Ichthyostega 216ab525fd OutputSlot: integration with buffer management (+documentation) ...

Within the reworked design of the `OutputSlot` a proxy implementation
of the `BufferProvider` API is used (class `OutputBufferProxy`).

After analysis of the invocation patterns, I concluded that it seems adequate
to attach the special-purpose metadata generated by this integration
to the generic system of thread-local replicated `BufferMetadata` storage.

However, since thread-local instances are effectively static(global),
I was concerned that unit-testing might be impeded by accumulation of
stale metadata in the store linked to the main thread. Thus I created
a special configuration variant to retain the previously used setup
for the sake of unit testing (which applies especially to use of the
`DiagnosticOutputSlot`). Using a `SimpleBufferStateRegistry` for in
that case has the benefit that simply a local instance can be used
in the test and all metadata will be discarded afterwards.

Furthermore the factory syntax for obtaining an `OutputSlot` was improved,
drawing on the recent changes to `lib::ScopedCollection`.

Also I looked through some of the documentation and updated
the UML sequence diagram to reflect `OutputSlot`'s improved internal structure

2026-05-31 01:44:54 +02:00

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