DataEntity.md

Friflo.Engine.ECS

Friflo.Engine.ECS.Serialize

DataEntity Class

A DataEntity represents an Entity as a POCO class used for serialization.

public sealed class DataEntity

Inheritance System.Object 🡒 DataEntity

Remarks

When reading / writing DataEntity's in the editor a special MemoryDatabase" implementation is required.
This implementation preserves the order of entities stored in a JSON file.
Therefor it stores the order of each entity when loaded and apply this order when writing them back to the JSON file.

Having a stable order is required avoid merge conflicts.
Otherwise the entity order in a JSON file would be arbitrary.
Even small changes will show a massive diff in version control.

Fields
children	The list of child entity ids.
components	Each key in components defines the type of a component or script. Its value is the component / script value.
modify	Modify the referenced entity of apreFab. with components != null Remove the referenced entity if components == null
pid	Permanent id used to identify entities in a database
prefab	Reference to the Prefab the entity is based on
sceneName	if != null the entity is the root of a scene using the assigned sceneName
tags	List of tags assigned to an entity

Properties
DebugJSON	Return the JSON representation of a DataEntity.

Methods
ToString()