End-to-end debugging against a live Premiere Pro 2025 + auth-enabled mam-api
surfaced four real bugs that made v1.0.0 install cleanly but never load,
plus the missing auth flow. All four are fixed and the panel is verified
connected (status dot green, Reconnect button shown, project list populated).
- manifest.xml: a comment in the <Resources> block contained "--" (inside
"--enable-nodejs"/"--mixed-context"), which is illegal per the XML spec.
CEP 12's strict parser logged
ERROR XPATH Double hyphen within comment
and skipped the panel entirely. Comment rewritten without double hyphens.
- manifest.xml: lacked the Version="X.Y" attribute on <ExtensionManifest>
and used a non-standard AbstractionLayers/empty <ExtensionList/>
structure. CEP rejected it with
Unsupported Manifest version ''
Manifest rewritten to the standard CSXS 7.0 schema (ExtensionList +
DispatchInfoList + RequiredRuntimeList), matching the working AMPP
panel template.
- main.js: re-declared `const csInterface = new CSInterface()` at top
level even though CSInterface.js already declared the same binding.
CEP 12 shares script-realm lexical scope across <script> tags, so the
second const threw
Identifier 'csInterface' has already been declared
The throw fired before setupEventListeners(), so the Connect button's
click handler was never attached. This is the root cause of the
original "clicking Connect does nothing" symptom; everything else was
secondary. Removed the duplicate declaration; main.js now uses the
binding from CSInterface.js.
- No auth support against AUTH_ENABLED=true servers. mam-api supports
Bearer tokens (POST /api/v1/tokens), so added:
• API token input field (password-masked) next to Server URL
• localStorage persistence on every keystroke
• window.fetch monkey-patch that injects
Authorization: Bearer <token>
on every request whose URL starts with the configured server.
Signed S3 download URLs are NOT touched.
Drive-by fixes that came out of the same debugging pass:
- Server URL input listener was 'change' (fires on blur); switched to
'input' so typing-then-clicking-Connect immediately commits.
- restoreSettings() now strips trailing slashes from the stored URL so
older saved values like 'http://host/' stop producing //api/v1 404s.
- CSS selector `input[type="text"].server-url` didn't match the new
password input → the token field was unstyled and effectively invisible.
Generalized to `input.server-url`; restructured the connection bar into
`.connection-controls--stacked` (flex column) of two `.server-input-row`
rows so two input fields fit cleanly.
- Build scripts now parse ExtensionBundleVersion from both element form
(<ExtensionBundleVersion>X</...>) and attribute form
(ExtensionBundleVersion="X"), since the manifest rewrite switched
schemas.
Version bumped 1.0.0 → 1.0.1. New artifacts committed at
services/premiere-plugin/build/releases/v1.0.1/ (.exe 2 MB, .zxp 35 KB).
v1.0.0 left in place so editors who downloaded it can verify they're on
the broken version.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
End-to-end verification on a fresh Windows machine surfaced three issues:
1. pwsh isn't installed by default — Windows ships powershell.exe (5.1).
Switched all script invocations + docs from `pwsh` to `powershell`.
2. .NET's strict XML parser rejects manifest.xml because the <Resources>
comment legally contains `--` (inside `--enable-nodejs`/`--mixed-context`
CEF flag names). Switched build-installer.ps1 to regex extraction,
matching what build-zxp.mjs already does.
3. winget installs Inno Setup 6 to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs by default, not
Program Files (x86). Added the user-scope path to the ISCC.exe fallback
list.
Verified: `powershell -File build-all.ps1` produces both artifacts —
dragonflight-premiere-panel-1.0.0.zxp (35 KB, signature valid)
dragonflight-premiere-panel-1.0.0-windows-setup.exe (2 MB).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the manual robocopy / install-windows.ps1 flow with two real
distributable artifacts:
- dragonflight-premiere-panel-<version>.zxp (Mac + Win)
- dragonflight-premiere-panel-<version>-windows-setup.exe (Win)
The Windows installer copies the bundle to %APPDATA%\Adobe\CEP\extensions,
sets PlayerDebugMode=1 for CSXS 8..13, registers an uninstaller, and
offers to remove any legacy com.wilddragon.mam.panel folder so editors
don't end up with duplicate panels.
The .zxp is signed with a self-signed cert generated on first build and
committed to build/cert/ so signature continuity is preserved across
builds (Adobe rejects ZXP upgrades with a different cert fingerprint).
Also migrates the CEP bundle ID from com.wilddragon.mam.panel to
net.wilddragon.dragonflight.panel to match the wild-dragon -> dragonflight
repo rename. Manifest, .debug, CSInterface.js, install docs, and the
growing-files quickstart all updated.
build/ is normally swept by the root .gitignore; added an explicit
negation so the packaging pipeline stays tracked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
