feat: New types can call members that hot reload added without a compile - #3038
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A new type whose method or getter called a member that a hot reload adds, in the same reload or an earlier one, failed to compile: the introduced-type artifact binds against the compiled assemblies and the retained artifacts, and neither holds the addition. The transform of the same run can compile those bodies, because it sees the additions. - The worker compiles a throwing stub for each such body and records a sentinel body hash for it, so this run and every later one read the type as a body-only change and patch the real body in. - The Editor resolves those patch rows against the prepared artifact before activation, and refuses to activate the artifact when any stubbed body is left unpatched, naming the body in the type row. - Constructors, initializers, setters, indexers, operators, events and enum members still fail with the existing hint, because no patch can replace those bodies.
A type whose bodies call members a hot reload added keeps a stubbed record, so every run that holds its file keeps it in the source, and a type the same run introduces is compiled against the artifact's definition and splits from it. The refusal for that case read as if the stubbed type had been loaded by an earlier reload and advised reloading in two steps, which cannot work here. The refusal now says the type runs through hot reload patches and offers what does work: 'uloop compile', or naming the type only inside method bodies of the new type (plus an edit of any retained referrer). Tests pin the message, that moving the name into a body introduces both types, and that two stubbed types naming each other are not refused.
The added-member hint told the reader that an introduced type can never see a member hot reload added. Methods and get-only properties now can, so the hint has to say what still fails: constructors, initializers, setters, indexers, operators and event use, and calls whose declaring file is outside the reload or in another assembly. It now names those and offers the fixes that work (pass that file, move the call into a method, or run 'uloop compile'). The unit test pins the full text, and the constructor E2E checks the sentence about the bodies no patch can replace.
The introduced-type references still said a new type can never call a member hot reload adds. They now describe what works (ordinary methods and get-only properties, with the declaring file in the reload), what still needs a compile (constructors, initializers, setters, indexers, operators, event use, and additions outside the reload), and the three new outcomes: the 'Not introduced:' row when a stubbed body is left unpatched, the refusal when another new type names a stubbed type in its signatures, and the stub that throws after --revert-all. The generated skill copies are regenerated from the sources.
Every stubbed method the tests exercised took no parameters, so nothing failed if the key the worker records for a stub and the key the transform gives the method's entry disagreed on arrays, nested types, by-ref values or constructed generic types. Such a disagreement leaves the introduced type out at the commit point even though its body is patched. - The new E2E stubs a method taking int[], int[,], a nested type (System.Environment.SpecialFolder), ref int and List<int>, and checks that the type is introduced, the method is Patched, it returns the addition's value and it writes through the by-ref parameter. - Invoke takes an optional arguments array so a by-ref argument can be read back. With the stub key's nested separator changed to '.', only the new test failed (Not introduced) while the parameterless test still passed.
The reload that introduces a type calling added members activates the artifact only when it holds a patch for every stub, and applies those patches right after the activation. A patch that fails to apply there leaves the type active with that body running its stub, which throws InvalidOperationException naming the file to reload. The docs said the bodies were patched before the type becomes active and named only --revert-all as the way a stub runs again. They now describe the activation order and the Failed-row case, in the full rules and in the skill reference and its generated copies.
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participant TransformWorker
participant PreparedArtifact
participant HotReloadGroupEntryPreparation
participant HotReloadGroupCommitStage
TransformWorker->>PreparedArtifact: Store stubbed method keys
HotReloadGroupEntryPreparation->>PreparedArtifact: Resolve artifact assembly and prepare entries
HotReloadGroupEntryPreparation->>HotReloadGroupCommitStage: Provide prepared entries
HotReloadGroupCommitStage->>PreparedArtifact: Check every stub key against resolved entries
alt All stubs have patches
HotReloadGroupCommitStage->>PreparedArtifact: Activate introduced types
else A stub is uncovered
HotReloadGroupCommitStage->>PreparedArtifact: Refuse activation and return failure outcomes
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…'s sinks The file sinks take the run's stale-signature warnings as a required argument since main started collecting them per run. This test was written against the older two-argument constructor, so after main was merged in, the test assembly no longer compiled (CS7036 in the Unity 2022.3 compile check). It now passes an empty collector like the other tests that build file sinks.
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🟡 Minor · Scope stub coverage by the resolved declaring assembly. · HotReloadStubbedMemberCoverage.cs:70-91
Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload/HotReloadStubbedMemberCoverage.cs:70-91
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winScope stub coverage by the resolved declaring assembly.
The supported group path prepares all entries before
HotReloadGroupCommitStage.Commit. Each entry can resolve throughentry.homeAssemblyName, whileHotReloadStubbedMemberCoveragemerges every resolved entry into one key set.
HotReloadMethodKeys.BuildMethodKeycontains only the metadata type name, method name, parameter types, and generic arity. A method in another retained artifact can therefore match an introduced artifact’s stub key. If the artifact’s own entry is absent, coverage passes andCommitactivates the artifact with its stubbed method still present. Calling that method throws.Build a separate coverage identity that includes the resolved declaring assembly for both stubbed methods and resolved entries. Use the artifact’s loaded assembly identity, or the existing resolved home, rather than
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The file sinks assert that the run's stale-signature warnings are given since main started collecting them per run, and the enum-only leave-out tests, merged into main right after that change, still passed null. Main has failed all twelve of those tests in every EditMode leg since both changes met there. They now pass an empty collector like the other tests that build file sinks.
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Summary
added, in the same reload or an earlier one, from its ordinary methods and get-only
properties, instead of failing to compile until
uloop compile.User Impact
Foo()to an existing class and calling it from a brand-new class failed thereload with CS1061 and a hint that the new type cannot see hot reload additions. The only way
forward was
uloop compile.shows the type as
Introducedand the calling bodies asPatched.uloop compile: calls from constructors, initializers, setters, indexers,operators and event accessors, subscriptions to an added event, and additions in another
assembly or in a file outside the reload. The compile-failure hint now says exactly this.
batch is introduced, and the row says why (
Not introduced: ... calls members that a hot reload added ...).that says why and what works (
uloop compile, or naming it only inside method bodies).--revert-all, or when the introducing reload fails to apply one of those patchesright after activation (that method's row is
Failed), such a body throwsInvalidOperationExceptionnaming the file to reload, until that file is reloaded.Changes
reload added gets a throwing stub in the artifact. The match runs against the compiled or
retained counterpart, includes overloads and excludes events. The record carries a sentinel
body hash, so the same run and later runs classify the type as a body-only change and patch
the real body in.
entry. It fails every type of the batch and leaves the group unapplied.
compile hint is rewritten.
Verification
uloop compile: 0 errors.EditMode, filtered to the affected classes:
HotReloadIntroducedTypeCallsAddedMemberE2ETestsHotReloadStubbedMemberCoverageTestsTransformWorkerIntroducedTypeStubTestsTransformWorkerClientTestsMutations: each of these fails the targeted tests when removed or changed:
shape fails; the parameterless tests still pass)
scripts/check-file-length.sh,scripts/check-code-complexity.sh,check-skill-sizeandsync-tool-docs --check: pass.Merge notes
Bringing main into this branch needed two test fixes that the text merge could not show:
HotReloadStubbedMemberCoverageTests(added here) built file sinks with the two-argumentconstructor. Main made the stale-signature warnings a required argument (fix: Hot reload no longer warns about callers in other assemblies that it already patched #3033), so the test
assembly stopped compiling (CS7036 in the Unity 2022.3 compile check).
HotReloadGroupProcessorLeaveOutTests(from fix: Hot reload without --files no longer skips added methods because another file only adds enum members #3034, already on main) passed null for thatargument, which the constructor asserts against, so all twelve of its tests fail in every
EditMode leg on main. A full EditMode run of this branch found it; with the fix the class
passes 12/12 locally.
Closes #2695