AcademySoftwareFoundation / AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO
Allow parsing a LUT from a memory buffer rather than a file
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- C++
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Description
OCIO's LUT file parsing is set up to work from files on disk. It would be very helpful to be able to have a function that would take a memory buffer and use the LUT parsers to turn it into a GroupTransform.
There is a way to do this already using the recent ConfigIOProxy class. However, it takes a fair amount of code and a fair amount of OCIO expertise to write it. This task is to write that code and turn it into a parseFromBuffer method on the GroupTransform class.
The unit tests for ConfigIOProxy in Config_tests.cpp provide some good sample code that could be used as a starting point.
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Research direction
Start with the ConfigIOProxy unit tests in Config_tests.cpp, then trace how GroupTransform currently uses the LUT parsers for files. Implement and expose GroupTransform::parseFromBuffer using the existing buffer-based approach, and add coverage showing that a memory-buffer LUT produces the expected GroupTransform.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 62/100