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feat: Watch expressions now survive domain reloads - #2679
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWatch expressions now persist through Unity domain reloads in Editor session state. The system recompiles and restores valid watches with fresh history, removes invalid watches, and reports compilation failures. Editor startup wiring, command responses, tests, and documentation were updated. ChangesWatch domain-reload persistence
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Watch expressions now survive domain reloads, but an unexpected compilation failure can be reported as an invalid expression and remove a saved watch. Documentation and restoration-continuity concerns also remain unresolved, so this should be addressed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EditorStartup
participant WatchExpressionServices
participant WatchSessionStateStore
participant WatchExpressionCompiler
participant WatchRegistry
EditorStartup->>WatchExpressionServices: RestoreAfterDomainReload()
WatchExpressionServices->>WatchSessionStateStore: Load persisted records
WatchExpressionServices->>WatchExpressionCompiler: Compile each expression
WatchExpressionCompiler-->>WatchExpressionServices: Evaluator or compilation failure
WatchExpressionServices->>WatchRegistry: Register valid watches
WatchExpressionServices->>WatchSessionStateStore: Save surviving registry snapshot
WatchExpressionServices-->>EditorStartup: Record restore report
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In @.agents/skills/uloop-pause-point/references/watch-expressions.md:
- Around line 20-24: Apply the watch-expression documentation update to the
package skill source under the Watch expressions reference, then regenerate the
corresponding installed skill copies so the source and generated documentation
remain synchronized; do not modify generated copies directly.
In `@docs/glossary.md`:
- Around line 163-165: Update the glossary statement about editor session state
restoration to specify that it occurs with Domain Reload enabled, while
preserving the existing behavior descriptions for reloads and process exits.
In `@Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/Watch/WatchRestoreService.cs`:
- Around line 82-86: Update RestoreAfterDomainReload, RestoreAsync, and
TryRestoreAsync to coordinate restoration with clear-watch mutations: use a
shared mutation/version check or serialize restoration so a pending CompileAsync
cannot register stale records or overwrite a newer snapshot. Before registration
and the final save, verify that no newer mutation occurred; otherwise abort the
stale restore and preserve the latest registry state.
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In `@Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/Watch/WatchRestoreService.cs`:
- Around line 110-115: Update the exception handling in the watch restoration
flow around RestoreAsync and the shown catch so only the compiler’s explicit
recoverable exception type is caught and converted via AddDroppedWarning; allow
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| // The compiler propagates its own failures; one bad expression must not stop the | ||
| // remaining watches from coming back. | ||
| AddDroppedWarning(warnings, record, exception.Message); | ||
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Do not treat every compiler exception as a dropped expression.
This catch converts unexpected defects, such as a NullReferenceException, into a warning. RestoreAsync then saves SnapshotRegistry() and removes the watch from persisted state. Catch only an explicit recoverable compiler exception. Let unexpected exceptions reach the startup error handler and preserve the existing snapshot.
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In `@Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/Watch/WatchRestoreService.cs` around
lines 110 - 115, Update the exception handling in the watch restoration flow
around RestoreAsync and the shown catch so only the compiler’s explicit
recoverable exception type is caught and converted via AddDroppedWarning; allow
unexpected exceptions such as NullReferenceException to propagate to the startup
error handler, preserving the existing snapshot and persisted watch state.
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Agreed, and fixed in eeb355b. The two failure kinds are now distinguished: a compilation result failure is the user having an invalid expression, so the record is still reported and dropped, while an exception from the compiler is our failure and the record is retained in the persisted store to be retried after the next reload. RestoreAsync_WhenTheCompilerThrows_ReportsThatRecordAndKeepsGoing now asserts the thrown-on record is still in store.Saved, and RestoreAsync_WhenOneExpressionNoLongerCompiles_ReportsItAndDropsItFromTheStore keeps asserting the invalid one is dropped.
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@hatayama, the persisted-state behavior is now correct, and the tests verify it.
However, the original fail-fast concern remains. TryRestoreAsync still catches every Exception. A NullReferenceException or another unexpected defect is converted into a warning and restore continues. The record is retained, but the defect does not reach the startup error handler.
Catch only the compiler’s documented recoverable exception type. Let all other exceptions propagate. Update RestoreAsync_WhenTheCompilerThrows_ReportsThatRecordAndKeepsGoing to throw that recoverable type.
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Repo: hatayama/uLoopMCP PR: 662
File: Packages/src/Editor/UI/McpEditorWindow.cs:229-238
Timestamp: 2026-02-22T13:32:37.251Z
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Watch expressions lived only in the WatchExpressionRegistry static, so every domain reload — a compile, a script recompilation, a Play entry with Domain Reload enabled — wiped them with no trace in any response. The caller kept polling get-watch-values and saw an empty list with a success message. Persist (id, expression, maxHistory) in SessionState and re-register them on the first Editor update tick after the reload. The compiled evaluator is an in-memory assembly that cannot be serialized, so the expression is compiled again; history therefore restarts from a fresh baseline. Restore runs sequentially so the registration order, which is also the evaluation order, is preserved. A watch whose expression no longer compiles is dropped and named in the Warning of the next enable-watch or get-watch-values response, and it is removed from the store so the failure is not retried on every later reload. A watch the user re-registered while restore was still compiling keeps the user's registration, silently. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY
… early Five review findings on the restore path: A clear-watch --all issued while restore was still compiling was silently undone: ClearAll wrote an empty store, then restore kept registering the remaining records and rewrote them over it. The restore now runs under a cancellation token that --all cancels before clearing, and a cancelled restore returns without saving, because the clear already wrote the authoritative store. A record whose id the user re-registered meanwhile no longer produces a "was not restored" warning when its stored expression fails to compile: the watch is not gone, so saying so would be false. This matches the rule the duplicate-registration path already followed. An exception thrown out of CompileAsync now becomes that record's warning instead of ending the restore, so one bad expression cannot strand the watches behind it. OperationCanceledException stays the exception and ends the restore. get-watch-values --id for a watch the restore dropped returned the plain not-found failure. It now carries the restore warning, which is the one moment the caller most needs it. The persistence tests drove the registry directly, so deleting the SaveRegistrySnapshot call from EnableAsync would not have failed anything. The compiler is now injectable for tests and one case runs EnableAsync end to end against a stub compiler. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY
The restore already refuses to register a record when the clear cancels it between CompileAsync and the registry call: SwitchToMainThread's awaiter throws on the cancellation token in both IsCompleted and GetResult. Nothing proved that, so dropping the token from the switch would have gone unnoticed. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY
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A compilation result failure means the user's expression is invalid, so dropping it is right. An exception from the compiler is our failure, and erasing the user's watch over it loses work that would come back on the next attempt. Retain those records so the next domain reload retries them. Also states the Domain Reload condition on the Play entry in the glossary. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY
The repository ConfigureAwait guard requires every Task await under the first-party tools to opt out of the captured context. Those awaits can then resume off-thread, so the restore hops back to the main thread before touching the monitor and the SessionState-backed store. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY
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Stacked on #2678. Review only the second commit; the base will be retargeted to
mainonce #2678 merges.Problem
Watch expressions lived only in
WatchExpressionRegistry's static state. Every domain reload — auloop compile, a script recompilation, a Play entry with Domain Reload enabled — dropped all of them, and no response said so. The caller kept callingget-watch-values, gotSuccess: truewith an empty list, and had no way to tell "no watches were ever registered" from "your watches were silently erased".Change
(Id, Expression, MaxHistory)in SessionState underio.github.hatayama.uloopmcp.watch.persistedRecords. The compiled evaluator is an in-memory assembly and cannot be serialized, so only the inputs needed to compile it again are kept.WatchRestoreServicerecompiles and re-registers them on the firstEditorApplication.updatetick after the reload (theHotReloadEditorStartuppattern;delayCallnever flushes again after Unity's compiler-error dialog). Restore is sequential, because registration order is also evaluation order.Warningof the nextenable-watch/get-watch-valuesresponse, and removed from the store, so it is not retried on every later reload.enable-watchand everyclear-watch, so the persisted set always matches the registry.IWatchExpressionCompilerwas extracted so restore can be tested without the real Roslyn pipeline;WatchExpressionCompilerimplements it unchanged.Lifetimesection of the watch-expressions reference and a newWatch expressionglossary entry now state the real lifetime (survives domain reloads, ends with the Editor process).Editor restart still clears watches. SessionState's lifetime is the Editor process, and that is the accepted boundary.
Verification
Covered: SessionState round trip with newlines / quotes / non-ASCII expressions, empty and malformed stored values, rejection of a record with no expression, restore ordering, compile-failure reporting and store pruning, the duplicate-id race, an empty store compiling nothing, snapshot-on-enable, store pruning on
clear-watchandclear-watch --all, andWarningpropagation plus omission.Real Editor run on this branch (a domain reload really happened — a source file was touched to force the recompile, then reverted):
Before this change the watch would have been gone after the compile.
Also green:
uloop compile0 errors,check-file-length --max-length 500(no file over the limit),check-skill-size,sync-tool-docs(no catalog drift — no parameter table changed), and regenerated skill copies.https://claude.ai/code/session_019kkGy4ujdjChrkMcimjKfY