[Bf-committers] Operator Import/Export (proposed changes)

[Thomas Dinges]

  It has been done in C for performance reasons.

Campbell, your proposal sounds good to me. +1

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 31.08.2010 19:26, schrieb François T.:
> except Collada for instance ? or do you consider porting the code to py ? I
> actually never understood why it was done in C instead of py though ?
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> 2010/8/31 Campbell Barton<ideasman42 at gmail.com>
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>> There are some changes I planned for a while and should do sooner then
>> later since our own scripts are meant as examples for new devs to
>> follow.
>> In brief the proposal is to have import/export be setup more like addons.
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>> - move from "io" directory to "op"
>> - make each format into a package so "/op/io_obj/__init__.py, load.py,
>> save.py"
>>   (I'm not fussed on submodule names, we just cant use import.py since
>> its a py keyword)
>> - only define operators in __init__.py, delay importing read/write
>> modules until the operators run
>>   (so blender loads faster!)
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>> The main disadvantage I see with this is we don't have all files in a
>> simple flat directory anymore, but faster load times are a big
>> incentive for me.
>>
>> This is fairly straightforward, but there are some other things to
>> consider while on the topic.
>>
>> The changes suggested above basically make these match how our addons
>> work, we could just have all importers and exporters be addons, some
>> enabled by default.
>> For the user it wont matter much but this means we can have addons
>> show up in the menu by default without them being moved into another
>> SVN repository.
>>
>> I'd also like to use mix-in classes for Importers/Exporters, this
>> means we can have generic invoke functions, not have to define
>> filename property on each operator, and we could generalize options
>> for batch import/export too.
>> Simple patch which adds bpy.types.Operator.Export
>>   http://www.pasteall.org/15353/diff
>> ...this would be opt in since some scripts might want their own
>> invoke, but for now we have duplicate invoke() functions for most i/o.
>>
>> --
>> - Campbell
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