The code works fine as is if the format plugin is not already loaded in memory.
If a plugin is already in memory, say the PNG plugin for example, then a call to readImageFile("http://server.com/image.png") will return FILE_NOT_FOUND because osgDB::findDataFile will not be able to locate the file. So the Registry::read method is returning before the CURL plugin is given a chance to download the file.
I've made a few changes to the Registry to not return FILE_NOT_FOUND if the filename contains a URL that fix the issue."
I've made a small change to Registry.cpp that puts the CURL logic AFTER the URL has been passed to the plugin rather than assuming all URL's need to be downloaded by the CURL plugin. This way, plugins can have first crack at the URL's, and if they don't handle it the previous CURL behavior kicks in."
..\..\..\..\src\osgDB\Registry.cpp(910) : warning C4806: '==' : unsafe operation: no value of type 'bool' promoted to type 'osgDB::Registry::LoadStatus' can equal the given constant
A quick review of the code revealed a piece of code that was clearly wrong, possibly due to a copy-and-paste error.
"
mode. Nevertheless, the code doesn't acknowledge that, so I had problems with
debug versions of the library not being able to open their plugins whereas
the release versions worked fine.
I have made the same changes in Registry.cpp that are available for the rest
of platforms appending that "d" to their plugins. I have also updated the
CMakeLists.txt file to get "_DEBUG" defined at compilation time. I have
copied the already existent conditional block because of cmake's bizarre
operator precedence. Since Cygwin defines both CYGWIN and WIN32, the
following would suffice:
IF(CYGWIN OR UNIX AND NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
Sadly, it actually doesn't work, so I wrote a new conditional block just for
Cygwin. I could join the two blocks when the parentheses support is added in
newer versions of cmake."
first post:
"I had the problem that debug and release version of the plugins had the same name under linux. These minors modification to Registry and the CMake support files enable to have both Release and Debug version of the plugins to coexist and be found by there respective runtimes."
follow up post:
"I've gone ahead and added a preprocessor directive with the editable CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX. I modified Registry.cpp to take this new preprocessor directive called OSG_DEBUG_POSTFIX while looking for libraries in Debug mode for the windows (msvc) and the linux platforms.
MinGW, cygwin and Apple are still left out this proposal."
Notes from Robert Osfield, completed the work in change d entries to use OSG_DEBUG_POSTFIX
multi-threaded paging, where the Pager manages threads of reading local
and http files via seperate threads. This makes it possible to smoothly
browse large databases where parts of the data are locally cached while
others are on a remote server. Previously with this type of dataset
the pager would stall all paging while http requests were being served,
even when parts of the models are still loadable virtue of being in the
local cache.
Also as part of the refactoring the DatabaseRequest are now stored in the
ProxyNode/PagedLOD nodes to facilitate quite updating in the cull traversal,
with the new code avoiding mutex locks and searches. Previous on big
databases the overhead involved in make database requests could accumulate
to a point where it'd cause the cull traversal to break frame. The overhead
now is negligable.
Finally OSG_FILE_CACHE support has been moved from the curl plugin into
the DatabasePager. Eventually this functionality will be moved out into
osgDB for more general usage.
"" for all platforms except Cygwin where its set to "cygwin_" and Mingw where
it is set to "mingw_". Updated osgDB::Registry to look for these for the plugins.
Updated the osgintrospection example to search for these names as well.
"By repurpose, I'm creating a new plugin that uses much of the .osg fileformat,
but with some changes. Specifically, I'm creating a ".osgfs" plugin, which
represents the scenegraph hierarchy as a filesystem of nested subdirectories and
individual files for each node, rather than nested braces with everything in a
single monolithic file. I intend to incorporate file alteration monitor events
to watch the filesystem for modifications and automatically reload.
The problem I'm running into is osgDB is too tightly coupled to the .osg format.
osgDB::Output::writeObject() contains literal .osg format-specific strings like
"{" to represent the Object hierarchy at too low a semantic level. I propose
using virtual methods; my plugin can then derive from osgDB::Output and
represent Object hiearchy differently.
"
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This is a simple change to permit databases other than those named
"*.osga" to be used. It is hardcoded in read() at present.
It is non-critical and does not affect existing program functionality.
Registry and Registry.cpp
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Added a new typedef: typedef std::vector< std::string>
ArchiveExtensionList;
a list of extensions: ArchiveExtensionList _archiveExtList;
and an "add" method: addArchiveExtension(const std::string ext)
This is initialised by adding "osga" in Registry() and used in
Registry::read() where the list is searched for the extension used.
Archive.cpp
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This submission is a little more tentative. openArchive() is modified to
automatically add the filename extension to the Registry extension list.
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