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  • Filter file rules loading through legacy INI file format support added.
  • Filter logic matched from resfileserver and eve-resparser.
  • Documentation of filter file format added.
  • Documentation covering filter logic added.
  • Test coverage added for all known filter include scenarios.
  • Added new global filter rule which is useful for excluding .red files.
  • Filter logic for 'resfile' field not covered as it is covered by respaths logic.
  • New publicly exposed library function added to create Resource Groups with filtering.
  • Logic added to library function to allow skipping empty search directories.
  • Logic added to library to allow ascertaining compression size from remote filesystem.
  • Test coverage for library function added.
  • CLI extended to add Resource Group creation with filters.
  • Test coverage for CLI operation added.

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Rather than changing 'CreateFromDirectory' in library and 'create-group' in CLI. A new function and operation was added to create Resource Groups using filters. This was to keep the API stable as there are now other parties working with the origional commands. Version minor was bumped.

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Filter ini file parsing logic is from PR16

Changes
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* Filter file rules loading through legacy INI file format support added.
* Filter logic matched from resfileserver and eve-resparser.
* Documentation of filter file format added.
* Documentation covering filter logic added.
* Test coverage added for all known filter include scenarios.
* Added new global filter rule which is useful for excluding .red files.
* Filter logic for 'resfile' field not covered as it is covered by respaths logic.
* New publicly exposed library function added to create Resource Groups with filtering.
* Logic added to library function to allow skipping empty search directories.
* Logic added to library to allow ascertaining compression size from remote filesystem.
* Test coverage for library function added.
* CLI extended to add Resource Group creation with filters.
* Test coverage for CLI operation added.

Version
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Rather than changing 'CreateFromDirectory' in library and 'create-group' in CLI.
A new function and operation was added to create Resource Groups using filters.
This was to keep the API stable as there are now other parties working with the origional commands.
Version minor was bumped.

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Filter ini file parsing logic is from PR16

#include "CreateResourceGroupFromFilterCliOperation.h"

#include <string>
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struct FilterFile
{
std::unordered_map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<Prefix>> prefixes;
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NOTE when you iterate over this std::unordered_map, you will not get the items returned in the insertion order.
I "think" you may want it to return items in insertion order as part of the ResourceFilter::SetFromFilterFileData() function, that is calling m_prefixPaths.push_back(), which is NOT guaranteed as currently implemented.

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Yes you are right, nice catch

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I will also add a test to enforce the order importance

/// @note No file filtering supported
Result CreateFromDirectory( const CreateResourceGroupFromDirectoryParams& params );

/// @brief Creates a ResourceGroup from a supplied filter files.
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Typo.
... from supplied filter files. (remove the a)
or
... from a supplied filter file. (change to singular, remove s)


ParseIncludeExcludeRules( globalFiltersStr, fileData.includeRules, fileData.excludeRules );

// Get section infomration
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Typo:
// Get section information

ParseIncludeExcludeRules( globalFiltersStr, fileData.includeRules, fileData.excludeRules );

// Get section infomration
for( const auto& sectionName : reader.Sections() )
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NOTE:
The INIReader will return Sections in alphabetical order, not the order they appear in the .ini file.
If you want to keep the sections in the order as defined in the file, you will have to read the file manually and find all the sections and then iterate over that list (instead of reader.Sections())

I.e. change it to do:
std::vectorstd::string sectionsInOrder = ManuallyReadIniFileSectionsInOrderExcludingDefault();
for( const auto& sectionName : sectionsInOrder)

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Yes, I remember you saying this. I don't see a scenario where order of sections matter.

I would also not want to be doing any ini parsing manually, this needs to be supplied by a library. The lib you found so far appears to be sort of ok. Another annoying thing it does is removes all the casing from the section names, not huge but I'd prefer it didn't.

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I agree. It's annoying that it lowercases everything.
It also cuts each sectionName to the first either 48 or 50 characters (can't remember which)
But this ini reader was the best fit, because it:

  • had vcpkg support
  • emulated the original python ini file implementation.

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As for if order of sections matter.
What about if the same respath and prefix are present in two different [namedSections], but one of them has an [someFilter] (include) where the other has the same ![someFilter] (exclude filter)?
What happens there?

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This will match as it would with previous system


1. Globally in the ``[DEFAULT]`` section using ``filter =`` .
2. Section locally in sections using ``filter =`` .
3. Semi locally to respath adding include/exclude rules to each path ``respaths = prefix1:/* [ include ] ![ exclude ]``
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This is correct,
but it renders strange when viewed in a browser (splits the line).
It would be better if the "respaths = prefix1:/* [ include ] ![ exclude ]" would be put on the line below.


2. Section local filters are combined with any filters specified in global filters.

3. respaths filters combine with both global and section filters and importantly these add for all subsequent paths. This is explained more in the following examples.
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Isn't this supposed to be:
"...and importantly these add for all subsequent paths WITHIN THE SELECTED SECTION."
I.e. filter defined in [SectionA] will not also be applied to all entries in [SectionB] onwards.

Two paths will be tested for inclusion:

``#3`` will use ``respaths = prefix1:/*`` and combine global and section local patterns ``include1`` and ``include2``. This will match the following from the source files:
1. ``include1.txt``
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Add an empty line before the "1. include1.txt", for it to render correctly in a browser.

2. ``include2.txt``

``#4`` will use ``respaths = prefix1:/* [ include3 ]`` which will extend the section local patterns to include ``include3``. This will match the following source files:
1. ``include1.txt``
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Add empty line, so it renders correctly in a browser.

3. ``include3.txt``

``#5`` will use ``respaths = prefix2:/*`` and doesn't sepecify any include rules. It will apply the include rules that have been constructed for the section at this point ``include1``, ``include2`` and ``include3``. This may be suprising. So this will match the following source files:
1. ``Path/include3.txt``
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Add empty line to it renders correctly in browser.


[exampleSection]
filter = [ include2 ] # 2. Section local include
respaths = prefix1:/* # 3. respath1
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NOTE this is not how multiple (multi-line) respaths are defined in existing res.ini files.
The correct example would look like:

[resCharacterMisc]
respaths = res:/Graphics/Character/Global/...
                  res:/Graphics/Character/Female/Skeleton/...
                  res:/Graphics/Character/Female/*
                  res:/Graphics/Character/Male/Skeleton/...
                  res:/Graphics/Character/Male/*
                  res:/Graphics/Character/Unique/...

Where the multi-line entries are within the SAME "respaths" attribute.

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Ah yeah, I'll change the documentation. The actual tests don't do this, this is just documentation.

#include <unordered_set>

CreateResourceGroupFromFilterCliOperation::CreateResourceGroupFromFilterCliOperation() :
CliOperation( "create-group-from-filter", "Create a Resource Group from a filter files." ),
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mixing singular and plural

#include <Md5ChecksumStream.h>
#include <GzipCompressionStream.h>
#include <cctype>
#include "ResourceInfo/PatchResourceGroupInfo.h"
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return Result{ ResultType::FAILED_TO_INITIALIZE_RESOURCE_FILTER, errorMsg };
}

statusSettings.Update( StatusProgressType::PERCENTAGE, 0, 5, "Loading filter files" );
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This status line has 0, 5 like the line for "Create resource group from filters".
Should the numbers be updated (is this a copy-paste error)?

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Nice catch


if( inputDirectoryStatus.RequiresStatusUpdates() )
{
float step = static_cast<float>( 100.0 / searchPaths.size() );
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The step variable is going to be the same in every iteration of the loop.
Can be calculated outside fo the for loop.

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Nah, this way that computation is skipped if not verbose, so we don't calculate something we don't need when not caring about the output.

}
else
{
return Result{ ResultType::INPUT_DIRECTORY_DOESNT_EXIST, inputDirectory.string() };
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I'm confused.
Why would you ever not want to skip non existent input directories?

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Is it only for testing/debug purposes?

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No this is due to real world usecase of reduced-resources.

It only syncs files that changed, so in theory it might (and usually does) not a single file in a search directory. If it's not synced then there is no directory. But this is not a fail case.


ss << "Processing file: "
<< filePathRelativeToInputDirectory.string()
<< ", Match filter: "
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"Match filter:" vs matchSection
I guess this is supposed to be "Match Section:" or "Match Section Id:"
Unless you also reference return the "current include/exclude filter from the CheckPath() function and return that as well. Might be useful for debugging.

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I actually was thinking to return the current line number for the path rule so that you can see really well. But not required any further information so didn't bother to skip some computation time.

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But the wording is still wrong though, right?
This is supposed to be "section", not "filter", right?

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Sorry, yeah, i've changed it to matched filter section

resourceParams.binaryOperation = ResourceTools::CalculateBinaryOperation( entry.path() );
}

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Can you change the name of the variable to be more descriptive?


#include <filesystem>
#include <vector>
#include <unordered_map>
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Imports in alphabetical order


struct FilterPath
{
std::string sectionId;
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In other structs / classes you've put an empty line between items.
Missing in this struct.

void FilterFileReader::ParseIncludeExcludeRules( const std::string& rulesStr, std::set<std::string>& includeRules, std::set<std::string>& excludeRules )
{

std::string s = rulesStr;
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The "ruleStr" variable could just be passed into this function by value and then you could just use it directly, instead of doing the extra:
std::string s = ruleStr;

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Honestly not really looked at this code too closely, it's pretty much just hooking up the code from your PR. I'll do a pass on it before a take this PR out of draft.

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looked at this, appears that s is never changed so I removed the copy and used the reference.


#include "ResourceFilter.h"

#include <regex>
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Alphabetical order of includes

namespace ResourceTools
{

ResourceFilter::ResourceFilter()
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The constructor and destructor could be replaced with this definition in the header file:

ResourceFilter() = default;
~ResourceFilter() = default;

namespace ResourceTools
{

FilterFileReader::FilterFileReader()
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Can be replaced with this in the header file:

FilterFileReader() = default;
~FilterFileReader() = default;

m_paths.clear();

// Populate prefix paths
for( auto& prefix : fileData.prefixes )
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Already mentioned:
fileData.prefixes is not ordered in the insertion order.

std::unique_ptr<FilterPath> filterPath = std::make_unique<FilterPath>();

// Normalise path and convert to pattern
std::string prefixPathStr = prefixPath.string();
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Have you considered using prefixPath.lexically_normal.generic_string()?

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It "should" take care of all the . \ and / checks you're manually doing in the lines below.

return true;
}

void ResourceFilter::ConvertResPathToPattern( const std::string& resPath, std::string& pattern ) const
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void ResourceFilter::ConvertResPathToPattern( const std::string& resPath, std::string& pattern ) const
{
std::string resPathString = resPath;
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If resPath is passed by value, this is not needed.

return true;
}

void ResourceFilter::ConvertResPathToPattern( const std::string& resPath, std::string& pattern ) const
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Why not just retrun "pattern", instead of it being a reference variable?

return CheckPath( path, sectionId, matchPath );
}

bool ResourceFilter::CheckPath( const std::filesystem::path& path, std::string& matchSectionId, std::string& matchPath ) const
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{
for( auto& filterPath : m_paths )
{
std::string resolvedPathStr = path.string();
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Possible simplification.
Have you considered using prefixPath.lexically_normal.generic_string()?
It should sort out the extra checks being done below.

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Good point but don't need the lexically_normal part, thanks

}
}

// Excludes
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Shouldn't exclude rules be checked before include rules?

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Did this, also profiler shows that it makes sense to do this above regex check too. Also moved things around so that after the first include exclude check that fails for a section, all subsequent section path checks are skipped as they will fail too at that point. Considerable speed boost.


arguments.push_back( "-1" );

std::filesystem::path basePath = GetTestFileFileAbsolutePath( "CreateResourceFiles/ResourceFiles" );
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I just noticed this now :)
But the function name is stuttering, no need to change unless you want to.

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What! how have I never seen that?! Thanks

std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File.type1";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );

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Should you also include a check for a validPath in this test?

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OK. I'll do all of these however there are no valid paths here, but I can add another test to strengthen anyway


std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File.type1";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );
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Should you also include a check for a validPath in this test?


std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );
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Should you also include a check for a validPath in this test (e.g. for "SomethingElse")?


std::filesystem::path validPath = "File";

ASSERT_TRUE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( validPath ) );
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Should you also include a check for invalidFile in this test?


std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );
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Should you also include a check for a valid file "SomeThingValid" in this test?


std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );
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Also check if something is valid


std::filesystem::path prefix2InvalidPath = "Path2/File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( prefix2InvalidPath ) );
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You might want to check for "SomethingValid" on both prefixes as well.


std::filesystem::path prefix2ValidPath = "Path2/File";

ASSERT_TRUE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( prefix2ValidPath ) );
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What about invalid checks in this test?


std::filesystem::path prefix2InvalidPath = "Path2/File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( prefix2InvalidPath ) );
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Add checks for "SomethingValid" on both prefixes as well.


std::filesystem::path invalidPath = "File";

ASSERT_FALSE( resourceFilter.CheckPath( invalidPath ) );
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What happens if you check for "SomethingElse", will it match or not?

This change has been tested against all real branch data with no
obvious differences from the previous system it is to replace.

* Get index filter mapping from yaml file passed to CLI
* Reworked filter library processing to process many groups at once
* Filter logic now forced to lowercase to match previous tool
* Addressed previous draft PR feedback
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