This is for defence in depth against security holes either in Puzzles or
in the KaiAds API. I haven't found any documentation of what KaiAds'
CSP requirements are, but allowing scripts and frames from *.kaiads.com
seems to be enough to let the test adverts work.
The default behaviour of JSON::PP's encode_json output is to write the
keys of a hash in Perl's natural hash order, which isn't consistent
between runs of the same script due to hash function randomisation.
This causes my build system to complain when successive builds from
the same source revision don't produce the same output.
Easily fixed: JSON::PP already has a switch to ensure consistent
ordering, it's just a matter of finding it and turning it on.
The Kai Store makes display of advertisements provided by the KaiAds API
mandatory. I don't want such adverts to be inconvenient for the users,
so I've just gone for adding a menu item that will display one. This is
probably a little too crude, but it's good for testing things.
The actual KaiAds API code is not free software, so it's not included
here. My intention is to add it by hand to the Zip files for Kai Store
uploads. Without it, the advertising code does nothing.
This only happens if something edits manifest.pl to provide a version
number, but Buildscr can do that. KaiOS manifests are documented as
requiring dotted-decimal version numbers. In fact, the restrictions are
much stricter than that, and unacceptable version numbers can break the
KaiStore developer portal. YY.MM.DD version numbers seem to be
acceptable.
KaiOS (which is based on Firefox OS, formerly Boot to Gecko) runs its
"native" apps in a Web browser, so this is essentially a rather
specialised version of the JavaScript front-end. Indeed, the JavaScript
and C parts are the same as the Web version.
There are three major parts that are specific to the KaiOS build.
First, there's manifest.pl, which generates a KaiOS-specific JSON
manifest describing each puzzle.
Second, there's a new HTML page generator, apppage.pl, that generates an
HTML page that is much less like a Web page, and much more like an
application, than the one generated by jspage.pl. It expects to build a
single HTML page at a time and gets all its limited knowledge of the
environment from its command line. This makes it gratuitously different
from jspage.pl and javapage.pl, but makes it easier to run from the
build system.
And finally, there's the CMake glue that assembles the necessary parts
for each application in a directory. This includes the manifest, the
HTML, the JavaScript, the KaiOS-specific icons (generated as part of the
GTK build) and a copy of the HTML documentation. The directory is
assembled using CMake's install() function, and can be installed on a
KaiOS device using the developer tools.
