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Game.Buildings.Patient

Assembly: Assembly-CSharp
Namespace: Game.Buildings

Type: struct (value type) — implements Unity.Entities.IBufferElementData, System.IEquatable, Colossal.Serialization.Entities.ISerializable

Base: System.ValueType

Summary: Represents a buffer element that holds a reference to an ECS Entity considered a "patient" for building-related systems. Intended to be stored in a DynamicBuffer on an entity (for example, a hospital or medical building). Provides equality and hashing based on the contained Entity and implements custom serialization/deserialization via Colossal.Serialization.

Fields

  • public Unity.Entities.Entity m_Patient Holds the reference to the patient Entity. Used by Equals/GetHashCode and read/written by Serialize/Deserialize. Public so buffer element consumers and ECS systems can read/write it directly.

Properties

  • This type exposes no properties. It is a plain buffer element struct with a single public field.

Constructors

  • public Patient(Unity.Entities.Entity patient) Initializes the Patient buffer element with the given Entity (assigns to m_Patient). Use this when adding entries to a DynamicBuffer.

Methods

  • public bool Equals(Patient other) Compares this instance to another Patient by delegating to Entity.Equals on m_Patient. Returns true when both refer to the same Entity.

  • public override int GetHashCode() Returns the hash code of the underlying Entity (m_Patient.GetHashCode()). Useful when Patient is used in hash-based collections or comparisons.

  • public void Serialize<TWriter>(TWriter writer) where TWriter : IWriter Writes the contained Entity to the provided writer. Conforms to Colossal.Serialization's ISerializable pattern so buffers containing Patient can be serialized.

  • public void Deserialize<TReader>(TReader reader) where TReader : IReader Reads the Entity value back from the provided reader into m_Patient. Complements Serialize for deserialization of saved data.

Usage Example

// Add a patient Entity to a building's patient buffer
var patientEntity = /* some existing Entity representing an individual */;
var hospitalEntity = /* the Entity representing the hospital/building */;

var entityManager = World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld.EntityManager;
var buffer = entityManager.GetBuffer<Patient>(hospitalEntity);
buffer.Add(new Patient(patientEntity));

// During save/load the Serialize/Deserialize methods will be invoked by the game's serializer.