How to serialize ComponentTypes?

Want to do some editor tooling, and that requires serializing ComponentTypes.
Figured out I could just use TypeManager to convert ComponentTypes into ints to serialize them in editor and use in runtime. Will they match in build?

 

And the answer is no, they do not. Which is logical, because editor types are also included.
Anyways, if anyone has a suggestion how to serialize ComponentTypes, please let me know.

 

Serialize the type instead and then at runtime (or conversion) get the Compoenent Type from it?
Thats what im doing at least at it seems to work fine

 

You mean serialize as string -> get type in runtime? That seems a bit slow.

 

So from TypeManager you can get TypeInfo, which has a field called StableTypeHash which is a ulong. You can then call GetTypeIndexFromStableTypeHash().

 

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Also, worth mentioning for future readers:
- TypeManager.GetTypeIndexFromStableTypeHash can be used to fetch TypeIndex for ComponentType in runtime;
- ComponentType.ReadWrite(int typeIndex) - (which is also identical to
ComponentType.FromTypeIndex) - for fetching ComponentType with Read + Write access.
- ComponentType.ReadOnly(int typeIndex) - for fetching types with read only access.

 

Yup thats exaclty what im doing, except its at conversion time instead of runtime (so the slowness dosn't matter)
But now I've seen this StableTypeHash I'll probably update and use that

 

Can you check if a component exists with EntityManager and StableTypeHash? I have a future issue that will require having a buffer of these to check for components.