Lots of references

[Joel]

Thanks for sending that over.

The BaseClass works because it inherits from MonoBehaviour, so Easy Save knows that all items will be UnityEngine.Object types. The interface provides no such information to the serializer so it serializes the items by the default of ES3.ReferenceMode.ByRefAndValue.

It should also be noted that saving by reference and value shouldn't necessarily cause any issues apart from making the file slightly larger because loading by reference ensures that the data is always loaded into the same reference, and if the data is part of the same serialization tree then the fields will be the same.

All the best,
Joel

[aloxuhik]

It's not just slightly bigger if you have 100 objects all saved 10 times...

And it is causing problem as I mentioned before...

Can I somehow tell serializer that interface will be Unity Object?
Now I retype it to base class in Reader/Writer in ES3Type Script. But I need to do it for each Type in future, not just once for mentioned interface.

[Joel]

Generally in this situation you should be using the base class rather than the interface, as an interface only indicates what methods a class will have, not anything about the structure of that class.

The only way I can think of being able to do this is to manually create an ES3Type for UserInterface which inherits from ES3ComponentType and writes no fields. However, be aware that if any of your UserInterface's don't derive from Component then this will break:

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namespace ES3Types
{
    [UnityEngine.Scripting.Preserve]
    public class ES3UserType_TestInterface : ES3ComponentType
    {
        public ES3UserType_TestInterface() : base(typeof(TestInterface)){}

        protected override void WriteComponent(object obj, ES3Writer writer){}
        protected override void ReadComponent<T>(ES3Reader reader, object obj){}
    }
}

[aloxuhik]

Worked like a charm!

Thank you for your support.

Cheers

[Joel]

Glad to hear it, let me know if you run into any other issues

All the best,
Joel