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gen1recomp/src/mods/Steps.lua
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Myles Resnick bde606f966 Permission-gated step bridge for sandboxed mods
The sandbox blocks love.system and love.filesystem, which orphans the
native step bridge (#452, #489): its one consumer can no longer call
syncHealthSteps or read steps_pending.json (#1186).

Adds a "steps" manifest permission (shown to the player like the
others) gating a mod.steps facade: available() probes the bridge
quietly, sync() forwards the async refresh, poll() hands the mod its
copy of a delivery. The engine owns the pending file -- mods never name
a path and receive only { steps, from, to }. Without the permission the
acting calls name it, following the network gate. No new events, hooks
or registries; nothing removed.

RFC 0009. Tests: tests/modkit/cases/steps_bridge.lua (no-mod cold
bridge, permissioned sync/poll, per-mod copies, contract-field
filtering, malformed-delivery drop, unpermissioned refusal, bridgeless
build).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 11:19:06 -04:00

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-- The scoped seam for the native step bridge (#1186).
--
-- The iOS/Android builds count the player's real-world steps natively
-- (#452, #489) and deliver them by writing steps_pending.json into the
-- save-directory root. Before the sandbox, the Pokéwalker mod called
-- love.system.syncHealthSteps() and consumed that file itself; the sandbox
-- blocks both, which is correct -- love.system launches URLs and the file
-- API names paths -- but it left the bridge with no consumer at all.
--
-- This module is the narrow replacement, gated by the "steps" permission
-- in manifest.json (the network model: a permission the player sees that
-- genuinely gates a capability). The engine owns the file: mods never
-- learn its name or location, they receive only the three contract fields
-- ({ steps, from, to }), each permissioned mod gets its own copy, and the
-- merge-don't-overwrite anchor semantics stay on the native side where
-- they always lived.
--
-- No frame pump: the file is looked for lazily when a mod polls, so a
-- build with no permissioned mod installed never touches the bridge or
-- the disk.
local Json = require("src.link.Json")
local Steps = {}
-- The native contract's drop point, in the save-directory root (see
-- mobile/ios and mobile/android step bridges).
Steps.PENDING = "steps_pending.json"
local function bridge()
return _G.love and _G.love.system and _G.love.system.syncHealthSteps
end
-- Whether this build carries the native bridge. Desktop builds do not;
-- a mod uses this to stay dormant without probing love.system.
function Steps.available()
return bridge() ~= nil
end
-- Ask the native side to refresh its count. Async: the result lands in
-- the pending file and comes back through a later poll. The platform's
-- own consent sheet (HealthKit / ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION) still appears on
-- first use, exactly as it did pre-sandbox. false when there is no
-- bridge to ask.
function Steps.sync()
local fn = bridge()
if not fn then return false end
fn()
return true
end
-- Consume the pending file, if one has appeared, and fan its payload out
-- to every permissioned mod's queue. Only the contract fields travel;
-- anything else in the file stays in the file's grave. A malformed or
-- empty delivery is dropped whole -- the native anchor only advances on a
-- successful sync, so nothing is lost to a bad write.
function Steps.pump(loader)
local fs = _G.love and _G.love.filesystem
if not (fs and fs.getInfo(Steps.PENDING, "file")) then return end
local raw = fs.read(Steps.PENDING)
fs.remove(Steps.PENDING)
if not raw then return end
local ok, decoded = pcall(Json.decode, raw)
if not ok or type(decoded) ~= "table" then return end
local steps = tonumber(decoded.steps)
if not steps or steps <= 0 then return end
local payload = { steps = steps, from = decoded.from, to = decoded.to }
for _, queue in pairs(loader.stepsQueues) do
queue[#queue + 1] = { steps = payload.steps, from = payload.from,
to = payload.to }
end
end
-- The next delivery for this mod, or nil. Each permissioned mod consumes
-- its own queue, so two mods both see the same walk (pre-sandbox, whoever
-- read the file first won).
function Steps.poll(loader, modId)
Steps.pump(loader)
local queue = loader.stepsQueues[modId]
if not queue then return nil end
return table.remove(queue, 1)
end
return Steps