attachment_engine 0.0.1-dev.4

Universal attachment engine for Flutter to resolve, cache, download, preview, and render documents, media, and web content using native platform APIs.

attachment_engine

A comprehensive federated Flutter engine for handling attachment workflows across mobile, desktop, and web applications:

• 📄 Multi-Format Rendering: Native PDF viewer (Android/iOS/macOS), HTML5/SCORM player, rich text, images, and Office documents.
• 🎵 Audio & Video Playback: Full-screen viewer, inline player, background audio, and HLS streaming support.
• 💾 Resilient Cache Engine: LRU eviction cap, SHA-256 key hashing, background download resume, and network deduplication.
• 📱 Multi-Platform Support: Production-ready on Android, iOS, macOS, and Web; Development Preview on Windows and Linux.
• 🎨 Ready-to-Use UI Widgets: AttachmentViewer, AttachmentPreview, AttachmentTile, AttachmentList, and AttachmentGrid.
• 🛡️ Zero-Crash Resilience: Zip-slip protection, mime-type sniffing, corrupted file detection, and user-friendly error mapping.

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📱 Platform Support Matrix

Feature	Android	iOS	macOS	Windows (Preview)	Linux (Preview)	Web
PDF Viewing	✅ Native PDF Surface	✅ Native PDFKit	✅ Native PDFKit	❌ Unimplemented	❌ Unimplemented	❌ Unimplemented
Video Playback	✅ MediaPlayer / Surface	✅ AVPlayer	✅ AVPlayer	⚠️ Media Foundation (Preview)	⚠️ GStreamer (Preview)	✅ HTML5 Video
Audio Playback	✅ MediaPlayer	✅ AVAudioPlayer	✅ AVAudioPlayer	⚠️ Media Foundation (Preview)	⚠️ GStreamer (Preview)	✅ HTML5 Audio
Office Documents	✅ External Open Fallback	✅ Native QuickLook	✅ Native QuickLook	✅ Native Open	✅ Native Open	✅ In-Browser
HTML / SCORM / H5P	✅ WebView	✅ WKWebView	✅ WKWebView	✅ WebView	✅ Web Surface	✅ iframe / DOM
File Download	✅ Native / Resumable	✅ NSURLSession	✅ NSURLSession	✅ Background IO (dart:io)	✅ Background IO (dart:io)	✅ Fetch + OPFS
System Share	✅ Android Sharesheet	✅ UIActivityViewController	✅ NSSharingService	⚠️ Share Interop (Preview)	❌ Unimplemented	✅ Web Share API

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Installation

Add attachment_engine to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  attachment_engine: ^0.0.1-dev.1

2. Initialize the Engine

Initialize AttachmentManager in your app's main() entrypoint:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:attachment_engine/attachment_engine.dart';

void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  await AttachmentManager.initializeDefault();
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

3. Display an Attachment (Viewer & Preview)

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:attachment_engine/attachment_engine.dart';

class AttachmentScreen extends StatelessWidget {
  const AttachmentScreen({super.key, required this.attachment});

  final Attachment attachment;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(title: Text(attachment.name)),
      body: Center(
        // Full Interactive Viewer:
        child: AttachmentViewer(attachment: attachment),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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🧩 UI Components

attachment_engine provides plug-and-play UI widgets that adapt to every attachment type:

AttachmentViewer

Full interactive viewer with zoom, swipe, full-screen playback, and action controls.

AttachmentViewer(
  attachment: attachment,
)

AttachmentPreview

Lightweight thumbnail/card preview without initializing heavy platform controllers.

SizedBox(
  width: 120,
  height: 120,
  child: ClipRRect(
    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
    child: AttachmentPreview(attachment: attachment),
  ),
)

AttachmentTile & AttachmentList

Ready-made list tiles with progress indicator, capability action buttons, and retry states.

AttachmentList(
  attachments: attachmentList,
  onTapAttachment: (attachment) => AttachmentManager.instance.open(attachment),
)

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⚡ Programmatic Management API

final manager = AttachmentManager.instance;

// 1. Resolve and open an attachment for viewing
final resolved = await manager.open(attachment);

// 2. Share resolved attachment via OS native share sheet
await manager.share(resolved.attachment);

// 3. Open in an external OS-provided application
await manager.openExternally(resolved.attachment);

// 4. Invalidate / delete local cache
await manager.deleteCache(attachment);

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⚙️ Custom Configuration

Customize caching limits, retry backoff, and renderers via AttachmentEngineConfig:

final customConfig = AttachmentEngineConfig(
  cache: const CacheConfig(
    maxTotalSizeBytes: 1024 * 1024 * 500, // 500 MB
    retention: Duration(days: 14),
  ),
  download: const DownloadConfig(
    maxConcurrentDownloads: 4,
    maxRetries: 3,
  ),
);

await AttachmentManager.initializeDefault(config: customConfig);

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🔒 Security & Resilience

• Zip-Slip Safe Extraction: SCORM and ZIP extractors enforce strict path validation to prevent path traversal attacks.
• Safe Cache Hashing: File keys are hashed using SHA-256, protecting against invalid characters and directory injections.
• Content Validation: Verifies magic bytes to confirm the actual payload matches the declared file extension before execution.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.