visose
commented
8 months ago I never got to finish implementing persistent parameters, so I wouldn't rely on internalizing any Robots parameters. I should've turned them to normal parameters a long time ago to disallow internalizing. Data will be lost on internalized params after saving, closing and opening the document again.
The problem is that the Robots data types are not designed to be (de)serialized. This is particularly important for objects that reference to other objects.
I think at least I should get the Joints parameter to serialize as this is a very simple data type.
The problem with target attributes that seem simple like Speed, Zone, Frame, is that Robots relies on reference equality to check which ones are shared among different targets. If the same attribute gets serialized in multiple places, the instances will stop having reference equality after deserialized (they are now different objects in memory).
I'm actually starting a project soon that uses Robots as a library and will likely benefit from (de)serializing these, so I might have a go at implementing it properly.
robin-gdwl
Is there an existing issue for this?
What Robots version are you using?
1.6.7
What Rhino version are you using?
Rhino 7 for MacOS
Current Behavior
When copying a "Joints Parameter" with internalized data, the data disappears. This also happens when a file with internalized joint data is closed and reopened.
Expected Behavior
The internalised data should be persistent as it is with the other Robots-Parameter.
Steps To Reproduce
Anything else?
No response