now .readMetadata() is implemented via core.tasks...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>

Viewer/features/core.js

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
 * 	- workspace
 * 		XXX needs revision...
 * 	- tasks
-* 		XXX not yet used
+* 		tasks -- manage long running actions
+* 		queue -- manage lots of small actions as a single task
 * 	- self-test
 * 		basic framework for running test actions at startup...
 *
@@ -2494,11 +2495,25 @@ function(func){
 	func.__queued__ = true
 	return func }
 
+// 
+//	queuedAction(name, func)
+//	queuedAction(name, options, func)
+//		-> action
+//
+//	func(..)
+//		-> res
+//
+//	action(..)
+//		-> promise(res)
+//
+//
 // NOTE: for examples see:
 // 		features/examples.js: 
 // 			ExampleActions.exampleQueuedAction(..)
 // 			ExampleActions.exampleMultipleQueuedAction(..)
-
+//
+// XXX need to pass a nice log prompt...
+// XXX can we return anything other than a promise here???
 // XXX the general use-case here is to call the queue method multiple 
 // 		times for instance to handle array elements, might be nice to
 // 		automate this...
@@ -2514,9 +2529,13 @@ function(name, func){
 	return object.mixin(
 		Queued(function(...args){
 			var that = this
-			return this.queue(name, opts || {})
+			// XXX handle errors... (???)
-				.push(function(){
+			return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
-					return func.call(that, ...args) }) }),
+				that.queue(name, opts || {})
+					.push(function(){
+						var res = func.call(that, ...args) 
+						resolve(res)
+						return res }) }) }),
    		{
 			toString: function(){
 				return `core.queuedAction('${name}',\n\t${ 
@@ -2547,10 +2566,8 @@ function(func){
 // 			var action = taskAction('some title', 'sync', function(..){ .. })
 // 		or
 // 			var action = taskAction('sync', 'some title', function(..){ .. })
-//
 // 		and on call:
 // 			action('sync', ..)
-//
 // 		during the later form 'sync' is passed to .Task(..) in the correct
 // 		position...
 // 		(see ig-types' runner.TaskManager(..) for more info)
@@ -2588,6 +2605,7 @@ function(title, func){
 // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 
 // XXX add a task manager UI...
+// XXX do we need to cache the lister props???
 var TaskActions = actions.Actions({
 	config: {
 	},

Viewer/features/examples.js

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ var ExampleActions = actions.Actions({
 	// Tasks...
 	
 	exampleQueuedAction: ['- Test/',
-		core.queuedAction('exampleQueuedAction', function(timeout=500, ...args){
+		core.queuedAction('exampleQueuedAction', {quiet: true}, function(timeout=500, ...args){
 			console.log('Queued action!!', ...args)
 			return new Promise(function(resolve){
 				setTimeout(resolve, timeout) }) })],

Viewer/features/metadata.js

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ var MetadataReaderActions = actions.Actions({
 
 		NOTE: also see: .cacheMetadata(..)
 		`,
-		function(image, force){
+		core.queuedAction('readMetadata', function(image, force){
 			var that = this
 
 			var gid = this.data.getImage(image)
@@ -179,33 +179,15 @@ var MetadataReaderActions = actions.Actions({
 							that.markChanged 
 								&& that.markChanged('images', [gid]) }
 
-						resolve(data) }) }) }) }],
+						resolve(data) }) }) }) })],
 
-	// XXX make this abortable...
-	// XXX STUB: add support for this to .readMetadata(..)
 	readAllMetadata: ['File/Read all metadata',
 		function(){
 			var that = this
-			// XXX make this a global API...
+			//var logger = this.logger && this.logger.push('Read metadata')
-			var q = this.__reader_queue = this.__reader_queue || tasks.Queue()
+			return this.images.keys()
-
+				.mapChunks(7, function(gid){
-			var logger = this.logger && this.logger.push('Read metadata')
+					return that.readMetadata(gid) }) }],
-
-			// XXX is this the right way to go???
-			q.on('taskQueued', function(t){ logger.emit('queued', t) })
-			q.on('taskDone', function(t){ logger.emit('done', t) })
-			q.on('taskFailed', function(t){ logger.emit('error', t) })
-
-			var read = function(gid){ 
-				return function(){ return that.readMetadata(gid) } }
-
-			q.start()
-
-			this.images 
-				&& this.images.forEach(function(gid){
-					q.enqueue('metadata', read(gid)) })
-			
-			return q }],
 
 	// XXX take image Metadata and write it to target...
 	writeMetadata: ['- Image/Set metadata data',

Viewer/imagegrid/images.js

@@ -447,10 +447,9 @@ module.ImagesPrototype = {
 		for(e of this){
 			yield e } },
 
-	// XXX remove version...
 	keys: function(){
 		var keys = Object.keys(this)
-		var i = keys.indexOf('version')
+		var i = keys.lastIndexOf('version')
 		i >= 0
 			&& keys.splice(i, 1)
 		return keys },
@@ -557,6 +556,7 @@ module.ImagesPrototype = {
 			size: preview_size,
 		} },
 
+
 	// Get image filename...
 	//
 	// NOTE: this will default to gid if not filename (.path) is set... (???)
@@ -604,7 +604,9 @@ module.ImagesPrototype = {
 		return this
 	},
 
+
 	// Gid sorters...
+	//
 	// XXX might be a good idea to add caching...
 	// XXX chainCmp(..) is loaded from lib/jli.js
 	sortImages: function(gids, cmp, reverse){
@@ -626,6 +628,7 @@ module.ImagesPrototype = {
 		// XXX see ../ui/sort.js
 	},
 
+
 	// Actions...
 
 	// Rotate image...