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# Objective - Provide a reliable and performant mechanism to allows users to keep components synchronized with external sources: closing/opening sockets, updating indexes, debugging etc. - Implement a generic mechanism to provide mutable access to the world without allowing structural changes; this will not only be used here but is a foundational piece for observers, which are key for a performant implementation of relations. ## Solution - Implement a new type `DeferredWorld` (naming is not important, `StaticWorld` is also suitable) that wraps a world pointer and prevents user code from making any structural changes to the ECS; spawning entities, creating components, initializing resources etc. - Add component lifecycle hooks `on_add`, `on_insert` and `on_remove` that can be assigned callbacks in user code. --- ## Changelog - Add new `DeferredWorld` type. - Add new world methods: `register_component::<T>` and `register_component_with_descriptor`. These differ from `init_component` in that they provide mutable access to the created `ComponentInfo` but will panic if the component is already in any archetypes. These restrictions serve two purposes: 1. Prevent users from defining hooks for components that may already have associated hooks provided in another plugin. (a use case better served by observers) 2. Ensure that when an `Archetype` is created it gets the appropriate flags to early-out when triggering hooks. - Add methods to `ComponentInfo`: `on_add`, `on_insert` and `on_remove` to be used to register hooks of the form `fn(DeferredWorld, Entity, ComponentId)` - Modify `BundleInserter`, `BundleSpawner` and `EntityWorldMut` to trigger component hooks when appropriate. - Add bit flags to `Archetype` indicating whether or not any contained components have each type of hook, this can be expanded for other flags as needed. - Add `component_hooks` example to illustrate usage. Try it out! It's fun to mash keys. ## Safety The changes to component insertion, removal and deletion involve a large amount of unsafe code and it's fair for that to raise some concern. I have attempted to document it as clearly as possible and have confirmed that all the hooks examples are accepted by `cargo miri` as not causing any undefined behavior. The largest issue is in ensuring there are no outstanding references when passing a `DeferredWorld` to the hooks which requires some use of raw pointers (as was already happening to some degree in those places) and I have taken some time to ensure that is the case but feel free to let me know if I've missed anything. ## Performance These changes come with a small but measurable performance cost of between 1-5% on `add_remove` benchmarks and between 1-3% on `insert` benchmarks. One consideration to be made is the existence of the current `RemovedComponents` which is on average more costly than the addition of `on_remove` hooks due to the early-out, however hooks doesn't completely remove the need for `RemovedComponents` as there is a chance you want to respond to the removal of a component that already has an `on_remove` hook defined in another plugin, so I have not removed it here. I do intend to deprecate it with the introduction of observers in a follow up PR. ## Discussion Questions - Currently `DeferredWorld` implements `Deref` to `&World` which makes sense conceptually, however it does cause some issues with rust-analyzer providing autocomplete for `&mut World` references which is annoying. There are alternative implementations that may address this but involve more code churn so I have attempted them here. The other alternative is to not implement `Deref` at all but that leads to a large amount of API duplication. - `DeferredWorld`, `StaticWorld`, something else? - In adding support for hooks to `EntityWorldMut` I encountered some unfortunate difficulties with my desired API. If commands are flushed after each call i.e. `world.spawn() // flush commands .insert(A) // flush commands` the entity may be despawned while `EntityWorldMut` still exists which is invalid. An alternative was then to add `self.world.flush_commands()` to the drop implementation for `EntityWorldMut` but that runs into other problems for implementing functions like `into_unsafe_entity_cell`. For now I have implemented a `.flush()` which will flush the commands and consume `EntityWorldMut` or users can manually run `world.flush_commands()` after using `EntityWorldMut`. - In order to allowing querying on a deferred world we need implementations of `WorldQuery` to not break our guarantees of no structural changes through their `UnsafeWorldCell`. All our implementations do this, but there isn't currently any safety documentation specifying what is or isn't allowed for an implementation, just for the caller, (they also shouldn't be aliasing components they didn't specify access for etc.) is that something we should start doing? (see 10752) Please check out the example `component_hooks` or the tests in `bundle.rs` for usage examples. I will continue to expand this description as I go. See #10839 for a more ergonomic API built on top of this one that isn't subject to the same restrictions and supports `SystemParam` dependency injection. |
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