sorted(self_calls):
stack.append((callee, path + [callee], depth + 1))
return found
def audit_file(path: Path):
try:
tree = ast.parse(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except (OSError, SyntaxError):
return []
analyzer = Analyzer(tree)
return analyzer.reachable_from(RENDER_ENTRY)
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
root = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
ap.add_argument("--dir", default=str(root / "plugin-repos"))
ap.add_argument("--plugin", help="only this plugin directory")
ap.add_argument("--all-hits", action="store_true",
help="include low-signal hits (open/read/load on locals)")
args = ap.parse_args()
base = Path(args.dir)
if not base.is_dir():
sys.exit("not a directory: %s" % base)
plugins = [base / args.plugin] if args.plugin else sorted(
d for d in base.iterdir() if d.is_dir())
total = 0
for plugin in plugins:
rows = []
for src in sorted(plugin.glob("*.py")):
if src.name.startswith("test_"):
continue
for path, (name, s_base, why, lineno) in audit_file(src):
signal = any(h in s_base.lower() for h in HIGH_SIGNAL)
if not signal and not args.all_hits:
continue
rows.append((src.name, lineno, "->".join(path),
("%s.%s" % (s_base, name)) if s_base else name, why))
if rows:
total += len(rows)
print("\n%s" % plugin.name)
for fname, lineno, chain, call, why in sorted(rows):
print(" %s:%-5d %-34s via %s" % (fname, lineno, call + " (" + why + ")", chain))
print("\n%d blocking call(s) reachable from display() across %d plugin(s)"
% (total, len(plugins)))
print("Heuristic: a hit guarded by an interval check may be fine. Look, do "
"not assume.")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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with open(manifest_path, 'r') as f:
manifest = json.load(f)
requested_id = plugin_id
plugin_id = plugin_id or manifest.get('id')
if not plugin_id:
return {
@@ -1664,6 +1665,15 @@ class PluginStoreManager:
branch_info = f" (branch: {branch_used})" if branch_used else ""
self.logger.info(f"Successfully installed plugin from URL: {plugin_id}{branch_info}")
# User deliberately (re)installed this plugin -- clear any persistent
# uninstall record, exactly as install_plugin() does. Without this the
# id stays in config/uninstalled_plugins.json and
# purge_uninstalled_plugins(), which runs at every web-app startup,
# deletes the directory again: the plugin works for the rest of the
# session and is gone after the next reboot.
self.forget_uninstalled_plugin(
*(pid for pid in (requested_id, plugin_id, manifest.get('id')) if pid)
)
result = {
'success': True,
'plugin_id': plugin_id,
@@ -2423,7 +2433,66 @@ class PluginStoreManager:
return plugin_path
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
# Last resort: the directory name may differ from the id being looked
# up. install_plugin() deliberately renames a plugin's directory to the
# MANIFEST id when it differs from the REGISTRY id (see the rename near
# "doesn't match registry ID" above), so `stocks` in the registry lands
# in `ledmatrix-stocks/`. Every lookup above is by directory name, so
# update_plugin("stocks") found nothing and reported the plugin as not
# installed -- silently, and for good: the user sees no error and stays
# on a stale version. Four installed plugins hit this in practice
# (leaderboard, music, stocks, weather).
#
# Deliberately last so the two lookups above keep their exact meaning;
# this only runs when a direct hit already failed. See
# test_discovery_path_contract.py, which pins that ordering.
for search_dir in self._candidate_plugin_dirs():
match = self._find_by_manifest_id(search_dir, plugin_id)
if match is not None:
self.logger.debug(
"Resolved plugin '%s' to %s via its manifest id "
"(directory name differs from the id)", plugin_id, match)
return match
return None
def _candidate_plugin_dirs(self) -> List[Path]:
"""Directories that may hold installed plugins, configured one first."""
dirs = [self.plugins_dir]
try:
base = self.plugins_dir if self.plugins_dir.is_absolute() else self.plugins_dir.resolve()
sibling = base.parent / 'plugins'
if sibling != self.plugins_dir:
dirs.append(sibling)
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
return [d for d in dirs if d.exists()]
@staticmethod
def _find_by_manifest_id(search_dir: Path, plugin_id: str) -> Optional[Path]:
"""A subdirectory of `search_dir` whose manifest declares `plugin_id`.
Skips half-finished installs: store_manager renames a directory aside
with '.standalone-backup-' during install and rollback, and treating
one as installed would resurrect a ghost plugin.
"""
try:
entries = sorted(search_dir.iterdir())
except (OSError, ValueError):
return None
for entry in entries:
if not entry.is_dir() or '.standalone-backup-' in entry.name:
continue
manifest = entry / 'manifest.json'
if not manifest.is_file():
continue
try:
with open(manifest, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as handle:
if json.load(handle).get('id') == plugin_id:
return entry
except (OSError, ValueError):
continue
return None
_SKIN_ID_PATTERN = re.compile(r'^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,63}$')
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plugin_dir / "config_schema.json"
class TestRegistryIdVersusDirectoryName:
"""install_plugin() renames a plugin's directory to the MANIFEST id when it
differs from the REGISTRY id, so `stocks` in the registry lands in
`ledmatrix-stocks/`. Every path lookup is by directory name, so
update_plugin("stocks") used to find nothing and report the plugin as not
installed -- silently. Four installed plugins hit this in practice
(leaderboard, music, stocks, weather): the user clicks update, nothing
happens, no error, and they stay on a stale version indefinitely.
"""
def test_resolves_a_plugin_whose_directory_name_differs_from_its_id(self, tmp_path):
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
plugin_dir = _write_plugin(configured, "stocks", dir_name="ledmatrix-stocks")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("stocks") == plugin_dir
def test_direct_directory_hit_still_wins(self, tmp_path):
"""The manifest scan is a last resort. A directory named for the id
must still be preferred, so the two documented lookups above keep
their exact meaning."""
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
direct = _write_plugin(configured, "demo", dir_name="demo")
# A second directory whose manifest claims the same id.
_write_plugin(configured, "demo", dir_name="zz-other-demo")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("demo") == direct
def test_unknown_id_is_still_not_found(self, tmp_path):
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
_write_plugin(configured, "stocks", dir_name="ledmatrix-stocks")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("no-such-plugin") is None
def test_half_finished_installs_are_not_resurrected(self, tmp_path):
"""A directory renamed aside during install/rollback carries a valid
manifest. Matching one would report a ghost plugin as installed."""
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
_write_plugin(configured, "ghost",
dir_name="ghost.standalone-backup-1234")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("ghost") is None
def test_unreadable_manifest_does_not_break_the_scan(self, tmp_path):
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
broken = configured / "broken-plugin"
broken.mkdir()
(broken / "manifest.json").write_text("{ not json")
wanted = _write_plugin(configured, "stocks", dir_name="ledmatrix-stocks")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("stocks") == wanted
def test_sibling_plugins_dir_is_searched_too(self, tmp_path):
configured = tmp_path / "plugin-repos"
configured.mkdir()
legacy = _write_plugin(tmp_path / "plugins", "weather",
dir_name="ledmatrix-weather")
store = PluginStoreManager(plugins_dir=str(configured))
assert store._find_plugin_path("weather") == legacy
class TestStandaloneBackupContract:
def test_discovery_skips_backup_dirs(self, tmp_path):
plugins_dir = tmp_path / "plugins"