The create popup now has a "Let several people use this link" box next to the
expiry controls. Tick it and the link stays redeemable by everyone you send it to
until it expires; leave it and you get the old behaviour, where the first person
to open it is the only one who gets in. The plugin setting that used to be the
only control is now just what the box starts out as, and its label on the config
page says so, because "Default one-use links" explained nothing.
Multi-use did not actually work before this. Two things in Jellyfin stopped it,
and both had to change:
Guests were given MaxActiveSessions = 1, and AuthenticateNewSessionInternal throws
SecurityException once a user is at that limit. The second viewer's redemption
would fail, the record would go to Failed, and cleanup would then delete the guest
account, kicking the first viewer out too. Multi-use links now get 0, which is how
Jellyfin spells "no limit" in that check.
The device id was generated once and reused for every redemption, and
GetAuthorizationToken logs out every existing session for the same user and device
before issuing a token. So even under a raised session cap, each new viewer would
have revoked the previous one's token. Multi-use links now mint a device id per
redemption.
Both viewers of a multi-use link share one temporary account, so they also share
playback position and watched state on the shared title.
The button used to be cloned in next to "Copy Stream URL", or shoved at the top
of the menu when there was none, which put it in the middle of Jellyfin's own
command groups. Now there is a single injection path: append an actionsheetDivider
plus the action at the end of the sheet's scroller, so it reads as its own
section the way Jellyfin separates its groups.
It also stopped appearing on menus for things that are not media. The old code
resolved the item from the URL, so opening the "..." menu on a cast member inside
a movie page showed ShareLink and would have shared the movie behind it. The item
is now taken from the trigger that opened the menu (card, list row or the detail
page's own button, all of which we can walk up from) and its type is checked
against the server before anything is injected: movie, series, season, episode,
nothing else. The API refuses everything else too, so a hand-rolled request
cannot tag a person or a playlist either.
Clicking the action now dismisses the action sheet instead of leaving it stacked
under the dialog.
Sharing a series or season now tags the entire tree (series, seasons,
episodes) so the guest can browse and play everything inside it, and
strips it all again at cleanup. Redeeming re-tags the tree, so episodes
added after the link was created show up on the next redemption. The
guest lockdown in the web client now asks the server whether a page's
item is visible to the guest instead of hard-coding the single shared
id, so guests can navigate inside the shared tree but nowhere else.
Libraries and collections are still rejected.
Bumps the version to 1.0.1.0.
Includes fix for redemption failing with DbUpdateConcurrencyException:
change the guest password before applying the user policy, since
UpdatePolicyAsync bumps the user's EF concurrency token and a stale
instance then breaks ChangePassword.
Franciskid