ThreadCount Community edition

Uniform stock management for healthcare linen rooms: the coordinator app, the phone counter and the staff app, for your own server. Built from a113353 on 2026-09-15. Licensed under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2).

lib/nativescan.ts

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+"use client";
+/* The native barcode scanner, used only when the page is running inside the Android shell.
+ *
+ * In a browser the app reads barcodes with BarcodeDetector, which is fine on a desk and patchy on
+ * a ward: it misses crumpled labels and dim light, and it isn't in every Android WebView. Inside
+ * Capacitor we hand the job to MLKit instead, which is the main reason the app exists at all.
+ *
+ * Everything here is dynamically imported. The plugin must never be pulled into the browser
+ * bundle's critical path — most viewers of /m are on the web, where none of this runs. */
+
+export type NativeBarcode = { rawValue: string };
+
+type ScannerModule = {
+  BarcodeScanner: {
+    isSupported: () => Promise<{ supported: boolean }>;
+    checkPermissions: () => Promise<{ camera: string }>;
+    requestPermissions: () => Promise<{ camera: string }>;
+    scan: (opts?: { formats?: unknown[] }) => Promise<{ barcodes: NativeBarcode[] }>;
+    startScan: (opts?: { formats?: unknown[] }) => Promise<void>;
+    stopScan: () => Promise<void>;
+    addListener: (
+      event: "barcodeScanned",
+      cb: (r: { barcode: NativeBarcode }) => void,
+    ) => Promise<{ remove: () => Promise<void> }>;
+    isGoogleBarcodeScannerModuleAvailable?: () => Promise<{ available: boolean }>;
+    installGoogleBarcodeScannerModule?: () => Promise<void>;
+  };
+};
+
+/** True only inside the Capacitor shell. In any browser this is false and the web path is used. */
+export function isNative(): boolean {
+  if (typeof window === "undefined") return false;
+  const cap = (window as unknown as { Capacitor?: { isNativePlatform?: () => boolean } }).Capacitor;
+  return !!cap?.isNativePlatform?.();
+}
+
+let mod: ScannerModule | null = null;
+async function load(): Promise<ScannerModule | null> {
+  if (!isNative()) return null;
+  if (mod) return mod;
+  try {
+    mod = (await import("@capacitor-mlkit/barcode-scanning")) as unknown as ScannerModule;
+    return mod;
+  } catch {
+    return null; // shell without the plugin — fall back to the web scanner
+  }
+}
+
+/** Ask once, and say plainly what a refusal means rather than failing silently. */
+async function ensureReady(m: ScannerModule): Promise<string | null> {
+  const { BarcodeScanner: S } = m;
+  const supported = await S.isSupported().catch(() => ({ supported: false }));
+  if (!supported.supported) return "This device can’t scan barcodes.";
+  let perm = await S.checkPermissions().catch(() => ({ camera: "denied" }));
+  if (perm.camera !== "granted") perm = await S.requestPermissions().catch(() => ({ camera: "denied" }));
+  if (perm.camera !== "granted") return "ThreadCount needs the camera to scan. Allow it in Android settings, then try again.";
+  // On some devices MLKit ships as a downloadable module rather than in the app.
+  if (S.isGoogleBarcodeScannerModuleAvailable && S.installGoogleBarcodeScannerModule) {
+    const has = await S.isGoogleBarcodeScannerModuleAvailable().catch(() => ({ available: true }));
+    if (!has.available) {
+      try { await S.installGoogleBarcodeScannerModule(); } catch { return "The barcode module is still downloading — try again in a moment."; }
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/* What the scanner is allowed to read.
+ *
+ * Left unrestricted, MLKit reads every symbology it knows — and a garment tag is rarely alone in
+ * the frame. A care label, a carton behind it on the shelf and a poster on the wall all get read as
+ * eagerly as the swing tag, and whichever the camera locks onto first is what comes back.
+ *
+ * Two of those symbologies are worse than noise. ITF and Codabar carry no check digit, so a partial
+ * read is indistinguishable from a real code: half a carton's ITF-14 decodes cleanly as a shorter,
+ * entirely valid ITF number. That is a wrong code that looks right, which is the one failure a
+ * barcode is supposed to make impossible.
+ *
+ * So: the retail codes a garment is actually labelled with (EAN and UPC), plus the Code 39/93/128
+ * family that suppliers and internal label printers use, all of which are either check-digited or
+ * self-checking. No 2D — nothing in this product is identified by a QR or Data Matrix, and the only
+ * QR ThreadCount has anything to do with is the one it draws for two-factor setup. */
+const SCAN_FORMATS = ["EAN_13", "EAN_8", "UPC_A", "UPC_E", "CODE_128", "CODE_39", "CODE_93"];
+
+/** One read, using MLKit's own full-screen scanner. Resolves null when the person backs out. */
+export async function scanOnce(): Promise<{ code: string | null; error?: string }> {
+  const m = await load();
+  if (!m) return { code: null, error: "native-unavailable" };
+  const err = await ensureReady(m);
+  if (err) return { code: null, error: err };
+  try {
+    const res = await m.BarcodeScanner.scan({ formats: SCAN_FORMATS });
+    const raw = res.barcodes?.[0]?.rawValue;
+    return { code: raw ? String(raw).trim() : null };
+  } catch {
+    return { code: null }; // cancelled
+  }
+}
+
+/** Continuous scanning for a stocktake. The camera preview renders behind the WebView, so the
+ *  page has to go transparent while it runs — `stop()` puts it back. */
+export async function startLive(onCode: (code: string) => void): Promise<{ stop: () => Promise<void>; error?: string }> {
+  const noop = { stop: async () => {} };
+  const m = await load();
+  if (!m) return { ...noop, error: "native-unavailable" };
+  const err = await ensureReady(m);
+  if (err) return { ...noop, error: err };
+
+  const S = m.BarcodeScanner;
+  document.documentElement.classList.add("tcx-native-scan");
+  const handle = await S.addListener("barcodeScanned", (r) => {
+    const raw = r?.barcode?.rawValue;
+    if (raw) onCode(String(raw).trim());
+  });
+  try {
+    await S.startScan({ formats: SCAN_FORMATS });
+  } catch {
+    document.documentElement.classList.remove("tcx-native-scan");
+    await handle.remove().catch(() => {});
+    return { ...noop, error: "The camera wouldn’t start." };
+  }
+  let stopped = false;
+  return {
+    stop: async () => {
+      if (stopped) return;
+      stopped = true;
+      document.documentElement.classList.remove("tcx-native-scan");
+      await S.stopScan().catch(() => {});
+      await handle.remove().catch(() => {});
+    },
+  };
+}