In order to split backend.proto into a more manageable size, the protobuf
handling needed to be updated. This took more time than I would have
liked, as each language handles protobuf differently:
- The Python Protobuf code ignores "package" directives, and relies
solely on how the files are laid out on disk. While it would have been
nice to keep the generated files in a private subpackage, Protobuf gets
confused if the files are located in a location that does not match
their original .proto layout, so the old approach of storing them in
_backend/ will not work. They now clutter up pylib/anki instead. I'm
rather annoyed by that, but alternatives seem to be having to add an extra
level to the Protobuf path, making the other languages suffer, or trying
to hack around the issue by munging sys.modules.
- Protobufjs fails to expose packages if they don't start with a capital
letter, despite the fact that lowercase packages are the norm in most
languages :-( This required a patch to fix.
- Rust was the easiest, as Prost is relatively straightforward compared
to Google's tools.
The Protobuf files are now stored in /proto/anki, with a separate package
for each file. I've split backend.proto into a few files as a test, but
the majority of that work is still to come.
The Python Protobuf building is a bit of a hack at the moment, hard-coding
"proto" as the top level folder, but it seems to get the job done for now.
Also changed the workspace name, as there seems to be a number of Bazel
repos moving away from the more awkward reverse DNS naming style.
An example of how we can start migrating the codebase to PEP8:
- enable invalid-name at the top
- use bazel run pylib:pylint to identify names that need renaming
- use PyCharm or similar to rename the functions/variables
- in the cases where the conversion is not just snake_case, use
.register_deprecated_aliases()
+ removed the __repr__() definition, it dumps all the note content
and obscures the error message
This could potentially help us avoid having to refetch the notetype
during study in the future, though updates to Note initialization and
the LaTeX handling would be required first.
This splits update_card() into separate undoable/non-undoable ops
like the change to notes in b4396b94abdeba3347d30025c5c0240d991006c9
It means that actions get a blanket 'Update Card' description - in the
future we'll probably want to either add specific actions to the backend,
or allow an enum or string to be passed in to describe the op.
Other changes:
- card.flush() can no longer be used to add new cards. Card creation
is only supposed to be done in response to changes in a note's fields,
and this functionality was only exposed because the card generation
hadn't been migrated to the backend at that point. As far as I'm aware,
only Arthur's "copy notes" add-on used this functionality, and that should
be an easy fix - when the new note is added, the associated cards will
be generated, and they can then be retrieved with note.cards()
- tidy ups/PEP8
- anki._backend stores the protobuf files and rsbackend.py code
- pylib modules import protobuf messages directly from the
_pb2 files, and explicitly export any will be returned or consumed
by public pylib functions, so that calling code can import from pylib
- the "rsbackend" no longer imports and re-exports protobuf messages
- pylib can just consume them directly.
- move errors to errors.py
Still todo:
- rsbridge
- finishing the work on rsbackend, and check what we need to add
back to the original file location to avoid breaking add-ons
- front/back/css shown in tabs
- front/back preview switchable; only one webview needs to be loaded
- dropdown to select cloze number in preview
- search box to search in front/back/css
- changes are now committed in bulk when closing the dialog,
and can be canceled
- it's not necessary to save the note to the database to preview it
- duplicate fields are now shown as duplicates in the top list
- redraw preview more quickly
- use + instead of _ when deduplicating names, as the latter is a
glob character
Saves having to serialize the note fields and q/a templates, which
is particularly a win when rendering question/answer in the browse
screen.
Also some work towards being able to preview notes without having to
commit them to the database.
- _renderQA() has moved to template.py:render_card()
- dropped QAData in favour of a properly typed dict
- render_card() returns a TemplateRenderOutput struct instead of a dict
- card_did_render now takes that output as the first arg, and can
mutate it
- TemplateRenderContext now stores the original card, so it can return
a card even in the add screen case
The old mungeFields and mungeQA hook have been removed as part of this
change. mungeQA can be replaced with the card_did_render hook.
In the mungeFields case, please switch to using field_filter instead.
We can now show replay buttons for the audio contained in {{FrontSide}}
without having to play it again when the answer is shown.
The template code now always defers FrontSide rendering, as it wasn't
a big saving, and meant the logic had to be implemented twice.
- the new API operates on AVTags so it can support TTS as well as
audio files
- added a simple "run for each file" implementation for mpv and mplayer.
- will need to test handling of unicode filenames on Windows
- the old mpv and mplayer code is currently not active
- the context exists for the lifecycle of one card's render,
and caches calls to things like .card() to avoid add-ons needing to
do their own cache management.
- add-ons can optionally add extra data to the context if they need
it across multiple filters
- removed card_will_render. the legacy hook is still available for
now
- card_did_render is now called only once, with both front and back
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