Feedback Implement LayerMask.ToString

Please implement/override the

LayerMask.ToString

method and return meaningful information. In Unity 2018.4.4f1, calling the following code:

Code (CSharp):

1. LayerMask layer = LayerMask.NameToLayer("UI") | LayerMask.NameToLayer("Ignore Raycast");
2. Debug.LogFormat("{0}", layer);

Outputs to the Console window:

It would be a lot more useful, if the output contains the layer names and the value. For example, the output could be like this instead:

I'm aware that there is the

layer.value

property that represents the integer bitMask, but for debugging happiness, what I described above would make a lot of sense.

 

I was about to open the same thread.

This would allow custom debug code to automatically log all properties of an object, for example:

Code (CSharp):

1. public static void DumpLog(object target)
2. {
3.     if (target == null)
4.     {
5.         Debug.Log("Null");
6.         return;
7.     }
8.  
9.     Object unityObject = target as UnityEngine.Object;
10.     System.Type type = target.GetType();
11.  
12.     string message = unityObject != null ? unityObject.ToString() : type.Name;
13.     message += " (Dump)\n";
14.  
15.     FieldInfo[] fields = type.GetFields();
16.     foreach (var field in fields)
17.     {
18.         string line = field.Name + ": " + field.GetValue(target).ToString();
19.         message += line + "\n";
20.     }
21.  
22.     Debug.Log(message, unityObject);
23. }

There are a few more cases where code like this make development easier (showing properties in debug ui, etc), where we don't actually know the type and therefore cannot provide a custom string format. Instead, many of these quick development solutions rely on a reasonable default implementation of ToString.

I hope Unity is able to implement ToString for all engine types in the future. It doesn't have to be perfect, but at least some kind of information.