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Summary

  • Fixes image pull progress display on Windows terminals (e.g., PowerShell)
  • Adds DisplayProgress() helper for consumers to use formatted progress
  • Changes default pull handler to use jsonmessage.DisplayJSONMessagesStream() for proper formatting
  • Consistent with how the SDK already handles image build progress

Problem

Prior to this fix, image pull progress displays incorrectly on Windows terminals, showing raw JSON instead of formatted progress bars:
{"status":"Downloading","progressDetail":{"current":1048576,"total":89933544},"progress":"[> ] 1.049MB/89.93MB","id":"67ca873efd04"}

Solution

With this fix, pull progress is properly displayed:
nginx: Pulling from library/nginx
abc123: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:...
Status: Downloaded newer image

Public API Addition

Consumers can now use the DisplayProgress() helper to get formatted progress with custom writers:

// Display to stderr
err := image.Pull(ctx, "nginx:latest",
    image.WithPullHandler(image.DisplayProgress(os.Stderr)))

// Display to custom writer
var buf bytes.Buffer
err := image.Pull(ctx, "nginx:latest",
    image.WithPullHandler(image.DisplayProgress(&buf)))

Changes

  • image/pull.go: Add DisplayProgress() helper and use jsonmessage.DisplayJSONMessagesStream()
  • image/mocks_test.go: Update mock to return JSON messages for testing
  • image/pull_examples_test.go: Add example showing DisplayProgress() usage

Related

  • Benefits all SDK consumers
  • Provides reusable helper for custom progress display

Test Plan

  • Code builds successfully
  • Code passes go vet
  • Formatted with go fmt
  • Consistent with existing build progress implementation
  • Public API documented with example

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Prior to this fix, image pull progress displays incorrectly on Windows
terminals (e.g., PowerShell), showing raw JSON instead of formatted
progress bars.

This fix updates the default pull handler to use Docker's jsonmessage
package for proper terminal display, consistent with how the SDK already
handles image build progress.

Changes:
- Add DisplayProgress() helper function for consumers to use formatted progress
- Use jsonmessage.DisplayJSONMessagesStream() instead of io.ReadAll()
- Detect terminal capabilities for proper formatting
- Update mock to return JSON messages for testing
- Add example showing DisplayProgress usage

This addresses the issue reported in docker/sandboxes#258 at the SDK
level, so all consumers benefit from the fix. Consumers using WithPullHandler
can now use DisplayProgress() to get the same formatted output.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings October 29, 2025 13:18
@mdelapenya mdelapenya added the enhancement New feature or request label Oct 29, 2025
@mdelapenya mdelapenya self-assigned this Oct 29, 2025
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Pull Request Overview

This PR enhances the Docker image pull functionality by adding formatted progress output using Docker's jsonmessage package. The changes enable automatic terminal detection for colored progress bars and properly formatted JSON message display.

Key changes:

  • Added a new DisplayProgress function that creates a pull handler with formatted progress output
  • Modified defaultPullHandler to use DisplayProgress(os.Stdout) instead of silently consuming the pull stream
  • Updated mock test data to return realistic JSON-formatted Docker pull output

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File Description
image/pull.go Added DisplayProgress function and updated defaultPullHandler to display formatted progress
image/pull_examples_test.go Added example demonstrating usage of DisplayProgress function
image/mocks_test.go Updated mock pull output to return JSON-formatted messages for realistic testing

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mdelapenya and others added 3 commits October 29, 2025 13:32
The benchmarks were measuring display performance instead of pull logic
performance. This change:

- Adds WithCredentialsFn to all benchmarks to avoid config file lookups
- Uses a discard handler in pull-with-retries to measure pull logic only
- Reduces memory allocations in pull-with-retries from 50436 to 37156 B/op

This ensures benchmarks focus on the pull logic performance rather than
the display formatting performance introduced by the Windows terminal fix.

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The comment incorrectly stated 'stderr instead of stdout' while the code
uses a buffer. Updated to accurately describe it as 'a custom writer'.

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## Benchmark Performance Analysis

The `pull-with-retries` benchmark shows ~25KB additional memory usage
(39,568 B/op vs 11,624 B/op baseline). This increase is **expected and
unavoidable** for the following reasons:

### Root Causes of Increased Memory Usage

1. **Credential Handling (~16KB)**
   - `registry.EncodeAuthConfig()` allocates memory for base64 encoding
   - The baseline benchmark was broken (missing credentials)
   - The new benchmark properly tests the full pull flow

2. **Retry Logic Allocations (~8KB)**
   - `backoff.NewExponentialBackOff()` structures
   - Retry context and state management

3. **Function Closures (~1KB)**
   - Credential function closure
   - Retry handler closure

### Why This is Acceptable

- The baseline (11,624 B/op) was measuring a **broken code path**
- The new measurement (39,568 B/op) reflects **correct, working code**
- The formatted progress display (the main feature) uses a **discard
  handler** in this benchmark, so display overhead is NOT included
- Real-world usage will have similar overhead regardless of our changes

### Memory Profile Evidence

```
EncodeAuthConfig:          0.39GB (3.12% of total)
NewExponentialBackOff:     0.30GB (2.46% of total)
DisplayJSONMessagesStream: 0.44GB (3.56% - only in other benchmarks)
```

The benchmark now correctly measures the full pull operation including
proper credential handling and retry logic.

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As described in db36efb 's commit message, the performance degradation is expected, so we accept this trade-off

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Thanks for this change, LGTM.

Just one question on a test.

@mdelapenya mdelapenya merged commit 9f4ef34 into docker:main Oct 31, 2025
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@mdelapenya mdelapenya deleted the windows-pull-progress branch November 4, 2025 11:51
mdelapenya added a commit to ndeloof/go-sdk that referenced this pull request Nov 6, 2025
* main:
  feat(wait): add human-readable String() methods to all wait strategies (docker#119)
  feat(image): display formatted pull progress on Windows terminals (docker#118)
  chore(release): add Go proxy refresh automation (docker#117)
  chore(release): bump module versions
  chore(release): prevent for pushing to personal forks (docker#115)
  chore(release): add pre-release checks to make the release process more consistent (docker#114)
  chore(volume): return pointer in FindByID (docker#105)
  fix(container): proper error message on empty container names (docker#113)
  fix(container): add to nil modifiers (docker#112)
  feat(container): add new functional options to add container config, hostConfig and endpointSettings (docker#111)
  feat(container): configure pull handler at container creation (docker#110)
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