stream webview resources to avoid blocking a web socket

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
   - On the frontend `EnvVariableServer` should be used instead to access the current user home and available drives.
 <a name="1.5.0_usestorage_as_fs_provider"></a>
 - [[userstorage]](#1.5.0_usestorage_as_fs_provider) `UserStorageService` was replaced by the user data fs provider [#7908](https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/7908)
+<a name="1.5.0_webview_resource_streaming"></a>
+- [[webview]](#1.5.0_webview_resource_streaming) webview resources are streamed instead of loading one by one the entire content and blocking the web socket [#8359](https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/pull/8359)
+  - Consequently, `WebviewResourceLoader` is removed. One should change `DiskFileSystemProvider` to customize resource loading instead.
 <a name="1.5.0_root_user_storage_uri"></a>
 - [[user-storage]](#1.5.0_root_user_storage_uri) settings URI must start with `/user` root to satisfy expectations of `FileService` []()
   - If you implement a custom user storage make sure to check old relative locations, otherwise it can cause user data loss.

packages/plugin-ext/src/main/browser/plugin-ext-frontend-module.ts

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ import { WebviewWidget } from './webview/webview';
 import { WebviewEnvironment } from './webview/webview-environment';
 import { WebviewThemeDataProvider } from './webview/webview-theme-data-provider';
 import { bindWebviewPreferences } from './webview/webview-preferences';
-import { WebviewResourceLoader, WebviewResourceLoaderPath } from '../common/webview-protocol';
 import { WebviewResourceCache } from './webview/webview-resource-cache';
 import { PluginIconThemeService, PluginIconThemeFactory, PluginIconThemeDefinition, PluginIconTheme } from './plugin-icon-theme-service';
 import { PluginTreeViewNodeLabelProvider } from './view/plugin-tree-view-node-label-provider';
@@ -152,9 +151,6 @@ export default new ContainerModule((bind, unbind, isBound, rebind) => {
     bindWebviewPreferences(bind);
     bind(WebviewEnvironment).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
     bind(WebviewThemeDataProvider).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
-    bind(WebviewResourceLoader).toDynamicValue(ctx =>
-        WebSocketConnectionProvider.createProxy(ctx.container, WebviewResourceLoaderPath)
-    ).inSingletonScope();
     bind(WebviewResourceCache).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
     bind(WebviewWidget).toSelf();
     bind(WebviewWidgetFactory).toDynamicValue(ctx => new WebviewWidgetFactory(ctx.container)).inSingletonScope();

packages/plugin-ext/src/main/browser/webview/webview.ts

@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ import { WebviewThemeDataProvider } from './webview-theme-data-provider';
 import { ExternalUriService } from '@theia/core/lib/browser/external-uri-service';
 import { OutputChannelManager } from '@theia/output/lib/common/output-channel';
 import { WebviewPreferences } from './webview-preferences';
-import { WebviewResourceLoader } from '../../common/webview-protocol';
 import { WebviewResourceCache } from './webview-resource-cache';
 import { Endpoint } from '@theia/core/lib/browser/endpoint';
+import { FileService } from '@theia/filesystem/lib/browser/file-service';
+import { FileOperationError, FileOperationResult } from '@theia/filesystem/lib/common/files';
+import { BinaryBufferReadableStream } from '@theia/core/lib/common/buffer';
 
 // Style from core
 const TRANSPARENT_OVERLAY_STYLE = 'theia-transparent-overlay';
@@ -130,8 +132,8 @@ export class WebviewWidget extends BaseWidget implements StatefulWidget {
     @inject(WebviewPreferences)
     protected readonly preferences: WebviewPreferences;
 
-    @inject(WebviewResourceLoader)
-    protected readonly resourceLoader: WebviewResourceLoader;
+    @inject(FileService)
+    protected readonly fileService: FileService;
 
     @inject(WebviewResourceCache)
     protected readonly resourceCache: WebviewResourceCache;
@@ -432,11 +434,15 @@ export class WebviewWidget extends BaseWidget implements StatefulWidget {
                         continue;
                     }
                     let cached = await this.resourceCache.match(cacheUrl);
-                    const response = await this.resourceLoader.load({ uri: normalizedUri.toString(), eTag: cached && cached.eTag });
-                    if (response) {
-                        const { buffer, eTag } = response;
-                        cached = { body: () => new Uint8Array(buffer), eTag: eTag };
+                    try {
+                        const result = await this.fileService.readFileStream(normalizedUri, { etag: cached?.eTag });
+                        const { buffer } = await BinaryBufferReadableStream.toBuffer(result.value);
+                        cached = { body: () => buffer, eTag: result.etag };
                         this.resourceCache.put(cacheUrl, cached);
+                    } catch (e) {
+                        if (!(e instanceof FileOperationError && e.fileOperationResult === FileOperationResult.FILE_NOT_MODIFIED_SINCE)) {
+                            throw e;
+                        }
                     }
                     if (cached) {
                         const data = await cached.body();

packages/plugin-ext/src/main/common/webview-protocol.ts

@@ -26,24 +26,3 @@ export namespace WebviewExternalEndpoint {
     export const pattern = 'THEIA_WEBVIEW_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT';
     export const defaultPattern = '{{uuid}}.webview.{{hostname}}';
 }
-
-export interface LoadWebviewResourceParams {
-    uri: string
-    eTag?: string
-}
-
-export interface LoadWebviewResourceResult {
-    buffer: number[]
-    eTag: string
-}
-
-export const WebviewResourceLoader = Symbol('WebviewResourceLoader');
-export interface WebviewResourceLoader {
-    /**
-     * Loads initial webview resource data.
-     * Returns `undefined` if a resource has not beed modified.
-     * Throws if a resource cannot be loaded.
-     */
-    load(params: LoadWebviewResourceParams): Promise<LoadWebviewResourceResult | undefined>
-}
-export const WebviewResourceLoaderPath = '/services/webview-resource-loader';

packages/plugin-ext/src/main/node/plugin-ext-backend-module.ts

@@ -34,19 +34,10 @@ import { PluginPathsService, pluginPathsServicePath } from '../common/plugin-pat
 import { PluginPathsServiceImpl } from './paths/plugin-paths-service';
 import { PluginServerHandler } from './plugin-server-handler';
 import { PluginCliContribution } from './plugin-cli-contribution';
-import { WebviewResourceLoaderImpl } from './webview-resource-loader-impl';
-import { WebviewResourceLoaderPath } from '../common/webview-protocol';
 import { PluginTheiaEnvironment } from '../common/plugin-theia-environment';
 import { PluginTheiaDeployerParticipant } from './plugin-theia-deployer-participant';
 
 export function bindMainBackend(bind: interfaces.Bind): void {
-    bind(WebviewResourceLoaderImpl).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
-    bind(ConnectionHandler).toDynamicValue(ctx =>
-        new JsonRpcConnectionHandler(WebviewResourceLoaderPath, () =>
-            ctx.container.get(WebviewResourceLoaderImpl)
-        )
-    ).inSingletonScope();
-
     bind(PluginApiContribution).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
     bind(BackendApplicationContribution).toService(PluginApiContribution);