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d74d1e549168ba521e8009961b76e8718be37aa1 18-Mar-2016 Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@google.com> Change hasCustomPrintIcon and setStatus as requested by API council.

Bonus: null advanced keys produced a exception deep in the print
spooler. Hence prevent null keys on the surface from now on.

Bug: 27716355
Change-Id: I3c064956f4e670cd7091437ade06605aa8d797b0
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8141bdfa56f13c3946bed12ba7801e492ec25c11 22-Dec-2015 Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@google.com> Store which print services are disabled instead of which are enabled

This make services that appreared while the print manager was not active
by default enabled.

In the case we upgrade from pre-N we convert the enabled-list into a
disabled-list.

Bug: 26249649
Change-Id: Iae783a8dd19f1a9d75d675710ea4348fdfbd34f3
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bb9f686b40743df2642b7d3b7778dbf7284ae665 01-Dec-2015 Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@google.com> Allow a print service to specify per printer icons, description and
info-activities

The icon is loaded from the discovery session only when it is displayed
to avoid having to store too many icons in memory.

Also the icons are not maintained in the historical printers. Only if
the printers are available nice icons are shown. A historical printer is
updated with the appropriate properties (including icon) once it becomes
available.

Bug: 24135005
Change-Id: Iec389bab514b024634be8fb5fc8928371cba8740
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b3078c235e7674fd61be75fb469105ba6174aba5 24-Nov-2015 Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@google.com> Allow print service to specify progress of print and status

The status has always been there in error cases, it is now also visible
in non-error cases.

If the progress is not set, no progress bar is shown.

Bug: 24135025
Change-Id: Iea23f45d236365433c6f6739597833d236ed6d19
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853a6f564abaf8acbd88c6704008c5d150d00471 03-Nov-2015 Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@google.com> Add a alert that allows the user to approve a print service when
we print using it the first time.

This warning used to be shown when the print settings app was used
to enable a service.

If two warning as shown for the same print service we automcatially
dismiss all dialogs once one dialog is confirmed. Please note that
we are not confirming the printjob as it is unexpeced to have a
single click to confirm multiple print jobs.

Change-Id: I8bb0a49bac2063c1c55e2f24bd34df2c44e2df89
Bug: 24135353
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7bfbbcb04bf4ba8f3069b2df136f708c9849bacf 10-Oct-2013 Svetoslav <svetoslavganov@google.com> Refactor how the print dialog activity is started.

1. Before the print job activity was started asyncronously with
respect to the print call on to the print manager. This was
creating a situation where the starting activity may finish
before the print dialog appears which may lead to an orphaned
print document adapter with no data to print (as the UI is
is gone), or strange behaviors where the print dialog starts
on as a separate task.

To address this the pending intent for starting the print
dialog is not started by the print spooler since we cannot
call into it synchronously as we have to start its process
and bind to the spooler service which leads to jankyness in
the client app. Now the pending intent is created by the
print manager service in the synchronous print call so
from an app's perspective calling print starts the activity.

The side effect of this design is that the print dialog
activity may start before the system is bound to the spooler
service. In such a case the print activity cannot start
poking the print spooler state as the system registers
callback to observe the spooler state. To address this
the print spooler activity disables the UI and also binds
to the spooler service which happenes immediately after it
is started. As soon as the print dialog binds to the
service it starts the UI.

2. Fixed an bug in the printer adapter of the print dialog that
was leading to a crash if the only item in the adater is the
all pritners option and it is selected.

3. Piping the package name that started the printing so we can
pass it to the storage UI as a hint to open the last location
the app used.

bug:11127269

Change-Id: Ia93820bdae0b0e7600a0930b1f10d9708bd86b68
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a18661d5922e5ae24ccce8e815aeba437a2fba82 10-Oct-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> Coalescing multiple print job notifications.

1. We used to show a single notificaiton for every print job but
this is against th UX guidelines. Since we have to lead by
example, this change adds coalescing of multiple notifications.

bug:11155212

2. Print job state callback in the PrintManager now correctly
invoked on the main thread.

bug:10983508

Change-Id: I906e9e62198fa37cb4d2f71fce07ed475d61e1bd
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dd68da2741fa63070d5ad206020dcccb9f429a5a 27-Sep-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> Print job files and print job records not always cleaned up.

1. We want the files for a print job to be removed as early as possible
typically because the print job was cancelled, completed, the app
or the spooler crashed during print job construction. We were keeping
around in the spooler and hence to disc infos for jobs that are in
final state since the app that created them may hold a reference to
a local print job objec whose info it can access to get the latest
print job state potentially after the job reached final state. The
issue was that we were persisting to disc created print jobs which
were during construction which requires careful handling for the
various cases above. This is tricky and error prone.

We used to tell the spooler to forget the print jobs infos when the
app that created them died. The implementation to forget a print
job was not careful and was nuking currently running print jobs in
addition to the ones in a terminal state. Further, if the app dies
before a print job is completed we were left with a stale print
job in the spooler since we missed the signal to forget it (assuming
we forget only inactive jobs). These issues suggest that the approach
is problematic.

Now we have a cache of print job infos for the jobs an app created.
This cache is updated when the state of a print jobs changes using
the new print job state observation code. When the app dies we
remove the cached jobs for that app. Now if the app calls to get
the print jobs it gets the cached ones, i.e. the print jobs it
created during its lifetime, plus the print jobs that are still
active fetched from the spooler. Note that transient state cannot
be kept in the spooler since we unbind from it if there is no
work and it may get killed.

2. Improved the print sub-system logging code to show the cached
print job infos for apps and also dump the print job PDF file
names.

bug:10958357

Change-Id: I6f7c1968b6b7ba5be182a10df044ff7ea1fc3a61
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2fbd2a7f070f246ddafd9de94efa9a98861e9136 17-Sep-2013 Svetoslav <svetoslavganov@google.com> App UI freezes when printing. API clean up.

1. The UI of a printing app was freezing a little when calling the print
method since the print manager service was waiting for it to bind to the
print spooler which generated the print job id (and the initial print
job info really). Now the print manager service is responsible for job
id generation and does not not wait for the print spooler to spin. Hence,
the app UI is not blocked at all. Note that the print manager initiates
the binding to the spooler and as soon as it completes the spooler shows
the print UI which is hosted in its process. It is not possible to show
the print UI before the system is bound to the spooler since during this
binding the system passes a callback to the spooler so the latter can
talk to the system.

2. Changed the print job id to be an opaque class allowing us to vary the
way we generate print job ids in the future.

3. The queued print job state was hidden but the print job returned by the
print method of the print manager is in that state. Now now hidden.

4. We were incorrecly removing print job infos if they are completed or
cancelled. Doing that is problematic since the print job returned by
the print method allows the app to query for the job info after the
job has been say completed. Hence, an app can initiate printing and
get a print job whose state is "created" and hold onto it until after
the job is completed, now if the app asks for the print job info it
will get an info in "created" state even though the job is "completed"
since the spooler was not retaining the completed jobs. Now the spooler
removes the PDF files for the completed and cancelled print jobs but
keeps around the infos (also persisting them to disc) so it can answer
questions about them. On first boot or switch to a user we purge the
persisted print jobs in completed/cancelled state since they
are obsolete - no app can have a handle to them.

5. Removed the print method that takes a file since we have a public
PrintDocumentAdapter implementation for printing files. Once can
instantiate a PrintFileDocumentAdapter and pass it to the print
method. This class also allows overriding of the finish method to
know when the data is spooled and deleted the file if desired, etc.

6. Replaced the wrong code to slice a large list of parcelables to
use ParceledListSlice class.

bug:10748093

Change-Id: I1ebeeb47576e88fce550851cdd3e401fcede6e2b
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44720af55a8fdf991929983dad5d53c02851dd1e 21-Aug-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> Print UI bug fixing and printer discovery refactoring.

1. Added support for selecting a printer from the all printers activity
that is not in the initial printer selection drop down. The user
initially sees a sub set of the printers in the drop down and the
last option is to see all printers in a separate activity. Some
of the printers in the all printers activity are not shown in the
initial drop down.

2. Refactored printer discovery by adding (private for now) printer
discovery app facing APIs. These APIs are needed to support multiple
printer selection activities (print dialog and all printers activities)
and also the settings for showing all printers for a service.

Now multiple apps can request observing for printers and there is
a centralized mediator that ensures the same printer discovery
session is used. The mediator dispatches printer discovery specific
requests to print services. It also aggregates discovered printers
and delivers them to the interested apps. The mediator minimizes
printer discovery session creation and starting and stopping discovery
by sharing the same discovery session and discovery window with
multiple apps. Lastly, the mediator takes care of print services
enabled during discovery by bringing them up to the current
discovery state (create discovery session and start discovery if
needed). The mediator also reports disappearing of the printers
of a service removed during discovery and notifies a newly
registered observers for the currnet printers if the observers are
added during an active printer discovery session.

3. Fixed bugs in the print UI and implemented some UX tweaks.

Change-Id: I4d0b0c5a6c6f1809b2ba5dbc8e9d63ab3d48f1ef
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269403b032f965ff3847eb982c2f697229dc5a92 15-Aug-2013 Svetoslav <svetoslavganov@google.com> Implemented advanced printer selection and API refactoring.

1. Added past printer history tracking and merging favorite printers
with discovered printers.

2. Added save as PDF support.

3. Added all printers activity with search capability and optional
add printers chooser (if any print service provides add printers
activity)

4. Refactored the printer discovery session APIs. Now one session
can have multiple window discovery windows and the session stores
the printers found during past discovery periods.

5. Merged the print spooler and the print spooler service - much
simpler and easier to maintain.

Change-Id: I4830b0eb6367e1c748b768a5ea9ea11baf36cfad
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835835ee6f913408ac91678d6056896a2c5b25e3 05-Aug-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> Polish the print spooler loading of stored print jobs.

1. The singleton print spooler isntance is created when the print spooler
service gets a connection to the system and is destroyed when this
connection is removed. Note that if the spooler has work, then the
connection to the system will not be removed.

When the spooler is created, it reads the stored state and notifies the
system which in turn dispatches this to the print services.

When the system connects to the spooler and passes it a connection, we
schedule a delayed check whether there is work for the spooler. We do
not handle this immediately to avoid intermitted spinning on and off
of the spooler process if a client makes a sequence of queries while
the spooler has really no work.

2. Fixed a bug in the NotificationManagerService where adding a notification
and removing it immediately after that does not remove the notification.
The code that is adding a notification is run on a handler thread while
the code to remove it on the calling thread. This creates a race and
erroneous results. Now the removal is also scheduled on the handler.

3. Many small fixes here and there.

Change-Id: I6415c253139fa6616393fbe23c659d031a29e1f6
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8c43376ea83a67414bd6823a472b76d41160239e 02-Aug-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> First cut of the print notifications.

1. Added notifications for a queued print job, for a started print job,
for ongoing canceling a print job, and for a failed print job. The
notifications for queued and started state have a cancel action. The
notification for failed print job has a cancel and a restart action.

2. Propagating failure message from the print service to the notifications.

3. PrintJobConfigActivity was not setting the initial value for the
print job copies and was not updating the UI immediately after creation.

4. Refactored PrintJobConfigActivity to avoid using the hack to avoid
reaction for item selection change in a spinner for an event that
happened before the callback was registered.

5. Removed the label attribute from PrinterInfo and now PrinterId is
composed of the printer name and the service component name. This
is nice since for restarting print jobs we do not need to store
information about the printer except the printer id which is
already part of the PrintJobInfo's data. Also the printer name
is not expected to change anyway.

6. Allowing cancellation of a queued print job. Also no print job is
cancelled without asking the managing print service to do that.
Before we were immediately canceling print jobs in queued state
but it was possible for a buggy print service to not set the
print job state to started before starting to do expensive work
that will not be canceled.

7. PrintServiceInfo was throwing an exception the the meta-data
XML for the print service was not well-formed which would crash
the system process. Now we just ignore not well-formed meta-data.

8. Removed unused permissions from the PrintSpooler's manifest.

Change-Id: Iba2dd14b487f56e137b90d1da17c3033422ab5e6
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a00271533f639c8ed36429c663889ac9f654bc72 25-Jun-2013 Svetoslav Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> Refactoring of the print sub-system and API clean up.

1. Now a user state has ins own spooler since the spooler app is
running per user. The user state registers an observer for the state
of the spooler to get information needed to orchestrate unbinding
from print serivces that have no work and eventually unbinding from
the spooler when all no service has any work.

2. Abstracted a remote print service from the perspective of the system
in a class that is transparently managing binding and unbinding to
the remote instance.

3. Abstracted the remote print spooler to transparently manage binding
and unbinding to the remote instance when there is work and when
there is no work, respectively.

4. Cleaned up the print document adapter (ex-PrintAdapter) APIs to
enable implementing the all callbacks on a thread of choice. If
the document is really small, using the main thread makes sense.

Now if an app that does not need the UI state to layout the printed
content, it can schedule all the work for allocating resources, laying
out, writing, and releasing resources on a dedicated thread.

5. Added info class for the printed document that is now propagated
the the print services. A print service gets an instance of a
new document class that encapsulates the document info and a method
to access the document's data.

6. Added APIs for describing the type of a document to the new document
info class. This allows a print service to do smarts based on the
doc type. For now we have only photo and document types.

7. Renamed the systemReady method for system services that implement
it with different semantics to systemRunning. Such methods assume
the the service can run third-party code which is not the same as
systemReady.

8. Cleaned up the print job configuration activity.

9. Sigh... code clean up here and there. Factoring out classes to
improve readability.

Change-Id: I637ba28412793166cbf519273fdf022241159a92
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