How to get Entity's name in code

So, say I've got an entity I'm world.forEach over; how would I get it's name from the editor to log or display or use as a key?

 

You could do

this.world.getEntityName(yourEntity)

which returns the entity's name as seen in the editor.

You could also get the name from the EntityInformation component on your entity, but I haven't seen anyone really use that method so I guess it's not as mainstream to do it that way.

 

Hi! Does anyone know how to do this in 0.13.0 preview 24? Looks like the this.world.getEntityName(yourEntity) is missing

Searching the Entities sources I have found only the way to do this in editor (Unity.Entities\EntityComponentStore.cs):

 

Hue hue! I know how to do this!

Have you tried the EntityManager?

Code (CSharp):

1. EntityManager.GetName(entity);
2. EntityManager.SetName(entity, "Bob the Entity");

The only caveat is that you will need an instance of an EntityManager to do this (obviously). But as long as you have access to one, you should be good!

 

@GliderGuy
Works fine so thanks, but when I build the project I get

"Assets\Plugins\MyPlugin\TargetingIndicator.cs(32,82): error CS1061: 'EntityManager' does not contain a definition for 'GetName' and no accessible extension method 'GetName' accepting a first argument of type 'EntityManager' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

Is this editor only or why do I get this? I only get these kind of warnings with editor scripts that somehow end up in the build.

Could this be because I'm calling this from a monobehavior?

Edit: No I think its editor only. So need to figure out a way to get name of entity that support building a project.

Code (CSharp):

1.                 World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld.EntityManager.GetName(target.entity);

 

Yeah, unfortunately it's editor-only.
In fact, I think Entity names are entirely editor-only (the names are not recorded nor exist at runtime).
So, unless something has changed recently, you won't be able to use them as far as I'm aware.

BUT!
What you could do is create a NameComponent, and store your Entity's name within it in the form of a FixedString (16, 32, 64, 256, etc).
Then, OnValidate(), you can update a "nameString" on your AuthoringComponent to the name of your GameObject, and then on GameObjectToEntityConversion use the "nameString" to set the FixedString in your NameComponent.

 

@rupt

Yeah thanks.
There is a similar post with example code.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-there-a-name-component-for-entities.801732/