Add `from_canvas()` to `Surface` for Wasm #76

daxpedda · 2023-02-28T21:17:21Z

Added methods to create Surface from a HtmlCanvasElement or OffscreenCanvas following wgpu's example https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/v0.15.1/wgpu/src/lib.rs#L1570-L1640

My use case required this to render in a web worker.

Edit: See this for a future alternative implementation rust-windowing/raw-window-handle#102

This PR addresses the issues in #74 and additionally handles an error when using OffscreenCanvas, which has a different context type: OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2d. It was assumed that it inherits from CanvasRenderingContext2d, which it does not, see the MDN documentation.

I spoke to @Toniman575 after we discussed some issues, he told me to replace his PR instead.

Replaces #74.

src/lib.rs

src/web.rs

daxpedda · 2023-02-28T21:24:07Z

src/web.rs

+#[wasm_bindgen]
+extern "C" {
+    #[wasm_bindgen(js_name = OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D)]
+    pub type OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2d;
+
+    #[wasm_bindgen(catch, method, structural, js_class = "OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D", js_name = putImageData)]
+    fn put_image_data(
+        this: &OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2d,
+        imagedata: &ImageData,
+        dx: f64,
+        dy: f64,
+    ) -> Result<(), JsValue>;
+
+    #[wasm_bindgen(method, structural, js_class = "OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D")]
+    pub fn commit(this: &OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2d);
+}


web-sys doesn't currently support OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D, a PR has already been made and merged, but it will require a new version release: rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#3319.

Let's wait for that, then

Alright, will put it into draft mode then.

daxpedda · 2023-02-28T21:26:53Z

CI failures are because sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib fails on Linux.

ids1024 · 2023-02-28T22:37:59Z

CI seems to pass after rerunning the failed jobs.

daxpedda · 2023-02-28T22:38:51Z

Thanks 🎉.

notgull · 2023-03-01T14:47:28Z

src/web.rs

+    fn from_canvas(canvas: HtmlCanvasElement) -> Result<Self, SoftBufferError>;
+
+    /// Creates a new instance of this struct, using the provided [`HtmlCanvasElement`].
+    fn from_offscreen_canvas(offscreen_canvas: OffscreenCanvas) -> Result<Self, SoftBufferError>;


I'd still like to avoid having web_sys as a public dependency if possible. I know winit does it, but I'd like to keep the number of public dependencies in this project as low as possible.

Would it be possible to just pass in the ID/XPath of the canvas into these functions instead?

I also want to add that wgpu does that too: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/v0.15.1/wgpu/src/lib.rs#L1570-L1640.

It would be possible for HtmlCanvasElement, but not for OffscreenCanvas, because it's not a DOM element.
The best alternative I can come up with is using wasm_bindgen::JsValue.

Another unsafe alternative I can think of is using a pointer, basically. See wasm_bindgen::convert::IntoWasmAbi.

Completely different direction: we could maybe hide this behind a feature called wasm-bindgen instead of just hiding it behind target_arch = wasm32, if this alleviates some of your concerns.

I want to point out though, that specifically with the wasm-bindgen ecosystem there is not much gained from avoiding making it a public dependency. The thing is that if a library uses wasm-bindgen, the library can't actually work without downstream users having to use wasm-bindgen-cli, so switching to a different ecosystem would still require a breaking change. Even having different versions is not allowed, wasm-bindgen-cli will error out if you do.

At least to me, versioning and the inability to change a dependency without a breaking change, are the big reasons to keep public dependencies low.

EDIT: For more context: this issue with wasm-bindgen and being locked into it's ecosystem is not going to go away anytime soon. The problem is that to make wasm-bindgen work, a JS shim has to be created that provides all the necessary imports, this is done by wasm-bindgen-cli by actually parsing the compiled Wasm file and then extracting the necessary information. Without running wasm-bindgen-cli your Wasm file is unusable. Not only does it generate the JS shim, but it actually modifies the Wasm file to actually make it work, this includes removing garbage that is inserted during the compilation by wasm-bindgen and properly hooking up imports and what wasm-bindgen calls intrinsics, basically things like referencing JsValues, copying arrays and what not.

The only salvation in sight is the Component Model Proposal, which is still at Phase 1.

But when it eventually gets accepted, we won't need wasm-bindgen anymore and hopefully we can move to ecosystem neutral Wasm libraries that don't force downstream users in one or the other ecosystem.

That sounds reasonable to me, I'd be fine with the public dep on web-sys in this case.

daxpedda · 2023-04-06T16:02:23Z

Rebased after #65.

daxpedda · 2023-04-06T17:47:46Z

Rebased after #77.

daxpedda · 2023-04-26T09:59:50Z

Rebased after #88.

notgull · 2023-05-07T16:36:52Z

Would it be possible to split this PR into one that adds the ability to use a HtmlCanvasElement and one for OffscreenCanvas? We can do the first one now but we need to wait until rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#3319 for the second one.

daxpedda · 2023-05-08T10:13:25Z

Cargo.toml

+[package.metadata.docs.rs]
+all-features = true
+rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
+targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "wasm32-unknown-unknown"]


The other targets don't have any target-specific APIs, should I still add them to the list?

I would say yes; I think they've expected at this point.

Only added 64-bit targets, say the word if I should add anything else.

daxpedda · 2023-05-08T10:24:31Z

Would it be possible to split this PR into one that adds the ability to use a HtmlCanvasElement and one for OffscreenCanvas? We can do the first one now but we need to wait until rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#3319 for the second one.

Done: #103.

notgull

LGTM aside from minor nitpicks

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added from_canvas and from_offscreen_canvas methods to Surface #74

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