Anthony StirlingandJames Brunton
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Redesigns the policies system so that the backend has an understanding of policies running over the Editor. The Editor is not set up as a source for the backend because the backend can't actively get files from it, they come in via the frontend sending them to the backend, so instead pipelines have a specific editor key in them to encode whether the pipeline is triggered on file upload/export in the editor. Also make a big effort in the frontend code towards genericising policy running. Previously, there was specific support in the main policy executor for each policy that it had to run, which was not going to be appropriate long-term, especially when users can run any pipeline in the editor. There's more work needed here for me to really be happy with it but this PR is plenty large on its own and moves it in the right direction. All of the above was required to allow arbitrary user pipelines to run in the editor. This PR makes it so that the user can select Editor as a source in the pipeline creator, along with whether it should run on upload or export. <img width="1437" height="506" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b2d176a1-185c-480b-9916-abdd1447d8e1" /> --------- Co-authored-by: James Brunton <james@stirlingpdf.com>
Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform
Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing platform. Run it as a personal desktop app, in the browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services.
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