// video-renderer — HTTP sidecar for the RoboCo video engine. // // POST /render accepts a gzipped tar of a motion/ composition source (arcname // "motion") plus {composition_id, orientation, input_props} form fields, and // responds with the rendered MP4 as the raw response body. GET /health is a // plain liveness probe. Credential-free and git-free: this process never // holds a git token, never shells out to git, and only ever reads what the // orchestrator POSTs to it. import express from "express"; import multer from "multer"; import rateLimit from "express-rate-limit"; import { createReadStream } from "node:fs"; import { renderComposition, UnknownCompositionError } from "./render.js"; const PORT = Number(process.env.PORT ?? 3001); // composition_id flows into a path.join inside render.js // (extractDir/motion/compositions/); restrict it to a single // safe path segment so a ".." / "/" / absolute-path value can't escape the // composition dir (path traversal). The orchestrator only ever sends a real // composition id, but this is the trust boundary — validate here. const COMPOSITION_ID_RE = /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/; // motion/ source (no node_modules, no build output) is a few hundred KB in // practice; this cap is generous headroom, not a tuned budget. const MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES = 256 * 1024 * 1024; const upload = multer({ storage: multer.memoryStorage(), limits: { fileSize: MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES }, }); const app = express(); // This sidecar is container-network-only (no published ports) with a single // trusted caller (the orchestrator), which already renders cuts serially. // The limiter is not the primary control — it's a cheap ceiling against a // runaway retry storm or a misbehaving caller tying up Chrome headless + // the render temp dir. 30/min is well above any legitimate render rate // (each render takes seconds, ~a few calls/min) so it never blocks real use. const renderLimiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 60_000, max: 30, standardHeaders: true, legacyHeaders: false, message: { error: "rate limit: too many render requests" }, }); app.get("/health", (_req, res) => { res.status(200).json({ status: "ok" }); }); app.post("/render", renderLimiter, upload.single("source"), async (req, res) => { const body = req.body ?? {}; const compositionId = body.composition_id; const orientation = body.orientation; const inputPropsRaw = body.input_props; if (!req.file) { res .status(400) .json({ error: "missing 'source' file field (gzipped tar of motion/)" }); return; } if ( typeof compositionId !== "string" || !compositionId.trim() || !COMPOSITION_ID_RE.test(compositionId) ) { res.status(400).json({ error: "'composition_id' must be a non-empty string of letters, digits, '_' or '-'", }); return; } if (orientation !== "vertical" && orientation !== "square") { res .status(400) .json({ error: "'orientation' must be 'vertical' or 'square'" }); return; } let inputProps; try { inputProps = inputPropsRaw ? JSON.parse(inputPropsRaw) : {}; } catch { res.status(400).json({ error: "'input_props' is not valid JSON" }); return; } try { const { outputLocation, cleanup } = await renderComposition({ tarBuffer: req.file.buffer, compositionId, inputProps, orientation, }); res.status(200); res.setHeader("Content-Type", "video/mp4"); const stream = createReadStream(outputLocation); stream.on("error", (err) => { console.error("video-renderer: stream error", err); if (!res.headersSent) { res.status(500); } res.end(); cleanup(); }); stream.on("close", () => { cleanup(); }); // stream.pipe() never propagates a DESTINATION close back to the // source: if the client aborts, or the orchestrator's retry-on-timeout // hangs up mid-download, `res` closes but the source stream's own // "close" above never fires — leaking this request's render-output // temp dir on every such disconnect. Destroying the still-open source // releases its fd immediately; cleanup() is idempotent (rm force:true) // so also landing here on a normal end-of-stream close is harmless. res.on("close", () => { stream.destroy(); cleanup(); }); stream.pipe(res); } catch (err) { if (err instanceof UnknownCompositionError) { res.status(err.statusCode).json({ error: err.message }); return; } const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err); console.error("video-renderer: render failed", message); res.status(500).json({ error: `render failed: ${message}` }); } }); // 4-arg signature required for Express to treat this as error-handling // middleware. Catches errors `next()`-ed from earlier middleware — in // practice, today, that's multer rejecting an oversized/malformed upload // before our route body ever runs (otherwise Express's default handler // returns a generic 500 HTML page instead of a clear JSON 4xx). app.use((err, req, res, _next) => { if (err instanceof multer.MulterError) { const status = err.code === "LIMIT_FILE_SIZE" ? 413 : 400; res.status(status).json({ error: `upload rejected: ${err.message}` }); return; } const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err); console.error("video-renderer: unhandled error", message); res.status(500).json({ error: "internal error" }); }); app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(`video-renderer listening on :${PORT}`); });