Is there an API to see if Becsy is currently running in accessRecentlyDeletedData mode?

[dxinteractive]

If not, I think this could be useful.

Reason: Sometimes I have a function (foo()) that does useful things to entities, in situations where accessRecentlyDeletedData(false) and also when accessRecentlyDeletedData(true). While accessing recently deleted data mode is on, I want to avoid calling entity.remove() on a recently deleted entity, because it's deleted already and an error is thrown in dev mode if I were to try. But I can't see a Becsy-API way of asking if accessRecentlyDeletedData is true or not, to make that check possible.

Alternatives:

• It's certainly possible for me to wrap accessRecentlyDeletedData() in my own function that also sets a variable of my own to track this, but this leaves open the ability for people to still call accessRecentlyDeletedData() directly and making my new variable incorrect.
• It's possible to dive past Becsy's API and get the value of this.__dispatcher.registry.includeRecentlyDeleted from any system, but obviously not ideal because that's internal, undocumented and might change in future versions of becsy.
• It's also possible for me to pass in an indication of whether accessRecentlyDeletedData mode is true into foo() itself at the location where it is called e.g. foo({includeRecentlyDeleted: true}), to then conditionally call entity.remove() inside foo, but this feels like double-handling a piece of state that I know exists already inside of becsy.

Open to any thoughts!

[dxinteractive]

Just experimenting, it seems likely that the more accurate check is to look if the specific entity is entity.alive before removing.

[pkaminski]

Correct, checking entity.alive is the right thing to do in this case. It checks the same flag that causes entity.delete() to throw, and it's documented to return the same value where accessRecentlyDeletedData is true or not.

[dxinteractive]

Makes sense, thanks!