Expose Authoring Classes generated By GenerateAuthoringComponent Tag

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I would love to be able to do GO.AddComponent(). I am work on a hybrid ECS SO NPC spawner system and it would save sometime not having to write a Custom Authoring Component.

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I can propose this untested work around :

Utility :

internal static Type GetAuthoringComponentTypeFromIComponentData(Type IComponentDataType)
        {
            string[] AssemblyQualifiedNameAttributes = IComponentDataType.AssemblyQualifiedName.Split(',');
            string AuthoringComponentAssemblyQualifiedName = $"{IComponentDataType.Name}Authoring";
            for (int i =1;i< AssemblyQualifiedNameAttributes.Length;i++)
            {
                AuthoringComponentAssemblyQualifiedName = $"{AuthoringComponentAssemblyQualifiedName}, {AssemblyQualifiedNameAttributes[i]}";
            }

            Type AuthoringComponentType = Type.GetType(AuthoringComponentAssemblyQualifiedName);

            AddComponentIfMissing(AuthoringComponentType);
          

            return AuthoringComponentType;
        }

Usage :

        GameObject gameObject = new GameObject();
        gameObject.AddComponent(GetAuthoringComponentTypeFromIComponentData(typeof(IComponentData));
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Quick test and no go. I might attempt to get this working later.