* fix(server): publish candidate pages as immutable snapshots Global::candidate_ui is a plain global with no lock. The IPC worker rebuilds and destroys its vectors while the UI thread paints from them, and the handoff is an asynchronous PostMessage, so the worker returns to its loop and pops the next task without waiting. A second keystroke, or an async english.db candidate arrival, could free the page_views buffer and its strings while FillItemsFromUi held a reference into it. ShowItemContextMenu reads the same vectors from a mouse callback with no message handoff at all. The worker now copies each finished page into an immutable snapshot and publishes it at the single point where the rebuild completes; every UI-thread reader loads that snapshot once and reads only its own copy. PostMessage is deliberately left alone: the worker also serves UI-originated tasks, so a synchronous handoff would invite a cross-thread deadlock. * fix(server): bound the aux and diagnostic pipe reads Both listeners serve a single pipe instance inline and polled a NOWAIT handle for as long as the process ran, breaking only on a read that succeeded or failed with something other than ERROR_NO_DATA. A client that connected and never wrote held the only instance forever, so the loop never returned to ConnectNamedPipe and no later client was accepted, permanently losing the langbar right-click channel and the terminal-deactivation teardown fallback. Give both loops the same deadline the hello reads already use and go back to accepting when it expires. * fix(server): snapshot the voice config and replace config.toml atomically GetConfiguredVoiceInput handed out a reference to a global that LoadImeConfig rewrites from the IPC worker thread, clearing and refilling two std::map members and around twenty strings. The voice control thread and the low-level keyboard hook, which copies the struct on every keystroke, walked those nodes as they were freed. LoadImeConfig now parses into a local and publishes it in one step under a process-local shared_mutex, and the getter returns a snapshot by value. The file lock is deliberately not reused for readers: it is a named cross-process mutex with a five second wait, and taking it in a keyboard hook would stall typing system-wide. WriteConfiguredValue also reopened the live config.toml with ios::trunc, so a crash mid-write destroyed the user settings and could leave the file unparseable for good. It now goes through WriteFileTextAtomically, which this file already uses elsewhere. That makes the directory entry swap atomic; it does not flush, so it is not a durability guarantee. * fix(ipc): restrict the server pipes to the owning account The pipe DACL granted Everyone FILE_ALL_ACCESS. That bit set includes FILE_CREATE_PIPE_INSTANCE, so any local account could add an instance to a name this server already owned and answer part of the connections in its place. The names are machine-global with no per-user component, and the TSF client opened them with no SQOS, so a squatter could also impersonate the connecting thread. Build the descriptor from the process owner SID and admit only LocalSystem, that account, and app containers with connect-only rights so UWP text input still works; fail pipe creation outright when the SID cannot be resolved rather than falling back to something permissive. Pass FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE on the first instance of each name so a squatted name fails loudly, and request SECURITY_IDENTIFICATION on the client side. Authenticating the peer process after connect is a larger change to the handshake and is not attempted here. * fix(tsf): guard the null focus paths and unadvise the compartment sink _CandidateChangeNotification treated ITfThreadMgr::GetFocus and ITfDocumentMgr::GetTop as if they could only fail through a FAILED HRESULT. Both return S_OK with a null out-pointer when nothing has focus or the document stack is empty, and the results were dereferenced unconditionally, so an external UILess host calling Finalize while focus moved away crashed the host application. The sibling _RequestCancelComposition in the same class already checks both. CLangBarItemButton::CleanUp only unregistered the compartment inside the SUCCEEDED branch of a CoCreateInstance, then deleted the sink regardless. This TIP registers COM-less activation support, where that call does fail, and the sink was freed while TSF still held it advised. Unadvising never needed the thread manager, so it now runs unconditionally before the deletes. * fix(ui): drop the cached visuals when the scene is replaced Window caches focused, hovered and captured Visual pointers into the scene tree, and SetScene destroyed that tree without clearing them. Toggling the input mode rebuilds the floating toolbar scene, so the next mouse move dispatched a virtual call through a freed object. Clear all three before the assignment, and release the capture only when this window actually holds it: an adopted HWND may never have called SetCapture, and capturedVisual_ is set even when it did not. * fix(settings): scope external skin CSS through the CSS parser injectScopedSkinCss concatenated a skin toolbar.css into an @scope block as text. Block nesting is textual, so a leading close brace in the skin ended the block early and the rest styled the whole settings window. The host validates only the skin file name, never the body, and candidatePreviewCss interpolated unvalidated colour strings into rule bodies the same way. Create the scope rule empty and re-insert every rule parsed out of the skin as a child of it, so nothing lands outside however the braces are balanced, and accept a colour only in the plain notations we actually render. * fix(release): gate the dictionary source commit on its default branch verify_published iterated only data["repositories"], but the dictionary block pins a source_commit exactly like they do. The manifest check merely proves the release agrees with the lock about that commit, which a branch commit satisfies just as happily, so a dictionary built from an unmerged branch shipped with the provenance the gate exists to refuse. Run the dictionary through the same loop under its own name, resolving its repository from the lock. A retired dictionary repository that no longer answers is reported rather than failing the release: its published artifacts are immutable history, and being unable to re-check them is not the same as finding them unmerged.
Tests
This project now includes a lightweight regression test target wired into the main CMake build.
What It Covers
Current tests focus on high-value IME behaviors that are easy to accidentally break during refactors:
shuangpinscheme request constructionquanpinscheme request construction- case-preserving shuangpin segmentation
- full-helpcode detection
engine + shuangpincontinuation behavior- cloud suggestion trigger timing for shuangpin
The goal is not to fully simulate the whole IME UI pipeline yet. The goal is to protect the core input rules and session behavior.
Build and run
Run these commands from the MSIME-Windows repository root after preparing
vcpkg and Boost with python server/scripts/prepare_env.py:
python scripts/product_lock.py fetch-dictionaries --staging-root .
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw 'Dictionary verification failed' }
$env:LOCALAPPDATA = Join-Path $PWD 'build/test-data/user-local'
$env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR = Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA 'metasequoiaime'
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force $env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR | Out-Null
Copy-Item MetasequoiaImeDict/out/* $env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR -Force
Copy-Item vendor/MetasequoiaImeEngine/helpcode/helpcodes $env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR -Recurse -Force
Copy-Item server/assets/tables/* $env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR -Force
Copy-Item server/assets/config/config.toml $env:METASEQUOIA_IME_DATA_DIR -Force
.\server\tests\scripts\llaunch.ps1 -Configuration Release
Use a dedicated PowerShell terminal: these environment variables isolate both Windows helpers and the shared Engine from the installed user's data for the rest of that session. The scripts run CTest; they do not launch the interactive Server, install or register the input method. CI additionally runs the native Win32/x64 pipe probe after building the full Server.
Tests belong to the Server CMake project, which provides the Engine, GUI and
third-party targets. server/tests/CMakeLists.txt is an add_subdirectory input,
not an independent project. The obsolete test presets have been removed; an old
locally generated server/tests/CMakePresets.json is no longer used.
Once test data is prepared, the convenience scripts work from any directory:
.\server\tests\scripts\llaunch.ps1 -Configuration Release # build, then CTest
.\server\tests\scripts\lrun.ps1 -Configuration Release # CTest only
Omitting -Configuration selects Debug in server/build; Release uses
server/build-release. Both compile MetasequoiaImeServerTests and
test_webview_contract in the parent build tree. Configuration, compilation,
test failures and an empty CTest registry return failure rather than launching a
stale executable or reporting success.
The equivalent direct CTest command from the repository root is:
ctest --test-dir server/build-release -C Release --output-on-failure --no-tests=error
Test Layout
tests/src/main.cpp- tiny custom test runner
tests/includes/test_framework.h- lightweight assertion helpers
tests/src/test_shuangpin_scheme.cpp- shuangpin scheme unit tests
tests/src/test_quanpin_scheme.cpp- quanpin scheme unit tests
tests/src/test_shuangpin_query.cpp- query/helper function tests
tests/src/test_engine_shuangpin_session.cpp- session-level behavior tests
Recommended Practice
When you change input behavior, add a regression test if the change affects:
- input segmentation
- space/enter/backspace behavior
- helpcode handling
- continuation after candidate selection
- create-word flow
- cloud suggestion timing
The best tests in this project are the ones that capture a concrete input example that previously broke.