Guid serialization and Burst

Guid is Burstable. Since Unity doesn't serialize Guid on its own I have been serializing Guid to a string using OnBeforeSerialize and OnAfterDeserialize. However, a string isn't Burstable and I can't find a way to get Burst to ignore these fields used only for serialization.

Is there anything I can easily serialize a Guid with? Either will Unity's built-in serialization or the prior-mentioned callbacks that is also compatible with Burst?

 

What's the containing code like? Assuming it's ISerializationCallbackReceiver you're talking about, that only works on classes I think, so that's something Burst isn't going to touch anyway. Which confuses me a little with this problem. You'd pass the Guid or some inner struct to Burst and that would not contain the string field that's on the class, so presumably it would be fine with Burst.

 

Ahhh ... I had switched this code from a class to a struct as I migrated to Jobs and Burst.

If I remember correctly, the serialization callbacks were still getting called though, so I mistakenly thought that worked. But as you point out and the ISerializationCallbackReceiver docs state "The callback interface only works with classes. It does not work with structs."

This also answers another problem I am working on.

Thanks for the reply.

 

you could create a custom guid struct or class that's serializable and has operators that convert it to/from Guid.