Cannot use for Editor unit testing, as SyncContextUtil.Install is not called except at runtime

[jokigenki]

I hacked this by making SyncContextUtil.Install public and calling it in my tests SetUp method, but I don't know if there's a better way?

[svermeulen]

We should probably change it to use the [InitializeOnLoad] instead of [RuntimeInitializeOnLoad]. But I'd have to test it to be sure that works correctly

[svermeulen]

Since I'm not sure that runs before awake. But we could use both attributes in that case too

[StephenHodgson]

Unity also doesn't support executing the async in the editor as well, you'll also need a pump.

See https://forum.unity.com/threads/async-await-in-editor-script.481276/

[StephenHodgson]

Here's an modified version of @svermeulen's project that I included in another project. I've been meaning to open pull requests to add this stuff back but I've been pretty busy.

#if UNITY_EDITOR
        private static System.Reflection.MethodInfo executionMethod;

        /// <summary>
        /// HACK: makes Unity Editor execute continuations in edit mode.
        /// </summary>
        private static void ExecuteContinuations()
        {
            if (UnityEditor.EditorApplication.isPlayingOrWillChangePlaymode)
            {
                return;
            }

            var context = SynchronizationContext.Current;

            if (executionMethod == null)
            {
                executionMethod = context.GetType().GetMethod("Exec", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance);
            }

            executionMethod?.Invoke(context, null);
        }

        [UnityEditor.InitializeOnLoadMethod]
#endif
        [RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod(RuntimeInitializeLoadType.BeforeSceneLoad)]
        private static void Initialize()
        {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
            UnityEditor.EditorApplication.update += ExecuteContinuations;
#endif
            UnitySynchronizationContext = SynchronizationContext.Current;
            UnityThreadId = Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId;
        }

[anticrisis]

@StephenHodgson Thank you for this -- I was unable to find documentation of this after quite a bit of searching Unity's forums. Never occurred to me to just build my project and see that my async worked, and of course it did. The code you shared makes the editor work, too.

Can this technique also be used to use the thread pool to run non-UI async tasks that don't need to access the Unity API?

Does anyone know if there is official Unity documentation on this anywhere?

[jokigenki]

Hi, I've been experimenting with this a bit and async works as expected. However, I found it was of limited use since you can't touch any part of the Unity API, and most of the stuff I wanted to do ended up needing to go through the API. Depending on what you want it for, I'd recommend looking at the Unity Job System instead. Owen

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[svermeulen]

@jokigenki You should be able to use the unity api with the async approach provided here. Assuming you don't use the multithreading awaiters then it should all remain on the same thread. It should be able to be used in a very similar way to coroutines except a much cleaner syntax and some more features