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Introduces a new `AssetRepresentation` type, as a runtime only container to hold asset information. It is supposed to become _the_ main way to represent and refer to assets in the asset system, see T87235. It can store things like the asset name, asset traits, preview and other asset metadata. Technical documentation: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Architecture/Asset_System/Back_End#Asset_Representation. By introducing a proper asset representation type, we do an important step away from the previous, non-optimal representation of assets as files in the file browser backend, and towards the asset system as backend. It should replace the temporary & hacky `AssetHandle` design in the near future. Note that the loading of asset data still happens through the file browser backend, check the linked to Wiki page for more information on that. As a side-effect, asset metadata isn't stored in file browser file entries when browsing with link/append anymore. Don't think this was ever used, but scripts may have accessed this. Can be brought back if there's a need for it.
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