Plugin does not load correctly (at least in Godot4.3 betas)

[smedelyan]

Subj. It seems they have made some changes / improvements in 4.3. Now I can observe the following scenario:

• logger.gd is about to be added as autoload Log
• however, while being parsed, it references Log which is not yet there
• parsing fails
• autoload is displayed as if it is there, but all other scripts using Log are now broken (they don't display in Inspector), because they reference logger.gd / Log which are not valid

This is not an issue if I replace Log in logger.gd with a reference to a static field, e.g.:

# Copyright (c) 2024 The gdlogging Contributors
# Inspired by https://github.com/KOBUGE-Games/godot-logger/blob/master/logger.gd
@tool
class_name CLog # <--- added class_name to reference static field
extends Node

# ...

static var _log_instance: CLog # <-- static field as an alterntative to referencing Log autoload

#...

    func write_bulks(p_log_records: Array[Dictionary], p_formatted_messages: PackedStringArray) -> void:
                # all Log.* references changed to CLog._log_instance
        CLog._log_instance._logger_direct_console.warning("LogSink: write_bulks() not implemented.")
#...

func _init() -> void:
    _global_broadcast_sink = BroadcastPipe.new()
    var log_formatter := LogRecordFormatter.new()
    _global_logger = Logger.new("Global", LogLevel.TRACE, log_formatter, _global_broadcast_sink)
    _logger_direct_console = Logger.new("gdlogging", LogLevel.TRACE, log_formatter, ConsoleSink.new())
    if Engine.is_editor_hint():
        add_sink(ConsoleSink.new())
    _log_instance = self # <----------------- added this line

[raldone01]

I can not reproduce this issue with Godot Engine v4.3.beta2.mono.official.b75f0485b. Test godot project: https://github.com/raldone01/godot_addon_gdlogging_test

[smedelyan]

Hmmm, I also cannot reproduce it in clean project with v4.3.beta2.official [b75f0485b]. Maybe this is related to editor cache or something as on my main project this was blocking me (same Godot version).

Closing the issue for now, thank you for quick response