Access the GameObject a class is attached to

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So basically I created a class for items called Obtainable that contains things like item name, description, icon sprite etc.

Since it’s been a while since I’ve programmed anything in unity, I made the class derive from a MonoBehaviour. The script still runs and everything works fine but I get a warning message telling me I shouldn’t be creating new instances of a MonoBehaviour which makes sense. So I remove that part of the code but now I realise that I can’t use Obtainable.gameObject to destroy the object the obtainable is attached to.

So now I’m just wondering if there is a way to gain access to this variable in a script that is not a MonoBehaviour or if there is a better way of doing this that I’m not aware of.

here’s the class in case it helps:

[Serializable]
public class Obtainable
{
	public Sprite Icon;
	public string Name, Description, GetMsg, FailMsg;
	public bool CanGet = true;
	public static Obtainable Empty
	{
		get { return new Obtainable (null, "", "", canGet: false); }
	}

	public Obtainable (Sprite icon, string name, string description, string getMsg = "", string failMsg = "", bool canGet = true)
	{
		Icon = icon;
		Name = name;
		Description = description;
		CanGet = canGet;

		if (getMsg == "") GetMsg = "you got the " + Name + "!";
		else GetMsg = getMsg;

		if (failMsg == "") FailMsg = "you cannot get the " + Name + ".";
		else FailMsg = failMsg;
	}

	private void Interact ()
	{
		ManagerScript.Instance.Inventory.GetItem (this);
	}
}
2

You can’t attach anything that isn’t a MonoBehaviour to a GameObject - so any code to destroy a GameObject should logically be a part of the component that actually interacts with the object itself rather than from within a generic container, i.e. whatever script creates an instance of Obtainable rather than from within the Obtainable script.