13 // viewLayoutFileName is the file of the view layout in the directory of an
15 const viewLayoutFileName = "layout.json"
17 // loadViewLayout reads the layout at path. A missing file gives an empty
19 func loadViewLayout(path string) (*ViewLayout, error) {
20 layout := &ViewLayout{
24 data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
25 if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
30 return nil, fmt.Errorf("read view layout: %w", err)
33 err = json.Unmarshal(data, layout)
35 return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode view layout: %w", err)
41 // ViewLayout splits the view of a turn request into user messages that only
42 // grow between batches. The view goes out as the same messages as in the
43 // request before, while their lines give the same text, and the new lines
44 // follow as one new message. So the end of the view of each earlier turn stays
45 // a message end. On the ChatGPT backend, the first request of a turn with this
46 // layout read the view of the turn before from the prompt cache in each of 10
47 // turns, and with the view in one message it missed once in 5.
49 // The first message starts with "<chat>\n". The closing tag goes into the
50 // state message after the view, so that no view message changes when lines
51 // come. The layout keeps the line count and a hash of the text of each message
52 // in layout.json, so it outlives a restart.
53 type ViewLayout struct {
55 Messages []ViewLayoutMessage `json:"messages"`
58 // Split returns the view messages for lines and saves the layout. It keeps the
59 // earlier messages up to the first one whose text differs, and puts the rest
60 // of the lines into one new message.
61 func (l *ViewLayout) Split(lines []string) ([]string, error) {
64 kept []ViewLayoutMessage
68 for _, message := range l.Messages {
69 if start+message.Lines > len(lines) {
73 text := viewMessage(len(texts) == 0, lines[start:start+message.Lines])
74 if viewTextHash(text) != message.Hash {
78 texts = append(texts, text)
79 kept = append(kept, message)
80 start += message.Lines
83 if start < len(lines) || len(texts) == 0 {
84 text := viewMessage(len(texts) == 0, lines[start:])
85 texts = append(texts, text)
86 kept = append(kept, ViewLayoutMessage{
87 Lines: len(lines) - start,
88 Hash: viewTextHash(text),
93 data, err := json.Marshal(l)
95 return nil, fmt.Errorf("encode view layout: %w", err)
98 err = writeFileAtomic(l.path, append(data, '\n'))
100 return nil, fmt.Errorf("save view layout: %w", err)
106 // ViewLayoutMessage is one view message: its number of lines and the hash of
108 type ViewLayoutMessage struct {
109 Lines int `json:"lines"`
110 Hash string `json:"hash"`
113 // viewMessage returns the text of a view message with lines. The first one
115 func viewMessage(first bool, lines []string) string {
116 text := strings.Join(lines, "")
118 text = "<chat>\n" + text
124 // viewTextHash returns a short hash of text.
125 func viewTextHash(text string) string {
126 sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte(text))
127 return hex.EncodeToString(sum[:16])