Facilitate Custom File Formats - Required For Mastodon-Git Project #329
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This change allows other classes to write & read spots into "raw" format. Being able to access this class is useful when implementing code that serializes a Mastodon project into as custom file format. This change is helpful for implementing a optimized file format in mastodon-git.
Making this class more accessible allows classes outside this package to read and write "gui.xml" files. It is particularly useful for mastodon-git.
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The "Mastodon-Git" plugin aims to efficiently store Mastodon datasets inside a git repository. Unfortunately git performs very poorly when processing a history of large binary files as produced by the default Mastodon file format. Mastodon-Git therefor implements a customized Mastodon file format that can very efficiently be processed with git.
Two classes in the Mastodon core need to be public in order for mastodon-git to implement this custom file format that can still benefit from mastodon core features:
SpotandLinkinto byte arrays (classModelSerializer)MamutViewStateXMLSerialization)(Mastodon-git currently has its own copies of the
ProjectLoaderandProjectSaverclasses. In the long term it would be amazing if we could add a plugin API into mastodon core. That supports the implementation of custom file formats. Or at least make theProjectLoaderand-Savermore reusable. However in the short term it would be great if theModelSerializerandMamutViewStateXMLSerializationwere public. This would allow us the further experiment with the mastodon-git file format, without the need to use a customized mastodon.jar file.)