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Let extensions declare HTTP routes

ComfyExtension lets a pack declare what it provides and hand it to core as
data. It has two methods today, on_load and get_node_list. This adds a
third, get_routes, because routes are the one part of the extension surface
with no V3 form:

what a pack provides V1, import-time side effect V3, declared as data
nodes NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS get_node_list()
routes @PromptServer.instance.routes.get(...) nothing

A pack that has fully migrated to comfy_entrypoint still has to write
from server import PromptServer to serve an endpoint. That is the import V3
exists to make unnecessary, and it is the only one left.

class MyExtension(ComfyExtension):
    async def get_node_list(self): ...

    async def get_routes(self) -> list[ExtensionRoute]:
        return [ExtensionRoute("get", "/status", self.status)]

Served under /ext/<extension>/, so the example above is reachable at
/api/ext/my_extension/status.

What this changes, and what it does not

It makes registration declarative and owned by core. The pack describes, core
decides, the same split get_node_list already uses. Three things follow:
the server import disappears, core knows which pack owns which path, and a
bad route becomes a warning naming the pack instead of an aiohttp error during
boot that names nobody.

It does not improve the endpoint contract itself. Handlers are still
async def(request) -> response against aiohttp, with no schema, typing,
validation or versioning. This is the prerequisite for that work, not that
work. Worth flagging: ExtensionRoute.handler names aiohttp types in
comfy_api, which is a coupling that was not there before. It is behind
TYPE_CHECKING so there is no runtime import, but the commitment is real and
I would rather raise it than have it found in review.

Why declaring beats decorating

The decorator only works if the pack imports into the ComfyUI process while
PromptServer.instance already exists. That holds by accident of ordering
(main.py builds the server at :537 and imports packs at :543), not by
contract, and it fails entirely for anything out of process.

Compatibility and conflicts

Nothing changes for existing packs. get_routes is non-abstract and returns
[], like on_load; the decorator keeps working.

Route conflicts are left to #15541, which already dedupes them for all routes
including GET-implies-HEAD and wildcards. With both branches merged, four route
definitions across two colliding packs reduce to two kept, two named warnings,
server starts. This PR validates namespace and path shape only.

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The change adds the ExtensionRoute contract and exports it from both API versions. Extensions can implement get_routes to declare handlers. Custom-node loading validates and collects these routes. PromptServer mounts valid routes under /ext/{namespace}/... and mirrors them under /api/ext/.... The example extension now declares its /hello route through ExtensionRoute.

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Extensions that serve an HTTP endpoint reach into a private global at import
time:

    @PromptServer.instance.routes.get("/hello")

custom_nodes/example_node.py.example teaches this, directly above the
ComfyExtension subclass that should own it. 97 of the 500 most downloaded
packs on the Comfy Registry do it. There is no route surface in comfy_api at
all, so the API that exists to keep packs working across updates does not
cover this, and where an endpoint lands in the URL space is whatever the pack
typed.

Add an optional get_routes() alongside on_load() and get_node_list(). It is
non abstract and returns an empty list, so existing extensions are
unchanged. Declared routes go into nodes.EXTENSION_ROUTES and are mounted by
server.add_routes(), the handoff LOADED_MODULE_DIRS already uses, so nodes.py
still does not import server.

Everything mounts under /ext/<extension name>/, so an extension cannot take
a top level path or shadow a core route, and the existing /api mirror serves
it at /api/ext/... as well. Collection rejects a namespace or path that is
not a plain URL segment, a method aiohttp does not have, and a handler that
is not a coroutine, since handlers run on the server event loop. Two routes
that collide are left to the router; Comfy-Org#15541 makes that non fatal.

get_routes() is only reached through comfy_entrypoint. A module defining
NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS is handled by the V1 branch, which returns before the
extension is built.

Addresses Comfy-Org#8603.
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Oops, fixed with fullmatch.

The path check had the same hole, so that is fixed too: "/hello\n" passed startswith("/") and the {}% and .. checks, so paths now reject whitespace as well.

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Generally a fan of this change. Probably won't get reviewed + merged today due to the holiday in the states, but I'll make sure we get a response in the next few days. Appreciate the contribution!

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Looks a nice organisation improvement aswell.

One concern with deriving the route namespace from get_module_name(module_path) is that it seems to make the custom node folder/module name part of the extension's public API.

For example, if the frontend expects /api/ext/ComfyUI-Foo/models, installing or renaming the extension folder to foo would change the endpoint to /api/ext/foo/models.

Would it make sense for extensions to be able to declare a stable namespace explicitly, while using the module name as the default? Something like:

namespace = extension.namespace or get_module_name(module_path)

ComfyUI could still enforce the /ext/<namespace>/ prefix and validate the namespace, while avoiding coupling endpoint URLs to the installation folder name.

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One thing that could make this even more useful longer term is if route declarations eventually included typed request/response information.

That could potentially allow ComfyUI to expose a schema for extension APIs and generate typed frontend clients automatically.

It also makes having a stable namespace more valuable, since the route path would effectively become part of a generated API contract rather than just an implementation detail.

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