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crcbl_core/
surface.rs

1//! [`SurfaceTarget`] — the one sanctioned platform leak in the engine.
2//!
3//! # Why this lives in `crcbl-core`
4//!
5//! The windowing rules in `docs/notes/backends.md` describe `SurfaceTarget` as
6//! "the *single* sanctioned platform leak": the shell produces it, a HAL backend consumes it,
7//! and nothing in between is allowed to look inside. That makes it **shared
8//! vocabulary between two crates that must not depend on each other**:
9//!
10//! ```text
11//!        crcbl-core  (SurfaceTarget lives here)
12//!           ^     ^
13//!           |     |
14//!   crcbl-shell   crcbl-hal
15//!                    ^
16//!                    |
17//!            crcbl-vk / crcbl-webgpu / …
18//! ```
19//!
20//! * `crcbl-shell` must not depend on `crcbl-hal` — a windowing library that
21//!   needs a graphics HAL to compile has the dependency backwards, and
22//!   `HeadlessShell` would drag a backend seam into CI-only builds.
23//! * `crcbl-hal` must not depend on `crcbl-shell` — backends are used offscreen
24//!   (`crcbl screenshot`, golden-image e2e) with no window anywhere in the
25//!   process, and `crcbl-shell` will grow real platform code that a headless
26//!   render test has no business linking.
27//!
28//! Both already depend on `crcbl-core`, so putting the type here is the only
29//! placement that does not create a cycle or a spurious dependency. It costs
30//! `crcbl-core` nothing: the type is a plain enum of integers and raw pointers
31//! with no methods that touch them.
32//!
33//! # Safety model
34//!
35//! Constructing a `SurfaceTarget` is **safe**. Nothing here dereferences a
36//! pointer, and a wrong value is inert until a backend uses it. The obligation
37//! sits at the single point that can act on it — `crcbl-hal`'s
38//! `Instance::create_surface`, which is `unsafe` and documents the full
39//! contract (handles are live objects of the stated kind, and they outlive the
40//! surface created from them).
41//!
42//! This mirrors `raw-window-handle` 0.6 and `wgpu::Instance::create_surface_unsafe`,
43//! and it means this module — the one place platform pointers enter the engine
44//! — contains no `unsafe` at all.
45//!
46//! # Thread safety
47//!
48//! `SurfaceTarget` is deliberately **not** `Send`/`Sync` (it holds
49//! [`NonNull`]). Several of these handles are thread-affine in ways we cannot
50//! promise away — a Win32 `HWND` belongs to the thread that pumps its message
51//! queue, and an `NSView`/`CAMetalLayer` is main-thread-only on macOS. The
52//! practical consequence is the one every engine already lives with: create the
53//! HAL surface on the thread that owns the window. `raw-window-handle` reached
54//! the same conclusion in 0.6 after shipping the unsound `Send` version.
55
56use core::ffi::c_void;
57use core::ptr::NonNull;
58
59/// A window's native presentation handles, in the form a HAL backend needs to
60/// create a surface.
61///
62/// Produced by `crcbl-shell`, destructured *only* by HAL backends. Engine code,
63/// samples and the editor pass it through opaquely; a `#[cfg]` on a platform in
64/// a consumer crate is a regression.
65///
66/// # Exhaustiveness
67///
68/// This enum is intentionally **not** `#[non_exhaustive]`. Adding a platform
69/// should break every backend's `match` loudly at compile time — the whole
70/// engine is one workspace, and a silently-ignored new platform is exactly the
71/// failure this type exists to prevent.
72///
73/// # Variants and their producers
74///
75/// | Variant | Shell backend | Vulkan entry point |
76/// | --- | --- | --- |
77/// | [`Wayland`](Self::Wayland) | Wayland (P0) | `vkCreateWaylandSurfaceKHR` |
78/// | [`Xcb`](Self::Xcb) | X11 (P0) | `vkCreateXcbSurfaceKHR` |
79/// | [`Web`](Self::Web) | canvas (P5) | — (WebGPU `GPUCanvasContext`) |
80/// | [`Win32`](Self::Win32) | Win32 (P14) | `vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR` |
81/// | [`AppKit`](Self::AppKit) | AppKit (P14) | `vkCreateMetalSurfaceEXT` |
82/// | [`Offscreen`](Self::Offscreen) | `HeadlessShell` | — (image ring, no WSI) |
83///
84/// Xlib is absent on purpose: topic 15 links `libxcb`, not `libX11`, so no
85/// shell backend can produce an `Xlib` target and a variant nobody constructs
86/// is a variant every backend still has to handle.
87///
88/// # Transparency travels here
89///
90/// Every variant that names a desktop window carries `transparent`: the shell
91/// sets it from the window's `WindowDesc::transparent` (`crcbl-shell`, named
92/// rather than linked, see the module docs), and
93/// [`transparent`](Self::transparent) reads it whatever the platform. The
94/// window is what knows it was made transparent, so the renderer learns it
95/// from the window's own handles rather than from a second statement that
96/// could disagree. A presenter that sees it asks for premultiplied alpha, and
97/// one whose surface cannot composite that way refuses rather than drawing the
98/// window opaque.
99///
100/// [`Web`](Self::Web) and [`Offscreen`](Self::Offscreen) carry no flag. The web
101/// shell refuses a transparent window, since what shows through a canvas is the
102/// page's business, so a canvas target is never one; an offscreen ring has no
103/// compositor to blend with, and its readback holds whatever alpha the frame
104/// wrote either way.
105#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
106pub enum SurfaceTarget {
107    /// Wayland: `wl_display*` + `wl_surface*`, as returned by
108    /// `libwayland-client` (topic 15's WSI-ABI exception — the driver calls
109    /// libwayland functions on these).
110    Wayland {
111        /// `struct wl_display *`.
112        display: NonNull<c_void>,
113        /// `struct wl_surface *`.
114        surface: NonNull<c_void>,
115        /// The window was created transparent. The compositor blends the
116        /// surface by its buffer's alpha, so a presenter asks for
117        /// premultiplied alpha; the surface itself is made the same way.
118        transparent: bool,
119        /// The `dev_t` of the DRM device the compositor composites on, as
120        /// `zwp_linux_dmabuf_feedback_v1.main_device` names it: the GPU a
121        /// buffer reaches without a copy between devices, which a backend
122        /// matches to one of its adapters for `Instance::display_adapter`
123        /// (`crcbl-hal`, named rather than linked, see the module docs).
124        /// `None` when the compositor offers no `zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1` at
125        /// version 4 or had not answered when the target was read.
126        main_device: Option<u64>,
127    },
128    /// X11 through XCB: `xcb_connection_t*` plus the window's XID.
129    Xcb {
130        /// `xcb_connection_t *`.
131        connection: NonNull<c_void>,
132        /// `xcb_window_t` — an XID, not a pointer.
133        window: u32,
134        /// `xcb_visualid_t` of the window, needed by some backends to pick a
135        /// compatible format.
136        visual_id: u32,
137        /// The window was created transparent. The X11 shell makes every
138        /// window on the root visual, which has no alpha, and refuses a
139        /// transparent one, so it always sets this `false`; the field is here
140        /// so that a backend reads transparency the same way on every window
141        /// system.
142        transparent: bool,
143        /// The `dev_t` of the DRM device the X server renders on, from DRI3
144        /// `Open` — the counterpart of
145        /// [`Wayland`](Self::Wayland)'s `main_device`, and matched to an
146        /// adapter the same way. `None` without DRI3 (Xvfb has none).
147        main_device: Option<u64>,
148    },
149    /// Windows: module instance + window handle, and whether the window was
150    /// made for per-pixel transparency.
151    Win32 {
152        /// `HINSTANCE` of the module that registered the window class.
153        hinstance: NonNull<c_void>,
154        /// `HWND`.
155        hwnd: NonNull<c_void>,
156        /// The window was created transparent (`WS_EX_NOREDIRECTIONBITMAP`):
157        /// it has no redirection surface, so nothing presented to the `HWND`
158        /// itself is shown, and a backend must present through
159        /// DirectComposition with premultiplied alpha.
160        ///
161        /// Windows is the one window system where this changes how a backend
162        /// makes the *surface*, not only which alpha its swapchain asks for.
163        /// A backend that cannot present this way refuses the surface by name
164        /// rather than drawing into a window that shows nothing.
165        transparent: bool,
166    },
167    /// macOS/iOS: a `CAMetalLayer*`.
168    ///
169    /// The shell creates and owns the layer (attaching it to its `NSView`), so
170    /// backends never have to touch AppKit — Metal takes the layer directly and
171    /// `VK_EXT_metal_surface` takes it through MoltenVK.
172    AppKit {
173        /// `CAMetalLayer *`.
174        layer: NonNull<c_void>,
175        /// The window was created transparent: the shell made the window and
176        /// this layer non-opaque. A presenter keeps the layer non-opaque and
177        /// asks for premultiplied alpha, which is how Core Animation blends a
178        /// layer's contents.
179        transparent: bool,
180    },
181    /// Web: an integer key into the shell's JS-side canvas registry.
182    ///
183    /// Topic 15 specifies a hand-rolled JS shim rather than `wasm-bindgen`, so
184    /// the canvas is identified by a number the shim assigns — no string
185    /// allocation crosses the wasm boundary, and this variant stays `Copy`.
186    Web {
187        /// Registry key handed out by the shell's JS shim.
188        canvas_id: u32,
189    },
190    /// No window at all: render into a backend-managed image ring and read
191    /// back.
192    ///
193    /// `HeadlessShell` (topic 15) and `crcbl screenshot` (topic 11) need a
194    /// target to hand the HAL even though there is nothing to present to.
195    /// Backends implement this as a swapchain-shaped rotation of offscreen
196    /// images, which is what makes the P1 golden-image e2e run through the
197    /// *same* acquire/present code path as a real window instead of a
198    /// second, less-tested one.
199    ///
200    /// # It deliberately carries no size
201    ///
202    /// It used to carry `width` and `height`, and that was a defect. Every
203    /// other variant names *handles*, which a resize does not touch — which is
204    /// exactly why `crcbl-shell` only requires a target to be re-queried after
205    /// a **mode** change. A size made this one variant change value on every
206    /// resize, so a surface created from an earlier target silently described
207    /// the wrong extent, and the seam had one rule for five variants and
208    /// another for the sixth.
209    ///
210    /// The extent comes from where it comes from for every other target: the
211    /// shell's `WindowState::size`, passed to the backend in the swapchain
212    /// descriptor. `crcbl-hal`'s `swapchain` module states that precedence as
213    /// a backend obligation. (No intra-doc link: this crate must not depend on
214    /// `crcbl-shell` — see the module docs.)
215    Offscreen,
216}
217
218impl SurfaceTarget {
219    /// A short, stable name for the platform this target names.
220    ///
221    /// For logs and error messages — `"wayland"`, `"xcb"`, `"win32"`,
222    /// `"appkit"`, `"web"`, `"offscreen"`.
223    #[must_use]
224    pub const fn platform_name(&self) -> &'static str {
225        match self {
226            Self::Wayland { .. } => "wayland",
227            Self::Xcb { .. } => "xcb",
228            Self::Win32 { .. } => "win32",
229            Self::AppKit { .. } => "appkit",
230            Self::Web { .. } => "web",
231            Self::Offscreen => "offscreen",
232        }
233    }
234
235    /// Whether the window behind this target was created transparent, so the
236    /// desktop should show through where the frame's alpha is below one.
237    ///
238    /// Always `false` for [`Web`](Self::Web) and
239    /// [`Offscreen`](Self::Offscreen); see the type's docs for why they carry
240    /// no flag.
241    #[must_use]
242    pub const fn transparent(&self) -> bool {
243        match *self {
244            Self::Wayland { transparent, .. }
245            | Self::Xcb { transparent, .. }
246            | Self::Win32 { transparent, .. }
247            | Self::AppKit { transparent, .. } => transparent,
248            Self::Web { .. } | Self::Offscreen => false,
249        }
250    }
251
252    /// Whether this target presents to a real window server.
253    ///
254    /// `false` only for [`SurfaceTarget::Offscreen`]. Backends use it to skip
255    /// WSI extension checks and present-queue selection.
256    #[must_use]
257    pub const fn is_windowed(&self) -> bool {
258        !matches!(self, Self::Offscreen)
259    }
260}
261
262#[cfg(test)]
263mod tests {
264    use super::*;
265
266    fn dangling() -> NonNull<c_void> {
267        NonNull::dangling()
268    }
269
270    #[test]
271    fn platform_names_are_distinct_and_stable() {
272        let targets = [
273            SurfaceTarget::Wayland {
274                display: dangling(),
275                surface: dangling(),
276                transparent: false,
277                main_device: None,
278            },
279            SurfaceTarget::Xcb {
280                connection: dangling(),
281                window: 1,
282                visual_id: 2,
283                transparent: false,
284                main_device: None,
285            },
286            SurfaceTarget::Win32 {
287                hinstance: dangling(),
288                hwnd: dangling(),
289                transparent: false,
290            },
291            SurfaceTarget::AppKit {
292                layer: dangling(),
293                transparent: false,
294            },
295            SurfaceTarget::Web { canvas_id: 7 },
296            SurfaceTarget::Offscreen,
297        ];
298        let mut names: Vec<_> = targets.iter().map(SurfaceTarget::platform_name).collect();
299        let count = names.len();
300        names.sort_unstable();
301        names.dedup();
302        assert_eq!(names.len(), count, "platform names must be unique");
303    }
304
305    #[test]
306    fn only_offscreen_is_unwindowed() {
307        assert!(
308            SurfaceTarget::Web { canvas_id: 0 }.is_windowed(),
309            "a canvas is a real presentation target"
310        );
311        assert!(!SurfaceTarget::Offscreen.is_windowed());
312    }
313
314    /// Every windowed variant answers its own flag, both ways, and the two
315    /// that carry none answer `false`.
316    #[test]
317    fn transparent_reads_each_windowed_variants_own_flag() {
318        for flag in [false, true] {
319            let targets = [
320                SurfaceTarget::Wayland {
321                    display: dangling(),
322                    surface: dangling(),
323                    transparent: flag,
324                    main_device: None,
325                },
326                SurfaceTarget::Xcb {
327                    connection: dangling(),
328                    window: 1,
329                    visual_id: 2,
330                    transparent: flag,
331                    main_device: None,
332                },
333                SurfaceTarget::Win32 {
334                    hinstance: dangling(),
335                    hwnd: dangling(),
336                    transparent: flag,
337                },
338                SurfaceTarget::AppKit {
339                    layer: dangling(),
340                    transparent: flag,
341                },
342            ];
343            for target in targets {
344                assert_eq!(target.transparent(), flag, "{target:?}");
345            }
346        }
347        assert!(!SurfaceTarget::Web { canvas_id: 0 }.transparent());
348        assert!(!SurfaceTarget::Offscreen.transparent());
349    }
350
351    #[test]
352    fn target_is_copy_and_comparable() {
353        let a = SurfaceTarget::Web { canvas_id: 3 };
354        let b = a;
355        assert_eq!(a, b);
356        assert_ne!(a, SurfaceTarget::Web { canvas_id: 4 });
357    }
358
359    // The deliberate non-`Send`/non-`Sync` property from the module docs is
360    // enforced structurally rather than by a test: [`NonNull`] is `!Send` and
361    // `!Sync`, so the only way to widen it is a hand-written `unsafe impl` in
362    // this file. Asserting the *absence* of an auto trait needs either
363    // specialization or a `trybuild` compile-fail fixture, and neither is worth
364    // a dependency to restate what the type system already guarantees. If you
365    // are here to add that `unsafe impl`, read the module docs first.
366}