Crate assets_manager

Conveniently load, store and cache external resources.

It has multiple goals

• Easy to use: Rusty API
• Light: Pay for what you take, no dependencies bloat
• Fast: Share your resources between threads without using expensive Arc::clone

Cargo features

No features are enabled by default.

• hot-reloading: Add hot-reloading

Additionnal loaders

• bincode: Bincode deserialization
• cbor: CBOR deserialization
• json: JSON deserialization
• msgpack: MessagePack deserialization
• ron: RON deserialization
• toml: TOML deserialization
• yaml: YAML deserialization

Internal features

These features change inner data structures implementations.

• parking_lot: Use parking_lot crate's synchronisation primitives

Example

If the file assets/common/position.ron contains this:

Point(
    x: 5,
    y: -6,
)

Then you can load it this way (with feature ron enabled):

use assets_manager::{Asset, AssetCache, loader};
use serde::Deserialize;

// The struct you want to load
#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

// Specify how you want the structure to be loaded
impl Asset for Point {
    // The extension of the files to look into
    const EXT: &'static str = "ron";

    // The serialization format
    type Loader = loader::RonLoader;
}


// Create a new cache to load assets under the "./assets" folder
let cache = AssetCache::new("assets")?;

// Get a lock on the asset
let asset_lock = cache.load::<Point>("common.position")?;

// Lock the asset for reading
// Any number of read locks can exist at the same time,
// but none can exist when the asset is reloaded
let point = asset_lock.read();

// The asset is now ready to be used
assert_eq!(point.x, 5);
assert_eq!(point.y, -6);

// Loading the same asset retreives it from the cache
let other_lock = cache.load("common.position")?;
assert!(asset_lock.ptr_eq(&other_lock));

Modules

loader

Generic asset loading definition

Structs

AssetCache	The main structure of this crate, used to cache assets.
AssetRef	RAII guard used to keep a read lock on an asset and release it when dropped.
AssetRefLock	A lock on an asset.

Enums

AssetError

An error that occured when loading an asset.

Traits

Asset

An asset is a type loadable from a file.