assets_manager 0.1.2

Conveniently load, store and cache external resources
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Assets-manager

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Conveniently load, store and cache external resources.

It has multiple goals

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

This crate follow semver convention and supports rustc 1.40.0 and higher. Changing this is considered a breaking change.

Note: this crate is still under developpement and should not be used in production, but experimental use and feedback are welcome.

Example

Suppose that you have a file assets/common/test.ron containing 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
// This will load the file `./assets/common/test.ron`
let asset_lock = cache.load::<Point>("common.test")?;

// 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.test")?;
assert!(asset_lock.ptr_eq(&other_lock));

Features

Current features:

  • Convient load of external files
  • Cache loaded assets
  • Multi-threading support
  • Built-in support of RON, JSON, Bincode, YAML, TOML and CBOR with serde

Planned features:

  • Load from different sources (archives, embeded)
  • Hot-reloading
  • Ease use in single-threaded uses (e.g. WASM)

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.