The Node Add menu can have special submenus containing node assets.
These submenus are generated by parsing the asset blend files from
release/datafiles/assets, and the interface drawing is specific to
these menus.
This commit enables the translation of these dynamic menus, including
their names and the description of the operators.
Various UI code would store the `AssetHandle` in a way that turns out to
be unsafe. The file-data is part of the file browser caching system that
releases file-data when a certain maximum of items is in the cache. So
even while just iterating over the assets, earlier iterated asset
handles may become invalid. Now asset handles are really treated as
volatile, short lived objects.
For the asset-view, the fix was more involved. There we need an RNA
collection of asset-handles, because the UI list code requires that. So
we create a dummy collection and get the asset handles as needed by
index. This again meant that I had to keep the index of the collection
and the asset-list in sync, so all filtering had to be moved to the UI
list.
I tried duplicating the file-data out of the cache instead, but that
caused problems with managing the memory/ownership of the preview
images.
`AssetHandle` should be removed and replaced by `AssetRepresentation`,
but this would be an even more disruptive change (breaking API
compatibility too).
Fixes#104305, #105535.
Pull Request: #105773
Updates the add and search menu of the node editor to use the new "All"
asset library introduced in the previous commit. This simplifies code by
removing redundant logic to merge contents of multiple asset libraries.
(Probably requires ASan for a reliable crash.)
Steps to reproduce were:
* Enter Geometry Nodes Workspace
* Press "New" button in the geometry nodes editor header
* Right-click the data-block selector -> "Mark as Asset"
* Change 3D View to Asset Browser
* Create a catalog
* Drag new Geometry Nodes asset into the catalog
* Save the file
* Press Shift+A in the geometry nodes editor
There was a general issue here with keeping catalog pointers around
during the add menu building. The way it does things, catalogs may be
reloaded in between.
Since the Current File asset library isn't loaded in a separate thread,
the use-after-free would always happen in between. For other libraries
it could still happen, but apparently didn't by chance.
Adds a new `source/blender/asset_system` directory and moves asset
related files from BKE to it. More asset related code can follow
(e.g. asset indexing, ED_assetlist stuff) but needs further work to
untangle it. I also kept `BKE_asset.h` and `asset.cc` as is, since they
deal with asset DNA data mostly, thus make sense in BKE.
Motivation:
- Makes the asset system design more present (term wasn't even used in
code before).
- An `asset_system` directory is quite descriptive (trivial to identify
core asset system features) and makes it easy to find asset code.
- Asset system is mostly runtime data, with little relation to other
`Main`/BKE/DNA types.
- There's a lot of stuff in BKE already. It shouldn't be just a dump for
all stuff that seems core enough.
- Being its own directly helps us be more mindful about encapsulating
the module well, and avoiding dependencies on other modules.
- We can be more free with splitting files here than in BKE.
- In future there might be an asset system BPY module, which would then
map quite nicely to the `asset_system` directory.
Checked with some other core devs, consensus seems that this makes
sense.
Adds a listener to the node add menu so that it refreshes as assets get
loaded asynchronously.
Followup to cf98518055, also see 99e5024e97 and the previous commit.
This patch builds on the work from bdb5754147 to add node group
assets directly in the node editor add menu. Assets are added after
separators to distinguish them, but otherwise they look like any other
node. The catalog trees from all configured libraries are used to build
the menu hierarchy. Only catalogs with matching asset types are used
though.
There are a few limitations of this initial version. For now this only
supports geometry nodes. Support for other built-in node systems just
requires some refactoring of the corresponding add menu though. Lazy
loading will be added in a followup commit. For now there is a label
the first time the menu is opened.
Like the search menu integration, re-saving asset library files in 3.4
is required, if it hasn't been done already.
Implementation wise, there is a some ugly code here. A lot of that is
because the asset system isn't complete. The RNA API doesn't work well
yet, and the system isn't built to interact with multiple libraries at
once. It's also ugly because of the way we combine automatic menu
generation with builtin menus. As noted in a code comment, these two
systems could be merged completely so that the menus for builtin nodes
are also generated in the same way.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16135
