The prediction API now takes an API token. This is a 128-bit
number that gets passed to the prediction engine, and it's meant
to be unique for every context that requires a predictor.
It's up to the prediction engine to do anything with the token.
For the "null" engines (such as the icontray for `vault` and
`tts`) the token is just ignored. But for example, in `shellchat`,
the API token is used to store a history record in a HashMap on
a per-token basis. This means that every app that uses the
`shellchat` history function gets their own history that can only
be read out by that app.
The actual token itself is mostly passed through the API. The
token storage is in the Context layer (each Context has a record
for a token, that starts as `None`), and is passed down to
the predictor every time the context swaps, and the predictor
receives the token and passes it back if the token was `Some`,
or allocates a new random token if it was `None`.
Note that everything is a Context, including, for example, menus and
modal dialog boxes, but not all contexts have predictors. Only
Contexts that ask for a predictor have them. This mechanism
works smoothly in this model (as opposed to other hacks and work-arounds
previously tried getting to this solution).
This macro will be removed, since it is no longer necessary. Remove this
macro across the project and replace it with a standard `main()`
function.
Signed-off-by: Sean Cross <sean@xobs.io>
this prevents less trusted processes from connecting to servers
after the kernel initializations are done.
this works so long as we don't have disconnects from the kernel
servers. In order to support disconnects we will also need a
way to re-enumerate the SID to guarantee that we don't have a re-use
problem. But for now, the kernel is not designed with any practical
disconnect mechanism; there is no code that calls the Quit mechanism
on any server.
This rewrites the entire project so that most runnable projects now use
`xous-ipc` instead of `xous::String` where possible.
This also removes `rkyv` from the list of dependencies in `xous-rs`.
Signed-off-by: Sean Cross <sean@xobs.io>
rkyv does some optimization to not send all the data in
a string if you don't use it up.
xous assumes the same "pos" argument on the return type
thus a variable length string doesn't work as a return type
(you can send it, because you can specify a "pos" on the send
side).
fortunately, the application for the variable-length string
was getting predictions out of the predictor, and a short (31 element)
fixed-length array with a side companion of a len variable
should be more than sufficient for completion suggestions.
probably should be the *only* implementation because these are
only concerned with IPC calls that really require changes in
two separate crates, but I feel unconfident enough about the API
that for now I want the flexibility to experiment with non-default
APIs until I'm ready to freeze things.
