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feat: Hot reload patches a Multiplayer Play Mode Virtual Player by reading the main project's compiled assemblies - #3238
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A Multiplayer Play Mode Virtual Player has no Library/ScriptAssemblies of its own; it loads the main project's. These tests pin the layout a project root resolves to, including Virtual Player roots and lookalikes, before the implementation exists.
CompiledAssemblyLayout recognizes a Multiplayer Play Mode Virtual Player root (<main>/Library/VP/<player>) and points it at the main project's Library/ScriptAssemblies, which is where the player actually loads its assemblies from. The old root check moves into it, so its tests move to CompiledAssemblyLayoutTests with absolute fixtures.
…yout The eight places that joined the project root with Library/ScriptAssemblies now ask CompiledAssemblyLayout, so a Virtual Player reads the main project's compiled assemblies while its hot reload state stays under its own root. The patching assembly gains a reference to the script path assembly for this. The Virtual Player missing-assembly test now expects the main project to be named as the one to compile; the reason text follows in the next commit.
…s missing Hot reload now patches a Virtual Player, so the missing-assembly reason and the recommended next action no longer say it cannot. They name the main Editor's project as the one whose compile is missing.
…ayer root A Virtual Player's compilation pipeline lists the main project's script assemblies as ../../ScriptAssemblies/<name>.dll. The worker reference list and the resolver search directories resolve such paths against the current directory and drop them. The project root is threaded through both so the tests can name it; the resolution itself follows.
The worker reference list, the shim reference list and the resolver search directories now join each reference with the project root before checking it exists. Absolute references are unchanged, and in an ordinary project the current directory is the root, so only a Virtual Player sees a difference: its ../../ScriptAssemblies references now reach the main project's DLLs.
… reload's Hot reload decides where a compiled assembly lives from the project root's shape. These tests pin that a reported output path elsewhere fails instead of letting hot reload read a different DLL than the pipeline wrote.
ResolvePatchTarget now compares the compilation pipeline's outputPath with the DLL path the layout built, after the DLL is found and before the MVID guard. A mismatch fails as a missing compiled assembly naming both paths, so a layout hot reload does not know never patches from the wrong DLL.
…own root The capture reads the compiled assembly from the main project and writes the snapshot below the player's Library/UloopHotReload, creating no hot reload state under the main project. Forcing the Virtual Player check to false makes this test fail along with the layout's Virtual Player cases.
The Multiplayer Play Mode reference now explains how to send hot reload to a player, that the player reads the main project's compiled assemblies but keeps its own patch state, and that patches do not cross between Editors. The scope table row now covers only the case where the main project has not compiled the assembly.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHot reload now resolves Virtual Player assemblies from the main project while retaining player-specific patch state and source snapshots. The changes also resolve assembly references against the project root, validate compiled output paths, and update tests and guidance. ChangesVirtual Player hot reload
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HotReloadSourceSnapshotter
participant CompiledAssemblyLayout
participant MainProjectScriptAssemblies
participant PlayerUloopHotReload
HotReloadSourceSnapshotter->>CompiledAssemblyLayout: Resolve player project root
CompiledAssemblyLayout-->>HotReloadSourceSnapshotter: Return main-project DLL and PDB paths
HotReloadSourceSnapshotter->>MainProjectScriptAssemblies: Read compiled DLL and PDB
HotReloadSourceSnapshotter->>PlayerUloopHotReload: Store source snapshot under player root
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Virtual Player hot reload now reads the main project's compiled assemblies while keeping patch state in the player. When the reported output path does not match the expected layout, the failure message wrongly says to compile and retry, which will not help. This is a bounded guidance problem, and the change is otherwise reasonable to merge once the owner is aware of it. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change remains bounded to the selected Editor process and preserves separate player state. No new attacker privilege or arbitrary assembly-selection path was established. Concurrent main-project compilation leaves a limited uncertainty about version consistency when a reload introduces types without patching existing methods. Retained concerns
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| return HotReloadFailureDescription.CompiledAssemblyMissing( | ||
| "The compilation pipeline reports '" + assemblyName + "' at '" + reported | ||
| + "', but hot reload reads compiled assemblies from '" + layout.CompiledAssembliesDirectory | ||
| + "'. Compile the project and retry; if this persists, the project layout is one hot reload does not know.", | ||
| isVirtualPlayer: layout.IsVirtualPlayer); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
The output-path mismatch message tells the user to compile, but a compile does not fix a mismatch.
DescribeOutputPathMismatch returns CompiledAssemblyMissing. The response's next action then becomes "run 'uloop compile'". For a Virtual Player, the next action becomes VirtualPlayerRecommendedNextAction. A layout mismatch does not clear after a compile, so the user retries without result. The PR description lists this as a known gap. Use a separate failure kind, such as a Declaration or a new kind. Remove "Compile the project and retry" from this message.
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Update DescribeOutputPathMismatch to report a distinct failure kind for
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Trimming separators turned a drive root such as C:\ into the drive-relative C:, so a path root now stays as it is. The script-assemblies home test builds its expected path from literal segments, which the layout also uses, instead of the slash-joined constant that mixes separators on Windows. A new test pins that a Virtual Player's type home points at the main project's DLL, and the resolver test names the project root the same way the others do.
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Summary
uloop --project-path <PROJECT_ROOT>/Library/VP/mppm<id> hot-reload --files ...now patches a Multiplayer Play Mode Virtual Player instead of failing with "Compiled assembly not found ... hot reload cannot patch it yet".Why
A Virtual Player is a separate Editor process whose project root is
<main>/Library/VP/<player>. Measured on a real player:CompilationPipeline.GetAssemblies()element reportsoutputPathas../../ScriptAssemblies/<Assembly>.dll, relative to the player's root, which leads to the main project'sLibrary/ScriptAssemblies; the script-assembly entries ofallReferenceshave the same relative form;PackageInfo.FindForAssetPath(...).resolvedPathpoints into the main project'sLibrary/PackageCache;Application.dataPathis the player'sAssets(a symlink to the main project'sAssets).Hot reload joined
<project root>/Library/ScriptAssemblies/<Assembly>.dllin eight places, so in a player it looked for DLLs that do not exist. It also resolved relativeallReferencesentries against the process's current directory, which only works when that directory is the project root.Design
CompiledAssemblyLayoutdecides in one place where a project root's compiled assemblies live: its ownLibrary/ScriptAssembliesfor an ordinary project, the main project's for a Virtual Player (recognized by the root's shape, as before).Library/UloopHotReload/, so the main Editor and the players never write each other's state.outputPathis used only as a check: after the DLL is found and before the MVID guard, the reported path must be the DLL the layout built, otherwise the file fails as a missing compiled assembly naming both paths. Most callers that need the DLL path have only the assembly name, so deciding fromoutputPathin some places and from the layout in others would let them disagree.Changes
CompiledAssemblyLayout(Common.ScriptPath) replacesHotReloadVirtualPlayerProject.IsVirtualPlayerProjectRoot; its tests move toCompiledAssemblyLayoutTestswith absolute fixtures.Library/ScriptAssembliesjoins (type home, new-source membership, changed-file aggregation, snapshot capture, call-site scan, shim references, publicizer accept check and resolver) go through the layout.HotReloadConstants.ScriptAssembliesRelativeDirectorystays for test fixtures; production code no longer uses it.allReferencesentry against the project root.HotReloadCompiledAssemblyPathCheck.DescribeOutputPathMismatch, called fromResolvePatchTarget.RecommendedNextActionname the main Editor's project as the one to compile.Verification
This PR targets an integration branch, so repository CI does not run; everything below ran locally.
uloop run-tests --filter-type regex, single-flight):CompiledAssemblyLayoutTests|HotReloadVirtualPlayerProjectTests: 13/13 (Red first: 10 failed against a throwing stub).allReferences: the two new tests failed (11/13) before the resolution changed.HotReloadCompiledAssemblyPathCheckTests|HotReloadPatchTargetSupport: 19/19 (Red first: the two mismatch cases failed against a stub returning null).HotReload(every hot reload test class): 3283 passed, 0 failed, 4 skipped of 3287 (--timeout-seconds 1200).HotReloadTypeHome|HotReloadDomainTests|CompiledAssemblyLayout|HotReloadResolverSearchDirectoriesTests69/69.check-asmdef-policy(pre-commit): no violation.check-skill-size: exit 0.check-file-length.sh: no finding.git grep 'ScriptAssembliesRelativeDirectory' -- Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload: only the definition.Application.dataPathlines under HotReload: 22 before and after.Mutations (applied one at a time, not committed):
CompiledAssemblyLayout.Resolvealways answers not a Virtual PlayerDescribeOutputPathMismatchalways returns nullallReferencesresolved against the current directory againHotReloadTypeHome.ScriptAssembliesUnderProjectbuilt the old way (<root>/Library/ScriptAssemblies)ScriptAssembliesUnderProject_VirtualPlayerRoot_PointsAtTheMainProjectsCompiledAssemblyfails (62/63)targetDllPathalone built the old wayNot covered
<project root>/Library/ScriptAssemblies; a Virtual Player needs its own design there (Debug switch and recompile).outputPathmismatch fails as a missing compiled assembly, so the next step it suggests is a compile, which does not fix a mismatch. A failure kind for this case alone is out of scope.