fix(mihomo-control): avoid CPU budget exhaustion on large API polls (v0.1.4)

[mdj2812]

Plugin

• Id: mdj2812/mihomo-control
• New plugin
• Update to an existing plugin (version bumped in plugin.toml)

What it does

Fixes Mihomo Control becoming unresponsive when polling remote controllers with large /connections or /proxies API responses. The service now scrapes /connections totals without a full json.decode, and projects oversized /proxies bodies through jq instead of decoding them inline within Noctalia's per-callback CPU budget.

External dependencies

• jq — used only when a /proxies response exceeds the inline decode size limit, to project group data without exhausting the Luau CPU budget.

Testing

• Tested on Niri
• Tested on Hyprland
• Tested on Sway
• Tested on another compositor:
• Noctalia version tested against: latest dev build (2026-08-28)
• Plugin API level: 9

Verified against a remote Mihomo controller with large /connections and /proxies payloads: the service keeps publishing state and the panel stays responsive. Ran lua5.4 mihomo-control/tests/group_order_test.lua.

Screenshots / Videos

Not applicable — service-only reliability fix; no visual UI changes in this release.

Checklist

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• version follows semver and is bumped in this PR; plugin_api is the oldest API level this plugin requires.
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