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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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.gitignore DOC: Wiki / UML clean-up 2015-01-05 15:44:17 +01:00
DIR_INFO DOC: abandon BoUML and start over with Umbrello (closes #960) 2016-11-19 00:13:19 +01:00
Lumiera.xmi OutputSlot: integration with buffer management (+documentation) 2026-05-31 01:44:54 +02:00
README_UML.txt BufferProvider: document the adapted structure in UML 2026-03-14 20:44:27 +01:00