Previously, the MiniYaml.From* helpers such as FromStream would consume the entire input and then return a list of top-level nodes. Now, the input is processed using deferred execution and top-level nodes are yielded as they are resolved from the input.
The motivating use-case is MapCache, which currently manually buffers nodes before passing to MiniYaml.FromString in order to improve responsiveness when large payloads are processed. Now that MiniYaml.FromStream yields results back as they come in, we can switch to that without disadvantage.
The maintains the performance where map cache can update search results as each node comes in over the network rather than having to wait for the entire batch to be transferred. Now we can also remove the string buffer that captures each node, reducing memory pressure and simplifying the code.
Mod metadata, load screens and mod content is all now sourced from ftl files, allowing these items to be translated.
Translations are now initialized as part of ModData creation, as currently they are made available too late for the usage we need here.
The "modcontent" mod learns a new parameter for "Content.TranslationFile" - this allows a mod to provide the path of a translation file to the mod which it can load. This allows mods such as ra, cnc, d2k, ts to own the translations for their ModContent, yet still make them accessible to the modcontent mod.
CheckFluentReference learns to validate all these new fields to ensure translations have been set.
- Rename the filename parameter to name and make it mandatory. Review all callers and ensure a useful string is provided as input, to ensure sufficient context is included for logging and debugging. This can be a filename, url, or any arbitrary text so include whatever context seems reasonable.
- When several MiniYamls are created that have similar content, provide a shared string pool. This allows strings that are common between all the yaml to be shared, reducing long term memory usage. We also change the pool from a dictionary to a set. Originally a Dictionary had to be used so we could call TryGetValue to get a reference to the pooled string. Now that more recent versions of dotnet provide a TryGetValue on HashSet, we can use a set directly without the memory wasted by having to store both keys and values in a dictionary.
This avoids loading, parsing and merging YAML rules for the mod during loading of each individual map. This saves significant time resolving custom rules on each map loaded.
Multiple layers of Lazy<T>ness are replaced with
an explicit two-part loading scheme.
Sequences are parsed immediately, without the need
for the sprite assets, and tell the SpriteCache
which frames they need. Use-cases that want the
actual sprites can then tell the SpriteCache to
load the frames and the sequences to resolve the
sprites.
- Distinguish between missing sequences and missing sprites
- Lint default sequences as well as maps
- Improved performance
- Correctly handle null images
- Replaced ModMetadata.AllMods with Game.Mods.
- Store / reference mod Manifest instead of ModMetadata.
- Removes engine dependency on ModContent class.
