* Accept iterables as inputs to backend methods
* Shift add-on check to backend; use new endpoint
The new endpoint will return info on a suitable branch if found,
instead of returning all branches. This simplifies the frontend code,
and means that you can now drop support for certain versions without
it also remotely disabling the add-on for people who are running one of
the excluded versions, like in
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/prevent-add-ons-from-being-disabled-remote-stealthily-surreptitiously/33427
* Bump version to 23.09
This changes Anki's version numbering system to year.month.patch, as
previously mentioned on https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/use-a-different-versioning-system-semver-perhaps/20046/5
This is shaping up to be a big release, with the introduction of FSRS and
image occlusion, and it seems like a good time to be finally updating the
version scheme as well. AnkiWeb has been updated to understand the new
format, and add-on authors will now specify version compatibility using
the full version number, as can be seen here:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684
* Shift update check to backend, and tidy up update.py
* Use the shared client for sync connections too
- Dropped the protobuf extensions in favor of explicitly listing out
methods in both services if we want to implement both, as it's clearer.
- Move Service/Method wrappers into a separate crate that the various
clients can import, to easily get at the list of backend services and
their correct indices and comments.
This is of limited usefulness at the moment, as it doesn't help consumers
of the public API.
Also removed detached comments from the included comments.
Will be handy to use it in our other scripts in the future too - thanks
Rumo!
Results of benchmarking ./run before and after these crate splits:
- Touching a proto file leads to a slight increase: about +90ms
- Touching an rslib file leads to a bigger decrease, as there's less to
recompile: about -700ms
And ./ninja test is even better: about +200ms and -3800ms.
A couple of motivations for this:
- genbackend.py was somewhat messy, and difficult to change with the
lack of types. The mobile clients used it as a base for their generation,
so improving it will make life easier for them too, once they're ported.
- It will make it easier to write a .ts generator in the future
- We currently implement a bunch of helper methods on protobuf types
which don't allow us to compile the protobuf types until we compile
the Anki crate. If we change this in the future, we will be able to
do more of the compilation up-front.
We no longer need to record the services in the proto file, as we can
extract the service order from the compiled protos. Support for map types
has also been added.
