clean up handling of success flag and some debugging prints

libraries/shared/src/SpatiallyNestable.cpp

@@ -101,11 +101,13 @@ SpatiallyNestablePointer SpatiallyNestable::getParentPointer(bool& success) cons
     // we have a _parentID but no parent pointer, or our parent pointer was to the wrong thing
     QSharedPointer<SpatialParentFinder> parentFinder = DependencyManager::get<SpatialParentFinder>();
     if (!parentFinder) {
+        qDebug() << "SpatiallyNestable::getParentPointer -- no parentFinder";
         success = false;
         return nullptr;
     }
     _parent = parentFinder->find(parentID, success);
     if (!success) {
+        qDebug() << "parentFinder failed for " << parentID;
         return nullptr;
     }
 
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ SpatiallyNestablePointer SpatiallyNestable::getParentPointer(bool& success) cons
     if (parent || parentID.isNull()) {
         success = true;
     } else {
+        qDebug() << "SpatiallyNestable::getParentPointer -- couldn't resolve parent: " << parentID;
         success = false;
     }
 
@@ -392,9 +395,15 @@ void SpatiallyNestable::setOrientation(const glm::quat& orientation) {
 }
 
 glm::vec3 SpatiallyNestable::getVelocity(bool& success) const {
-    glm::vec3 parentVelocity = getParentVelocity(success);
-    Transform parentTransform = getParentTransform(success);
     glm::vec3 result;
+    glm::vec3 parentVelocity = getParentVelocity(success);
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
+    Transform parentTransform = getParentTransform(success);
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
     _velocityLock.withReadLock([&] {
         // TODO: take parent angularVelocity into account.
         result = parentVelocity + parentTransform.getRotation() * _velocity;
@@ -431,16 +440,25 @@ void SpatiallyNestable::setVelocity(const glm::vec3& velocity) {
 glm::vec3 SpatiallyNestable::getParentVelocity(bool& success) const {
     glm::vec3 result;
     SpatiallyNestablePointer parent = getParentPointer(success);
-    if (success && parent) {
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
+    if (parent) {
         result = parent->getVelocity(success);
     }
     return result;
 }
 
 glm::vec3 SpatiallyNestable::getAngularVelocity(bool& success) const {
-    glm::vec3 parentAngularVelocity = getParentAngularVelocity(success);
-    Transform parentTransform = getParentTransform(success);
     glm::vec3 result;
+    glm::vec3 parentAngularVelocity = getParentAngularVelocity(success);
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
+    Transform parentTransform = getParentTransform(success);
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
     _angularVelocityLock.withReadLock([&] {
         result = parentAngularVelocity + parentTransform.getRotation() * _angularVelocity;
     });
@@ -475,7 +493,10 @@ void SpatiallyNestable::setAngularVelocity(const glm::vec3& angularVelocity) {
 glm::vec3 SpatiallyNestable::getParentAngularVelocity(bool& success) const {
     glm::vec3 result;
     SpatiallyNestablePointer parent = getParentPointer(success);
-    if (success && parent) {
+    if (!success) {
+        return result;
+    }
+    if (parent) {
         result = parent->getAngularVelocity(success);
     }
     return result;
@@ -672,6 +693,16 @@ QList<SpatiallyNestablePointer> SpatiallyNestable::getChildren() const {
     return children;
 }
 
+bool SpatiallyNestable::hasChildren() const {
+    bool result = false;
+    _childrenLock.withReadLock([&] {
+        if (_children.size() > 0) {
+            result = true;
+        }
+    });
+    return result;
+}
+
 const Transform SpatiallyNestable::getAbsoluteJointTransformInObjectFrame(int jointIndex) const {
     Transform jointTransformInObjectFrame;
     glm::vec3 position = getAbsoluteJointTranslationInObjectFrame(jointIndex);

libraries/shared/src/SpatiallyNestable.h

@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ public:
     virtual void setLocalScale(const glm::vec3& scale);
 
     QList<SpatiallyNestablePointer> getChildren() const;
+    bool hasChildren() const;
+
     NestableType getNestableType() const { return _nestableType; }
 
     // this object's frame