Again, similarly to what's done for custom MeshAttribute and SceneField
values already. I'm bumping the importer interface version as adding new
virtual functions is a silent ABI breakage, but it's good to do in any
case as the AnimationTrackTarget enum was extended to 16 bits and the
values got shifted.
While UfbxImporter knows to import these directly, AssimpImporter tries
to load them as FBX and fails (heh!), and ObjImporter has no idea about
materials at all, so recognizing this extension would only add more harm
than good at the moment.
Somehow. Heh. This causes a non-deprecated build on MSVC to break due to
a similar reason as in 54394e2c2f. And,
similarly to 3717043ae2, *again*
discovered while building bindings.
Except for file callbacks, for these I have another change planned for
zero-copy import and it would be unwise to break stuff twice, providing
two sets of backwards compatibility wrappers. The image / scene
converter plugins went through a similar change earlier already and the
shader converters were made sane since the very beginning. OTOH audio
importers and text stuff are scheduled for merging with Trade or a
larger rework anyway, so I didn't see any point in updating those.
It's mostly a trivial change, except that returned String instances are
now also checked for non-default deleters same as Arrays because yes,
wow such flexibility compared to STL strings. Same was done for
ShaderTools::AbstractConverter already anyway, so nothing unheard-of
either.
The importer plugin interface version is bumped as this likely breaks
ABI in a nasty way that would lead to crashes.
With the previous commits, existing plugin implementations built and ran
against the new code, however it introduced several ABI breaks meaning
that existing plugin binaries would crash. This forces them to be
recompiled to match the new version string.
Minor but very important convenience feature, especially useful when
dealing with command-line apps. This now works:
magnum-imageconverter a.png a.jpg -c jpegQuality=0.75
The AnyImageConverter gets the jpegQuality option and then
automatically propagates it to the concrete plugin (which is either
JpegImageConverter or StbImageConverter), possibly warning in case the
target plugin doesn't recognize given option (i.e., doesn't list it in
its default configuration). Previously the user had to always specify a
concrete converter implementation using -C, which was rather annoying
and nonintuitive.
Makes more sense as the function isn't expected to fail (and thus any
kind of lazy population is not possible as it would be too late for
error checks anyway).
*Not* updating interface strings even though this is an ABI break
because we're doing that right after the skin import interface bump.
The plugin interface version got bumped to avoid ABI issues when loading
plugins that weren't updated for the change, but apart from that this
shouldn't be a breaking change, as the API returns a type that can be
both an Optional and a Pointer.
The current testing workflow had quite a few major flaws and it was no
longer possible after the move of Any* plugins to core. Among the flaws
is:
* Every plugin was basically built twice, once as the real plugin and
once as a static testing library. Most of the build shared common
object files, but nevertheless it inflated build times and made the
buildsystem extremely complex.
* Because the actual plugin binary was never actually loaded during the
test, it couldn't spot problems like:
- undefined references
- errors in metadata files
- mismatched plugin interface/version, missing entry points
- broken static plugin import files
* Tests that made use of independent plugins (such as TgaImageConverter
test using TgaImporter to verify the output) had a hardcoded
dependency on such plugins, making a minimal setup very hard.
* Dynamic loading of plugins from the Any* proxies was always directed
to the install location on the filesystem with no possibility to
load these directly from the build tree. That caused random ABI
mismatch crashes, or, on the other hand, if no plugins were
installed, particular portions of the codebase weren't tested at all.
Now the workflow is the following:
* Every plugin is built exactly once, either as dynamic or as static.
* The test always loads it via the plugin manager. If it's dynamic,
it's loaded straight from the build directory; if it's static, it
gets linked to the test executable directly.
* Plugins used indirectly are always served from the build directory
(if enabled) to ensure reproducibility and independence on what's
installed on the filesystem. Missing presence of these plugins causes
particular tests to be simply skipped.
* Plugins that have extensive tests for internal functionality that's
not exposed through the plugin interface are still built in two
parts, but the internal tests are simply consuming the OBJECT files
directly instead of linking to a static library.
Vladimír Vondruš