Adding DynamicBuffers without EntityManager

Is there any way to add a DynamicBuffer besides using the EntityManager.AddBuffer() method? This is the only way mentioned in the documentation. It appears that the AddBuffer() method for EntityCommandBuffer has been deprecated. The GetBufferFromEntity() method on JobComponentSystem provides a mechanism for accessing an existing buffer, but there's no corresponding “AddBufferToEntity()” method for creating a new one.

If EntityManager.AddBuffer() is the only way to add DynamicBuffers, then this means that they can only be created on the main thread and there’s no way to create them from within ForEach () or from within a Job. This would make them much more restrictive than Components. Is this the case, or is there something that I'm missing?

 

Thanks! I feel rather silly now. I think what threw me was that AddBuffer () shows up as [deprecated] in the autocomplete in Visual Studio:



But if I actually write out the full method name, it no longer appears to be deprecated:



So I can see now that it's the non-generic version of the method that was deprecated, and the generic version is still available. I'll have to be more careful.