ViewModel._update() does not support plugins with multiple views / views with PluginName_ViewName nomenclature about uranium HOT 6 CLOSED

Solved in PR #745

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In the meantime, I'd appreciate if anyone thinks of a workaround that can be implemented through a plugin instead of waiting for a future version of Uranium&Cura.

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Ah, yes, now I remember. See fb8bde4 for a related change. It seems that we only enabled this for tools, so sorry for the confusion that I generated on the forums!

I think we just never updated this to also work with views as well.

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No worries, I appreciate all the help I've been getting from you and the complexity of developing for Cura.

we only enabled this for tools

As in, multiple tools per plugin are supported, but multiple views were never officially supported? If so, I guess I should use only one View per plugin for now.

From my end I've only encountered this one error related to multiple views. Maybe we should consider PR'ing the solution above and adding official support for multiple views?

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As in, multiple tools per plugin are supported, but multiple views were never officially supported?

Correct. We should have just enabled both while we were at it. I consider this to be an ovesight on our side.

From my end I've only encountered this one error related to multiple views. Maybe we should consider PR'ing the solution above and adding official support for multiple views?

Please do! A PR would save us time :)

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Sure, I'll get on it. Just one detail:

  ...
  view_meta_data = list(filter(lambda view: view['name'] == view_name , view_meta_data))[0]  #Filter for specific View

For this filtering to work, these two items...

• 'name' in the metadata dictionary from the plugin's __init__()
• self._name in the View's instance (this is what's used for PluginName_ViewName nomenclature in PluginObject.getId())

... must be manually set with the same string value by the developer.
I'm studying the plugin registering process, to see if I can take advantage of the order in which Views are loaded, rather than filtering by name.

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