"Attached you'll find a proposal for using different
protocols. The idea behind the new code is:
1.) plugins/apps register protocols which they can handle. This is done
via osgDB::Registry::registerProtocol(aProtocolName). Plugins register
supported protocols as usual via ReaderWriter::supportsProtocol(..), the
Registry is updated accordingly.
2.) osgDB::containsServerAddress checks first for an appearance of "://"
in the filename and then checks the protocol against the set of
registered protocols via Registry::isProtocolRegistered(aProtocollName)
3.) the other getServer*-functions changed as well, there's even a
getServerProtocol-function
With these changes filenames/Urls get routed to loaded plugins even with
different protocols than 'http'."
creating subclasses of osg::Array that referenced data
stored an application's internal data structures. I took
a stab at implementing that and ran into a couple of
downcasts in Geometry.cpp. Enclosed is my take at fixing
those along with a simple example of how to do this."
Tweaks by Robert Osfield - Moved methods to FileNameUtils, added unix
implementation of getRealPath add extern and OSGDB_EXPORT to function declarations.
storage of the path lists into osgDB::Registry, and changed the data
structor from a char* to a std::deque. Changed a names of couple of the
convinience functions in osgDB/FileUtils to better reflect the two
public FilePathList's - DataFilePathList and the LibraryFilePathList.
Added support into the osgDB::Registry::readNode/Image/Object methods
for pushing and popping the path of the current file being loaded.
