Add protocol activation support for Frontends - #288
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Register the 'moonlight' URI protocol and handle protocol activations. Adds App::OnActivated and URI parsing to accept parameters (host, appId, appName, desktop, resume, launchOnExit) and a truthy flag parser. New ApplicationState fields track pending protocol host/app/resume and a launchOnExit URI. HostSelectorPage gains HandleProtocolHostSelect to resolve and auto-connect saved hosts; AppPage applies pending app/connect requests after apps are fetched. Streaming exit now launches the return URI (launchOnExit) if provided. Ensures cold-start behavior and avoids interrupting an active stream.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe app now supports ChangesProtocol activation flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Protocol activation currently has several merge-blocking correctness hazards: malformed app IDs can trigger an invalid connection, asynchronous callbacks can access a destroyed page, activation can race initialization or crash after failed navigation, and stale return URIs can launch on later streams. These issues can cause crashes or unintended launches, so the PR is not merge-ready until the guards, lifetime handling, initialization sharing and error handling, and URI reset and validation are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Windows
participant App
participant ApplicationState
participant HostSelectorPage
participant AppPage
Windows->>App: Activate moonlight URI
App->>ApplicationState: Store pending launch state
App->>HostSelectorPage: Resolve requested host
HostSelectorPage->>AppPage: Connect to selected host
AppPage->>AppPage: Resolve and connect to selected app
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Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp (1)
295-303: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider showing the user why the protocol launch stopped.
The failure path writes to the log only. The user started the app from an external frontend and arrives at the host list with no explanation. Two distinct causes exist here: no saved host matched, and the matched host is not reachable.
This codebase already has
ModalDialog, used inAppPage::ExecuteCloseAndStart. Dispatch a short message through it before you return.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@App.xaml.cpp`:
- Around line 200-202: Check the boolean result of rootFrame->Navigate before
assigning or using m_menuPage in the App initialization flow. If navigation
fails, stop the path safely and avoid dereferencing m_menuPage; preserve the
existing HostSelectorPage setup for successful navigation.
- Around line 196-198: Reset launchOnExitUri on every activation by assigning it
unconditionally from request.launchOnExit when hasLaunchOnExit is true,
otherwise setting it to nullptr in App.xaml.cpp lines 196-198. Also add a
launchOnExitUri nullptr reset alongside the existing pending protocol field
resets in Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp lines 294-303.
- Around line 209-217: Update the application initialization flow in OnLaunched
and this activation path to share a single Concurrency::task<void> using
m_initStarted and m_initTask, preventing concurrent calls to
ApplicationState::Init. Add the corresponding members to the App class, mark
initialization as started before launching it, and have subsequent entry points
continue the shared task rather than calling Init again. Attach an
error-handling continuation so Init failures are observed, while invoking
m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded only after successful completion.
- Around line 132-134: Validate the conversion in the appId parsing branch
before assigning request.appId or setting request.hasTarget: reject non-numeric
input and any parsed value less than or equal to zero, using wcstol’s
end-pointer and range/error checks. Only accept a fully consumed, positive
integer so invalid appId values fall back to the existing appName or app-list
behavior.
In `@Pages/AppPage.xaml.cpp`:
- Line 133: In the dispatcher lambda within AppPage’s relevant method, capture a
tracked AppPage reference using the existing ExecuteCloseAndStart pattern
instead of raw this, then replace host and this->Connect accesses with
that->host and that->Connect.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp`:
- Around line 295-303: Update the failure branch in the protocol activation flow
around target and Connected to display a short ModalDialog message before
returning, using distinct text for no saved host match versus an unreachable
matched host. Follow the existing ModalDialog usage in
AppPage::ExecuteCloseAndStart, while preserving the pending protocol state
cleanup.
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| } else if (_wcsicmp(name, L"appId") == 0 && hasValue) { | ||
| request.appId = (int)wcstol(value->Data(), nullptr, 10); | ||
| request.hasTarget = true; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate the appId conversion before you accept it.
wcstol returns 0 for any non-numeric input. moonlight:?appId=abc therefore sets pendingProtocolAppId = 0. In Pages/AppPage.xaml.cpp line 122 the check pendingProtocolAppId >= 0 passes, line 139 sets targetId = 0, and line 154 calls Connect(0). The app then navigates to StreamPage with an invalid app id instead of falling back to appName or the app list.
Line 135 of Pages/AppPage.xaml.cpp treats CurrentlyRunningAppId != 0 as "nothing running", so 0 is not a usable app id in this codebase. Reject non-numeric input and non-positive results.
🐛 Proposed fix to validate the parsed app id
} else if (_wcsicmp(name, L"appId") == 0 && hasValue) {
- request.appId = (int)wcstol(value->Data(), nullptr, 10);
- request.hasTarget = true;
+ wchar_t* end = nullptr;
+ const wchar_t* begin = value->Data();
+ long parsed = wcstol(begin, &end, 10);
+ if (end != begin && *end == L'\0' && parsed > 0 && parsed <= INT_MAX) {
+ request.appId = (int)parsed;
+ request.hasTarget = true;
+ } else {
+ moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: ignoring invalid appId\n");
+ }
} else if (_wcsicmp(name, L"appName") == 0 && hasValue) {📝 Committable suggestion
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| } else if (_wcsicmp(name, L"appId") == 0 && hasValue) { | |
| request.appId = (int)wcstol(value->Data(), nullptr, 10); | |
| request.hasTarget = true; | |
| } else if (_wcsicmp(name, L"appId") == 0 && hasValue) { | |
| wchar_t* end = nullptr; | |
| const wchar_t* begin = value->Data(); | |
| long parsed = wcstol(begin, &end, 10); | |
| if (end != begin && *end == L'\0' && parsed > 0 && parsed <= INT_MAX) { | |
| request.appId = (int)parsed; | |
| request.hasTarget = true; | |
| } else { | |
| moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: ignoring invalid appId\n"); | |
| } |
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In `@App.xaml.cpp` around lines 132 - 134, Validate the conversion in the appId
parsing branch before assigning request.appId or setting request.hasTarget:
reject non-numeric input and any parsed value less than or equal to zero, using
wcstol’s end-pointer and range/error checks. Only accept a fully consumed,
positive integer so invalid appId values fall back to the existing appName or
app-list behavior.
| if (request.hasLaunchOnExit) { | ||
| state->launchOnExitUri = request.launchOnExit; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
launchOnExitUri has no reset path. Every other pending protocol field is cleared both when a new activation arrives and when host selection fails. launchOnExitUri is cleared at neither site, so a URI from an earlier or failed activation still launches when the next stream exits.
App.xaml.cpp#L196-L198: assignstate->launchOnExitUriunconditionally, and set it tonullptrwhenrequest.hasLaunchOnExitis false.Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp#L294-L303: addstate->launchOnExitUri = nullptr;beside the existingpendingProtocolAppId,pendingProtocolAppName, andpendingProtocolResumeresets.
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App.xaml.cpp#L196-L198(this comment)Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp#L294-L303
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In `@App.xaml.cpp` around lines 196 - 198, Reset launchOnExitUri on every
activation by assigning it unconditionally from request.launchOnExit when
hasLaunchOnExit is true, otherwise setting it to nullptr in App.xaml.cpp lines
196-198. Also add a launchOnExitUri nullptr reset alongside the existing pending
protocol field resets in Pages/HostSelectorPage.xaml.cpp lines 294-303.
| rootFrame->Navigate(TypeName(HostSelectorPage::typeid)); | ||
| rootFrame->BackStack->Clear(); | ||
| m_menuPage = dynamic_cast<HostSelectorPage^>(rootFrame->Content); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Check the Navigate result before you use m_menuPage.
Frame::Navigate returns bool. The return value is ignored. If navigation fails, rootFrame->Content is not a HostSelectorPage, so the dynamic_cast at line 202 yields nullptr. Line 213 and line 216 then dereference m_menuPage and the app crashes. App::OnNavigationFailed throws instead of preventing this path.
🐛 Proposed fix to guard the navigation result
- rootFrame->Navigate(TypeName(HostSelectorPage::typeid));
- rootFrame->BackStack->Clear();
- m_menuPage = dynamic_cast<HostSelectorPage^>(rootFrame->Content);
+ if (!rootFrame->Navigate(TypeName(HostSelectorPage::typeid))) {
+ moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: navigation to HostSelectorPage failed\n");
+ Window::Current->Activate();
+ return;
+ }
+ rootFrame->BackStack->Clear();
+ m_menuPage = dynamic_cast<HostSelectorPage^>(rootFrame->Content);
+ if (m_menuPage == nullptr) {
+ moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: HostSelectorPage instance unavailable\n");
+ Window::Current->Activate();
+ return;
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| rootFrame->Navigate(TypeName(HostSelectorPage::typeid)); | |
| rootFrame->BackStack->Clear(); | |
| m_menuPage = dynamic_cast<HostSelectorPage^>(rootFrame->Content); | |
| if (!rootFrame->Navigate(TypeName(HostSelectorPage::typeid))) { | |
| moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: navigation to HostSelectorPage failed\n"); | |
| Window::Current->Activate(); | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| rootFrame->BackStack->Clear(); | |
| m_menuPage = dynamic_cast<HostSelectorPage^>(rootFrame->Content); | |
| if (m_menuPage == nullptr) { | |
| moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation: HostSelectorPage instance unavailable\n"); | |
| Window::Current->Activate(); | |
| return; | |
| } |
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In `@App.xaml.cpp` around lines 200 - 202, Check the boolean result of
rootFrame->Navigate before assigning or using m_menuPage in the App
initialization flow. If navigation fails, stop the path safely and avoid
dereferencing m_menuPage; preserve the existing HostSelectorPage setup for
successful navigation.
| auto that = this; | ||
| if (!m_stateLoaded) { | ||
| state->Init().then([that]() { | ||
| that->m_stateLoaded = true; | ||
| that->m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded(); | ||
| }); | ||
| } else { | ||
| m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded(); | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
m_stateLoaded does not prevent a second concurrent Init(), and the continuation swallows nothing.
Two problems exist in this block.
m_stateLoaded is set only in the continuation. If OnLaunched started Init() and that task has not completed, OnActivated sees m_stateLoaded == false and calls state->Init() a second time while the first is still running. ApplicationState::Init reads and writes the settings file, so two concurrent runs can corrupt or race on that state. Track "initialization started" separately, or store the task and continue from it.
The continuation also has no error handler. HostSelectorPage::OnStateLoaded adds a task-based continuation for this reason. If Init() throws here, the exception is unobserved and the process terminates.
🐛 Proposed fix to share one initialization task and observe errors
auto that = this;
if (!m_stateLoaded) {
- state->Init().then([that]() {
- that->m_stateLoaded = true;
- that->m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded();
- });
+ if (!m_initStarted) {
+ m_initStarted = true;
+ m_initTask = state->Init();
+ }
+ m_initTask.then([that]() {
+ that->m_stateLoaded = true;
+ if (that->m_menuPage != nullptr) that->m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded();
+ }, concurrency::task_continuation_context::get_current_winrt_context())
+ .then([](concurrency::task<void> t) {
+ try { t.get(); }
+ catch (const std::exception& ex) { moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Logf("Protocol activation Init exception: %s\n", ex.what()); }
+ catch (...) { moonlight_xbox_dx::Utils::Log("Protocol activation Init unknown exception\n"); }
+ });
} else {
m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded();
}This needs matching members in App.xaml.h:
bool m_initStarted = false;
Concurrency::task<void> m_initTask;Apply the same shared-task pattern in OnLaunched at lines 89-91 so both entry points observe one initialization.
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In `@App.xaml.cpp` around lines 209 - 217, Update the application initialization
flow in OnLaunched and this activation path to share a single
Concurrency::task<void> using m_initStarted and m_initTask, preventing
concurrent calls to ApplicationState::Init. Add the corresponding members to the
App class, mark initialization as started before launching it, and have
subsequent entry points continue the shared task rather than calling Init again.
Attach an error-handling continuation so Init failures are observed, while
invoking m_menuPage->OnStateLoaded only after successful completion.
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| // Dispatched at High priority so this runs after UpdateApps() has filled the Apps list | ||
| Windows::ApplicationModel::Core::CoreApplication::MainView->CoreWindow->Dispatcher->RunAsync( | ||
| Windows::UI::Core::CoreDispatcherPriority::High, ref new Windows::UI::Core::DispatchedHandler([this, requestedAppId, requestedAppName, resumeRequested]() { |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Capture a tracked reference instead of raw this.
In C++/CX a lambda that captures this inside a ref class stores a raw pointer. It does not keep the page alive. This handler runs later on the dispatcher. If the user navigates away from AppPage first, host at line 135 and this->Connect at line 154 touch a released object.
AppPage::ExecuteCloseAndStart at line 322 already uses auto that = this; for this reason. Use the same pattern here.
🐛 Proposed fix to hold a tracked reference
+ auto that = this;
// Dispatched at High priority so this runs after UpdateApps() has filled the Apps list
Windows::ApplicationModel::Core::CoreApplication::MainView->CoreWindow->Dispatcher->RunAsync(
- Windows::UI::Core::CoreDispatcherPriority::High, ref new Windows::UI::Core::DispatchedHandler([this, requestedAppId, requestedAppName, resumeRequested]() {
+ Windows::UI::Core::CoreDispatcherPriority::High, ref new Windows::UI::Core::DispatchedHandler([that, requestedAppId, requestedAppName, resumeRequested]() {Replace the host and this->Connect references in the body with that->host and that->Connect.
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In `@Pages/AppPage.xaml.cpp` at line 133, In the dispatcher lambda within
AppPage’s relevant method, capture a tracked AppPage reference using the
existing ExecuteCloseAndStart pattern instead of raw this, then replace host and
this->Connect accesses with that->host and that->Connect.
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Moonlight UWP is intended for use on Xbox only. I don't know if moonlight-qt has URI support but presumably it would be better if a link launched that client instead. |
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@andygrundman I was intentionally targeting uwp as there are now three different front ends available Xbox Dev Mode |
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Register the 'moonlight' URI protocol and handle protocol activations. Adds App::OnActivated and URI parsing to accept parameters (host, appId, appName, desktop, resume, launchOnExit) and a truthy flag parser. New ApplicationState fields track pending protocol host/app/resume and a launchOnExit URI. HostSelectorPage gains HandleProtocolHostSelect to resolve and auto-connect saved hosts; AppPage applies pending app/connect requests after apps are fetched. Streaming exit now launches the return URI (launchOnExit) if provided. Ensures cold-start behavior and avoids interrupting an active stream.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
moonlight:links to select a host and launch a specific application.Bug Fixes