I've actually got this working (as a rough proof-of-principle). I added a
new command to leoserver: send_outline(self, param). My tiny client sends a
file path to leoserver, which reads the file and sends the resulting string
back to the client, which copies it to the clipboard. The client then
simulates the "new" command and then the "paste-retaining-clones" command
to that new outline.
The only thing is that the outline gets pasted in as a sibling of the empty
node that gets put there when the new outline is created. There must be
some simple way to insert at the top of the outline, but I don't know what
that is yet. Anyway, in practice we'd probably like to use commander
methods instead of simulating commands. But it's almost usable this way,
modulo error handling and getting the remote file path into the client
script.
def send_outline(self, param):
filename = param.get('path', '')
result = ''
if filename and os.path.exists(filename):
with open(filename) as f:
result = f.read()
data = {"outline": result}
return self._make_response(data)
In the client main loop:
# ...
while n < 6:
n += 1
json_s = g.toUnicode(await websocket.recv())
d = json.loads(json_s)
id = d.get('id', '??')
if id != 4: # the id of my request
continue
if 'outline' in d:
file = d['outline']
print('outline length:', len(file))
g.app.gui.replaceClipboardWith(file)
c.k.simulateCommand('new')
c1 = g.app.commanders()[-1]
c1.k.simulateCommand('paste-retaining-clones')
return
return
In practice I suppose we wouldn't want to return from the client this way
because we wouldn't want to shut down the remote leoserver instance.
On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 8:31:35 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
> On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 8:23:14 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that almost everything we need already exists except for
>> the actual acquire-from-the-leoserver. part.
>>
>
> For instance, once Leo has the bytes from the other computer, loading them
> is essentially the existing CreateOutline + PasteAsClone operations.
> Sending the changed outline back is essentially copyNode, then SendBytes
> (the only new part).
>
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