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# Objective ### TL;DR #14098 added the `FunctionRegistry` but had some last minute complications due to anonymous functions. It ended up going with a "required name" approach to ensure anonymous functions would always have a name. However, this approach isn't ideal for named functions since, by definition, they will always have a name. Therefore, this PR aims to modify function reflection such that we can make function registration easier for named functions, while still allowing anonymous functions to be registered as well. ### Context Function registration (#14098) ran into a little problem: anonymous functions. Anonymous functions, including function pointers, have very non-unique type names. For example, the anonymous function `|a: i32, b: i32| a + b` has the type name of `fn(i32, i32) -> i32`. This obviously means we'd conflict with another function like `|a: i32, b: i32| a - b`. The solution that #14098 landed on was to always require a name during function registration. The downside with this is that named functions (e.g. `fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a + b }`) had to redundantly provide a name. Additionally, manually constructed `DynamicFunction`s also ran into this ergonomics issue. I don't entirely know how the function registry will be used, but I have a strong suspicion that most of its registrations will either be named functions or manually constructed `DynamicFunction`s, with anonymous functions only being used here and there for quick prototyping or adding small functionality. Why then should the API prioritize the anonymous function use case by always requiring a name during registration? #### Telling Functions Apart Rust doesn't provide a lot of out-of-the-box tools for reflecting functions. One of the biggest hurdles in attempting to solve the problem outlined above would be to somehow tell the different kinds of functions apart. Let's briefly recap on the categories of functions in Rust: | Category | Example | | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | | Named function | `fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a + b }` | | Closure | `\|a: i32\| a + captured_variable` | | Anonymous function | `\|a: i32, b: i32\| a + b` | | Function pointer | `fn(i32, i32) -> i32` | My first thought was to try and differentiate these categories based on their size. However, we can see that this doesn't quite work: | Category | `size_of` | | ------------------ | --------- | | Named function | 0 | | Closure | 0+ | | Anonymous function | 0 | | Function pointer | 8 | Not only does this not tell anonymous functions from named ones, but it struggles with pretty much all of them. My second then was to differentiate based on type name: | Category | `type_name` | | ------------------ | ----------------------- | | Named function | `foo::bar::baz` | | Closure | `foo::bar::{{closure}}` | | Anonymous function | `fn() -> String` | | Function pointer | `fn() -> String` | This is much better. While it can't distinguish between function pointers and anonymous functions, this doesn't matter too much since we only care about whether we can _name_ the function. So why didn't we implement this in #14098? #### Relying on `type_name` While this solution was known about while working on #14098, it was left out from that PR due to it being potentially controversial. The [docs](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/any/fn.type_name.html) for `std::any::type_name` state: > The returned string must not be considered to be a unique identifier of a type as multiple types may map to the same type name. Similarly, there is no guarantee that all parts of a type will appear in the returned string: for example, lifetime specifiers are currently not included. In addition, the output may change between versions of the compiler. So that's it then? We can't use `type_name`? Well, this statement isn't so much a rule as it is a guideline. And Bevy is no stranger to bending the rules to make things work or to improve ergonomics. Remember that before `TypePath`, Bevy's scene system was entirely dependent on `type_name`. Not to mention that `type_name` is being used as a key into both the `TypeRegistry` and the `FunctionRegistry`. Bevy's practices aside, can we reliably use `type_name` for this? My answer would be "yes". Anonymous functions are anonymous. They have no name. There's nothing Rust could do to give them a name apart from generating a random string of characters. But remember that this is a diagnostic tool, it doesn't make sense to obfuscate the type by randomizing the output. So changing it to be anything other than what it is now is very unlikely. The only changes that I could potentially see happening are: 1. Closures replace `{{closure}}` with the name of their variable 2. Lifetimes are included in the output I don't think the first is likely to happen, but if it does then it actually works out in our favor: closures are now named! The second point is probably the likeliest. However, adding lifetimes doesn't mean we can't still rely on `type_name` to determine whether or not a function is named. So we should be okay in this case as well. ## Solution Parse the `type_name` of the function in the `TypedFunction` impl to determine if the function is named or anonymous. This once again makes `FunctionInfo::name` optional. For manual constructions of `DynamicFunction`, `FunctionInfo::named` or ``FunctionInfo::anonymous` can be used. The `FunctionRegistry` API has also been reworked to account for this change. `FunctionRegistry::register` no longer takes a name and instead takes it from the supplied function, returning a `FunctionRegistrationError::MissingName` error if the name is `None`. This also doubles as a replacement for the old `FunctionRegistry::register_dynamic` method, which has been removed. To handle anonymous functions, a `FunctionRegistry::register_with_name` method has been added. This works in the same way `FunctionRegistry::register` used to work before this PR. The overwriting methods have been updated in a similar manner, with modifications to `FunctionRegistry::overwrite_registration`, the removal of `FunctionRegistry::overwrite_registration_dynamic`, and the addition of `FunctionRegistry::overwrite_registration_with_name`. This PR also updates the methods on `App` in a similar way: `App::register_function` no longer requires a name argument and `App::register_function_with_name` has been added to handle anonymous functions (and eventually closures). ## Testing You can run the tests locally by running: ``` cargo test --package bevy_reflect --features functions ``` --- ## Internal Migration Guide > [!important] > Function reflection was introduced as part of the 0.15 dev cycle. This migration guide was written for developers relying on `main` during this cycle, and is not a breaking change coming from 0.14. > [!note] > This list is not exhaustive. It only contains some of the most important changes. `FunctionRegistry::register` no longer requires a name string for named functions. Anonymous functions, however, need to be registered using `FunctionRegistry::register_with_name`. ```rust // BEFORE registry .register(std::any::type_name_of_val(&foo), foo)? .register("bar", || println!("Hello world!")); // AFTER registry .register(foo)? .register_with_name("bar", || println!("Hello world!")); ``` `FunctionInfo::name` is now optional. Anonymous functions and closures will now have their name set to `None` by default. Additionally, `FunctionInfo::new` has been renamed to `FunctionInfo::named`. |
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