serezhadelaet / scriptablereferencegenerator

Scriptable Reference Generator

A little but easy and handy solution to inject dependencies in the Unity-Way (Code & Editor via ScriptableObjects)

How to use

• Mark any of your MonoBehaviour with [ReferenceAutoGeneration] attribute
• After project compilation, add a fresh generated script called YourClassNameRefSetter to GameObject which contains your MonoBehaviour
• Put to the Scriptable field your fresh generated asset from Assets/Data/References/ folder.
• The Generated scriptable asset holds an instance of an object.
• To use that instance you need to reference the asset in the way as you always reference assets via [SerializedField] or just mark it as public in your MonoBehaviour

An example of usage here

When to use

When you don't need all the power that Zenject provides, when you have not too many reference-depepending scripts, but you want a simple way to handle dependency injection with some benefits.

What the benefits

• You can create multiple assets by duplicate one of them, doing this you can hold a multiple instances of needed type of a class.
  For example you have few characters which needs to be referenced somewhere else, then you can mark Character class with the [ReferenceAutoGeneration] attribute, duplicate your generated asset, rename it and use this assets independently to link to your characters.
  
• It also works for tests in the same way.
• Using this you don't need to hardcode references, using Singletone/ServiceLocator, or doing any other tricky ways to achieve some sort of dependency injection.