Question Scheduling IJobFor jobs reading AsDeferredJobArray

I know that you can populate a NativeList in a first job. Then in a second job that is depending on the first job read the list. The lists size is unknown at schedule time so you need to use AsDeferredJobArray when passing the list/array into the second job.
This is working, in the execute of the second job the array length is correct.

But if I want to have the second job as an IJobFor, to be able to e.g. schedule the job as parallel i need to provide the Schedule function with an array size, which wont work since it is not known at schedule time... and the deferred array size is always 0 at scheduled time so it cant be used.

I have read about a Schedule signature that uses a list as first argument instead of array size. But that seems to have been deprecated many versions ago?

I am using Unity 2022.2.11 with unity.collections 1.2.4

 

Use IJobParallelForDefer.

 

That has also been removed as far as i can see...?
I see some references to it in the jobs package, but since the jobs package is replaced with the collections package i cant find it anymore.

 

I had to manually add com.unity.collections by name using to plus sign in the package manager, I then got collections 1.4.0 . The collections package i got per default from the package manager was apparently missing stuff.