Manage existing image files

[andreacremaschi]

Hi @jondot

thank you for this project! This is something I've always thought about, but your current implementation is even better than my dreams :)

I see some space of possible enhancement in the way file names are handled: currently as I understand it is not possible to use wildcards, and image PNGs must be mapped 1-to-1 with imagesets in asset catalogs. I wonder if you have any thoughts on how to handle wildcards or file name pattern matching in Bladefiles. A different approach could be to auto-generate Bladefiles from the content of a folder or an asset catalog.

Cheers,
ac

[jondot]

Hi @andreacremaschi , I'm happy to hear you find Blade useful!
Regarding generating Bladefiles from assetcatalogs - sounds like a great idea in fact.
Regarding wildcards - I'm not sure I completely see what you mean, can you give a short example?

Thanks

[andreacremaschi]

Well it often happens that I am handed a folder full of images to integrate in my Xcode project.
Creating the Bladefile by hand would be a pain. Being able to create/update a Bladefile from an existing asset catalog would solve the problem: I'd drag the image files in the catalog, let Xcode create it and create the Bladefile from the catalog.
As an alternative I was thinking about something like this:

blades:
  - source: *.png # this image should be the only image, and the biggest image you can use (typically for icons, 1024x1024)
    mount: Assets.xcassets/
    contents: true  # use 'false' if you want to only update existing catalog, 'true' if you want to generate a full catalog every time

This would work if the image sets are created with the same name than the source images. But the first solution discussed is definitely the one I prefer.

[jondot]

Aha! yes, that's a cool idea indeed. I'll tag this as enhancement and will work on it as soon as time allows :)

[michallaskowski]

+1, btw I love the project.

[Jeehut]

@jondot Did you already have time to work on this? This would really save a lot of time when integrating a bunch of new images into a project. 👍

I prefer the second suggestion by the way and I think it shouldn't be too hard to implement given that creating a single asset is already possible. I mean the *.png style. :)