Class GhostFieldSubType

Hold a list of constant int that can be used across the project to specify subtype in GhostFieldAttribute. User can expand that list by using an AssemblyDefinitionReference to Unity.NetCode.Gen and adding a partial class that extend and add new constant literals to that class.

Inheritance

object

GhostFieldSubType

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

Namespace: Unity.NetCode

Assembly: Unity.NetCode.dll

Syntax

public static class GhostFieldSubType

Remarks

Why GhostFieldSubType is not an enum: The reason is that there are unfortunately caveats, some due to our compilation pipeline and others due to the limitation of the SourceGenerator api. First: MS SourceGenerator are additive only. That means we cannot modify the syntaxtree, removing or adding nodes to it (not the way Analyzers does). To overcome that limitation, a possible solution to inject the enums literals into the assembly is to use a small IL post processor instead. Because NetCode runtime assembly is re-imported every time a sub-type is added or removed, the assumption was that the IL post-processing will then correctly modify the dll before any dependent dll is compiled. Although it does, and Unity.NetCode.dll contains the correct metadata, the ILPostProcessorRunner run at a later time and some dlls are not compile correctly (depend on timing). With further investigation it might be possible to address that problem, however it seems like fighting against the compilation process again, something we wanted to avoid. Because all of that, a partial class to hold the integral constants it uses instead and users can add new const literals.

Why the AssemblyDefinitionReference? Using source generator to add a partial class directly to NetCode.dll works fine but unfortunately will miss the IDE auto-completion functionality. No IDE at the moment provide support for that out of the box. VS has some workaround for normal C# projects (removing the original file from the solution etc) or by restarting the IDE, but Rider or VSCode does not work the same way. By using the Assembly Definition Reference, we are actually doing in principle the same job and completion works, making the user experience a little more pleasant.

Fields

None

The default value for the SubType.

Declaration

public const int None = 0

Field Value

Type	Description
int