Official Quick Search Preview

Yeah, it reports 0 bytes (never loaded the index, but that would be expected I guess).
Yeah I have updated the unity version of the project before. Only ever patch versions though (from like 2020.3.13 to 2020.3.26).


And would you like reports of an asset(s) index not updating even if it can't be reproduced? Or would that not contain any helpful info if there is no repro?

 

It works just fine afterward, it properly indexes everything. When I opened the index manager just now to reindex it, the elements said 0 as well as the bytes in case that helps you at all (instead of say 6507 elements like it did previously).

 

Sure, I will try to keep an eye on it and try to keep track of what I do in case it happens again, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

Oh nice find! Unfortunately I hadn't deleted almost any assets, so it probably wasn't that for me.
I'm on 2020.3 using the QuickSearch 3.0.28 package, so... might not be getting it haha?

 

I, too, am using 2020.3 (and will be until the Entities package updates to include 2021.x support) and have experienced similar symptoms on the Linux editor. I could not really pinpoint anything specific that would cause this issue, but I do recall running into this issue after having created and removed relatively large batches of assets on disk at a time.

At the same time, I want to say that I have also noticed this after having rebuilt the index, saved my scene, etc, refreshed the editor, and closed it. Only to experience the missing size once again after having simply reopened the editor. I cannot recall if I did much else in between that though. I will try and keep an eye on it and see if I can come across anything else that might be contributing to it on my end.

I tend to experience a number of odd things within the Linux editor, though, so it's hard to say if some issues I experience are actual issues with a package/asset, or are caused by Linux editor gremlins.

 

Hello,

I've been trying out the new Unity Search feature, having read about it in the 2021.2 update's blog post.

I'm noticing some issues I'd like to report. I've first noticed them in the 2021.2 release. I then tried updating my project to 2021.3's LTS, and they remained. I hopped on 2022.2.0a10.1539 for good measure after the fact, and they're still there.

The gif included here uses 2022.2.0a10.1539.
https://i.imgur.com/buizXKD.gif

First, the only step I've taken prior to trying the search feature out, is opening the index manager and pressing save (using the default options).

1. If the search inspector window on the right is open, then, whenever I select any item in the search, I get a warning. This warning shows up in all 3 aforementioned unity versions I've tried. It is

Code (CSharp):

1. UnityEditor.Search.SearchServiceItem must be instantiated using the ScriptableObject.CreateInstance method instead of new SearchServiceItem.
2. UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

2. Adjusting a scriptable object's properties, from any inspector windows (be it the search window's , or the regular Unity Inspector tab) , does not reflect the change in the search window. This seems to only be reflected once I manually hit ctrl+s to save the project state. I assume the reason is that the search window only cares about asset contents, and not their transient state? can that be adjusted in any way so I can clearly witness what is the current state of my project without spamming ctrl+s?

3. Even after hitting save, it takes a moment for the search to update the displayed values, and it does not give some feedback when it did so. Additionally, the 'Search Service Item' showing on the search window's inspector's values stay outdated until the item is re-selected.

That's it for the issues I've witnessed so far that I can call 'bugs', though I do have another...
4. How can I filter and select at the same time? Using the example above "select{t:CropType, name, #DaysToGrow}" , I'd like to filter this 'select' search to show only crops that take more than 3 days to grow. trying to include `>3` in the DaysToGrow section didn't seem to work, and neither did including it before the first comma of said search. I'd appreciate some clarification here, as trying to figure it from the documentation didn't yield success, please.

Queries aside, I'm really rooting for the Search feature! I think it has amazing potential in reducing spent development time finding things, as long as it is easier to use.

Edit: I've messed with search queries more, and from what I can understand, it seems queries for properties of scriptable objects, straight up don't work. A simple query of "t:type #fieldname>someNumber" seems to work for 3 different cases of monobehaviours, but none of scriptable objects. Is this intended?

 

I've given it a shot but as I mentioned in my edit, it seems to straight up not work as far as scriptableobjects are concerned.
Specifically... trying to query the project, instead of the hierarchy.
(I've removed the h: tag because I'm not looking within the scene, but the queries for DaysToGrow>3 straight up eliminate all results, even though displaying DaysToGrow clearly shows number above 3)

I've also tried using Where, and while I can confirm it works as intended with monobehaviour searching, it does not work at all with scriptableobject searching (though , again, might be related to the numeric query itself not working?)

Good luck! Have a fantastic week!

 

Hey, I'm getting some pretty bad editor performance when using the search extensions package:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.search.extensions 1.0.1

After searching an object by usages (Find Used By)
The editor starts lagging quite a bit, from the profiler, it's running at 15fps



This is happening with/without the search window open

If I reload scripts, the editor returns to normal.
Is there perhaps an event not being cleaned up/registering multiple times?

Using Unity 2021.3.0

 

Ok great. I'll keep a look out for the update

 

Hey there, I'm using the LTS 2021.3 version and have a bit of an issue.

When using table view with the experimental serialized property column format, anything that directly follows a Header attribute does not display correctly. The header text displays instead, and the fields become unselectable.

For example:

[Header("This is a Header")]

[SerializeField] private TestEnum testEnum;

Default column format:


Experimental serialized column format:


It works after moving the enum away from the Header attribute:

 

Sure, case number is 1428547

 

Hi, I didn't find a dedicated forum for Unity Search, so I guess this thread will fit my question best. I would like to ask what is the preferred way of searching all the prefabs with the component that derives from BaseClass? Unfortunately typing only t:BaseClass yields no results. My case is that the subclasses don't necessarily have the "BaseClass" in their names so it isn't possible to check against their filename/type only.

 

Thanks for the reply and the snippet but unfortunately it didn't work in my case. I've added it to my codebase, rebuild the asset index, even cerated new index only (of prefabs type) and build that one too and still the search yields no results when searching for the base types. Is there an easy way to debug this or maybe some documentation about CustomObjectIndexer? I wasn't able to find too much about that one, and my project is pretty big, so the indexes are about 200mb in size, so you can imagine the time needed to build them

 

There's a bug in the code where it doesn't index the type itself, just the base types. Or maybe that's intentional, since that's already indexed by a different type?

 

I am assuming that is because the indexing by the final type is handled by the default indexer. Also I am testing by searching for the base type and it doesn't return any results.

 

What's even weirder: I've created an empty project and it seemed to work at first glance, but after I've refactored the BaseClass and changed its name, the index had the original name saved. Even deleting entire index and recreating it from scratch still showing it saved with original name.

Example:
I've created 2 classes:

TestBaseClass

&

ExtendedSample

(that derives from

TestBaseClass

, then created the prefab with the

ExtendedSample

. Next I have built the index and it seemed to work just fine, I was able to search for this prefab using

t:TestBaseClass

.

Next I renamed

TestBaseClass

to

ActionController

along with the filename, let unity recompile, rebuilt index, deleted & created index again and it still showing:



And that is probably why it didn't work in my original project. I am assuming that it doesn't work for the prefabs that are already indexed and some sort of artifacts are stored in the library folder.

Even the simple

Debug.Log

aren't fired now for the

CustomObjectIndexer

, but it were for the first usage.

 

Thanks for the info. Obviously deleting the Library folder is a no go for me, since it is around ~70GB. I'll log a bug report later tomorrow, thanks!

 

I just rebuilt the search index, and I got a million of these errors:



I have seen the same thing happen when reimporting the project or doing other operations that touch a bunch of assets, but I haven't actually seen it when I work with any individual asset. This isn't directly tied to quick search, but does anyone have any idea where I should go to figure out what's going on and why?

 

Edit --
Nevermind, I got it figured out. I discovered I could easily create a custom selector.

Code (CSharp):

1.     [SearchSelector("size", provider: providerId)]
2.     internal static object GetSize(SearchItem item)
3.     {
4.         return item.ToObject<GameObject>().GetComponent<Renderer>().bounds.size.magnitude;
5.     }

----

I am attempting to create a table with a few columns using SearchColumn() and when searching GameObjects via the hierarchy provider (using 'size>x' to find objects larger than x), what would I need to use as the selector to display the size that was used as the criteria/calculation in the search as a column in a result table?

As a wild stab in the dark I tried the following:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. new SearchColumn("Size", "size", "size", null, flags) { width = 100f };
3.  

I was hoping it would follow suit with other examples, such as this, which did work.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. new SearchColumn("Name", "name", "name", null, flags) { width = 150f };
3.  

It didn't work, though, unfortunately.

Thanks,
-MH

 

One thing I have been trying to get working that I can't quite get yet is displaying a list of results without first searching them. Basically, providing an already created list of items to simply display. Is there a trick to this?

Here was what I had most recently attempted as a test:

Code (CSharp):

1. List<Object> myList = new List<Object>();
2. // -- Populate the list with the results ....
3.  
4. List<SearchItem> items = new List<SearchItem>();
5.  
6. var provider = new SearchServiceProvider();
7.  
8. myList.forEach(x =>
9. {
10.     items.Add(provider.CreateItem($"{x.name}_{x.GetInstanceID()}"));
11. });
12.  
13. var context = provider.defaultContext;
14. var group = new GroupedSearchList(context);
15. group.AddItems(items);
16. var view = new SearchResultView(group);
17. context.searchView = view;
18.  
19. var qs = QuickSearch.Create<SearchPickerWindow>(context);
20. qs.searchEventStatus = QuickSearch.SearchEventStatus.DoNotSendEvent;
21. qs.titleContent.text = $"View...";
22. qs.ShowWindow();

It just displays the "Clear Results" item and none of the objects I created. Is this an appropriate approach to this?
Thanks,
-MH

 

That's perfect, I definitely appreciate it.

The main reason I wanted to use the search window over a custom window was I wanted to retain some of the additional functionality that it has without having to remake the wheel, and be able to utilize the table view / additional columns, etc. I have collections of items already that are created various ways and having a quick and customizable way to display them is great.

 

Well, shoot. Entities 0.51 came out, I updated to Unity 2021, now half of the things I was using are internal, but since it's not a package anymore so I can't just use internalvisible.

It's back to the drawing board now for the majority of the viewing tools I was making since I can't cast to QuickSearch to gain access to the resultView field, which is internal now too, it seems. Then I can't cast that to TableView anymore, or create a new SearchTable.

It seems a bit... backwards, I guess, to have all these great and useful tools, then cut off access to them or restrict them in the first place?

-- Edit
I have been able to reflect a bunch of it so far, but that certainly isn't ideal. Are there any plans on making some of these items public? They are just too useful to keep internal.

An example of what I am referring to is, I was using this Sample from the QuickSearch Extensions package, which I was able to base my current results viewer off, but moving to UnityEngine.Search, I was no longer able to use (my own custom version) without reflection.

It's there as an example (Search/Table Example) yet you can't actually use it as an example, because SearchTable and SearchColumn are internal.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections.Generic;
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. namespace UnityEditor.Search
5. {
6.     static class TableExamples
7.     {
8.         [MenuItem("Search/Table Example")]
9.         public static void OpenTableView()
10.         {
11.             var context = SearchService.CreateContext("scene", "path:turntable t=MeshFilter");
12.             var viewState = new SearchViewState(context, new SearchTable("myColumnSetup", CreateColumns()));
13.             SearchService.ShowWindow(viewState);
14.         }
15.  
16.         static IEnumerable<SearchColumn> CreateColumns()
17.         {
18.             var flags = SearchColumnFlags.IgnoreSettings; // Set to SearchColumnFlags.Default if you want the system to restore any user changes to column's width
19.             yield return new SearchColumn("Name", "name", "name", null, flags) { width = 250f };
20.             yield return new SearchColumn("Mesh", "#m_Mesh", "ObjectReference", null, flags) { width = 180f };
21.             yield return new SearchColumn("Vertices", "vertices", "default", null, flags) { width = 60f };
22.             yield return new SearchColumn("Delete", null, null, null, flags) { width = 60f, drawer = OnDelete };
23.         }
24.  
25.         private static object OnDelete(SearchColumnEventArgs args)
26.         {
27.             if (GUI.Button(args.rect, "Delete"))
28.                 Debug.LogWarning($"TODO: Delete {args.item.GetLabel(args.context, true)}");
29.             return args.value;
30.         }
31.     }
32. }

 

How to change the size of "Transient window"? (2021.3.5f1.321)

 

New search window is shown at location of pinned serach window.

Preferably new unpined search window should show itself at the position there last unpinned search window was shown. (Default is transient window position)

 

Search result count is not always correctly updated in tab name if multiple search windows are used.

 

Has the issue been created on Issue Tracker yet? Looking forward to using the table view but this decorator attributes issue (Header, Space, etc.) is killing me.

 

Hi! Just recently found Quick Search, it is a really great tool I'm starting to use it all the time for

t:

searches on component types.

I wanted to write a quick editor tool which leverages the search engine to show our designers what objects reference a given prefab. However, it appears that

ref:

searches return not only assets that directly depend on that asset, but also assets that indirectly depend on that asset. That means all sorts of unrelated assets will show up in a

ref:

search for an enemy, like build configurations (which reference scenes). Is there a way to search only for direct dependencies?

And please correct me if I'm making an incorrect assumption here - this was based purely off of some quick and dirty code I wrote.

 

I just found something weird related to the search per layer in the scene.

I got asset using the layers index : 5, 15, 25 in the scene.
If I process a search using the layer:5 string it will return every layers including 5 in the idx...
Did someone experienced the same issue and could confirm ?

Package version : 2.0.2 (Unity 2019.4.39f1)

 

What is the intended way to search from code?

I've got something like this:

Code (csharp):

1. [MenuItem("Temp/Test")]
2. public static void Test() {
3.     SearchService.Request("SpriteShape", OnSearchCompleted, SearchFlags.Default);
4. }
5.  
6. private static void OnSearchCompleted(SearchContext context, IList<SearchItem> items) {
7.     Debug.Log(context);
8.     foreach (var item in items) {
9.         Debug.Log($"{item.ToObject()}", item.ToObject());
10.     }
11. }

I'm getting the objects, which is fine and useable, but I'm missing quite a bit of info I know is in there! For example, when the SearchItems are assets, the

SearchItem.data

is an AssetMetaInfo struct. That struct has a bunch of useful data already calculated - the path of the asset, the type of the asset, etc. - but that struct is private, so I have to calculate that data myself by hitting the assetdatabase.

Is there a way to use the SearchService or some other API to get the full amount of information available?