What scene was imported?

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to catch some data about scenes that are imported.

Something like:

def import_callback():
    print "SOMETHING WAS IMPORTED. I WISH I KNEW WHAT IT WAS"
    
cmds.scriptJob( event=("SceneImported", import_callback) )

 It feels like a scriptJob callback is the way to go but I don't think it can capture the name/path of the file being imported.  Anyone have any insight or an alternate approach to calling some python on every import (and getting the name/path of the file imported)?

Thanks in advance. 

[RFlannery1 · Accepted solution]

You can get the name using MSceneMessage.addCheckFileCallback.  Note that the below example is using the Maya Python API 2.0.  If you want to use the original Maya Python API, the callback parameters are a bit different.

import maya.api.OpenMaya as om

def importFileCallback(fileObj, _):
    # fileObj is of type MFileObject
    print fileObj.rawFullName()
    print fileObj.expandedFullName()
    # Returning False will cancel the import process
    return True

cbId = om.MSceneMessage.addCheckFileCallback(om.MSceneMessage.kBeforeImportCheck, importFileCallback)

# If you want to stop running your callback function, use "removeCallback".
om.MMessage.removeCallback(cbId)

[Anonymous]

Yep.  This works great.  Thanks.