List of all components as their end type

So I'm trying to do a Mary Sue for Undo.RecordObject function... basically, something that records recursively all the behaviours in a game object (please don't ask why).

I tried doing this:

Code (CSharp):

1.         Behaviour[] allBehaviours = transform.GetComponentsInChildren<Behaviour>();
2.  
3.         foreach (Behaviour behaviour in allBehaviours) {
4.             Undo.RecordObject(behaviour, "mary sue");
5.         }

But it won't work, because the Undo is recording the behaviour as Behaviour, ignoring all his properties as implementation.

What can I do?

 

Idk, maybe passing it as serialized object instance or it's properties individually will work?

 

As a quick fix you can use "is" checks like that :

Code (CSharp):

1.     void SomeFunction ()
2.     {
3.         foreach (Behaviour b in allBehaviours)
4.         {
5.             if (b is TypeA)
6.                 SomeCode();
7.             else if (b is TypeB)
8.                 SomeCode();
9.             else if (b is TypeC)
10.                 SomeCode();
11.         }
12.     }

Not sure this is what you are looking for, I don't think this kind of code is good practice, but this could be a solution.

 

that would work, but I'd have to make one if for every class that inherits from Behaviour... it would be a very long list n.n'

 

Maybe an interface or attribute will help?
With interface, your can just

Code (CSharp):

1. foreach (IMyContract b in allBehaviours)
2. {
3.     b.SomeMethod();
4. }

with attributes it's a little harder, but attributes allows you not to move code from editor class to beahviours and this make things easier with builds and such

Code (CSharp):

1. public CustomProcessingAttribute : Attribute {
2. }
3.  
4. [CustomProcessing(Processing.DoWhatever)]
5. class SomeBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7. }
8.  
9. foreach (Behaviour b in allBehaviours)
10. {
11.    var attribute = b.GetType().GetAttribute<CustomProcessingAttribute>();
12.    attribute.Process();
13.   // or
14.   switch(attribute.ProcessingType)
15. {
16. case 1:
17. dosomth(b);
18. break;
19. }
20. }

If you'd like to adopt the attribute solution, read this https://www.infoworld.com/article/3006630/how-to-work-with-attributes-in-c.html
My pseudocode won't even compile, it's here just to show the concept.