Can one somehow keep Inspector values upon renaming a Serializable class?

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1

This question had me discover that renaming a Serializable class wipes everything the Inspector knows about it. Is any way at all known to prevent this, be it a trick or an editor extension?

2

So it turns out you don’t have a problem at all.

Just did this, worked fine

  1. Opened a script in MonoDevelop
  2. Renamed the script (file and class name)
  3. Dragged the new script in to the inspector where it said missing
  4. Metadata was intact
3

The ISerializationCallbackReceiver interface was exposed to help dealing with serialization layout changes as well.

I remember some gists (and tweets) where @lucas-meijer-1 talks about manually deserialize old data into a new layout (e.g. one, two, three). That’s before they came up with the current ISerializationCallbackReceiver interface.