- Only implemented for perforce source control at the moment.
- The source control operation FDownload file can be used just like any other command via ::Execute BUT it will also work with the new method ::TryToDownloadFileFromBackgroundThread which unlike ::Execute can be called from a background thread.
#rb Sebastien.Lussier
#rnx
#preflight 60a2290322cce000014243ae
* PerforceConnection
- Extend ::RunCommand to take an optional FSharedBuffer reference which can be used to return text/binary data downloaded as part of a perforce command
-- Ideally we would replace all of the out parameters with a single struct but that level of refactor would be better suited to its own submit.
- Removed the bool parameter for FP4ClientUser and replaced it with a set of flags instead
- Added a flag to allow FP4ClientUser to store data, either in binary or text format from a perforce command. Although in general this will be the result of a p4 print command.
* PerforceSourceControlCommand
- No longer assert if the command is not on the game thread if the operation indicates that it is safe to run on a background thread.
* PerforceSourceControlModule
- Register the 'DownloadFile' worker
* PerforceSourceControlOperations
- Add FPerforceDownloadFileWorker
* PerforceSourceControlProvider
- Adding implementation for ::TryToDownloadFileFromBackgroundThread.
-- This method is thread safe compared to the normal ::Execute call due to:
-- 1) This method does not accept any callbacks as the most common use of callbacks with ::Execute is to update the UI.
-- 2) This method does not add the command to any of the internal queues nor rely on Tick to process the command.
-- 3) The worker is invoked directly from the calling thread rather than as a background task.
--4) This method does not allow commands that modify the cached states as this would be very difficult to manage without rewriting how all commands are processed to make sure that they are only run one at a time and the results processed in order. NOTE that async commands can be issued from the game thread and can in theory be run in any order on the p4 server depending on how the background task processing works out with no certainty as to the order the results will be processed in. It is unlikely that we will process results out of order but not impossible, but this is a pre-exisiting issue with the current API, extending it to be fully multithreaded will just make it worse.
-- Note that we do not explicity check if the command supports being called from a background thread, as creating the command will check that anyway.
- Calling ::OutputCommandMessages is now thread safe. When called from the game thread it will issue it's output via FMessageLog as before but when called from a background thread we will use the UE_LOG macros instead. Marshalling all output in the same way is something we will need to solve when/if we make the entire API thread safe.
* PerforceControlSettings
- Improve thread safety when calling ::GetConnectionInfo
- If the password is stored in the UI then this is not thread safe but that feature is hidden at the moment due to being unsecure. I am unsure if we want to move the password to be stored in a member variable that can be accessed from any thread and only updated via the UI or not.
* SourceControlOperations
- Add new FDownloadFile operation.
- This can either download the file(s) to FSharedBuffers which can be accessed by calling ::GetFileData OR directly to a directory on disk if the target directory is supplied as part of the constructor.
* ISourceControlOperation
- Add a new base method CanBeCalledFromBackgroundThreads (false by default) which can be overriden by derived classes and return true to indicate that the operation can be run from a background thread. This is intended for use by FDownloadFile with the perforce source control provider in lieu and making the API fully thread safe.
* PerforceSourceControl.uplugin
- Move the perforce plugin to load as early as possible as if Mirage is to use it then we need it to be avaliable before we start loading any potentially virtualized data in packages.
[CL 16346666 by paul chipchase in ue5-main branch]
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 2718441 on 2015/10/06 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Allow nodes to be added with an "explicit" frequency, meaning that they'll only be part of manually triggered builds (not CIS).
Change 2718698 on 2015/10/06 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Add a type of node that can execute an arbitrary sequence of tasks, and allow constructing graphs of such nodes from an XML file.
Change 2723013 on 2015/10/09 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Small utility to quickly capture a workspace, or delete files to restore the workspace to a previously captured state (and output a p4 sync list to restore it)
Change 2744521 on 2015/10/28 by Matthew.Griffin@Matthew.Griffin_G5772_BuildStream
Adding config entries to determine which platforms/configurations are available
Currently only written out as part of the Rocket Build process but could be done elsewhere for other types of installed build.
A near identical singleton class is used in both C++ and C# to load the config section and check whether configuration/platform combinations are valid.
Change 2773723 on 2015/11/19 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Copying UnrealGameSync into Engine/Source/Programs.
Change 2773914 on 2015/11/19 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
PR #1687: [GitDependencies] New feature: ignore file support (.gitdepsignore) (Contributed by nbjk667)
Change 2775317 on 2015/11/20 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Add a -listtps option to UBT, which will find all the TPS files in any directory that's compiled into a target.
Change 2780832 on 2015/11/25 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Allow compiling a single file in UBT. Pass -singlefile=<Path> on command line to UBT to use.
Change 2781071 on 2015/11/25 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Precompile all valid engine modules for Rocket by default. Modules may set the PrecompileForTargets field to control which configurations they should be compiled for. Modules which currently fail to compile have this set to
PrecompileTargetsType.None.
#codereview Matthew.Griffin
Change 2784469 on 2015/12/01 by Matthew.Griffin@Matthew.Griffin_G5772_BuildStream
Added -FastPDB commandline parameter for UBT, so that we can make use of the /DEBUG:FASTLINK option in VS2015
Change 2784722 on 2015/12/01 by Matthew.Griffin@Matthew.Griffin_G5772_BuildStream
Made -FastPDB option part of BuildConfiguration instead of checking commandline at each place it's used. Also added option to override if someone doesn't want it automatically added to their project files.
Change 2787501 on 2015/12/02 by Ben.Marsh@Ben.Marsh_T3245_Stream
Restore change to gather VC environment directly from registry.
#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
[CL 2790002 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
