EnableInUserMenu = true, plugin unresponsive for non admins

[ginjaninja 624]

I wish to make my plugin available to end users on the Webclient, so i have registered a page controller / page just for users with EnableInUserMenu = true, It works fine other than i have to press f5 after every action for non admins.

Claude tells me its becuase the Emby page wiring is hard coded to "sendmessagetoadminsessions" and not "sendmessagetousersessions"...but regardless does this make any sense and is there a way to make pages responsive to users.
https://github.com/ginjaninja1/ManageComingSoon/tree/main/UI
testing on 4.10.0.21
thanks

Edited 6 hours ago by ginjaninja

[Luke 42808]

Hi, after what actions?

[ginjaninja 624]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, after what actions?

Thanks @Luke, bear with me , becuase i am guessing what matters to investigating this.
I have a genericui buttonitem with a command handle "AddToList"
 

public override Task<IPluginUIView> RunCommand(string itemId, string commandId, string data)
{
    if (commandId == "AddToList")
    {
        HandleAddToList();
        return Task.FromResult<IPluginUIView>(this);
    }

Claude says the smoking gun in is PageControllerHostbase in that it is the something in the chain hardwired to "SendMessageToAdminSessions"

// Emby.Web.GenericUI.Control.PageHosts.PageControllerHostBase
protected void NotifyPageChangeDelayed(IUIView uiView)
{
	Task.Run(async delegate
	{
		await Task.Delay(500).ConfigureAwait(continueOnCapturedContext: false);
		UIViewInfo data = new UIViewInfo(uiView)
		{
			IsPageChangeInfo = true
		};
		await sessionManager.SendMessageToAdminSessions("UIPageInfoChanged", data, CancellationToken.None).ConfigureAwait(continueOnCapturedContext: false);
	});
}

private void CurrentUIViewOnUIViewInfoChanged(
    object sender,
    GenericEventArgs<IUIView> e)
{
    if (IsInitialized)
    {
        this.UIPageInfoChanged?.Invoke(this, e);

        UIViewInfo data =
            new UIViewInfo(e.Argument);

        sessionManager.SendMessageToAdminSessions(
            "UIPageInfoChanged",
            data,
            CancellationToken.None);
    }
}

 

Edited 2 hours ago by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 624]

Woohoo, Claude came good with a bit  of finesseing and gave me a solution.
https://github.com/ginjaninja1/ManageComingSoon/tree/TestuserpageswithoutcallingUIViewInfoChanged/UI/UserAddMovie
Claudes solution was to give me a page which did not rely on UIViewInfoChanged, and every button action has to immediately return a view.
Is this close to the intended approach? User facing plugins are supported but you have to be careful with what responsiveness you can expect and avoid RaiseUIViewInfoChanged?
 

 

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