Background: during a normal render operation, when manifests are enabled, a manifest is generated in the .abc subdirectory of the destination, and this manifest file has an unpredictable filename containing a timestamp and some other stuff.
When doing a template upgrade (not just a normal render operation), the upgrade operation must replace the existing manifest with a new manifest. In order for this to happen, the new manifest filename must be the same as the old manifest filename. Therefore, the Render operation now accepts an optional parameter to force the output manifest file to have a certain name. This optional parameter is only intended to be used by the template upgrade process.
This functionality will be used in my next PR which starts implementing the core upgrade logic.
Background: during a normal render operation, when manifests are enabled, a manifest is generated in the
.abcsubdirectory of the destination, and this manifest file has an unpredictable filename containing a timestamp and some other stuff.When doing a template upgrade (not just a normal render operation), the upgrade operation must replace the existing manifest with a new manifest. In order for this to happen, the new manifest filename must be the same as the old manifest filename. Therefore, the Render operation now accepts an optional parameter to force the output manifest file to have a certain name. This optional parameter is only intended to be used by the template upgrade process.
This functionality will be used in my next PR which starts implementing the core upgrade logic.