wip

crates/re_data_source/src/data_loader/loader_external.rs

@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ impl crate::DataLoader for ExternalLoader {
                 re_tracing::profile_function!(exe.to_string_lossy());
 
                 let child = Command::new(exe)
+                    // Make sure the child dataloader doesn't think it's a Rerun Viewer, otherwise
+                    // it's never gonna be able to log anything.
+                    .env_remove("RERUN_APP_ONLY")
                     .arg(filepath.clone())
                     .args(args)
                     .stdout(Stdio::piped())

docs/content/howto/open-any-file.md

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ title: Open any file
 order: -10
 ---
 
-The Rerun Viewer has built-in support for opening many kinds of files, and can be extended to open any other file type without needing to modify the Rerun codebase itself.
+The Rerun Viewer and SDK have built-in support for opening many kinds of files, and can be extended to support any other file type without needing to modify the Rerun codebase itself.
 
-The viewer can load files in 3 different ways:
+The Viewer can load files in 3 different ways:
 - via CLI arguments (e.g. `rerun myfile.jpeg`),
 - using drag-and-drop,
 - using the open dialog in the Rerun Viewer.
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@ All these file loading methods support loading a single file, many files at once
 
 ⚠ Drag-and-drop of folders does [not yet work](https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/issues/4528) on the web version of the Rerun Viewer ⚠
 
-The following file types have built-in support in the Rerun Viewer:
+As for the SDK, check out the `log_file_from_path` and `log_file_from_contents` methods ([C++](https://ref.rerun.io/docs/cpp/stable/classrerun_1_1RecordingStream.html#SOME_HASH_TBD?speculative-link), [Python](https://ref.rerun.io/docs/python/stable/common/other_classes_and_functions/#rerun.log_file_from_path?speculative-link), [Rust](https://docs.rs/rerun/latest/rerun/struct.RecordingStream.html#method.log_file_from_path)) and the associated example ([C++](https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/blob/main/examples/cpp/log_file/main.cpp?speculative-link), [Python](https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/blob/main/examples/python/log_file/main.py?speculative-link), [Rust](https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/blob/main/examples/rust/log_file/main.rs?speculative-link)).  
+
+Note: when calling these APIs from the SDK, the data will be loaded by the process running the SDK, not the Viewer!
+
+The following file types have built-in support in the Rerun Viewer and SDK:
 - Native Rerun files: `rrd`
-- 3D models: `gltf`, `glb`, `obj`
+- 3D models: `gltf`, `glb`, `obj`, `stl`
 - Images: `avif`, `bmp`, `dds`, `exr`, `farbfeld`, `ff`, `gif`, `hdr`, `ico`, `jpeg`, `jpg`, `pam`, `pbm`, `pgm`, `png`, `ppm`, `tga`, `tif`, `tiff`, `webp`.
 - Point clouds: `ply`.
 - Text files: `md`, `txt`.