bevy/crates/bevy_reflect/Cargo.toml
Jakob Hellermann 7dcfaaef67 bevy_reflect: ReflectFromPtr to create &dyn Reflect from a *const () (#4475)
# Objective

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/4447 adds functions that can fetch resources/components as `*const ()` ptr by providing the `ComponentId`. This alone is not enough for them to be usable safely with reflection, because there is no general way to go from the raw pointer to a `&dyn Reflect` which is the pointer + a pointer to the VTable of the `Reflect` impl.

By adding a `ReflectFromPtr` type that is included in the type type registration when deriving `Reflect`, safe functions can be implemented in scripting languages that don't assume a type layout and can access the component data via reflection:

```rust
#[derive(Reflect)]
struct StringResource {
    value: String
}
```

```lua
local res_id = world:resource_id_by_name("example::StringResource")
local res = world:resource(res_id)

print(res.value)
```

## Solution

1. add a `ReflectFromPtr` type with a `FromType<T: Reflect>` implementation and the following methods:
- `     pub unsafe fn as_reflect_ptr<'a>(&self, val: Ptr<'a>) -> &'a dyn Reflect`
- `     pub unsafe fn as_reflect_ptr_mut<'a>(&self, val: PtrMut<'a>) -> &'a mud dyn Reflect`

Safety requirements of the methods are that you need to check that the `ReflectFromPtr` was constructed for the correct type.

2. add that type to the `TypeRegistration` in the `GetTypeRegistration` impl generated by `#[derive(Reflect)]`.
This is different to other reflected traits because it doesn't need `#[reflect(ReflectReflectFromPtr)]` which IMO should be there by default.

Co-authored-by: Jakob Hellermann <hellermann@sipgate.de>
Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-07-19 23:00:34 +00:00

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[package]
name = "bevy_reflect"
version = "0.8.0-dev"
edition = "2021"
description = "Dynamically interact with rust types"
homepage = "https://bevyengine.org"
repository = "https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy"
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
keywords = ["bevy"]
readme = "README.md"
[features]
bevy = ["glam", "smallvec"]
[dependencies]
# bevy
bevy_reflect_derive = { path = "bevy_reflect_derive", version = "0.8.0-dev" }
bevy_utils = { path = "../bevy_utils", version = "0.8.0-dev" }
bevy_ptr = { path = "../bevy_ptr", version = "0.8.0-dev" }
# other
erased-serde = "0.3"
downcast-rs = "1.2"
parking_lot = "0.12.1"
thiserror = "1.0"
once_cell = "1.11"
serde = "1"
smallvec = { version = "1.6", features = ["serde", "union", "const_generics"], optional = true }
glam = { version = "0.21", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
[dev-dependencies]
ron = "0.7.0"