Question Recommended way to test ISerializationCallbackReceiver implementations?

I've got an implementation to

ISerializationCallbackReceiver

, and I wanted to test if my data was being saved properly. Is there a recommended way to do that?

The part I'm having a difficult time understanding is handling the serialization lifecycle in a test. Assuming my implementation is called

MyClass

, ideally, I'd like to

1. Create an asset that has

   MyClass

   attached to it.
   
2. Make some edits to its serialized fields.
3. Trigger a serialize of the

   SerializedObject

   .**
4. Trigger a deserialize.**
5. Get the instance of

   MyClass

   and validate the fields.

I'm not sure how to go about doing steps 3 and 4.

 

This is what I'm doing for now:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void SetTypeShouldPersistAfterCallingSave(Type expected)
2. {
3.     var asset = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<SerializableTypeHolder>();
4.     asset.Instance = new SerializableType(expected);
5.     AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(asset, AssetPath);
6.     asset = AssetDatabase.LoadAsset<SerializableTypeHolder>(AssetPath);
7.     var actual = asset.Instance.Type;
8.     Assert.AreEqual(expected, actual);
9. }

 

I think you can do

asset = ScriptableObject.Instantiate(asset);

to clone it and test your assertions, unless I'm missing something about it needing to use the filesystem.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/create-copy-of-scriptableobject-during-runtime.355933/

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html