Drag a file out of the Files tab onto the host desktop

The Files tab could accept a drop but never produce one: getting a file
out meant "Save to host…" and a file picker. This adds the other
direction.

Two constraints shape it. `dragDropEnabled` is on — TerminalView needs
it, since the native drag-drop event is the only one carrying dropped
file paths — and it blocks HTML5 drag inside the webview, so `draggable`
plus `DataTransfer.setData("DownloadURL", …)` was never available. The
gesture is therefore pointer events into `tauri-plugin-drag`, the same
shape and the same reason as the tab strip's drag. And the file being
dragged does not exist on the host at all: it lives in a container, and
the OS can only drag a real host path.

So a drag-out is a copy first and a drag second.
`stage_container_file_for_drag` materialises the file into
`<os-temp>/triple-c-drag-out/<session>/<slot>/<name>` through the same
`fetch_container_file` the download and the viewer use, keeps the
original filename (a dropped `tmp1234` is not a file anyone wants), and
caps at the 256 MiB an upload already caps at, naming "Save to host…" in
the refusal. The path comes from Tauri's path API rather than `/tmp`,
because on Windows it is neither.

The staging directory has a lifecycle, because whole files accumulating
in the host temp dir would be the disk problem this project just fixed,
in a new place: cleared on exit inside the existing teardown (still
guarded on the main window), and reaped at startup for whatever a crash
left behind.

The copy is also an async gap in the middle of a gesture that feels
instantaneous, and the OS only adopts a drag while the button is still
down. Small files beat the pointer; large ones do not — so the staged
path is cached per entry (keyed on size and mtime, so an edited file
re-stages) and the pane says the copy is ready and to drag again, which
is an instruction rather than an apology because the retry is immediate.
A per-file slot keeps `a/notes.txt` and `b/notes.txt` from becoming the
same host path.

"Save to host…" stays exactly as it was. Drag-out is the enhancement;
a platform that refuses `startDrag` says so and points back at it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GBq2rGum6GX7xXgsas1fDc
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2026-08-23 09:12:59 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent bb41275cea
commit 1c834a0b08
19 changed files with 1205 additions and 26 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const uploadFileToContainer = vi.fn(async () => {});
const renameContainerPath = vi.fn(async () => "");
const createContainerDirectory = vi.fn(async () => "");
const readContainerFile = vi.fn();
const stageContainerFileForDrag = vi.fn(async () => "/tmp/triple-c-drag-out/s1/notes.txt");
vi.mock("../../../lib/tauri-commands", () => ({
listContainerFiles: (p: string, path: string) => listContainerFiles(p, path),
@@ -18,6 +19,13 @@ vi.mock("../../../lib/tauri-commands", () => ({
createContainerDirectory: (p: string, parent: string, n: string) =>
createContainerDirectory(p, parent, n),
readContainerFile: (p: string, path: string, max?: number) => readContainerFile(p, path, max),
stageContainerFileForDrag: (p: string, path: string) => stageContainerFileForDrag(p, path),
}));
/** The OS-level drag. Nothing in jsdom can start one, so it is only observed. */
const startDrag = vi.fn(async () => {});
vi.mock("@crabnebula/tauri-plugin-drag", () => ({
startDrag: (opts: unknown) => startDrag(opts),
}));
const save = vi.fn(async () => "/host/out");
@@ -78,9 +86,32 @@ async function drop(paths: string[], position = { x: 100, y: 100 }) {
});
}
/**
* A pointer event carrying real coordinates.
*
* jsdom implements no `PointerEvent` and Testing Library's synthesized one has
* no coordinates — which is the whole gesture here, since the drag only starts
* once the pointer has travelled past the threshold. `MouseEvent` has them, and
* React dispatches on the type name either way.
*/
function pointer(el: Element, type: string, clientX: number, clientY: number) {
fireEvent(
el,
new MouseEvent(type, { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, clientX, clientY, button: 0 }),
);
}
/** Press on a row and move far enough to become a drag, leaving the button down. */
function dragRow(el: Element) {
pointer(el, "pointerdown", 10, 10);
pointer(el, "pointermove", 60, 10);
}
beforeEach(() => {
vi.clearAllMocks();
dragHandler = null;
stageContainerFileForDrag.mockResolvedValue("/tmp/triple-c-drag-out/s1/notes.txt");
startDrag.mockResolvedValue(undefined);
listContainerFiles.mockResolvedValue([
entry("src", { is_directory: true, path: "/workspace/src" }),
entry("notes.txt"),
@@ -93,6 +124,10 @@ beforeEach(() => {
// Not implemented in jsdom; the image preview needs both halves.
URL.createObjectURL = vi.fn(() => "blob:mock-url");
URL.revokeObjectURL = vi.fn();
// Nor is canvas, which the drag preview draws on. Stubbed to the null jsdom
// would return anyway, minus the "not implemented" noise on every drag —
// `dragPreview.test.ts` covers what the fallback then produces.
vi.spyOn(HTMLCanvasElement.prototype, "getContext").mockReturnValue(null);
});
describe("FilesTab listing", () => {
@@ -348,3 +383,120 @@ describe("FilesTab save to host", () => {
expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "Save src to host" })).toBeNull();
});
});
describe("FilesTab drag-out", () => {
it("stages the file on the host and starts the native drag on that copy", async () => {
// The container path is not draggable — only the host copy is — so the
// thing handed to the OS must be what staging returned.
await renderTab();
dragRow(screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!);
await waitFor(() => expect(startDrag).toHaveBeenCalled());
expect(stageContainerFileForDrag).toHaveBeenCalledWith("p1", "/workspace/notes.txt");
expect(startDrag).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
expect.objectContaining({ item: ["/tmp/triple-c-drag-out/s1/notes.txt"] }),
);
});
it("never drags a directory, which cannot be staged as one file", async () => {
await renderTab();
dragRow(screen.getByText("src").closest("tr")!);
await act(async () => {
await Promise.resolve();
});
expect(stageContainerFileForDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
expect(startDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("stays a click until the pointer has actually travelled", async () => {
await renderTab();
const row = screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!;
pointer(row, "pointerdown", 10, 10);
pointer(row, "pointermove", 12, 11);
await act(async () => {
await Promise.resolve();
});
expect(stageContainerFileForDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("says what went wrong instead of leaving a gesture that did nothing", async () => {
stageContainerFileForDrag.mockRejectedValue(
'900 MB is too large to drag out (limit 256 MB) — use "Save to host…" instead.',
);
await renderTab();
dragRow(screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!);
await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByRole("alert").textContent).toContain("too large"));
expect(startDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("points at the fallback when the platform refuses the drag itself", async () => {
startDrag.mockRejectedValue("drag image not found");
await renderTab();
dragRow(screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!);
await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByRole("alert").textContent).toContain("Save to host"));
});
it("tells the user the copy is ready when the drag outlived the gesture", async () => {
// Staging is a whole-file copy, and the OS only adopts a drag while the
// button is down. Releasing mid-copy used to be — and must not be — a
// gesture that did nothing and explained nothing.
let release: (path: string) => void = () => {};
stageContainerFileForDrag.mockReturnValue(
new Promise<string>((resolve) => {
release = resolve;
}),
);
await renderTab();
const row = screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!;
dragRow(row);
pointer(row, "pointerup", 60, 10);
await act(async () => {
release("/tmp/triple-c-drag-out/s1/notes.txt");
await Promise.resolve();
});
await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText(/is ready/).textContent).toContain("notes.txt"));
expect(startDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("drags immediately on the retry, reusing the copy it already made", async () => {
// The instruction "drag it again" is only honest if the second attempt does
// not repeat the copy that made the first one too slow.
await renderTab();
const row = screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!;
dragRow(row);
await waitFor(() => expect(startDrag).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
pointer(row, "pointerup", 60, 10);
dragRow(row);
await waitFor(() => expect(startDrag).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
expect(stageContainerFileForDrag).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
});
it("leaves Save to host… working — drag-out is the enhancement, not the replacement", async () => {
await renderTab();
await act(async () => {
fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("Save notes.txt to host"));
});
expect(downloadContainerFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith("p1", "/workspace/notes.txt", "/host/out");
expect(startDrag).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
});
it("still accepts a drop into the pane — the two directions coexist", async () => {
// The drag-out gesture is pointer-driven precisely so it does not need the
// HTML5 machinery that Tauri's native drop listener rules out.
await renderTab();
dragRow(screen.getByText("notes.txt").closest("tr")!);
await waitFor(() => expect(startDrag).toHaveBeenCalled());
await drop(["/host/a.txt"]);
expect(uploadFileToContainer).toHaveBeenCalledWith("p1", "/host/a.txt", "/workspace");
});
});