# Objective
- Use `AppTypeRegistry` on API defined in `bevy_ecs`
(https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8895#discussion_r1234748418)
A lot of the API on `Reflect` depends on a registry. When it comes to
the ECS. We should use `AppTypeRegistry` in the general case.
This is however impossible in `bevy_ecs`, since `AppTypeRegistry` is
defined in `bevy_app`.
## Solution
- Move `AppTypeRegistry` resource definition from `bevy_app` to
`bevy_ecs`
- Still add the resource in the `App` plugin, since bevy_ecs itself
doesn't know of plugins
Note that `bevy_ecs` is a dependency of `bevy_app`, so nothing
revolutionary happens.
## Alternative
- Define the API as a trait in `bevy_app` over `bevy_ecs`. (though this
prevents us from using bevy_ecs internals)
- Do not rely on `AppTypeRegistry` for the API in question, requring
users to extract themselves the resource and pass it to the API methods.
---
## Changelog
- Moved `AppTypeRegistry` resource definition from `bevy_app` to
`bevy_ecs`
## Migration Guide
- If you were **not** using a `prelude::*` to import `AppTypeRegistry`,
you should update your imports:
```diff
- use bevy::app::AppTypeRegistry;
+ use bevy::ecs::reflect::AppTypeRegistry
```
Repetitively fetching ReflectResource and ReflectComponent from the
TypeRegistry is costly.
We want to access the underlying `fn`s. to do so, we expose the
`ReflectResourceFns` and `ReflectComponentFns` stored in ReflectResource
and ReflectComponent.
---
## Changelog
- Add the `fn_pointers` methods to `ReflectResource` and
`ReflectComponent` returning the underlying `ReflectResourceFns` and
`ReflectComponentFns`
# Objective
- Cleanup the `reflect.rs` file in `bevy_ecs`, it's very large and can
get difficult to navigate
## Solution
- Split the file into 3 modules, re-export the types in the
`reflect/mod.rs` to keep a perfectly identical API.
- Add **internal** architecture doc explaining how `ReflectComponent`
works. Note that this doc is internal only, since `component.rs` is not
exposed publicly.
### Tips to reviewers
To review this change properly, you need to compare it to the previous
version of `reflect.rs`. The diff from this PR does not help at all!
What you will need to do is compare `reflect.rs` individually with each
newly created file.
Here is how I did it:
- Adding my fork as remote `git remote add nicopap
https://github.com/nicopap/bevy.git`
- Checkout out the branch `git checkout nicopap/split_ecs_reflect`
- Checkout the old `reflect.rs` by running `git checkout HEAD~1 --
crates/bevy_ecs/src/reflect.rs`
- Compare the old with the new with `git diff --no-index
crates/bevy_ecs/src/reflect.rs crates/bevy_ecs/src/reflect/component.rs`
You could also concatenate everything into a single file and compare
against it:
- `cat
crates/bevy_ecs/src/reflect/{component,resource,map_entities,mod}.rs >
new_reflect.rs`
- `git diff --no-index crates/bevy_ecs/src/reflect.rs new_reflect.rs`