unity3d-ordered-dictionary

Library for adding ordered dictionaries to custom ScriptableObject and MonoBehaviour classes in a way that can be serialized by Unity provided that the key and value types are serializable.

$ yarn add rotorz/unity3d-ordered-dictionary

This package is compatible with the unity3d-package-syncer tool. Refer to the tools' README for information on syncing packages into a Unity project.

Features

• Default inspector with intuitive interface.
• Drop insertion for UnityEngine.Object's where name is used for key.
• Have multiple dictionaries per ScriptableObject or MonoBehaviour!
• Serializable dictionary asset files.
• Supports any serializable key and value types.
• Ordered dictionary.

Installation

The unity3d-ordered-dictionary library is designed to be installed into Unity projects using the npm package manager and then synchronized into the "Assets" directory using the unity3d-package-syncer utility. For more information regarding this workflow refer to the unity3d-package-syncer repository.

Alternatively you can download the contents of this repository and add directly into your project, but you would also need to download the sources of other packages that this package is dependant upon. Refer to the packages.json file to see these.

Boilerplate Generation Tool

This is a simple client side (offline) tool that runs to quickly generate the boilerplate that Unity needs to make the Ordered Dictionary for Unity library work since Unity doesn't currently support serialization with generic types:

http://rotorz.com/unity/misc/ordered-dictionary-boilerplate

A couple of examples!

Sprite Library

// StringSpriteDictionaryEditable.cs
using Rotorz.Games.Collections;
using System;
using UnityEngine;

// Script filename must match this class.
public sealed class StringSpriteDictionaryEditable : EditableEntry<StringSpriteDictionary>
{
}

// This class can exist in same file with any name.
[Serializable, EditableEntry(typeof(StringSpriteDictionaryEditable))]
public sealed class StringSpriteDictionary : OrderedDictionary<string, Sprite>
{
}


// SpriteLibrary.cs
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class SpriteLibrary : ScriptableObject
{
	public StringSpriteDictionary sprites;
}

String Lookup Table

// StringStringDictionaryEditable.cs
using Rotorz.Games.Collections;
using System;
using UnityEngine;

// Script filename must match this class.
public sealed class StringStringDictionaryEditable : EditableEntry<StringStringDictionary>
{
}

// This class can exist in same file with any name.
[Serializable, EditableEntry(typeof(StringStringDictionaryEditable))]
public sealed class StringStringDictionary : OrderedDictionary<string, string>
{
}


// AchievementNamesBehaviour.cs
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

public class AchievementNamesBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
	public StringStringDictionary names;
}

Contribution Agreement

This project is licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE). To be in the best position to enforce these licenses the copyright status of this project needs to be as simple as possible. To achieve this the following terms and conditions must be met:

• All contributed content (including but not limited to source code, text, image, videos, bug reports, suggestions, ideas, etc.) must be the contributors own work.

• The contributor disclaims all copyright and accepts that their contributed content will be released to the public domain.

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