SGTK template weirdness when entity has period in name

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Hey, gang,

We have some entities that have periods in the name (i.e. “code”) and it’s causing some unexpected behaviors when we use the Publish App on them.

It’s occurring in a hook I added to the Publish App that copies the file being published into the project’s filesystem (Publish App hook to save file using tk-multi-publish2 templates?). This is what I’m doing:

  1. Use create_filesystem_structure to create the directories and FilesystemLocation entities
  2. Use as_template_fields to find where to copy the file to

Here’s what I’m seeing:

  1. create_filesystem_structure escapes the period out of the name (e.g. test.character -> testCharacter) when creating the dirs and FilesystemLocation entities
  2. as_template_fields looks for a FilesystemLocation without escaping the period (e.g. test.character). It can’t find one and throws an exception: “TankError: Cannot resolve template data for context”

Any ideas?

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Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to properly investigate this, but I did mock up a quick test where I named a Shot with a . in the name, and that didn’t throw an error. I got back the fields with the shot.70 renamed to shot-70:

fields {'Shot': 'shot-70', 'Sequence': 'succulents', 'Step': 'LAY'}

This is what I would normally expect because the folder creation will rename the . to - and then that will be stored in the path cache/FilesystemLocation entities. The Context.as_template_fields() should then extract the values from the path cache.

So I wonder if there is an issue with your cached paths. I presume it is working perfectly fine for entities that don’t have .?

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It is working for paths without a period.

What is the lifespan of the cache path? Is it something I should managing, to be safe?

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Ah, crap, I think you’re right. I restarted the Shotgun Desktop App and now it’s working.

I failed the first test of Computer Engineering. I didn’t try turning it off and on again. :stuck_out_tongue:

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