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dikte/ipc.py
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yusufipk bb3b0bcb94 Give every window a verb, and answer what the terminal asks
The socket carried a bare word and said nothing back, so a script could press
the buttons but never learn what was said. A request is JSON now, it can ask to
be answered when the run ends rather than when it starts, and the reply carries
the transcript, the agent's answer, or why nothing happened. The verbs that do
not need the microphone run in the caller's own process, which is what makes
transcribing a file or reading a setting work over ssh.
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"""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 KDE shortcut runs for one of the verbs."""
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}