Implement the event stream IPC

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Ivan Molodetskikh
2024-06-20 12:04:10 +03:00
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> If you're getting parsing errors from `niri msg` after upgrading niri, make sure that you've restarted niri itself.
> You might be trying to run a newer `niri msg` against an older `niri` compositor.
### Event Stream
<sup>Since: 0.1.9</sup>
While most niri IPC requests return a single response, the event stream request will make niri continuously stream events into the IPC connection until it is closed.
This is useful for implementing various bars and indicators that update as soon as something happens, without continuous polling.
The event stream IPC is designed to give you the complete current state up-front, then follow up with updates to that state.
This way, your state can never "desync" from niri, and you don't need to make any other IPC information requests.
Where reasonable, event stream state updates are atomic, though this is not always the case.
For example, a window may end up with a workspace id for a workspace that had already been removed.
This can happen if the corresponding workspaces-changed event arrives before the corresponding window-changed event.
To get a taste of the events, run `niri msg event-stream`.
Though, this is more of a debug function than anything.
You can get raw events from `niri msg --json event-stream`, or by connecting to the niri socket and requesting an event stream manually.
You can find the full list of events along with documentation in the [niri-ipc sub-crate](./niri-ipc/).
### Backwards Compatibility
The JSON output *should* remain stable, as in: