In order to split backend.proto into a more manageable size, the protobuf
handling needed to be updated. This took more time than I would have
liked, as each language handles protobuf differently:
- The Python Protobuf code ignores "package" directives, and relies
solely on how the files are laid out on disk. While it would have been
nice to keep the generated files in a private subpackage, Protobuf gets
confused if the files are located in a location that does not match
their original .proto layout, so the old approach of storing them in
_backend/ will not work. They now clutter up pylib/anki instead. I'm
rather annoyed by that, but alternatives seem to be having to add an extra
level to the Protobuf path, making the other languages suffer, or trying
to hack around the issue by munging sys.modules.
- Protobufjs fails to expose packages if they don't start with a capital
letter, despite the fact that lowercase packages are the norm in most
languages :-( This required a patch to fix.
- Rust was the easiest, as Prost is relatively straightforward compared
to Google's tools.
The Protobuf files are now stored in /proto/anki, with a separate package
for each file. I've split backend.proto into a few files as a test, but
the majority of that work is still to come.
The Python Protobuf building is a bit of a hack at the moment, hard-coding
"proto" as the top level folder, but it seems to get the job done for now.
Also changed the workspace name, as there seems to be a number of Bazel
repos moving away from the more awkward reverse DNS naming style.
Back in the WebKit days, images with Unicode filenames would fail to
appear if they weren't percent-escaped. This no longer seems to be the
case - with this patch, images appear correctly on the Mac and Windows
platforms I tested with.
Fixes https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-45-beta/10664/96Fixes#1219
An example of how we can start migrating the codebase to PEP8:
- enable invalid-name at the top
- use bazel run pylib:pylint to identify names that need renaming
- use PyCharm or similar to rename the functions/variables
- in the cases where the conversion is not just snake_case, use
.register_deprecated_aliases()
+ removed the __repr__() definition, it dumps all the note content
and obscures the error message
mypy's move to external types-* packages is a PITA, as it requires them
to be installed in site-packages, and provides no way to specify a custom
site-packages folder, necessitating extra scripts to mock the
site-packages path, and copy+rename the stub packages into a separate
folder.
- changes can now be undone
- the same field can now be mapped to multiple target fields, allowing
fields to be cloned
- the old Qt dialog has been removed
- the old col.models.change() API calls the new code, to avoid
breaking existing consumers. It requires the field map to always
be passed in, but that appears to have been the common case.
- closes#1175
The hard limit from sqlite may be larger, but things slow down as more
tags are selected.
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-create-custom-test/10467
There are a number of things that could be improved here:
- we should show a live count so users are aware of the limit
- we should be filling in the parent tags when they're not explicitly
listed on a card
- we should reconsider disabling the 'tags to include' by default
It may make sense to defer these changes until we can move this screen
into Svelte/handle the processing in the backend.
Like the previous change, avoid exposing the protobuf as a public API
for now. It requires more thought, and is probably better done with
either extra helper accessors like decks.name(), or via a native class.
This could potentially help us avoid having to refetch the notetype
during study in the future, though updates to Note initialization and
the LaTeX handling would be required first.
