Makes a lot of use cases significantly simpler -- apart from the trivial
"convert an OBJ to a glTF" scenario, many processing steps are about
passing most data through but only doing a pass on meshes, or images, or
materials. And this simplifies that use case quite a lot.
This is only "driver" code, with no new interfaces for the plugins. For
them it still looks like all data, their names and related metadata were
added one by one.
Also, a suprisingly large amount of code for this feature.
This happened because I made an early implementation of the batch
AbstractSceneConverter APIs, stashed it away, then implemented image
flags and then continued working on the stash, unaware that it's
outdated.
And properly test the behavior as well. While it's rare that a batch
and immediate conversions would be mixed on a single converter instance,
if it happens by accident it should not lead to unexpected internal
state.
Initially I thought there was no reason for this to fail, but then
realized AnySceneConverter would need it. And also any other plugin
relying on something external that might fail during initialization --
there's no other moment after plugin instantiation where it could
signalize a failure, and deferring that to the first add() call,
whichever would it be, is really not a sane idea.
Wasn't really possible to split this into multiple commits, so here's
the whole thing including delegation from and to the single-mesh APIs.
What's not done here and postponed for later is:
- an ability to feed the whole importer to it, filtering away data that
aren't supported by the converter
- corresponding changes in AbstractImageConverter, where it would now
primarily accept ImageData to future-proof for arbitrary extra
key/value data
Hey, do you also remember the times where people were excited to upgrade
from Clang 3.6 to 3.7, GCC 4.7 to 4.8 or Firefox 1.1 to Firefox 1.5? Not
Clang 12 to 14, GCC 10 to 13 or Chrome 102 to 126.
Until now, these were only transitively tested in concrete plugin
implementations, meaning that if the base implementation would have an
error (such as accessing a null optional), it would only get discovered
when building a plugin, worst case a plugin in a completely different
repo.
Consistently with changes done to Utility::Path, this enforces proper
error handling on user side. Originally I didn't want to do this and
instead wanted to have a special Array instance devoted for an error
state, but that still would allow the error state be errorneously
treated as a successful but empty array.
For file opening there's no longer an unatomic pair of exists() +
read(), but since Path::read() now returns an Optional, it means we can
reliably distinguish between empty files and failures.
While at it, also added TODOs for removal of the StringStl.h header
that's needed in various places for compatibility with APIs still using
STL strings.
It should be input first, output second, like with all other APIs. I
remember I was trying something else here, but that didn't really make
sense in the end. Also took that opportunity to get rid of one
std::string.
The original signature is a deprecated alias to the new one and will be
removed in a future release.
There will be Flag::FlipY for images at some point, enabled by default
for compatibility with existing GL code, and so it makes sense to start
discouraging setFlags() as early as possible to avoid people resetting
the default by accident.
Also update the imageconverter, sceneconverter and shaderconverter utils
to use these instead of setFlags().
Vladimír Vondruš