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feat(ios): drive safari tabs with the webview commands, on real devices and simulators - #490
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughiOS device and simulator WebView operations now use Web Inspector when Safari is foreground. The implementation supports Safari tab discovery, navigation, history, reload, content retrieval, JavaScript evaluation, and load-state waiting. Other cases retain the injected-agent path. ChangesiOS Safari WebViews
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant IOSDevice
participant ForegroundAppCheck
participant SafariWebInspector
IOSDevice->>ForegroundAppCheck: Check the active app
ForegroundAppCheck-->>IOSDevice: Return Safari status
IOSDevice->>SafariWebInspector: Route WebView operation when Safari is foreground
SafariWebInspector-->>IOSDevice: Return operation result
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change adds Safari tab support through Web Inspector, and no concrete merge-blocking risk is evident. One test may not exercise the promise-await deadline it is meant to check, so tightening it is worthwhile but does not block the merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Runtime.awaitPromise.
slowDown["Runtime.evaluate"]also delays the attachment sign-of-life command. That command uses 250 ms of the 300 ms wait. The next evaluation can time out before the withheldRuntime.awaitPromiseruns, so this test can pass without checking the await deadline. Keep the sign-of-life reply fast, then assert that the poll reachesRuntime.awaitPromisebefore checking the timeout.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Summary
mobilecli webviewon iOS injects an agent into the foreground app, which Safari cannot take. With Safari in the foreground the commands now drive its tabs through the Web Inspector service, the one Safari on a Mac connects to. This works on real devices and on simulators:Changes
devices/ios_webinspector.go(new): a client for the Web Inspector service that implementsWebViewablefor the tabs of Safari.com.apple.webinspector, reached with go-iosConnectToServiceover usbmuxd (no tunnel, no iproxy, no injected agent).RWI_LISTEN_SOCKET. Same protocol.list: the web pages Safari reports; the id is the inspector's page ideval:Runtime.evaluatethenRuntime.awaitPromise, since WebKit cannot await while evaluating. The expression runs as a function body called with the args, as the agent doesreload:Page.reloadgoto,back,forward: WebKit has noPage.navigate, so the page is told to navigate itself (location.href,history.back(),history.forward()); the url travels as an argument, not as sourcewait: pollsdocument.readyState, same states and timeout as the agenturl,title,content,queryare built onevaldevices/ios_device_webview.go,devices/ios_webview.go: each webview command first asks DeviceKit for the foreground app; when it iscom.apple.mobilesafarithe command goes to the web inspector, otherwise to the injected agent as before.cli/webview.go,README.md,docs/openrpc.*: document it.One connection per device, kept open
The web inspector answers a connection that stays open within milliseconds, but stalls the next connection after one was closed on it: about 10 seconds on the iPhone, and on the simulator sometimes with no answer at all. So the daemon keeps one connection per device, shares it between commands and between the tabs a command talks to, and connects again only when it was lost.
Background tabs fail fast
Safari does not keep the tabs it is not showing running, and such a tab accepts a command without ever answering it. Nothing in what the inspector reports tells such a tab apart (the listing and the target info are the same), so every command first asks the tab for a sign of life (
Runtime.evaluateof1, which a running tab answers in milliseconds):listasks every tab fordocument.visibilityStateat once, capped at 1 second, so it takes about 1.3 seconds with background tabs open however many there are.Requirements and limitations
gototo a host that does not resolve is not reported as an error, because the page navigates itself.boundsis omitted for Safari tabs.webview listhelp sentence as feat(android): drive chrome tabs with the webview commands over cdp #489 (Chrome over CDP), so whichever merges second needs that one line resolved.Testing
devices/ios_webinspector_test.goagainst a fake web inspector speaking the plist protocol over a pipe: every command, Safari announced late, Safari not inspectable, unknown webview ids, protocol errors, thrown errors and rejected promises, a tab that never answers, the connection being shared, and reconnecting after it was lost.go test ./devices/ -racepasses.test/simulator.spec.ts(8 tests): list, url/title, eval with a promise, a thrown error, content/query, goto/back/forward, reload, unknown id. Simulator e2e,-g webview: 22 passed.list,goto,wait(both states),url,title,content,query,eval,back,forwardandreloadreturned the expected results. Commands take about 0.25 seconds on the iPhone and 0.1 seconds on the simulator.go test ./...passes.Related Issues
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