Update Python plugin API to support new features

[bjorn]

List of missing features:

• [ ] Object types (color, properties)
• [ ] Group layers
• [ ] Tile type
• [ ] Templates
• [ ] Wang tiles
• [ ] Infinite maps / tile layers

(likely incomplete)

[ilanosortap]

I want to work on this task, can you tell me what needs to be done exactly?

[bjorn]

Check out src/plugins/python/tiledbinding.py for the current script API bindings and extend it so that scripts can access and modify the classes and properties related to the features listed above. Install pybindgen to be able to update the resulting pythonbind.cpp file.

The list is not necessarily complete, so part of the task would also be to check if all features are covered (for example, by comparing the TMX map format to the bindings to see if all data types and attributes are covered.

Any help would anyway be very appreciated, so you can start with a small step and go on from there.

[ilanosortap]

I have made the changes, can you let me know which branch to push the changes to?

[bjorn]

@ilanosortap Currently the only relevant branch is the master branch, since 1.1 did not yet get its own branch. When there would be a 1.1 branch, your changes should probably go there, provided they do not break API compatibility.

[ilanosortap]

I am getting this error, can you help me out?

[bjorn]

@ilanosortap Hmm, I don't see anything strange about your master branch on GitHub that could cause this. There are no new commits on it, and it's simply 80 commits behind my master branch, but that should not cause this problem. Can you give the first couple of lines of git log --online for your local repository?

[bjorn]

@ilanosortap Note that in the meantime I have created a 1.1 branch and your pull request should likely target that branch, provided it keeps compatibility.

[bjorn]

I made the push, but i am not able to add the pull request

What does that mean? What problem are you encountering? Also, in your fork I do not see new commits, so I think something must have gone wrong with the push still.

[bjorn]

@ilanosortap Ah, I see you've pushed commits to a 1.1 branch in your fork. However, you've set up your 1.1 branch to be entirely different from my 1.1 branch. You somehow managed to have only two commits in your branch, rather than two commits on top of my 1.1 branch: https://github.com/ilanosortap/tiled/commits/1.1

I would suggest you name this branch something else, then create a new 1.1 branch based on mine and commit your changes on top of that.

[ilanosortap]

I have made the pull request on the 1.1 branch (#1861)

[yashgandhe666]

Have added support for methods of map.h and tileset.h (#1867)