From dede0bb2bce2e80ff2abcf1fd43afbeb1be9ce72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toke Stuart Jepsen <tokejepsen@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 09:35:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant export_alembic method.

---
 openpype/hosts/maya/api/__init__.py |  2 -
 openpype/hosts/maya/api/lib.py      | 67 -----------------------------
 2 files changed, 69 deletions(-)

diff --git a/openpype/hosts/maya/api/__init__.py b/openpype/hosts/maya/api/__init__.py
index a6c5f50e1a..0948282f57 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/maya/api/__init__.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/maya/api/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ from .workio import (
 )
 
 from .lib import (
-    export_alembic,
     lsattr,
     lsattrs,
     read,
@@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ __all__ = [
     "work_root",
 
     # Utility functions
-    "export_alembic",
     "lsattr",
     "lsattrs",
     "read",
diff --git a/openpype/hosts/maya/api/lib.py b/openpype/hosts/maya/api/lib.py
index dd5da275e8..25842a4776 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/maya/api/lib.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/maya/api/lib.py
@@ -289,73 +289,6 @@ def pairwise(iterable):
     return zip(a, a)
 
 
-def export_alembic(nodes,
-                   file,
-                   frame_range=None,
-                   write_uv=True,
-                   write_visibility=True,
-                   attribute_prefix=None):
-    """Wrap native MEL command with limited set of arguments
-
-    Arguments:
-        nodes (list): Long names of nodes to cache
-
-        file (str): Absolute path to output destination
-
-        frame_range (tuple, optional): Start- and end-frame of cache,
-            default to current animation range.
-
-        write_uv (bool, optional): Whether or not to include UVs,
-            default to True
-
-        write_visibility (bool, optional): Turn on to store the visibility
-        state of objects in the Alembic file. Otherwise, all objects are
-        considered visible, default to True
-
-        attribute_prefix (str, optional): Include all user-defined
-            attributes with this prefix.
-
-    """
-
-    if frame_range is None:
-        frame_range = (
-            cmds.playbackOptions(query=True, ast=True),
-            cmds.playbackOptions(query=True, aet=True)
-        )
-
-    options = [
-        ("file", file),
-        ("frameRange", "%s %s" % frame_range),
-    ] + [("root", mesh) for mesh in nodes]
-
-    if isinstance(attribute_prefix, string_types):
-        # Include all attributes prefixed with "mb"
-        # TODO(marcus): This would be a good candidate for
-        #   external registration, so that the developer
-        #   doesn't have to edit this function to modify
-        #   the behavior of Alembic export.
-        options.append(("attrPrefix", str(attribute_prefix)))
-
-    if write_uv:
-        options.append(("uvWrite", ""))
-
-    if write_visibility:
-        options.append(("writeVisibility", ""))
-
-    # Generate MEL command
-    mel_args = list()
-    for key, value in options:
-        mel_args.append("-{0} {1}".format(key, value))
-
-    mel_args_string = " ".join(mel_args)
-    mel_cmd = "AbcExport -j \"{0}\"".format(mel_args_string)
-
-    # For debuggability, put the string passed to MEL in the Script editor.
-    print("mel.eval('%s')" % mel_cmd)
-
-    return mel.eval(mel_cmd)
-
-
 def collect_animation_data(fps=False):
     """Get the basic animation data