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Coummunity Bonding Period

  • Setup the Development Log
  • Explore and analyze different key-value datastores.
  • Discuss with Mentors and finalize the perfect datastore.

May 16

  • Downloaded and installed Hiredis (v0.14.1) on my machine
  • hiredis.prf is created for auto-detection of hiredis

May 17

  • Exploring hiredis and redis

May 18

  • Created pcache.h which contains the core methods to connect and communicate with the server.

May 19

  • Written some functionality of the PCache class.
  • Testing and resolving different degenerate cases in PCache.

May 20

  • Added somemore functionality for PCache class.

May 21

  • Testing of PCache class and added required guards ENABLE_HIREDIS
  • Pushed the code into repo and results show a success.

May 22

  • Understanding the layout of preference dialog.

May 23

  • Created the required GUI, which takes the IP address and port number and connects to the Redis server.
  • Pushed the code to the repo and checks ran successfully.

May 24-30

  • Exploring Redis commands

May 31

  • Added authentication functionality to PCache class
  • Added required GUI in preferences to take password.

Phase 1

June 1

  • Added prepending functions
  • Added print function

June 2

  • Experimented with the referencing style of CGALCache and GeomCache.

June 4

  • PCSettings class is added
  • Added command-line option to decs

June 5

  • Integrated PCSettings with CLI and GUI version.

June 6

  • fixed build issue

June 7

  • Added FindHiredis.cmake and added to CMakeLists.txt
  • Fixed few typo errors.

June 8

  • Testing authentication

June 9

  • Testing command-line options

June 10-12

  • Learning about boost serialization library

June 13

  • worked on Serialization implementatio outside OpenSCAD

June 14

  • Created and placed connect and disconnect functionality in Main window and OpenSCAD.

June 19

  • Created SCADSerializations.h file to store all serialization definitions
  • created cache_entry structs in pcache.

June 20

  • Worked with boost serialization in non-intrusive and split mode.
  • checking it's compatibility in OpenSCAD env through small tests outside OpenSCAD.

June 21

  • Completed writing all serialization definitions

June 22

  • Completed Insert and get methods for CGAL and Geometry

June 23

  • Resolved error with header files
  • Added Guards around cache_enry serialization definitions
  • Made some modifications to the smartCacheInsert method and encountered a critical error.

June 24

  • Resolved problem related to serializing a pointer to derived class of boost serialization
  • Ran 1st test on the complete project, it is partially successful
  • Geometries are inserted perfectly into Redis but raised a segmentation fault which to be addressed.

June 25

  • Geometry cache is inserting into Redis by preview action
  • Segmentation fault of yesterday still prevails

June 26

  • Testing has done in the case of CGAl Cache, CGAL is successfully inserting into Redis while previewing and crashes in case of Render action.
  • Found the cause for segfault, in the process to resolve it

June 27

  • Resolved the segfault by starting the connection on render thread while rendering. no change in the case of the preview.

June 28

  • worked on crash due to lazy union
  • identified the reason behind the crash.

June 29

  • Analyzed the options for resolving the crash

June 30

  • After discussing with mentor, we decided to continue working on the reconstruction of object from redis and try to resolve the issue in parallel.

Phase 2

July 4-8

  • Resolved segmentation fault related to rendering on a different thread

July 9-13

  • Resolved the crash which is happening when previewing the second script

July 14-16

  • Resolved the repeating authentication bug

July 17

  • Adding a new test app to CTest of OpenSCAD

July 18

  • Completed the python test script and added it to tests/CMakList.txt
  • failed to run the test on local machine
  • test failed by running on travis and other tools most probably because of lack of hiredis lib

July 19

  • fixed the problem discussed yesterday, by changing the args in add_cmd_test in tests/cmakelists.txt and changing the export path in python script.
  • ran Travis along by starting Redis-server, macOS doesn't offer that service and no huge time difference is observed in the other two builds.
  • need to add hiredis dependency to Travis check to complete.

July 20-26

  • placed pcachepngtest_CSG into heavy config due to variety of reasons
  • discussed with teepee about things that can be done
  • started by adding clear Redis cache feature under the same design=>flush caches
  • Added a new option for openscad for logging debug messages into an external file
  • Added another test for persistent cache which tests the cache hit behavior

Phase 3

Aug 2

  • Added debug-output option to openscad

Aug 3

  • added testcase using debug-output option

Aug 4

  • Added a section in WIP wikibook about persistent cache

Aug 5

  • Designed local cache feature set

Aug 6

  • Completed writing insert, get, gethash and contains methods.
  • Resolved build issues on CI checks

Aug 7

  • Resolved issues with lcache and completed setting up it's working in GeometryEvaluator
  • Resolved the crash issue which is arising when trying to flush cache.

Aug 8

  • Resolved the crash which occurs when lazy-union is enabled.

Aug 9

  • Added local cache to cmd line options renamed --persistent-cache option as --option with args like --option=file for enabling local cache and --option=redis,127.0.0.1,6379,foobared for enabling redis cache.
  • encountered a seg fault

Aug 10

  • resolved the segfault crash.
  • updated WIP in progress page.

Aug 13-18

  • In search of eviction implementation

Aug 19

  • Facing build errors with Circle CI builds which are disabled because of some reason
  • Decided to upstream to remove the boosty dependency in platformutils

Aug 20

  • Updated tests/cmakelist.txt to include the changes made to --cache option and corrected few things dropped because merging