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Generalize component reflection to operate on FilteredEntityRef and FilteredEntityMut, not EntityRef and EntityMut. (#13549)
Currently, either an `EntityRef` or `EntityMut` is required in order to
reflect a component on an entity. This can, however, be generalized to
`FilteredEntityRef` and `FilteredEntityMut`, which are versions of
`EntityRef` and `EntityMut` that restrict the components that can be
accessed. This is useful because dynamic queries yield
`FilteredEntityRef` and `FilteredEntityMut` rows when iterated over.
This commit changes `ReflectComponent::contains()`,
`ReflectComponent::reflect()`, and `ReflectComponent::reflect_mut()` to
take an `Into<FilteredEntityRef>` (in the case of `contains()` and
`reflect()`) and `Into<FilteredEntityMut>` (in the case of
`reflect_mut()`). Fortunately, `EntityRef` and `EntityMut` already
implement the corresponding trait, so nothing else has to be done to the
public API. Note that in order to implement
`ReflectComponent::reflect_mut()` properly, an additional method
`FilteredEntityMut::into_mut()` was required, to match the one on
`EntityMut`.
I ran into this when attempting to implement `QUERY` in the Bevy Remote
Protocol when trying to iterate over rows of dynamic queries and fetch
the associated components without unsafe code. There were other
potential ways to work around this problem, but they required either
reimplementing the query logic myself instead of using regular Bevy
queries or storing entity IDs and then issuing another query to fetch
the associated `EntityRef`. Both of these seemed worse than just
improving the `reflect()` function.
## Migration Guide
* `ReflectComponent::contains`, `ReflectComponent::reflect`, and
`ReflectComponent::reflect_mut` now take `FilteredEntityRef` (in the
case of `contains()` and `reflect()`) and `FilteredEntityMut` (in the
case of `reflect_mut()`) parameters. `FilteredEntityRef` and
`FilteredEntityMut` have very similar APIs to `EntityRef` and
`EntityMut` respectively, but optionally restrict the components that
can be accessed.
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