macltok

# macltok

`macltok` is a compact Rust application backend built above `matrix-sdk` and

`matrix-sdk-ui`. It aims to provide the stateful behavior needed by a useful

Matrix client without depending on a GUI toolkit or inventing another protocol

SDK.

The crate currently provides

- typed commands, owned UI-safe events and bounded per-client transport

- Sliding Sync with normalized connection and room-list state

- independently retained live room timelines and backwards pagination

- text, emote, reply, edit, redaction, reaction, receipt and typing operations

- raw encrypted or unencrypted media acquisition with configurable byte limits

- encryption state, recovery-key import and SAS verification

- password login and session restoration with caller-owned encrypted SQLite or

  IndexedDB stores

Matrix room, event, user, device and transaction identifiers remain strongly

typed. A toolkit timeline identity covers local echoes without pretending they

already have remote event IDs.

## Consuming the engine

spawn `Engine::run`, drain the `EventStream` from its own task, and talk to the

engine through `ClientHandle`. every command answers once, awaited

(`handle.send_message(..).await?`) or as a `Pending` you can await later or

drop. a sent message answers when the sdk send queue has it, delivery shows up

as the timeline item's send state. reads like `rooms`, `members` and `media`

go straight to the sdk. the stream only carries state

some commands put an event on the stream before they answer. `Open`, `Close`,

`OpenThread`, `CloseThread`, `Resync`, `Paginate`, `Logout` and the

verification actions all do. the stream is bounded, so a task that drains it

and awaits one of those answers deadlocks once it fills. from the draining

task, `try_send` the command and drop the `Pending`, the events tell you how it

went

start a timeline from `TimelineReset`, then apply each `TimelineChanged` whole

with `TimelineDiff::try_apply_all`. snapshots are `imbl::Vector`s, re-exported

as `macltok::imbl`, so a copy costs nothing. when a batch doesn't fit none of it

lands. stop applying, call `resync`, and pick up from the next `TimelineReset`

with `sqlite` or `indexeddb`, a `SessionStore` holds one login's record and its

store. `EncryptedSessionStore` seals the record with the store's passphrase, in a

file you pick natively or an IndexedDB database beside the store in a browser.

logging in saves the first record and `Session::restore` loads it. on every

`SessionTokensChanged`, `save` a fresh `ClientHandle::session_record()` before

the next refresh, refresh tokens only work once

`Engine::run` resolves to a `Termination` saying why it stopped, and

`Termination::retain` says what to do about it. after `LoggedOut` or

`AccessRevoked` the record and the store are dead, `discard` them once the

client is dropped, since an open store won't go quietly. `SoftLoggedOut` wants

the record forgotten, the store kept and a fresh login with

`PasswordLogin::device_id` set to the device it carries, or the e2ee keys go

with it. `ShutDown` and `HandlesDropped` keep everything. an `Err` is a real

failure and kills nothing. one store directory per login, the sdk won't share a

crypto store between devices

## wasm

macltok builds for `wasm32-unknown-unknown`. the `indexeddb` feature gives you

`StoreConfig::indexeddb` in place of `StoreConfig::sqlite`, and asking for either

on the wrong target won't compile. `Engine::run` hands back a `LocalBoxFuture`

there, so spawn it with `wasm_bindgen_futures::spawn_local`

getrandom picks its browser backend from a cfg flag, and `.cargo/config.toml`

only reaches this crate's own builds. every cdylib that pulls macltok in needs

it too

```toml

[target.wasm32-unknown-unknown]

rustflags = ["--cfg", "getrandom_backend=\"wasm_js\""]

```

what's different in a browser

- a panic aborts the whole instance. natively a panicking command costs its

  caller an `Interrupted`, here it takes the engine and everything else with it

- `MediaUploadProgress` only ever reports completion, the sdk's wasm http path

  has no upload progress

- the sdk doesn't retry requests or time them out individually. sync still

  restarts itself with backoff, that part is ours

- two tabs or workers on one store each need `StoreConfig::with_lock_holder`

  with a name of their own, or they both think they hold the crypto store

## Dependency policy

UI frameworks, image decoders, application-directory discovery and logging

subscribers do not belong in this crate. SQLite remains optional through the

`sqlite` and `bundled-sqlite` features, IndexedDB through `indexeddb`. Media

decoding belongs to the consumer.

## Verification

```sh

nix develop --command cargo fmt -- --check

nix develop --command cargo test --all-targets

nix develop --command cargo test --all-targets --features sqlite

nix develop --command cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings

nix develop --command cargo clippy --all-targets --features sqlite -- -D warnings

nix flake check

```