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Jakob Hellermann
2b6e67f4cb add #[reflect(Default)] to create default value for reflected types (#3733)
### Problem
It currently isn't possible to construct the default value of a reflected type. Because of that, it isn't possible to use `add_component` of `ReflectComponent` to add a new component to an entity because you can't know what the initial value should be.

### Solution

1. add `ReflectDefault` type
```rust
#[derive(Clone)]
pub struct ReflectDefault {
    default: fn() -> Box<dyn Reflect>,
}

impl ReflectDefault {
    pub fn default(&self) -> Box<dyn Reflect> {
        (self.default)()
    }
}

impl<T: Reflect + Default> FromType<T> for ReflectDefault {
    fn from_type() -> Self {
        ReflectDefault {
            default: || Box::new(T::default()),
        }
    }
}
```

2. add `#[reflect(Default)]` to all component types that implement `Default` and are user facing (so not `ComputedSize`, `CubemapVisibleEntities` etc.)



This makes it possible to add the default value of a component to an entity without any compile-time information:

```rust
fn main() {
    let mut app = App::new();
    app.register_type::<Camera>();

    let type_registry = app.world.get_resource::<TypeRegistry>().unwrap();
    let type_registry = type_registry.read();

    let camera_registration = type_registry.get(std::any::TypeId::of::<Camera>()).unwrap();
    let reflect_default = camera_registration.data::<ReflectDefault>().unwrap();
    let reflect_component = camera_registration
        .data::<ReflectComponent>()
        .unwrap()
        .clone();

    let default = reflect_default.default();

    drop(type_registry);

    let entity = app.world.spawn().id();
    reflect_component.add_component(&mut app.world, entity, &*default);

    let camera = app.world.entity(entity).get::<Camera>().unwrap();
    dbg!(&camera);
}
```

### Open questions
- should we have `ReflectDefault` or `ReflectFromWorld` or both?
2022-05-03 19:20:13 +00:00