better default agent props & speed & position numeric, not strings

app/helpers/formBuilder.js

@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ app.helpers.formBuilder = {
             }
             if(component){
                 component.classList.add('formbuilder-field')
-                component.value = this.getPathInObj(fieldsValues, propName) || fieldsObj[propName].default
+                const rawValue = this.getPathInObj(fieldsValues, propName) ?? fieldsObj[propName].default
+                if(fieldsObj[propName].type === 'number') {
+                    const n = Number(rawValue)
+                    component.value = Number.isFinite(n) ? n : 0
+                } else {
+                    component.value = rawValue
+                }
                 fieldRow.append(component)
                 allFields.push(fieldRow)
             }
@@ -77,6 +83,14 @@ app.helpers.formBuilder = {
         return(target[parts[parts.length - 1]] )
     },
 
+    #fieldValue(el) {
+        if(el?.type === 'number') {
+            const n = Number(el.value)
+            return(Number.isFinite(n) ? n : el.value)
+        }
+        return(el.value)
+    },
+
     getFieldsValues(rootSel){
         const result = {}
         document.querySelectorAll(`${rootSel} .formbuilder-field`).forEach(el => {
@@ -89,14 +103,14 @@ app.helpers.formBuilder = {
                 }
                 target = target[key]
             }
-            target[path[path.length - 1]] = el.value
+            target[path[path.length - 1]] = this.#fieldValue(el)
         })
         return(result)
     },
 
     getFieldValue(rootSel, name){
         const comp = document.querySelector(`${rootSel} .formbuilder-field[name="${name}"]`)
-        if(comp) return(comp.value)
+        if(comp) return(this.#fieldValue(comp))
         else return(null)
     },
 

app/models/AgentsModel.js

@@ -43,7 +43,15 @@ class AgentsModel extends WindozModel {
     async getDefaultProps(id){
         const aprops = await this.getProperties(id)
         const defaults={ position: { x:0, y:0, z:0 }, speed: { x:0, y:0, z:0 }}
-        for(const p in aprops) defaults[p] = aprops[p].default 
+        for(const p in aprops) {
+            const prop = aprops[p]
+            if(prop?.type === 'number') {
+                const n = Number(prop.default)
+                defaults[p] = Number.isFinite(n) ? n : 0
+            } else {
+                defaults[p] = prop.default
+            }
+        }
         return(defaults)
     }
 }

app/models/KeyframesModel.js

@@ -38,14 +38,31 @@ class KeyframesModel extends WindozModel {
         )
     }
 
+    #normalizeAxisVector(vec) {
+        if(!vec || typeof(vec) !== 'object') return(null)
+        const axes = ['x', 'y', 'z']
+        const out = {}
+        for(const axis of axes) {
+            const n = Number(vec[axis])
+            if(!Number.isFinite(n)) return(null)
+            out[axis] = n
+        }
+        return(out)
+    }
+
     async save(kfId, data) {
         const kfData = Object.keys(data).map(aid => {
             const { position, speed, ...storeValues} = data[aid].values
+            const gpsPosition = this.#normalizeAxisVector(position)
+            const gpsSpeed = this.#normalizeAxisVector(speed)
+            if(!gpsPosition || !gpsSpeed) {
+                throw(new Error(`Agent ${aid}: position and speed must be numeric vectors`))
+            }
             return({
                 aid: aid,   
                 type: data[aid].type,
                 storeValues: storeValues,
-                gpsValues: { position: data[aid].values.position, speed: data[aid].values.speed }
+                gpsValues: { position: gpsPosition, speed: gpsSpeed },
             })
         })
 

app/views/editors/KeyframeView.js

@@ -207,14 +207,14 @@ class KeyframeView extends WindozDomContent {
         if(this.currentlySelectedAid && this.kfArena.agents[this.currentlySelectedAid]){
             const AgentValues = this.getFieldsValues('div[data-output="agentProperties"]')
             this.kfArena.agents[this.currentlySelectedAid].values = AgentValues
-            const val = Number.parseInt(comp.value, 10) 
-            if((comp.name.startsWith('position.')) && (!Number.isNaN(val))){
+            const val = Number(comp.value)
+            if((comp.name.startsWith('position.')) && (Number.isFinite(val))){
                 this.kfArena.moveAgent(this.currentlySelectedAid, {
                     x: this.getFieldValue('div[data-output="agentProperties"]', 'position.x'),
                     y: this.getFieldValue('div[data-output="agentProperties"]', 'position.y'),
                     z: this.getFieldValue('div[data-output="agentProperties"]', 'position.z'),
                 })
-            } else if((comp.name.startsWith('speed.')) && (!Number.isNaN(val))){
+            } else if((comp.name.startsWith('speed.')) && (Number.isFinite(val))){
                 this.kfArena.changeAgentSpeed(this.currentlySelectedAid, {
                     x: this.getFieldValue('div[data-output="agentProperties"]', 'speed.x'),
                     y: this.getFieldValue('div[data-output="agentProperties"]', 'speed.y'),

doc/prompts_blobs.txt

@@ -36,4 +36,62 @@ The reason for this remark is to take provision for a future where I might want
 
 
 
-{ "eventType": "remove", "payload": { }, "sender": "agent42" }
+We need to think about how we start a new simulation from GPS point of view :
+As we are in a distributed context, here is the workflow I'm thinking of :
+1. Some orchestrator process will put all agents data in the arena Redis store.
+2. Then it will start all agents processes, in a special mode "onYourMarks" where they can initialize, time is frozen to zero, any non initialization computation is forbidden.
+3. When each agent is initialized, it fires an arena event "readyToStart"
+4. When the orchestrator has accounted for all agents, it fires an "arenaStart" event, that unleashes all agents.
+
+Now where is GPS in all of this :
+GPS should behave like an agent: listen for "onYourMarks" event, initialize, send "readToStart" when done, and start time-ticking when it received a "bigBang" event.
+Contrary to agents, GPS daemon itself is supposed to be running already.
+So the initialization is mainly doing a first agents scan to fill its registry. (with an unvalued T0 and collision-ticks not running). Scanning all agents means going into redis store to get their vector (its only after this step than GPS become the positions authority)
+Upon receiving "bigBang", T0 is valued, and the collisionsTicks starts.
+That's the general idea. 
+Please check if you don't see incoherence, gap or edge case.
+
+
+
+5. GPS time communicated to agents is simulation time, thus with T(bigBang) = 0
+Therefore,  when the orchestrator send a "bigBang" event, GPS starts general scan 
+and does the pre-compute with all positions at T=0
+For eventual time-elapsed computations internal to GPS, it can keep a reference, say bigBangEpoch to epoch (miliseconds)
+at the moment he receives the "bigBang" event.
+From then on, current Simulation time is now() - bigBangEpoch
+
+
+Next step: the embrio of simOrchestrator.
+Can you create a second GodDaemon called like that, aside GPS, that uses the same config, the same general pattern, adapted start & stop scripts, 
+
+
+
+
+
+
+So, the first thing you must understand, is that all busses, thus all meshes and all redisConnexions can carry both types of messages :
+1. Request-reply:  action request (possibly with reqid) requestor to provider. After action completion (or rejection), the provider answers the requestor (private chan replacing {uuid} with sender) with a reply (on the same reqid if present). 
+The payload must contain "action", with an imperative form.
+Action must be verified to arrive on a specific chan, and the sender be allowed by access-rights.
+
+2. Events broadcasting: not a request, just a message for anybody interested (so no "rejection" per se, but eventual ignore). No answer, but eventual local processing which might or not endup firing other event(s). 
+The payload must contain "eventType", with a generally a past tense. (like "he guys, I UPDATED my color")
+Event routing combines chan & eventType (for example, and "updated" eventType could appear on a agentColor chan, and on a agentHealth chan, with different meanings and thus handling)
+
+These two types can happen anywhere, it is not a "per mesh drift".
+Probably, most Actions will concentrate in the SYSTEM mesh, because the management by the front-end and API is mostly user driven (user action becomes a request on the system bus).
+Probably, the ARENA will be mostly event-driven, because agents have no overview of the arena (so to who ask for what?)
+
+Nevertheless, there will be many cases where this is not true:
+GODs emitting events that other gods or even the Front-End should be aware of.
+The observer feeding the GUI on arena changes in an event-driven way.
+Agent in the Arena requesting a service from a known god. (like "Hey GPS, give me my latest vector")
+And maybe even someday clever agents that provide actions to other agents in their proximity for example.
+
+"Action" folder was originally meant for...actions !
+
+Now we need to find a clean, elegant, universal (across daemons & across meshes) 
+way of coexist both actions and events.
+
+Describe a proposal that stays close to what we have, but separates events from actions.
+