# Objective
Simplify implementing some asset traits without Box::pin(async move{})
shenanigans.
Fixes (in part) https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/11308
## Solution
Use async-fn in traits when possible in all traits. Traits with return
position impl trait are not object safe however, and as AssetReader and
AssetWriter are both used with dynamic dispatch, you need a Boxed
version of these futures anyway.
In the future, Rust is [adding
](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-traits.html)proc
macros to generate these traits automatically, and at some point in the
future dyn traits should 'just work'. Until then.... this seemed liked
the right approach given more ErasedXXX already exist, but, no clue if
there's plans here! Especially since these are public now, it's a bit of
an unfortunate API, and means this is a breaking change.
In theory this saves some performance when these traits are used with
static dispatch, but, seems like most code paths go through dynamic
dispatch, which boxes anyway.
I also suspect a bunch of the lifetime annotations on these function
could be simplified now as the BoxedFuture was often the only thing
returned which needed a lifetime annotation, but I'm not touching that
for now as traits + lifetimes can be so tricky.
This is a revival of
[pull/11362](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/11362) after a
spectacular merge f*ckup, with updates to the latest Bevy. Just to recap
some discussion:
- Overall this seems like a win for code quality, especially when
implementing these traits, but a loss for having to deal with ErasedXXX
variants.
- `ConditionalSend` was the preferred name for the trait that might be
Send, to deal with wasm platforms.
- When reviewing be sure to disable whitespace difference, as that's 95%
of the PR.
## Changelog
- AssetReader, AssetWriter, AssetLoader, AssetSaver and Process now use
async-fn in traits rather than boxed futures.
## Migration Guide
- Custom implementations of AssetReader, AssetWriter, AssetLoader,
AssetSaver and Process should switch to async fn rather than returning a
bevy_utils::BoxedFuture.
- Simultaniously, to use dynamic dispatch on these traits you should
instead use dyn ErasedXXX.
# Objective
- `AssetTransformer` provides an input asset, and output an asset, but
provides no access to the `LabeledAsset`'s created by the `AssetLoader`.
Labeled sub assets are an extremely important piece of many assets, Gltf
in particular, and without them the amount of transformation on an asset
is limited. In order for `AssetTransformer`'s to be useful, they need to
have access to these sub assets.
- LabeledAsset's loaded by `AssetLoader`s are provided to `AssetSaver`s
in the `LoadAndSave` process, but the `LoadTransformAndSave` process
drops these values in the transform stage, and so `AssetSaver` is given
none.
- Fixes#11606
Ideally the AssetTransformer should not ignore labeled sub assets, and
they should be kept at least for the AssetSaver
## Solution
- I created a new struct similar to `SavedAsset` named
`TransformedAsset` which holds the input asset, and the HashMap of
`LabeledAsset`s. The transform function now takes as input a
`TransformedAsset`, and returns a `TransformedAsset::<AssetOutput>`.
This gives the transform function access to the labeled sub assets
created by the `AssetLoader`.
- I also created `TransformedSubAsset` which holds mutable references to
a sub asset and that sub assets HashMap of `LabeledAsset`s. This allows
you to travers the Tree of `LabeledAsset`s by reference relatively
easily.
- The `LoadTransformAndSave` processor was then reworked to use the new
structs, stopping the `LabeledAsset`s from being dropped.
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## Changelog
- Created TransformedAsset struct and TransformedSubAsset struct.
- Changed `get_untyped_handle` to return a `UntypedHandle` directly
rather than a reference and added `get_handle` as a typed variant in
SavedAsset and TransformedAsset
- Added `SavedAsset::from_transformed` as a constructor from a
`TransformedAsset`
- Switched LoadTransformAndSave process code to work with new
`TransformedAsset` type
- Added a `ProcessError` for `AssetTransformer` in process.rs
- Switched `AssetTransformer::transform` to use `TransformedAsset` as
input and output.
- Switched `AssetTransformer` to use a `BoxedFuture` like `AssetLoader`
and `AssetSaver` to allow for async transformation code.
- Updated AssetTransformer example to use new structure.
# Objective
One of a few Bevy Asset improvements I would like to make: #11216.
Currently asset processing and asset saving are handled by the same
trait, `AssetSaver`. This makes it difficult to reuse saving
implementations and impossible to have a single "universal" saver for a
given asset type.
## Solution
This PR splits off the processing portion of `AssetSaver` into
`AssetTransformer`, which is responsible for transforming assets. This
change involves adding the `LoadTransformAndSave` processor, which
utilizes the new API. The `LoadAndSave` still exists since it remains
useful in situations where no "transformation" of the asset is done,
such as when compressing assets.
## Notes:
As an aside, Bikeshedding is welcome on the names. I'm not entirely
convinced by `AssetTransformer`, which was chosen mostly because
`AssetProcessor` is taken. Additionally, `LoadTransformSave` may be
sufficient instead of `LoadTransformAndSave`.
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## Changelog
### Added
- `AssetTransformer` which is responsible for transforming Assets.
- `LoadTransformAndSave`, a `Process` implementation.
### Changed
- Changed `AssetSaver`'s responsibilities from processing and saving to
just saving.
- Updated `asset_processing` example to use new API.
- Old asset .meta files regenerated with new processor.
