podman_asset_version() has never actually cache-busted anything, all session — found live: it kept returning '0' for every asset regardless of a hard browser reload OR a full php-fpm restart (both ruled out explicitly before looking further), which meant the mechanism itself was broken, not caching around it. Root cause: Unraid's PageBuilder runs every .page file's PHP through eval() (webGui/include/DefaultPageLayout/evalContent.php literally does `eval($evalContent)`), and __DIR__/__FILE__ inside eval()'d code resolve to the eval() CALL SITE's own directory, not to Podman.page's real location — a standard PHP gotcha. So `__DIR__ . $relPath` was always pointing at a nonexistent path under webGui/include/DefaultPageLayout/, is_file() always failed, and the function always fell back to '0'. Every "do a hard refresh" instruction given throughout this session worked only because Ctrl+Shift+R bypasses the browser's cache directly — completely unrelated to this (non-functional) query-string mechanism. Likely also the real explanation for containers getting stopped unexpectedly during live testing just now: a stale, mismatched cached JS/HTML combination made a "Start Podman" click actually run as a full restart cycle (confirmed via plugin.log: a complete, uninterrupted stop-then-start at that exact timestamp) — restarted manually afterward. Fixed by hardcoding /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/podman instead of __DIR__ — consistent with the rest of the codebase already assuming this exact install path elsewhere (include/Config.php, plugin/podman.plg's event hook paths). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
webui/
Dynamix-style WebUI pages, following Unraid's plugin GUI convention of
/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/<name>/. webui/plugins/podman/ is staged to
that path by the unraid-podman scaffolding package (see
packages/unraid-podman/unraid-podman.SlackBuild), which podman.plg installs
alongside the other ten packages.
Status: implemented, covering all ten sections from docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, section 18: Dashboard, Containers, Pods, Images, Volumes, Networks, Logs, Terminal, Compose, Settings. Not yet exercised against a real Unraid/Podman install — see docs/ROADMAP.md for what "implemented" does and doesn't cover yet.
webui/mockups/prototype.html is the static, non-PHP clickable mockup this
implementation was built against — kept as the visual reference; it is not
staged into the package.
Structure
webui/
├── mockups/
│ └── prototype.html # static approved mockup, not shipped
└── plugins/
└── podman/
├── Podman.page # page shell: header, sub-nav, one container per panel
├── include/
│ ├── PodmanClient.php # libpod REST API client (talks to podman.sock only)
│ ├── Config.php # reads podman.cfg (mirrors podman-common.sh)
│ ├── bootstrap.php # shared include + error handling for ajax/*.php
│ └── helpers.php # formatting + JSON-response helpers
├── ajax/ # one endpoint per resource, each require()s bootstrap.php
│ ├── containers.php # list/start/stop/restart/remove/logs
│ ├── pods.php
│ ├── images.php
│ ├── volumes.php
│ ├── networks.php
│ ├── exec.php # Terminal — see its header comment for API scope
│ ├── compose.php # Compose — the one deliberate CLI exception, see header
│ ├── settings.php # plugin's own config, not a libpod resource
│ └── system.php # Dashboard aggregation
├── javascript/
│ ├── app.js # shared AJAX helper + sub-tab router
│ └── <panel>.js # one module per panel, registers with app.js
├── styles/podman.css # design tokens ported 1:1 from the mockup
├── event/ # official Unraid array-event hooks (see plugin/event/)
└── images/ # plugin icon assets
Design constraints (see ARCHITECTURE.md for full rationale)
- Every panel talks to
podman system serviceover its Unix socket viaPodmanClient— noexec()/shell_exec()of thepodmanbinary anywhere ininclude/or in the Containers/Pods/Images/Volumes/Networks/ Logs endpoints. - Two documented, deliberate exceptions, not oversights:
ajax/exec.php(Terminal) uses the real exec REST API, but as one-command-in/output-out rather than a true interactive PTY — libpod's interactive exec needs a persistent hijacked connection that doesn't fit PHP-FPM's request lifecycle. See that file's header comment.ajax/compose.php(Compose) shells out to thepodman composeCLI viaproc_open()with an argv array (never a shell string) — because no REST endpoint for Compose exists in libpod at all. See that file's header comment.
- The API socket is root-equivalent; no unauthenticated network exposure beyond what Unraid's own WebUI auth already provides — see .github/SECURITY.md.
- Dark/light mode via CSS custom properties (
prefers-color-scheme+[data-theme]override), matching Unraid's own theme mechanism — no separate theme toggle inside the plugin page.