refs: bf0823c9a2
- continuing the work of splitting up the theme service into logical components
Theme activations are a trickier piece of the theme split puzzle because they are called from the API and theme service on boot in different ways.
Activations require a theme to have been validated at different levels. Validations are also tricky - do they belong to the theme engine, or the theme service?
There are then several different flows for activations:
- On Boot
- API "activate" call
- API override on upload or install via setFromZip, which is a method in the storage layer
These calls all have quite different logical flows at the moment, and need to be unified
For now, I've moved the existing "activate" function onto the bridge. This allows the theme service to be split from the frontend, and refactoring can start from there.
I hope to move this so there is less code in the actual bridge very soon, but my goal is not to require any server packages in the frontend part of this
I think ideally:
- all activation code, including validation, should probably be part of the theme engine
- the theme engine should offer 3 methods: getActive() canActivate() and activate()
- the theme service is then only responsible for loading themes in and out of storage, JSON responses for the API, and handing themes to the frontend via the bridge at the appropriate moment
- Modules in /shared are supposed to be standalone modules that can be required by the server or frontend
- As the server shouldn't require the frontend, and vice versa, shared modules should require neither
- Otherwise it just becomes a crutch for allowing cross-depenencies, and will create circular dependencies
The Bridge
- The bridge file is not meant to be a crutch sat allowing cross-dependencies, but rather a new component that manages the flow of data
- That data flows from the server/boot process TO the frontend, and should not flow in the other direction
- The management of that flow of data is necessarily hacky at the moment, but over time the architecture here should get clearer and better
- Still, for the time being it will need to handle requiring across components until that architecture matures
- Therefore, it should live in core root, not in core/shared
