feat(gui): host + viewer tabs driving the headless child

The GUI now does real work. Host tab: a config form (quality combo,
max-viewers, software-encode + single-window toggles) spawns
`pixelpass --host --output json …` via re-exec, then a background thread
parses the child's JSON events and the window shows live status — ticket
with a copy button, viewer count, streaming/waiting state, host_info
summary, and host-full refusals. Viewer tab: paste a code, pick mpv/VLC,
Connect spawns `pixelpass <ticket> --output json`, and on the connected
event the GUI launches the player (reusing interactive::Player).

ChildProc (gui/child.rs) owns the child: reads stdout events over a
channel, rings the last 60 stderr lines for failure display, and stops via
SIGINT (graceful host teardown) with a 2s grace before SIGKILL — Drop
ensures closing the window never orphans a live host. Five round-trip tests
lock the common::output::Event ↔ ChildEvent wire contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
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//! Drives a headless `pixelpass` child process for the GUI.
//!
//! The GUI re-execs this same binary (via [`std::env::current_exe`]) in
//! headless mode with `--output json`, then reads the child's JSON event
//! stream on a background thread and forwards parsed events over a channel the
//! egui app drains each frame. stderr is captured into a small ring so a
//! failed launch (e.g. a missing gst plugin) can be surfaced in the window.
use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader};
use std::process::{Child, Command, Stdio};
use std::sync::mpsc::Receiver;
use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
use std::time::Duration;
use eframe::egui;
use nix::sys::signal::{Signal, kill};
use nix::unistd::Pid;
use serde::Deserialize;
/// One parsed event from the child's stdout. Owned mirror of
/// [`crate::common::output::Event`] (which borrows for emit); kept separate so
/// the wire format and the parser can evolve independently.
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
#[serde(tag = "event", rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum ChildEvent {
Ticket {
value: String,
},
HostInfo {
display_server: String,
capture: String,
quality: String,
dimensions: String,
hw_encode: bool,
max_viewers: u32,
max_viewers_source: String,
},
ViewerCount {
active: u32,
max: u32,
},
Capture {
state: CaptureState,
},
ViewerRefused {
reason: String,
},
Connected {
url: String,
},
}
#[derive(Deserialize, Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum CaptureState {
Started,
Stopped,
}
const STDERR_TAIL_MAX: usize = 60;
pub struct ChildProc {
child: Child,
pub rx: Receiver<ChildEvent>,
stderr_tail: Arc<Mutex<Vec<String>>>,
}
impl ChildProc {
/// Spawn `pixelpass <args>` as a child, wiring up the event reader. `ctx`
/// is repainted whenever an event arrives so the UI updates live.
pub fn spawn(args: &[String], ctx: egui::Context) -> std::io::Result<Self> {
let exe = std::env::current_exe()?;
let mut child = Command::new(exe)
.args(args)
.stdin(Stdio::null())
.stdout(Stdio::piped())
.stderr(Stdio::piped())
.spawn()?;
let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
let stdout = child.stdout.take().expect("stdout piped");
std::thread::spawn(move || {
let reader = BufReader::new(stdout);
for line in reader.lines().map_while(Result::ok) {
if line.trim().is_empty() {
continue;
}
// Ignore any non-event line rather than dropping the stream.
if let Ok(ev) = serde_json::from_str::<ChildEvent>(&line) {
if tx.send(ev).is_err() {
break; // app gone
}
ctx.request_repaint();
}
}
});
let stderr_tail = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
let stderr = child.stderr.take().expect("stderr piped");
let tail = stderr_tail.clone();
std::thread::spawn(move || {
let reader = BufReader::new(stderr);
for line in reader.lines().map_while(Result::ok) {
let mut t = tail.lock().unwrap();
t.push(line);
let overflow = t.len().saturating_sub(STDERR_TAIL_MAX);
if overflow > 0 {
t.drain(0..overflow);
}
}
});
Ok(Self {
child,
rx,
stderr_tail,
})
}
/// Whether the child is still running.
pub fn is_alive(&mut self) -> bool {
matches!(self.child.try_wait(), Ok(None))
}
/// The last captured stderr lines, joined — for error display.
pub fn stderr_tail(&self) -> String {
self.stderr_tail.lock().unwrap().join("\n")
}
/// Gracefully stop the child: SIGINT (so the host runs its ctrl-c teardown
/// — tears down capture, closes the endpoint), with a ~2 s grace period
/// before a hard kill. Idempotent.
pub fn stop(&mut self) {
if matches!(self.child.try_wait(), Ok(Some(_))) {
return; // already exited
}
let _ = kill(Pid::from_raw(self.child.id() as i32), Signal::SIGINT);
for _ in 0..40 {
if matches!(self.child.try_wait(), Ok(Some(_))) {
return;
}
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
}
let _ = self.child.kill();
let _ = self.child.wait();
}
}
impl Drop for ChildProc {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// Closing the window (dropping the app, hence the session) must not
// orphan a live host child streaming to viewers.
self.stop();
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use crate::common::output::{CaptureState as EmitState, Event};
// The GUI parses what the headless child emits. These round-trip the
// emitter's own types (`common::output::Event`) through the parser
// (`ChildEvent`) so a rename on either side of the wire fails here rather
// than silently breaking the GUI at runtime.
fn parse(emit: Event) -> ChildEvent {
let line = serde_json::to_string(&emit).unwrap();
serde_json::from_str::<ChildEvent>(&line).unwrap()
}
#[test]
fn ticket_round_trips() {
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::Ticket { value: "endpointXYZ" }),
ChildEvent::Ticket { value } if value == "endpointXYZ"
));
}
#[test]
fn host_info_round_trips() {
let ev = parse(Event::HostInfo {
display_server: "Wayland",
capture: "fullscreen + system-audio",
quality: "Medium",
dimensions: "≤720p / 2500 kbps / 30 fps",
hw_encode: true,
max_viewers: 3,
max_viewers_source: "user-specified",
});
match ev {
ChildEvent::HostInfo {
display_server,
quality,
hw_encode,
max_viewers,
..
} => {
assert_eq!(display_server, "Wayland");
assert_eq!(quality, "Medium");
assert!(hw_encode);
assert_eq!(max_viewers, 3);
}
other => panic!("expected HostInfo, got {other:?}"),
}
}
#[test]
fn viewer_count_round_trips() {
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::ViewerCount { active: 2, max: 4 }),
ChildEvent::ViewerCount { active: 2, max: 4 }
));
}
#[test]
fn capture_state_round_trips() {
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::Capture { state: EmitState::Started }),
ChildEvent::Capture { state: CaptureState::Started }
));
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::Capture { state: EmitState::Stopped }),
ChildEvent::Capture { state: CaptureState::Stopped }
));
}
#[test]
fn refused_and_connected_round_trip() {
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::ViewerRefused { reason: "host is full" }),
ChildEvent::ViewerRefused { reason } if reason == "host is full"
));
assert!(matches!(
parse(Event::Connected { url: "http://127.0.0.1:5000" }),
ChildEvent::Connected { url } if url == "http://127.0.0.1:5000"
));
}
}