Dear Developers,
Recently we got feedback about a substantial slowdown in case of having multiple addons that use the deprecated ACAPI_LibraryManagement_GetLibraries in BIM Cloud projects using many libraries, like in case of the Global library.
It fills an array of API_LibraryInfo structures, and fills the bool readOnly member for each. At this point it's costly because it builds a connection to the appropriate BIM Cloud server, asks for permissions. In case of many addons doing this in succession it can take a lot of time.
If you only want to enumerate the loaded libraries and treat them as read only, we recommend instead the ACAPI::Library::LibraryManager::FindLibraries function that returns an array of ACAPI::Library::Library objects. It contains all the relevant information, except for the readOnly flag.
If you need to modify the contents of a BIM Cloud library from within a joined project via an addon, unfortunately there's no workaround yet.
Best regards,
Tamás
