penpot/exporter/README.md
Andrey Antukh b7ceb561f9 🔥 Delete the exporter's HTTP surface and the old job system
The exporter is a consumer's process now, so everything that only the
HTTP surface held goes away with it: the server, the router and the
cookie auth; the export handlers (the runner up past their pieces
through `app.consumer.plan`, and `handlers/resources` keeps only the
local artifacts); the scheduler with its admission caps; the redis
job store, publish and cancel-sweeper; and with the store gone, the
redis engine too — the pollers own plain ioredis connections.

`app.jobs` is the local cancel arm only: a runtime record the claimed
job is registered under, the flag the parts of a run read between
renders, the shared-array signal a render thread reads inside a render,
the terminate callbacks, and a `mark-cancelled` that marks the record
terminal before the callbacks run. The row of the job was never this
process's business.

The pools size themselves to the worker concurrency, which is what a
process of K pollers can run at once; there is no independent pool cap
nor scheduler admission left. Docker: the nginx export proxy and the
exporter uri die with the endpoints they pointed at; the compose keeps
the exporter env thin and honest, the README describes the worker.

AI-assisted-by: glm-5.3-flash
2026-10-07 14:09:06 +02:00

56 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown

# Exporter
Node process that renders shapes, frames and files to bitmap, SVG and PDF. It
is a **consumer**: it polls the backend's `:exporter` job queue on Redis and
drives each export through the backend's management API — claim, report the
milestones, and settle (`complete-job` multipart with the artifact, or
`fail-job` on error). There is no HTTP surface of its own and nothing is
persisted on this side: the row of the job, its cancel button and its result
all live in the backend.
## How a job runs
1. The backend dispatcher pushes `[job-id, scheduled-at]` (JSON) into
`penpot.worker.queue:<tenant>:exporter`.
2. One of the `K` pollers pops it and owns that connection for the whole run:
the blocking pop is both the semaphore of the slot and the backpressure, so
the process never runs more exports than pollers. `K` is
`PENPOT_EXPORTER_WORKER_CONCURRENCY` (default 2, and the browser and wasm
pools size themselves to the same figure).
3. The poller claims the job over the management API and, on `:run`, mints a
render session (`create-job-session`) through which every asset fetch
happens as the owner of the job.
4. The milestones are reported as beats (`:preparing`, `:rendering`,
`:packaging`, with the `objects` and `pages` counters). A watchdog re-sends
the last one every second, whatever the run is doing.
5. It settles with `complete-job` (the artifact rides multipart, the session
is closed in the same step) or `fail-job`. The settle never rejects: a
worker that cannot talk leaves the row to the backend's lease GC.
## Cancellation
A cancellation reaches the worker through the beats: a `skip` answer means the
backend no longer listens (the row is terminal), so the runner stops between
units of work; mid-Skia the watchdog terminates the leased render worker. The
row was already `cancelled` by the backend's `cancel-job`.
## Configuration
| Variable | Default | Description |
|------------------------------------------|---------|----------------------------------------------------|
| `PENPOT_PUBLIC_URI` | — | The frontend the assets render through |
| `PENPOT_INTERNAL_URI` | `public-uri` | Same network's frontend; the management API too |
| `PENPOT_REDIS_URI` | `redis://redis/0` | The queue and the rest of redis |
| `PENPOT_TENANT` | `default` | Queue prefix (workspace name in devenv) |
| `PENPOT_EXPORTER_SHARED_KEY` | — | The shared key; derived from the secret otherwise |
| `PENPOT_EXPORTER_JOB_TTL` | `3600` | Lifetime of the temp files a job owns, in seconds |
| `PENPOT_EXPORTER_WORKER_CONCURRENCY` | `2` | `K`: pollers, running exports, pool sizes |
| `PENPOT_WASM_WORKER_POOL_MIN` | `1` | Render workers kept warm; clamped to the max |
| `PENPOT_WASM_WORKER_IDLE_TIMEOUT` | `300` | Silence before a worker is terminated, in seconds |
| `PENPOT_WASM_WORKER_IMAGE_CACHE_SIZE` | `134217728` | Per-worker image cache budget, in bytes |
## Inspecting the backend
Nothing about a job is stored here: `get-job` in the backend answers the full
row, and its `app.debug`/admin surfaces render the same records.