[1.0.0Pre65] Aspect and DisabledComponent

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Hello, everyone,
I want to use aspect to turn on the DisabledComponent as a part of initializing a component.
When I use aspect inside of IJobEntity, it will automatically detect only enabledComponents.
If I use something like IgnoreComponentEnabledState, It will detect both DisabledComponent and EnabledComponent. It’s not desirable, cause DisabledComponent should be initialized only once right after being instantiated.
For example, I tried EntityQuery to Query only DisabledComponent and give it to IJobEntity like below.
But it didn’t work.
Is there way to detect only DisabledComponent with using Aspect?

[BurstCompile]
public void OnCreate(ref SystemState state)
    {
        random = new Random((uint)UnityEngine.Random.Range(0,int.MaxValue));
        iniLifeQuery = new EntityQueryBuilder(Allocator.Temp)
        .WithDisabled<Life>()
       .Build(ref state);
}

[BurstCompile]
public void OnUpdate(ref SystemState state){
             new InitializeLifeJob{
               random = random
             }.ScheduleParallel(iniLifeQuery);
}

[BurstCompile]
public partial struct InitializeLifeJob : IJobEntity {
    public Random random;
    public void Execute(ref IniLifeAspect iniLifeAspect)
    {
        iniLifeAspect.InitializeLife(random);
    }
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That’s a good question. There have been a lot of improvements to how you can query for specific enabled states, but not sure if querying specifically for a disabled component plus an aspect that uses that enablable component is possible. I remember asking for something similar a while back here .

Have you tried using both IgnoreComponentEnabledState AND WithDisabled? I know that seems counterintuitive, but I think it might do what you want.

Another option would be to add [Optional] to your EnabledRefRW<Life> field in your aspect. (I think that is supposed to work now. Or it should be supported soon according to this ). Then you can just use WithDisabled<Life>() in your query.

What I would really like to see is the ability to add a [WithDisabled] attribute to an EnabledRefRW field in the aspect so that the caller doesn’t have to specific that in the query.