oak-editor/crates/oakrender/README.md

# oakrender Rust crate

> Status: **implemented (M7 render wave)**. Every `todo!()` from the
> declaration draft is implemented; the crate builds, tests green
> (`cargo test`), and the C ABI surface in `include/render/*.h` is
> exported from `src/ffi.rs`. Deferred items are documented inline and
> in the **Deferred** section below.

## Scope

Replaces the C++ oakrender module (`src/render/src`): render manager,
ticket system + worker pool, textures and GPU backend dispatch, playback/
frame-hash caches, color processing (OCIO), the preview auto-cacher, and
the blit/display path.

Public contract: `include/render/*.h` (8 headers, ~165 functions) —
frozen, implemented verbatim by `src/ffi.rs`.

## Key architectural decisions (C++ → Rust mapping)

1. **The ProjectCopier inversion disappears.** C++ render deep-copied
   the node project with raw C++ calls (the biggest render→node
   coupling). In Rust this is impossible by construction: the copier
   calls `oaknode_project_deep_copy` / `sync_copy` (designed in the
   oaknode crate) through the C ABI. `copier.rs` here is a thin client.
2. **RenderProcessor's inheritance disappears.** C++
   `RenderProcessor : NodeTraverser` becomes `eval.rs` (the closed
   `JobSpec` set + the CPU-side hook implementations; graph traversal
   stays in oaknode).
3. **Ticket/watchers.** C++ RenderTicket/RenderTicketWatcher (Qt
   signals) become a ticket arena with completion callbacks —
   exactly-once delivery (`ticket.rs`), `FnOnce` boxes fired on the
   worker thread.
4. **GPU backend = wgpu (v25).** The C++ tree's backend plugin split
   (liboakgl2/liboakvulkan behind `renderbackend_c.h`) exists because
   C++ had no portable GPU abstraction. Rust has `wgpu` (Metal/Vulkan/
   GL/DX12 in one safe API), so the Rust crate uses `wgpu` directly —
   no backend plugins, no `renderbackend_c.h`, no dlopen. `backend.rs`
   owns the wgpu instance/device/queue, the texture registry and the
   WGSL blit pipeline. **Headless status: verified** — texture
   create/upload/download and the plain-copy blit run without any
   surface or event loop on macOS Metal (the GPU tests exercise them
   and skip gracefully when no adapter is available).
5. **Threading.** The worker pool is scoped threads with a job
   channel; every shared structure is `Mutex`/`RwLock`. Process
   isolation (`ProcessPool`) is preserved as a documented stub: it
   needs the oakengine_ipc worker binary, which is not wired this pass.
6. **OFX disappears from render.** pluginrenderer.cpp's functionality
   moves to the oakplugin crate; this crate only sees plugin jobs as
   opaque C ABI calls.

## Dependencies (registered)

| Crate | Version | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| `oakcore-rs` | path | Rational/TimeRange/PixelFormat value types (crate-internal) |
| `wgpu` | 25 | portable GPU backend — the direct replacement for the C++ GL/Vulkan backend plugins |
| `ocio-rs` | 0.2 | safe Rust bindings for OpenColorIO v2.5.2 (bundled real-OCIO build); the ColorProcessor implementation — OCIO is never rewritten |

## Layout

```
src/
  lib.rs        crate doc + module map
  error.rs      error codes (mirrors include/render/error.h)
  handle.rs     refcounted-handle scaffolding (facade entry points only)
  texture.rs    Texture value type (wraps backend textures / CPU frames)
  frame.rs      VideoParamsPod + Frame helpers
  cache.rs      PlaybackCache / FrameHashCache family + C++-parity disk state
  color.rs      ColorProcessor over ocio-rs + default config + LUT library
  manager.rs    RenderManager singleton + lifecycle + disk cache
  ticket.rs     Ticket arena, params, exactly-once completion delivery
  worker.rs     Worker pool + frozen pre-M15 ProcessPool facade stub +
                graph snapshot store
  scheduler.rs  M15 PreviewScheduler: interleaved shard claiming,
                priority lanes (seek/playback/background), crash reclaim
  ipc.rs        M15 render-worker IPC (moved from oak-worker): NDJSON
                control protocol (v1 + v2 messages) + the POSIX
                shared-memory frame-slot transport both pipe ends link
  procpool.rs   M15 ProcessDispatcher: spawn/handshake oak-worker
                processes, main-assigned slot batches, crash detection +
                restart, zero-copy ShmFrameRef completions
  autocacher.rs PreviewAutoCacher
  eval.rs       RenderHooks impl: the CPU evaluation seam
  backend.rs    wgpu device/queue/texture management + DisplayRenderer
  copier.rs     Render-side project copy client (bridge::node)
  cancelatom.rs the cancellation primitive
  bridge/       C ABI imports: node.rs, common.rs, codec.rs (dlsym-resolved)
  ffi.rs        include/render/*.h export layer
tests/          contract + golden tests (common/ has shared helpers)
```

## Hard rules

1. `CHandle` only appears at the facade boundary: the crate's internal
   calls pass Rust types directly; `handle::make_owned`/`get`/`get_mut`
   are the facade entry points the oakengine stubs call.
2. No `unsafe` outside `backend.rs` (GPU FFI), `bridge/`, and the M15
   process-isolation transport (`ipc.rs` / `procpool.rs`: POSIX shm +
   SPSC rings; every block carries its own SAFETY comment).
3. F32 + ACEScg pipeline invariants are asserted in tests, not in
   comments (see tests/pipeline_test.rs).

## Deferred (documented; tests gated with `#[ignore]`)

- **oakcodec frame payload I/O** — disk frame-cache read/write
  (`oakrender_frame_cache_load/save`) and footage decode go through the
  `bridge::codec` C ABI (EXR/JPEG). The oakcodec crate is a concurrent
  wave; until it lands these fail explainably and the success-path
  tests are `#[ignore = "needs oakcodec final"]`.
- **oaknode C ABI** — `oakrender_project_copier_set_project` /
  `get_copy` success paths need `oaknode_project_deep_copy`; the
  success-path copier tests are `#[ignore = "needs oaknode C ABI"]`.
- **Color-managed GPU blit** — the OCIO→WGSL shader generation is not
  in this pass: `GpuContext::blit` handles the plain copy and returns
  `Error::Failed` for a processor; the CPU path applies the processor
  in float. `oakrender_color_processor_create_transform` resolves the
  destination transform against the default config's reference role
  until the oakcommon color-transform bridge lands.
- **Worker process isolation** — landed in M15: `procpool.rs`
  (`ProcessDispatcher`) + `scheduler.rs` + `ipc.rs` drive real
  oak-worker processes (spawn, handshake, batched renders into
  main-assigned shm slots, crash restart, zero-copy completions); the
  end-to-end and crash-isolation tests live in
  `crates/oak-worker/tests/procpool_integration.rs`. M15 S2 made the
  process backend the `RenderManager` default, removed the in-process
  thread pool (`worker::WorkerPool`) and the frozen pre-M15
  `worker::ProcessPool` facade stub, and wired the app's onscreen path
  to read the shm slots zero-copy (`worker::InlineDispatcher` supplies
  the thread-free audio/test backends).
- **Audio rendering** — audio tickets run on main-process inline
  execution (`worker::InlineDispatcher::sync`; design §3.7 — the crash
  risk is dominated by video plugins, which live in oak-worker) through
  `eval::render_audio_samples`; the S3 work is migrating them to the
  shared-memory transport.
- **Borrowed caches** — `oakrender_cache_wrap_borrowed` boxes an
  opaque marker; queries on borrowed caches return `OAKRENDER_E_INVALID`
  until the C++ interop layer lands.
- **`RenderManager::global()` returns `Option<Arc<…>>`** instead of the
  draft's `Option<&'static …>` — a resettable singleton cannot hand out
  stable references safely.

## Coverage

`COVERAGE.md` maps every C++ class of `src/render/src` to its Rust
home. `cargo tarpaulin` ≥ 80% excluding the deferred areas listed
above.