if we have only a name (the majority case), we can just return the name directly instead of an object.
this massively reduces the amount of noise in the files as seen in pmmp/BedrockData@f814036229
This has several advantages:
Easier to implement new blocks (one less file to modify)
Easier to adjust serialization of existing blocks
Guaranteed consistency between serializers and deserializers
Potentially, exposes more metadata for programmatic analysis, instead of having everything baked inside opaque Closures
There are some exceptions which still use the old approach: big dripleaf, cauldrons, mushroom stems, and pitcher crops. These all have multiple PM block types for a single ID, with relatively complex logic to select which to use. These weren't worth the effort to unify due to their small number. I may revisit this in the future, but I already spent a lot of brainpower on it.
- `AsyncGeneratorExecutor` class added that encapsulates the logic of generating chunks using async tasks as previously
- `GeneratorExecutor` interface added that can be implemented to provide chunks in other ways
- `SyncGeneratorExecutor` which invokes the generator directly on the main thread, useful for simple generators like `Flat` where async tasks are not needed
- Some redundant APIs were removed from `World` (these will probably come back as deprecated stubs for the remainder of 5.x, but I was having too much fun deleting code)
- Removed internal `World->registerGeneratorToWorker()` (no longer useful)
- `World` now invokes generator executor instead of posting AsyncTasks directly
- Some internal classes moved to `pocketmine\world\generator\executor` (PopulationTask excluded because plugins use it in lieu of being able to regenerate chunks
- Generators can opt into main-thread execution by setting the `$fast` parameter to `true` in `GeneratorManager::register()`
these are actually two separate concerns: one for dodgy PHPStan type suppression on implicit keys, and the other for arrays being casted to strings by PHP.
it never occurred to me that this was misleading until I read some Devin documentation,
noticed that Devin misunderstood was the class was for, and then realized actually
Devin understood correctly, and it was the name of the class that was wrong. Funny
how that happens...
I do think these are PHPStan bugs, since the trait should inherit the parent class's doc comment
But for the sake of catching more bugs, these doc comments have been manually added anyway.
The following callbacks can now be registered in timings, to allow threads to be notified of these events:
- Turning on/off (`TimingsHandler::getToggleCallbacks()->add(...)`)
- Reset (`TimingsHandler::getReloadCallbacks()->add(...)`)
- Collect (`TimingsHandler::getCollectCallbacks()->add(...)`)
Collect callbacks must return `list<Promise>`. The promises must be `resolve()`d with `list<string>` of printed timings records, as returned by `TimingsHandler::printCurrentThreadRecords()`. It's recommended to use 1 promise per thread.
A timings report will be produced once all promises have been resolved.
This system is used internally to collect timings for async tasks (closes#6166).
For timings viewer developers:
Timings format version has been bumped to 3 to accommodate this change. Timings groups should now include a `ThreadId` at the end of timings group names to ensure that their record IDs are segregated correctly, as they could otherwise conflict between threads. The main thread is not required to specify a thread ID. See pmmp/timings@13cefa6279 for implementation examples.
New PHPStan error is caused by phpstan/phpstan#10924
Use reflection to locate BlockTypeIds and ItemTypeIds for VanillaBlocks/VanillaItems
Since BlockTypeIds and ItemTypeIds are derived from VanillaBlocks and VanillaItems respectively anyway (they only exist to allow identifying blocks/items without having to create instances of them), this hack is probably OK, and reduces the chances of mistakes.
Previously it was explored to have these IDs generated by auto-incrementing in VanillaBlocks/Items and have the constants generated that way, but this proved to be too problematic because of unstable diffs no matter how we chose to sort the elements. See #6313 for previous research on the subject.
This is obviously not a desirable hack to keep long-term. In the future it will probably make sense to redesign VanillaBlocks like so:
enum VanillaBlocks { ... }
VanillaBlocks::STONE (the type ID)
VanillaBlocks::STONE->new() (to create a block)
However, more research is needed on this, as I'd prefer not to make block creation any more verbose.
