Conveniently load, store and cache external resources.
It has multiple goals:
- Easy to use
- Light: Pay for what you take, no dependency 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 be considered experimental, but use and feedback and requests are welcome and encouraged.
Suppose that you have a file assets/common/test.ron containing this:
text
Point(
x: 5,
y: -6,
)
Then you can load it this way (with feature ron enabled):
```rust use assets_manager::{Asset, AssetCache, loader}; use serde::Deserialize;
// The struct you want to load
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::
// 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 asserteq!(point.x, 5); asserteq!(point.y, -6);
// Loading the same asset retreives it from the cache let otherlock = cache.load("common.test")?; assert!(assetlock.ptreq(&otherlock)); ```
Current features: - Convenient load of external files - Cache loaded assets - Thought for multi-threading - Built-in support of most common data formats with serde
Planned features: - Hot-reloading - Load from different sources (archives, embeded)
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