Loading folders is not supported on Android and Web

[inodentry]

Older (before Bevy 0.12) versions of bevy_fluent supported providing a Vec of asset handles for the locale bundles.

The current (Bevy 0.12) version switched to using LoadedFolder (new API that came with the Bevy 0.12 assets rework).

However, some platforms do not support the asset_server.load_folder API. Notably Web/WASM and Android.

I can no longer run projects that use bevy_fluent on these platforms.

I want to make a mobile port of my game, but it seems like it is no longer possible, because LocalizationBuilder requires LoadedFolder.

Can you please also support using a simple Vec of asset handles instead?

It would also have the benefit that it would allow me to organize my locale assets differently if I want, instead of requiring them to be all in a single folder.

[quinnromanek]

Wanted to +1 this - bevy_asset_loader (a common loading state plugin) also doesn't support loading LoadedFolders, only Vec<UntypedHandle>.

[kgv]

I plan to address this issue in the new API (#37).
Loading will be done using Asset settings.
Waiting:

• AssetServer:: load_with_settings ignores the settings if file was already loaded with default settings bevyengine/bevy#11111

[Selene-Amanita]

A way to get around it with bevy_asset_loader is to have a Vec<UntypedHandle> and then have a system/resource like that when it finishes loading the vec (OnExit(LoadedState)):

fn create_locales_loaded_folder_handle(
    mut commands: Commands,
    assets: Res<LocalizationAssets>,
    mut loaded_folders: ResMut<Assets<LoadedFolder>>,
) {
    commands.insert_resource(LocalesLoadedFolderHandle(loaded_folders.add(
        LoadedFolder {
            handles: assets.locales.clone(),
        },
    )));
}

I think if you load every file one by one in the vec using a list of path: https://github.com/NiklasEi/bevy_asset_loader?tab=readme-ov-file#list-of-paths you can do that for the android and web build, but that's tedious.