"""The socket the running instance listens on, and one request over it. A command typed at a terminal is answered rather than only obeyed: the reply carries the transcript, the agent's answer, or the reason nothing happened, which is what lets a script wait for a dictation instead of guessing when it is done. One JSON object goes each way per connection. A bare verb is still understood, because that is what earlier versions sent and what a stale KDE shortcut may still send. """ import json import os import sys from PyQt6.QtNetwork import QLocalSocket SERVER_NAME = "dikte-" + str(os.getuid()) # Long enough for a process that is already running to answer, short enough that # "nothing is running" is not a noticeable pause in front of a key press. CONNECT_MS = 800 def script_path(): return os.path.realpath( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "dikte.py") ) def command_for(verb): """The command line a desktop's shortcut runs for one of the verbs. Also what Settings shows an i3 or XFCE user to paste into their own configuration, since there is no registry there for Dikte to write into. """ return f"{sys.executable} {script_path()} {verb}" def send(cmd, wait=False, timeout=0, **args): """Send one request; the reply, or None when no instance is running. `wait` asks the instance to hold its reply back until the job the request started is over, which is how a terminal gets the transcript rather than only the fact that recording began. `timeout` bounds that wait in seconds; 0 waits for as long as the job takes. """ sock = QLocalSocket() sock.connectToServer(SERVER_NAME) if not sock.waitForConnected(CONNECT_MS): return None request = {"cmd": cmd} request.update({key: value for key, value in args.items() if value is not None}) if wait: request["wait"] = True # A verb carrying nothing goes as the bare word it used to be, so that an # instance still running the older code obeys it: that is the one request # that has to work across an update, since it is how you install the update. line = cmd if list(request) == ["cmd"] else json.dumps(request) sock.write((line + "\n").encode("utf-8")) sock.flush() sock.waitForBytesWritten(CONNECT_MS) limit = (int(timeout * 1000) if timeout else -1) if wait else CONNECT_MS buffer = b"" while b"\n" not in buffer: if not sock.waitForReadyRead(limit): break buffer += bytes(sock.readAll()) sock.disconnectFromServer() line = buffer.decode("utf-8", "replace").strip() if not line: # An instance from before replies existed answers by staying silent, and # for a fire-and-forget verb that silence means it went through. A wait # that ends this way did not: the run never reported back. return ({"ok": False, "legacy": True, "error": "the running instance is too old to answer; " "reload it with: dikte restart"} if wait else {"ok": True, "legacy": True}) try: reply = json.loads(line) except json.JSONDecodeError: return {"ok": True, "legacy": True} return reply if isinstance(reply, dict) else {"ok": True, "legacy": True}