Blender Git Commit Log

RNA: support range-based for loops in C++ api

Cycles has a lot of code like this:
```lang=c++
BL::Object::modifiers_iterator b_mod;
for (b_ob->modifiers.begin(b_mod); b_mod != b_ob->modifiers.end(); ++b_mod) {
```

Range-based for loops allow us to simplify this to:
```lang=c++
for (BL::Modifier &b_mod : b_ob->modifiers) {
```

In order to support this, a collection (such as `b_ob->modifiers`) must have
a `begin()` and `end()` method, that take no parameters and return an iterator.
The `end` method already exists, but the `begin` method takes the iterator as
argument currently.

This patch adds a new `begin` method that returns the iterator. The old `begin`
method is still available to avoid breaking existing code.

My assumption is that the old `begin` method took the iterator as parameter so
that the iterator is not copied or moved, i.e. its memory address is stable and
the destructor is only called once. I'm not sure if both of these requirements
are really necessary to ensure that the iterators work correctly. To be on the
safe side, I deleted the copy/move constructors/assignment operators.

Since C++17 there is "guaranteed copy elision" which basically allows us to
return a non-copyable and non-movable type from a function. To make that work,
I had to add a new constructor to `CollectionIterator` that calls `begin` on itself.

Reviewers: brecht

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10120