fix(memory-sources): pick folders with the native chooser, never store a bare name - #6014
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Browse on the folder memory source was an `<input type="file" webkitdirectory>`.
That element cannot report where the directory it returned lives: the handler
read `File.path`, which is an Electron extension that none of Wry's renderers
(WKWebView, WebView2, WebKitGTK) implement, and fell through to
`webkitRelativePath.split('/')[0]` — the directory's bare name, location
discarded.
The stored source then looked configured and could never sync. The reader
anchors a relative path on the workspace, so it failed once per cycle,
forever, with `folder does not exist: docs`. Nothing downstream could repair
it, because `docs` is not a relative path to the chosen directory.
Browse now calls a native chooser in the shell, which returns an absolute path
on every platform because the OS owns the selection. When no absolute path can
be obtained the field reports it and stays as it was: a visible error is
recoverable, a silently stored name is not.
Hand-typed paths are untouched, relative ones included — those resolve against
the workspace at read time, which this field deliberately does not
second-guess.
Closes tinyhumansai#5831
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe folder memory-source field now uses a Tauri OS-native directory picker. Selected absolute paths pass through typed frontend results and backend UTF-8 validation. Manual entry remains supported. Tests cover success, cancellation, failure, and non-resolvable paths. ChangesFolder picker flow
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The folder field now uses the native directory chooser to store selected absolute paths while preserving manually entered paths. No merge-blocking risk is currently identified. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FolderField
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participant OSFolderChooser
FolderField->>pickDirectoryNatively: Browse
pickDirectoryNatively->>Tauri: invoke pick_directory_via_dialog
Tauri->>OSFolderChooser: open directory chooser
OSFolderChooser-->>Tauri: absolute path or cancellation
Tauri-->>pickDirectoryNatively: picker result
pickDirectoryNatively-->>FolderField: typed result
FolderField-->>FolderField: store path or show translated error
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In `@app/src-tauri/src/directory_picker.rs`:
- Line 76: Update the pick_directory_via_dialog logging so it confirms a
directory was selected without interpolating or otherwise exposing picked;
preserve picked unchanged for the returned command result.
- Line 51: Update the directory picker return path to use path.to_str() and
return an error when the path is not valid Unicode, rather than using
Path::display().to_string(). Add a Unix-only test constructing an invalid path
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…-8, stable analytics id Three findings from Codex and CodeRabbit on the folder picker, all valid. **Do not log the chosen path.** An absolute directory path carries the user's login name and their private folder names, and the shell writes to a daily support log users are asked to share. The success line now reports the component depth only, and both lines drop to `debug` per the logging rules. **Reject a path that is not valid UTF-8.** A Unix directory name is bytes, not text, and `Path::display()` substitutes U+FFFD rather than failing — so a directory with non-UTF-8 bytes would have been stored as a corrupted string that does not resolve, recreating the failing-sync behaviour this change exists to prevent. `to_str()` refuses instead. The mangled rendering is not echoed into the error either: it is useless and it carries the login name. **Give Browse a stable analytics identifier.** The raw button would have taken a DOM-order fallback id that shifts whenever a sibling control moves, making the funnel data unreliable. It uses the shared `Button` now, with a content-free `analyticsId`.
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webkitdirectoryinput is removed. It could never report a location in any renderer this app ships.rfdwithtauri-plugin-dialog's own feature list,default-features = false. Thexdg-portalcohort that motivated sheddingrfdin refactor(modules): load TinyJuice outside dependency graph #5541 is not enabled.Problem
AddMemorySourceFields.tsxrendered Browse as<input type="file" webkitdirectory>. That element hands backFileobjects, and aFilecarries no filesystem location. The handler readFile.path, then fell through:File.pathis an Electron extension. No web engine implements it — not WKWebView, not WebView2, not WebKitGTK, not plain Chromium. So on every shipped build the fallback is the only branch that runs, and a user who picks a folder gets a source storingdocs.The stored source then looks configured and can never sync.
FolderReaderanchors a relative path on the workspace, so it fails once per cycle, forever:Nothing in between could repair that, because there is nothing to repair:
docsis not a relative path to the chosen directory, it is a name whose location was thrown away. The failure also surfaces at sync time, far from the picker that caused it.Why #5830 / tinymemory#113 do not cover this
Those resolve a relative path against the workspace, which is correct and unrelated. Resolving
docsyields<workspace>/docs— still not the directory the user chose. It is a different wrong answer with a better error message.Why the previous attempt (#5832) was withdrawn, and why that reason no longer holds
#5832 was closed on 2026-08-27 with: "the native chooser it adds cannot run in the renderer the app ships … The app runs CEF. Measured on a live build: 66 CEF helper processes."
That measurement was of a stale build.
1843706c3— 2026-08-08, "refactor(tauri): replace CEF runtime with upstream Wry" — deletedcef_preflight,cef_profile,cef_singleton_wait,cef_stale_reap,fake_camera,webview_apisand the vendoredtauri-cefsubmodule.app/src-tauri/Cargo.tomlhas readfeatures = ["wry", …]ever since, and the first release carrying it was v0.63.17, tagged 2026-08-21 — six days before that PR was closed.Two consequences:
File.pathis unavailable". Under Wry it is never available, so this is not a renderer-dependent edge case — it is what Browse does, every time, on every platform, on every build since v0.63.17.__TAURI_INTERNALS__.invokenatively, soisTauri()is true and a Tauri command is reachable.pickDirectoryNatively()is gated onisTauri()exactly as before; what changed is the runtime underneath it.Solution
1. A native chooser in the shell
directory_picker::pick_directory_via_dialogtakes no input and returnsOk(Some(abs))/Ok(None)on cancel /Errif the dialog could not run or produced a non-absolute path. The absolute-path rule is split intoabsolute_path_stringso it is unit-testable without a window server.Trust boundary: deliberately none. Unlike
artifact_commands, which re-validates a renderer-supplied path because there the renderer supplies it, this command takes no input and returns only what the user chose in an OS-owned dialog. The renderer cannot steer it, and picking a folder to index is the user's decision to make anywhere on their disk.2. The dependency question, which is the part worth reviewing
rfdwas removed from this shell in #5541 (artifact_commands.rs:9), so #5832's "already in this shell, no new dependency" is no longer true. It is re-added deliberately and narrowly:tauri-plugin-dialog's own, verbatim.gtk3is the correct Linux backend precisely because the host is GTK-based;rfdsteers non-GTK apps to the portal instead.ashpd,zbusand theasync-io/pollingstack all arrive throughrfd's defaultxdg-portalfeature (xdg-portal = ["ashpd", "urlencoding", "pollster"]), which is off here.tokio = ["ashpd?/tokio"]— the?means it does not enableashpd.rfditself.gtk-sysis already in the Linux graph viatray-icon→tauri; on macOSrfd's whole subtree (objc2,objc2-app-kit,block2,dispatch2,log) is already present via wry.tauri-plugin-dialogwas considered and rejected: it depends on the samerfdand dragstauri-plugin-fsbehind it, for one command that needs no filesystem permission surface.3. The ACL entry, which is easy to miss
Custom commands in this shell are gated by the capability allowlist, not just
generate_handler!. Withoutpermissions/allow-directory-picker.tomland its identifier incapabilities/default.json, the command compiles, registers, and is then denied at runtime. Both are included, followingallow-workspace-files/allow-artifact-download.4.
FolderFieldextractedAddMemorySourceFields.tsxwas 555 lines before this change and its own header cites a "~500-line budget". Adding the picker logic pushed it to 573, soFolderFieldmoved to its own file; the parent is now 495.Impact
rfdbeing the same crate, at the same version, with the same features thattauri-plugin-dialogships, rather than on my having run them.Verification
cargo check(shell, post-merge)cargo test --lib directory_pickercargo fmt --check(both manifests)pnpm typecheckpnpm lintpnpm lint:ui-tokenspnpm i18n:checkpnpm i18n:english:checkpnpm buildcargo clippy --all-targets(shell)New tests assert the invariant that matters — Browse never writes a value that cannot resolve: absolute path stored on success; nothing stored and an alert shown on
unavailableand onfailed; nothing stored and no alert on cancel; the error clears when the user types; and noinput[type="file"]renders any more. Rust side pins thatdocsis refused and that the message names the offending value.5. Review round (Codex + CodeRabbit)
Three distinct findings, all valid, all fixed in
9c4b94a54:depthonly, and both log lines movedinfo->debugper the Rust logging rule.Path::display()substitutes U+FFFD rather than failing, so a Unix directory with non-UTF-8 bytes would have been stored as a corrupted string that does not resolve.to_str()refuses. Unix-gated test added; the mangled rendering is kept out of the error too, for the same privacy reason as the logging fix.analyticsId. It uses the sharedButtonnow instead of a raw one, so the funnel id no longer shifts with DOM order. (The element it replaced was a<label>with no analytics identity either, so this makes Browse measurable for the first time rather than restoring something.)Submission Checklist
absolute_path_string(3 unit tests) plus therfdcall, which needs a window server and a user8.2.6 Folder-source path picker## Relateddocs/RELEASE-MANUAL-SMOKE.mdCloses #NNNRelated
Closes #5831
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