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What?

See #82035.

First step of the plan discussed on the issue: rebuild what the upload queue already does on top of an operation registry, before exposing any public API. The steps that ship with @wordpress/upload-media are now registered through the same registry a plugin would use, processItem() dispatches by lookup instead of a switch, and concurrency limits are declared per operation as pools.

No public API is exposed yet. registerOperation / unregisterOperation are private actions on the core/upload-media store, so nothing changes for consumers of the package.

Why?

The queue had no extension points: a closed OperationType enum, a switch in processItem(), the operations list assembled inline in prepareItem(), and concurrency limits hard-coded per enum member in four places. Making core use the registry first proves the handler contract and lets the public registerUploadOperation() land as a thin wrapper in a follow-up.

How?

  • Registry in store state. state.operations holds OperationDefinitions keyed by namespaced name (core/upload, core/thumbnail-generation, …). Core definitions live in store/operations.ts and seed the default state. registerOperation() validates the name (namespace/operation-name), rejects duplicates (replace = unregister, then register), and requires a label and a handler.
  • One handler contract. A handler receives ( item, args, context ) and resolves with updates for the item (file, attachment, additionalData, poster) or throws to cancel it. runOperation() is the single dispatch path: it awaits the handler, then calls finishOperation() or cancelItem(). The core thunks were converted to return/throw instead of calling those themselves; the core definitions are thin adapters onto them.
  • Two levels of privilege. The public OperationContext exposes signal, settings, updateProgress(), addOperations() and addSideloadItem() (which fills in parentId and post itself). Operations in the core/ namespace additionally get select and dispatch, since thumbnail generation and the upload/sideload split need the store.
  • Planning. After core/prepare classifies the item and builds its default pipeline, every registered operation's optional plan( item, { operations, settings } ) runs in priority order and may return a placement ({ before | after | at, args }), a full replacement array, or nothing. A placement whose anchor is absent is skipped. A pipeline naming an unregistered operation fails the item with the new UNKNOWN_OPERATION error code rather than hanging.
  • Concurrency pools. concurrency: 'upload' | { pool, limit } on the definition replaces the per-enum checks in processItem(), finishOperation(), cancelItem() and the six getActive*Count / getPending* selectors, now getActiveCountByPool(), getPendingItemsByPool() and getConcurrencyPoolLimit(). Core declares upload (maxConcurrentUploads), image (maxConcurrentImageProcessing) and video (1).
  • Labels on every definition, shown by the debug logger; ready for the progress UI later.
  • UploadError.silent lets a handler drop an optional companion (the GIF → video sideload) without invoking onError, which used to be the third argument of cancelItem().
  • Single store instance. MediaUploadProvider loses its useSubRegistry option (its only consumer already passed false), so registrations always land in the one core/upload-media store in the default registry.
  • OperationType keeps its members as typed constants; only the string values changed to the namespaced form. Nothing persists them.

Follow-ups, not in this PR: the public registerUploadOperation() / unregisterUploadOperation() / getUploadOperation() exports, README docs, and proving it with a first plugin (video sub-sizes).

Testing Instructions

Behavior is meant to be unchanged.

  1. npm run test:unit:vitest -- packages/upload-media (373 tests, including new coverage for the registry, planning, handler context and pools in store/test/operations.ts and store/utils/test/operations.ts).
  2. npm run typecheck and npm run lint:js -- packages/upload-media/src.
  3. With client-side media processing enabled, upload a JPEG, a PNG, an animated GIF, a HEIC file and a video in the post editor. Uploads, thumbnails, the GIF companion video and finalization should behave as on trunk.
  4. With SCRIPT_DEBUG on, the console shows Starting operation core/upload (Uploading) for … style lines with the new names and labels.

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  • New Features

    • Upload processing now supports a flexible operation pipeline, enabling additional media-processing steps.
    • Media uploads use shared concurrency controls to manage uploads, image processing, and video processing more consistently.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cancelling an upload now correctly resumes other pending work.
    • Processing and upload errors are handled more consistently, including clearer handling for unsupported operations.
    • Silent failures during unsupported or timed-out GIF conversion no longer interrupt the upload flow.

claude and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 20:03
Turn the closed `switch` in `processItem()` into a registry of named
operations held in the `core/upload-media` store, and register the steps
that ship with the package through it under `core/*` names.

- Operation handlers follow one contract: resolve with updates for the
  item, or throw to cancel it. `runOperation()` is the single dispatch
  path that settles the item afterwards. Core handlers keep their store
  access through a privileged context; the public context only exposes
  `signal`, `settings`, `updateProgress`, `addOperations` and
  `addSideloadItem`.
- `prepareItem()` runs every registered operation's `plan()` over the
  pipeline core decided on, so an operation can insert itself before or
  after a named step, or replace the pipeline. An unregistered step fails
  the item with `UNKNOWN_OPERATION` instead of leaving it stuck.
- Concurrency limits become named pools declared on the operation
  (`upload`, `image`, `video`) instead of per-enum checks spread over
  `processItem()`, `finishOperation()`, `cancelItem()` and selectors.
- Every operation carries a label, used by the debug logger.
- `UploadError` gains a `silent` flag so a handler can drop an optional
  companion without surfacing an error.
- Remove the `useSubRegistry` option of `MediaUploadProvider`, which had
  no consumer, so there is exactly one upload store per page for
  registrations to land in.

No public API is exposed yet; `registerOperation` and
`unregisterOperation` are private actions.

See #82035.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The upload queue now uses a registered operation model with namespaced operations, configurable concurrency pools, operation planning, shared handler contexts, and centralized result handling. MediaUploadProvider now uses the shared registry directly.

Changes

Upload operation registry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operation contracts, registry, and planning
packages/upload-media/src/store/types.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/operations.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/utils/operations.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/reducer.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/private-selectors.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/test/*
Adds namespaced operation types, core definitions, registry actions and state, pipeline planning, concurrency pools, generic selectors, and registry tests.
Registered execution and result settlement
packages/upload-media/src/store/private-actions.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/actions.ts, packages/upload-media/src/upload-error.ts, packages/upload-media/src/store/test/*
Runs registered handlers through shared contexts, returns operation results, centralizes errors, supports silent failures, and resumes pending work by pool.
Provider integration and supporting updates
packages/upload-media/src/components/provider/*, packages/block-editor/src/components/provider/index.jsx, packages/upload-media/src/store/index.ts, packages/upload-media/CHANGELOG.md
Removes registry substitution, uses the shared provider registry, removes storeConfig, and documents the migration.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0a896

Concurrent image uploads can interrupt an active image transcode and cause processing failures. The pool declaration should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant UploadQueue
  participant OperationRegistry
  participant OperationHandler
  participant UploadStore
  UploadQueue->>OperationRegistry: Resolve operation definition
  OperationRegistry-->>UploadQueue: Return handler and pool
  UploadQueue->>OperationHandler: Run with operation context
  OperationHandler->>UploadStore: Upload or process media
  UploadStore-->>OperationHandler: Return result or error
  OperationHandler-->>UploadQueue: Settle operation
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@swissspidy swissspidy added [Type] Enhancement A suggestion for improvement. [Feature] Extensibility The ability to extend blocks or the editing experience [Feature] Client Side Media Media processing in the browser with WASM [Package] Upload Media labels Sep 4, 2026 — with Claude

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CI note: the PHP 7.4 on Linux unit test job failed on 06e00bf before any test ran. The wp-env Docker image build for PHP 7.4 hit a 404 Not Found from the Debian bullseye-security mirror while installing sudo (apt-get -qy install sudo in the wordpress image), so the environment never came up. This PR touches only JavaScript in @wordpress/upload-media and @wordpress/block-editor, no PHP. Re-running the failed job once; if the mirror problem persists it is an infrastructure issue independent of this change.


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claude and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 20:32
The vips worker recycle deferred only while a resize or rotate was in
flight, so a format transcode running in the same worker could be killed
once the recycle budget was hit. Transcoding now joins the image
processing pool, which also throttles it like the other vips operations,
and the recycle check keys on the pool instead of a list of names.

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Upload transports do not always reject with an Error: the editor's
media-upload wrapper forwards only the message string, and a REST failure
can be a plain object. runOperation replaced those with a generic
UploadError, so the notice the user saw for a server-rejected file lost
its real message, which the upload progress snackbar e2e test caught.
cancelItem, the retry classifier and the onError callbacks already handle
strings and plain objects, so pass the rejection through as it is.

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