Generalize "Increment Workfile" to core plug-in

[BigRoy]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Please describe the feature you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

A lot of DCCs have a "Save Scene" and an optional "Increment Workfile" context plug-in that just use the registered_host().save_workfile() calls - as such, this could be generalized to core without the need to duplicate that code to all hosts.

How would you imagine the implementation of the feature?

Likely have a global plug-in.

The complexity in is knowing for which hosts it's relevant or not. Because there may be some that would still want to roll their own. And we don't want to have hosts = [a, b, c, d] list in core we suddenly need to maintain for all hosts.

Another approach could be to just have a core library plug-in that you can just inherit from or expose in your plug-ins for a host. So that e.g. you just do:

# ayon-{dcc}/client/plugins/publish/core_plugins.py
from ayon_core.pipeline.plugins import SaveScene, IncrementWorkfile

So that you can expose them specifically for that host, but have the code shared from core instead so that if API changes we're more freely to move with it per DCC instead of having to change it 10s of places.

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Additional context:

Came up here: ynput/ayon-aftereffects#60 (comment)