reworked metadata caching...

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

Viewer/features/cli.js

@@ -432,12 +432,12 @@ var CLIActions = actions.Actions({
 
 	// XXX this is still wrong...
 	_makeIndex: ['- System/',
-		`chain: 
+		`chain: [
-			"loadImages: $1" 
+			"loadImages: $1",
-			"saveIndex" 
+			"saveIndex",
-			"makePreviews: 'all'"
+			"makePreviews: 'all'",
-			"sortImages"
+			"sortImages",
-			"saveIndex"`],
+			"saveIndex", ]`],
 
 	// XXX does not work yet...
 	updateIndex: ['- System/Update index',

Viewer/features/core.js

@@ -2716,6 +2716,19 @@ function(title, func){
 			var q
 			var inputs = [items, ...args]
 
+			// pre-process args...
+			arg_handler
+				&& (inputs = arg_handler.call(this, 
+					sync == 'sync' ? 
+						sync 
+						: q, 
+					...inputs))
+			// special-case: empty inputs -- no need to handle anything...
+			if(inputs instanceof Array 
+					&& inputs[0] 
+					&& inputs[0].length == 0){
+				return Promise.resolve(inputs) }
+
 			// Define the runner and prepare...
 			//
 			// sync mode -- run action outside of queue...
@@ -2759,14 +2772,6 @@ function(title, func){
 						: [items, ...args]))
 					return q.promise() } } 
 
-			// pre-process args...
-			arg_handler
-				&& (inputs = arg_handler.call(this, 
-					sync == 'sync' ? 
-						sync 
-						: q, 
-					...inputs))
-
 			// run...
 			return (inputs instanceof Promise 
 					|| inputs instanceof runner.FinalizableQueue) ?

Viewer/features/sharp.js

@@ -755,23 +755,39 @@ var SharpActions = actions.Actions({
 			//{quiet: true, pool_size: 2, busy_timeout_scale: 10}, 
 			// parse args...
 			function(queue, image, ...args){
+				var that = this
 				var force = false
 				if(image === true){
 					var [force, image, ...args] = arguments }
+
+				// expand images...
+				var images = image == 'all' ?
+						this.images.keys()
+					: image == 'loaded' ?
+						this.data.getImages('loaded')
+					: image instanceof Array ?
+						image
+					: [this.data.getImage(image || 'current')]
+				// narrow down the list...
+				images = force ? 
+					images 
+					: images
+						.filter(function(gid){
+							var img = that.images[gid]
+							return img
+								// high priority must be preset...
+								&& ((img.orientation == null
+										&& img.flipped == null)
+									// update metadata...
+									|| (img.metadata || {}).ImageGridMetadata == null) })
+
 				return [
-					...(force ? [true] : []),
+					images,
-					// expand images..
+					force,
-					image == 'all' ?
-							this.images.keys()
-						: image == 'loaded' ?
-							this.data.getImages('loaded')
-						: (image || 'current'),
 					...args,
 				] },
-			function(image, logger){
+			function(image, force, logger){
 				var that = this
-				if(image === true){
-					var [force, image, logger] = arguments }
 
 				// XXX cache the image data???
 				var gid = this.data.getImage(image)
@@ -886,9 +902,14 @@ module.Sharp = core.ImageGridFeatures.Feature({
 	isApplicable: function(){ return !!sharp },
 
 	handlers: [
-		//* XXX this needs to be run in the background...
+		// NOTE: this is about as fast as filtering the images and 
+		// 		calling only on the ones needing caching...
+		// 		...but this is not a no-op, especially on very large 
+		// 		indexes...
+		// XXX this needs to be run in the background...
 		// XXX this is best done in a thread 
-		[['loadImages', 
+		[['loadIndex'
+				'loadImages', 
 				'loadNewImages'],
 			'cacheMetadata: "all"'],
 		//*/
@@ -929,12 +950,7 @@ module.Sharp = core.ImageGridFeatures.Feature({
 										that.ribbons.updateImage(gid)
 
 										// create the rest...
-										that.makePreviews(gid)
+										that.makePreviews(gid) }) } }) } }]
-									})
-							}
-						})
-				}
-			}]
 		//*/
 	],
 })