Every existing plugin slot renders wherever it's placed in the page (a
toolbar row, an attachment's hover-action bar, etc.) and is constrained
by that spot's own CSS - fine for small controls, but there's no way
for a plugin to show a large custom UI (a graphical file browser, a
multi-step wizard) since even a position:fixed overlay rendered from
inside such a slot is clipped to the surrounding row's own layout, not
the real page (confirmed live building the webdav-storage plugin: a
folder browser rendered but was squeezed into an unusable sliver).
Adds:
- host-dialog.ts: new 'custom' DialogKind + awaitCustomDialog(), reusing
the existing confirm/alert/prompt queue plumbing.
- host-api.ts: 'ui.openDialog' API method.
- runtime.tsx: sandbox-side api.ui.openDialog(opts) proxy.
- plugin-types.ts: new 'plugin-dialog' SlotName - a plugin implements
this slot with its actual custom UI.
- plugin-dialog-host.tsx: renders the requested slot via the existing
PluginIframeSlot INSIDE the dialog's real app-root fixed overlay
(position: fixed; inset: 0, above everything) instead of the
confirm/prompt form, for kind: 'custom'. Resolves via a generic
onResult callback in extraProps (marshalled the same way
composer-attachment-source's onAttach already is - no new plumbing
needed there).
A plugin calls api.ui.openDialog({ slot: 'plugin-dialog', extraProps,
title, width }) and awaits the Promise, which resolves to whatever its
own slot component passes to props.onResult(), or null if the user
closes the dialog without doing so.
Two new extension points for third-party attachment/cloud-storage plugins
(e.g. a WebDAV/Nextcloud file browser), neither of which the plugin API
currently supports:
- attachment-actions: a new slot rendered into every attachment's hover
action row (all six render paths: beside-sender/below-header/mobile,
each in its compact and expanded-popup form), with the AttachmentInfo
(name, type, size, blobId, emailId) passed through extraProps. Lets a
plugin offer a 'save this attachment elsewhere' action next to the
existing download/preview buttons - previously the only per-attachment
hook was the read-only onAttachmentDownload observer.
- composer-attachment-source: a new slot rendered in the composer toolbar
next to the existing composer-toolbar slot, with an onAttach(upload)
callback in extraProps. Lets a plugin that has already uploaded a file to
the JMAP server itself (api.jmap.uploadBlob) - e.g. a file picked from an
external cloud storage browser - have it added to the current draft as a
real attachment. Previously there was no way for a plugin to add an
attachment to the draft at all; the closest existing mechanism
(onBeforeBlobUpload's ExternalAttachmentResult) only replaces a locally
picked file with body text/a link, it cannot add a brand-new attachment
from an external source.
Both slots follow the existing PluginSlot pattern (calendar-event-actions):
render nothing when no plugin offers the slot, so this is purely additive.
Motivating use case: the existing nextcloud-attachments community plugin
uploads local files to Nextcloud and appends a share link to the message
body - useful for large files, but there was no way for a plugin to do the
inverse (attach a file that already lives in cloud storage as a real binary
attachment, not a link) or to let attachment recipients save an incoming
attachment back out to their own cloud storage. These two slots make both
directions possible without touching plugin-store or the sandbox bridge -
existing slot/extraProps plumbing (see calendar-event-actions) already
supports arbitrary POJO props.
Typing a contact group's name in a recipient field suggested the
individual members, and "send email to group" on the contacts page
filled the field with one chip per member - the group itself never
appeared anywhere.
The autocomplete now offers the group as a single entry (group icon
plus member count), and selecting it - like the contacts-page action -
inserts one chip named after the group that carries a snapshot of its
members. The chip expands into the deduplicated member addresses when
the message is sent or saved as a draft, mirroring how Outlook handles
distribution lists. Expansion happens where the outgoing address lists
are built, so validation and every plugin hook see real addresses.
Group chips survive the composer's string boundaries (draft data, dirty
compare, the contacts-page hand-off) as RFC 5322 group syntax
("Team: a@x, b@y;"). A bare colon reliably opens a group there because
display names containing a colon are always quoted. Typed text only
parses as a group when it carries at least one valid member, so stray
"Subject: hello" input stays a plain recipient.
RecipientSuggestion gains an optional group field; plugins that ignore
it keep working unchanged.
Linus Rath
bartfaizoli76
Linus Rath
Paulhenry Saux
dealerweb
Paulhenry SauxandLinus Rath
Niklas Voss