Create Project Folder Structure: support list of str for leaf folders

[BigRoy]

Changelog Description

Support list[str] for leaf entries in core/project_folder_structure settings to define folder names instead of requiring dicts with empty values

Additional info

Should implement and allow what @MustafaJafar did here.

Would allow this:

{
    "__project_root__": {
        "Assets": {
            "Characters": {
                "NewRobo": {
                    "work": [
                        "cfx",
                        "concept",
                        "modeling",
                        "walkcycle"
                    ]
                },
                "RoboPoro": {
                    "work": [
                        "cfx",
                        "concept",
                        "modeling",
                        "walkcycle"
                    ]
                },
                "RoboMad": {
                    "work": [
                        "cfx",
                        "concept",
                        "modeling",
                        "walkcycle"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Instead of requiring:

{
    "__project_root__": {
        "Assets": {
            "Characters": {
                "NewRobo": {
                    "work": {
                        "cfx": {},
                        "concept": {},
                        "modeling": {},
                        "walkcycle": {},
                    }
                },
                "RoboPoro": {
                    "work": {
                        "cfx": {},
                        "concept": {},
                        "modeling": {},
                        "walkcycle": {},
                    }
                },
                "RoboMad": {
                    "work": {
                        "cfx": {},
                        "concept": {},
                        "modeling": {},
                        "walkcycle": {},
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Testing notes:

1. Setup ayon+settings://core/project_folder_structure to include leaf (end) folders using just a list of strings.
2. Creating folder structure should work.

[MustafaJafar]

It works!
Tested along with #679

[alainxi]

Does not work for me, when tested with #679
It only creates the first ones :
NewRobo is created, but not RoboPoro and RoboMad.
cfx is created, but not concept , modeling, walkcycle.

Also, I prefer the old method (dicts with empty values), but it's still supported, so I'm happy.
The old method makes possible to use a very simple script to create a json from an existing disk folder tree :

import json
import os
def generate_json_tree(path):
    result = {}
    for item in os.listdir(path):
        item_path = os.path.join(path, item)
        if os.path.isdir(item_path):
            result[item] = generate_json_tree(item_path)
        else:
            pass
    return result

root_path = "d:/test/forTreeToJsonConvert"
json_tree = {"{root[work]}/{project[name]}": generate_json_tree(root_path)}

with open("D:/test/folder_tree.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(json_tree, f, indent=4)

To use list[str] for leaf entries, the script is more convoluted, and creates edge cases.
Here is what I have so far :

import json
import os

def generate_json_tree(path):
    result = {}
    for item in os.listdir(path):
        item_path = os.path.join(path, item)
        if os.path.isdir(item_path):
            sub_tree = generate_json_tree(item_path)
            # If all values in sub_tree are empty lists, convert to a list
            if all(isinstance(v, list) and not v for v in sub_tree.values()):
                result[item] = list(sub_tree.keys())
            else:
                result[item] = sub_tree
    return result

root_path = "d:/test/forTreeToJsonConvert"
json_tree = {"{root[work]}/{project[name]}": generate_json_tree(root_path)}

with open("D:/test/folder_tree.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(json_tree, f, indent=4)

[MustafaJafar]

Thank you!
So, I revisited my created folders and I didn't notice the last time it created the folders in strange way.
the list of folders are nested folders.

It should look like this (moved them manually to show how they should be created.)

[BigRoy]

Thanks - will double check what's up. How interesting to see everyone seems to jump on this one this quickly :D haha

[BigRoy]

There's no means to deprecated the old @alainxi so that should continue to work.

@MustafaJafar try again - it should now work with 7baf208

[MustafaJafar]

I got this printed in the console window but no folders were created.

[
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "NewRobo",
        "work",
        "cfx"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "NewRobo",
        "work",
        "concept"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "NewRobo",
        "work",
        "modeling"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "NewRobo",
        "work",
        "walkcycle"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboPoro",
        "work",
        "cfx"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboPoro",
        "work",
        "concept"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboPoro",
        "work",
        "modeling"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboPoro",
        "work",
        "walkcycle"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboMad",
        "work",
        "cfx"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboMad",
        "work",
        "concept"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboMad",
        "work",
        "modeling"
    ],
    [
        "__project_root__",
        "Assets",
        "Characters",
        "RoboMad",
        "work",
        "walkcycle"
    ]
]

[MustafaJafar]

It works

[alainxi]

I tested the new version. Now it works for both methods of leaf entries :

• dicts with empty values
• list[str]