fix(v3): prompt for the notarization password in a new terminal window - #6029
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`wails3 setup` ran `xcrun notarytool store-credentials` with `--password-stdin`, which notarytool does not accept, so the signing page always failed with "Unknown option '--password-stdin'". The only alternative flag, `--password`, would put the app-specific password in the process arguments where `ps` can read it. notarytool prompts securely when the password is omitted, so the wizard now spawns a Terminal window of its own and lets notarytool prompt there. The window opens in front of the browser, prints the exact command it is about to run, and writes notarytool's exit code out when it is done; the wizard watches for that and the browser page updates itself, so nobody has to go looking for the terminal `wails3 setup` was started from. The password no longer touches the browser, the wizard's HTTP API or any command line. Based on #6022 by @acheong08. Co-authored-by: acheong08 <36258159+acheong08@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 4 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe macOS notarization flow now opens Terminal for credential entry, runs asynchronously, exposes status and cancellation endpoints, and polls job state from the signing wizard. The backend validates inputs, tracks lifecycle states, persists successful profiles, and tests script execution and shell quoting. ChangesNotarization setup flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR moves notarization password entry into a separate Terminal workflow and adds polling and cancellation. It is not merge-ready until the lint failures are fixed and cancellation failures no longer hide an active signing process from users. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SigningStep
participant WizardAPI
participant TerminalApp
participant xcrun
participant globalDefaults
SigningStep->>WizardAPI: createNotarizationProfile(profileName, appleID, teamID)
WizardAPI->>TerminalApp: Open credential setup script
TerminalApp->>xcrun: Run notarytool store-credentials
xcrun-->>TerminalApp: Write completion status
SigningStep->>WizardAPI: Poll getNotarizationStatus()
WizardAPI-->>SigningStep: Return state, command, or error
WizardAPI->>globalDefaults: Save profile and team ID on success
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The generated script is /bin/sh and only ever runs on macOS, but the Go test matrix includes windows-latest, where it would be at the mercy of whichever sh happens to be on PATH. The pure logic tests — argument building, shell quoting, field validation — still run everywhere. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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Pull request overview
Updates the v3 setup wizard’s macOS notarization credential flow to avoid passing the app-specific password via CLI args/stdin (which notarytool rejects/risks exposure), by spawning a dedicated Terminal window to run xcrun notarytool store-credentials interactively and having the browser UI poll for completion.
Changes:
- Add a notarization “job” implementation that generates a
.commandscript, opens it in Terminal.app, and watches a status file for completion. - Update the wizard API to start/poll/cancel notarization without accepting a password over HTTP.
- Update the frontend UI to show a waiting panel with the running command and a Cancel action; rebuild
dist/.
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| v3/internal/setupwizard/wizard.go | Adds notarization job state + new /status and /cancel endpoints; switches create flow to terminal-driven job. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/notarize.go | Implements script generation, terminal spawn, polling watcher, and defaults persistence on success. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/notarize_test.go | Adds unit tests for argument construction, shell quoting, script behavior, and job state finalization. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/src/components/SigningStep.tsx | Replaces password input with a “waiting for Terminal” panel + polling + cancel UX. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/src/api.ts | Adds new notarization status/cancel API helpers and updates create response shape. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/dist/index.html | Updates built asset references after frontend rebuild. |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/dist/assets/index-DvlgNajO.css | Removes old built CSS asset (hash change). |
| v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/dist/assets/index-DKuSdxSG.css | Adds new built CSS asset (hash change). |
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…minal opens Review feedback from Copilot on #6029: - handleNotarizeCreate held notarizeMu across startNotarizeJob, which does filesystem work and shells out to `open`. A slow `open` would have blocked the status and cancel endpoints, leaving the page looking stuck. The lock is now released for the spawn, with a sentinel keeping a second create from racing in behind it. - The polling loop could stack requests behind a slow poll, and treated an 'idle' status as nothing at all, dropping the user back to the form with no explanation. It now guards against overlapping polls and reports losing track of the window. - Corrected the status route in a doc comment: it is /api/signing/notarize/status. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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In `@v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/src/components/SigningStep.tsx`:
- Around line 1047-1050: Update the SigningStep component near the Save button
so that when teamID is missing and the button is disabled, it displays a clear
hint next to the button explaining that a Team ID is required; preserve the
existing disabled condition and button behavior for all other validation states.
In `@v3/internal/setupwizard/notarize.go`:
- Around line 186-210: Fix the reported linter findings in the notarization
setup flow: explicitly handle the return values of each os.RemoveAll call,
including the deferred cleanup in watchNotarizeJob; replace exec.Command with
exec.CommandContext using the appropriate context; and update notarizeScript’s
formatted output to use fmt.Fprintf instead of WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(...)).
In `@v3/internal/setupwizard/wizard.go`:
- Around line 1443-1468: Update the notarization create/cancel flow around
handleNotarizeCreate, handleNotarizeCancel, and startNotarizeJob to track a
cancel-generation counter under notarizeMu. Reject create requests whose
profileName, appleID, or teamID differ from the currently running job instead of
returning it as pending, and only assign an in-flight job to w.notarizeJob if
its captured generation is still current; otherwise finish it as cancelled and
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Review feedback from CodeRabbit on #6029: - A create while another window was open reported that window as pending whatever credentials had just been typed, so entering the password stored the earlier profile name and team ID. Such a request is now refused; a repeat of the same credentials still returns the open window. - A cancel landing while a window was still opening could have the half-started job assigned back over the cleared one. Cancels now bump a generation counter, and a job that is no longer wanted is abandoned instead of adopted. - The notarization screen has no Team ID field, so an identity typed by hand left Save permanently disabled with nothing said. It now says to go back and set one. - notarizeScript builds its formatted lines with fmt.Fprintf. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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938-945: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep the waiting state until cancellation succeeds.
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cancelNotarization()rejects, this code clearscommandeven though the Terminal job can still be running. The UI then stops polling and shows the form. A later Save can reconnect to or conflict with that active job.Clear
commandonly after a successful cancellation response. If cancellation fails, keep polling and show a retry error.Proposed fix
const handleCancel = async () => { - setCommand(''); try { - await cancelNotarization(); + const result = await cancelNotarization(); + if (!result.success) { + setError('Could not cancel the Terminal job. Try again.'); + return; + } + setCommand(''); } catch { - // The wizard gives up on the window either way. + setError('Could not cancel the Terminal job. Try again.'); } };🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/src/components/SigningStep.tsx`:
- Around line 938-945: Update handleCancel so it clears command only after
cancelNotarization resolves successfully; when cancellation rejects, preserve
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Cancel cleared the waiting screen before the request went out, so a failed cancel dropped the user back to the form while the wizard still tracked the job — with the Cancel button gone and a create for different credentials now refused, leaving no way out short of finishing the old window or waiting for the timeout. The screen now stays until the wizard has let go, and says so when it hasn't. Also documents notarizeJob.snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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The merge-risk note on the last review — "can leave a Terminal job running while the setup page returns to its form if cancellation fails" — was right, so that's fixed in b2980b8. On the remaining pre-merge warning, Docstring Coverage at 40%: Generated by Claude Code |
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In `@v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/src/components/SigningStep.tsx`:
- Around line 945-947: Update the cancellation flow around cancelNotarization so
it checks the returned result before clearing the active command. Only call
setError('') and setCommand('') when result.success is true; otherwise preserve
the waiting view and display the cancellation error returned by
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handleCancel only treated a rejected request as a failure, so a response carrying success: false would have closed the waiting view while the wizard still tracked the job. The endpoint cannot return that today, but the client declares the field, and a future backend that does report a refused cancel should not be silently ignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0184PYtYte172MGWuNWvh3XQ
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Description
wails3 setupranxcrun notarytool store-credentialswith--password-stdin, which notarytool does not accept, so the code signing page always failed withUnknown option '--password-stdin'.The only alternative flag is
--password, which would put the app-specific password in the process arguments wherepsand/proccan read it. notarytool prompts for the password securely when the flag is omitted — but only on a terminal, and the user is looking at a browser.So the wizard now spawns a Terminal window of its own (
open -a Terminalon a generated.commandscript) instead of borrowing the stdin of the terminalwails3 setupwas started from:The password is typed into that window only. It never reaches the browser, the wizard's HTTP API, or any command line.
Changes
v3/internal/setupwizard/notarize.go(new) — script generation, shell quoting, terminal spawn, and the watcher that turns the exit code into a job result.v3/internal/setupwizard/wizard.go—POST /api/signing/notarize/createnow starts the job and returns{success, pending, command}; newGET /api/signing/notarize/statusandPOST /api/signing/notarize/cancel. Thepasswordrequest field is gone.v3/internal/setupwizard/frontend/— the password input is replaced by a waiting panel showing the running command, with a Cancel button; the page polls status and continues on its own.v3/internal/setupwizard/notarize_test.go(new) — unit tests.Cancel stops the wizard waiting; it deliberately leaves the window alone, since it may be sitting at the password prompt and killing it under the user would be ruder than letting them close it.
Fixes #5691
This is based on #6022 by @acheong08, which was closed when its branch was deleted. The commit credits them as co-author.
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How Has This Been Tested?
Automated checks only so far — these ran in a Linux container, so the end-to-end flow against real
notarytoolon macOS still needs a manual pass before merge:go test ./internal/setupwizardpasses. The new tests write the generated script to disk, syntax-check it withsh -n, and run it against a stubxcrunonPATH, asserting the exit code is reported correctly, the arguments arrive intact (including values containing spaces, quotes and;), and that no--password/--password-stdinflag is ever passed.GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go vet ./internal/setupwizardpasses; the package builds for darwin.tsc && vite build) passes;dist/is rebuilt and committed.Test Configuration
Not applicable — verification was done from a Linux CI-style container, so
wails doctoroutput here would not reflect a macOS host.Checklist:
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