Example pseudocode to collect dependencies and publish them in Avalon database

avalon_dependencies.py

"""Example pseudocode to collect dependencies and publish them in Avalon database.

- Collect dependencies of what is included/used as representation at time of publish (example shows Maya implementation)
- Store in database under version[data][dependencies]
- Debug print dependencies for a representation (see psuedocode at end)

"""

import maya.cmds as mc
import avalon.api as api


def collect_container_dependencies(nodes):
    """Collect loaded container dependencies from nodes
    
    This will return any loaded Avalon container that
    contains at least one of the nodes. As such, the
    Avalon container is a dependency. Or in short,
    there are member nodes of that container.
    
    Returns:
        list: Depending avalon containers
    
    """
    
    # Lookup by node ids
    lookup = frozenset(mc.ls(nodes, uuid=True))
    
    dependencies = []
    host = api.registered_host()
    for container in host.ls():
        node = container["objectName"]
        members = mc.sets(node, query=True)
        members_uuid = mc.ls(members, uuid=True)
        
        # If there's an intersection 
        if not lookup.isdisjoint(members_uuid):
            dependencies.append(container)
            
    return dependencies
        
                
for x in collect_container_dependencies(mc.ls(sl=1)):
    # Print the dependent loaded representation for a current selection in Maya
    print x["representation"]

    
# todo: now collect this information as we publish (collect_dependencies.py)
# todo: publish list or dependendent representations into the database as version.data["dependencies"] (integrate.py)

# then after we've published representations we can print our dependencies for a representation
def print_dependencies(representation, depth=0):
    """Psuedocode to print dependencies
    
    Prints:
        5ced48f4a33d24abab7fb467
                '-- 5c123e63c479bb328472cb4b
                        '-- 59ede406bda2cb8f634a0bea
                        '-- 54zfe406kio2ilofa34a0cad
                '-- 54zfe406kio2ilofa34a0cad
    
    """
    
    # Print current entry
    indent = 0
    if depth != 0:
        indent = ("      " * depth) + "'--"
    print(indent + representation["_id"])

    # Print dependencies
    dependencies = representation.get("dependencies", [])
    for dependency in dependencies:
        print_dependencies(dependency, depth + 1)