bevy/examples/reflection/trait_reflection.rs
Mark Schmale 1ba7429371 Doc/module style doc blocks for examples (#4438)
# Objective

Provide a starting point for #3951, or a partial solution. 
Providing a few comment blocks to discuss, and hopefully find better one in the process. 

## Solution

Since I am pretty new to pretty much anything in this context, I figured I'd just start with a draft for some file level doc blocks. For some of them I found more relevant details (or at least things I considered interessting), for some others there is less. 

## Changelog

- Moved some existing comments from main() functions in the 2d examples to the file header level
- Wrote some more comment blocks for most other 2d examples

TODO: 
- [x] 2d/sprite_sheet, wasnt able to come up with something good yet 
- [x] all other example groups...


Also: Please let me know if the commit style is okay, or to verbose. I could certainly squash these things, or add more details if needed. 
I also hope its okay to raise this PR this early, with just a few files changed. Took me long enough and I dont wanted to let it go to waste because I lost motivation to do the whole thing. Additionally I am somewhat uncertain over the style and contents of the commets. So let me know what you thing please.
2022-05-16 13:53:20 +00:00

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//! Allows reflection with trait objects.
use bevy::{prelude::*, reflect::TypeRegistry};
fn main() {
App::new()
.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
.add_startup_system(setup)
.register_type::<MyType>()
.run();
}
#[derive(Reflect)]
#[reflect(DoThing)]
struct MyType {
value: String,
}
impl DoThing for MyType {
fn do_thing(&self) -> String {
format!("{} World!", self.value)
}
}
#[reflect_trait]
pub trait DoThing {
fn do_thing(&self) -> String;
}
fn setup(type_registry: Res<TypeRegistry>) {
// First, lets box our type as a Box<dyn Reflect>
let reflect_value: Box<dyn Reflect> = Box::new(MyType {
value: "Hello".to_string(),
});
// This means we no longer have direct access to MyType or its methods. We can only call Reflect
// methods on reflect_value. What if we want to call `do_thing` on our type? We could
// downcast using reflect_value.downcast_ref::<MyType>(), but what if we don't know the type
// at compile time?
// Normally in rust we would be out of luck at this point. Lets use our new reflection powers to
// do something cool!
let type_registry = type_registry.read();
// The #[reflect] attribute we put on our DoThing trait generated a new `ReflectDoThing` struct,
// which implements TypeData. This was added to MyType's TypeRegistration.
let reflect_do_thing = type_registry
.get_type_data::<ReflectDoThing>(reflect_value.type_id())
.unwrap();
// We can use this generated type to convert our `&dyn Reflect` reference to a `&dyn DoThing`
// reference
let my_trait: &dyn DoThing = reflect_do_thing.get(&*reflect_value).unwrap();
// Which means we can now call do_thing(). Magic!
info!("{}", my_trait.do_thing());
// This works because the #[reflect(MyTrait)] we put on MyType informed the Reflect derive to
// insert a new instance of ReflectDoThing into MyType's registration. The instance knows
// how to cast &dyn Reflect to &dyn MyType, because it knows that &dyn Reflect should first
// be downcasted to &MyType, which can then be safely casted to &dyn MyType
}