Not working with serialized property backing fields

[lorenblue]

Hey! Hopefully I am wrong, but the following doesn't seem to produce any desired results for me:

[field: SerializeField] [field: Box("Group")] public bool TestProp { get; private set; }

[lorenblue]

Unity 2022.3.12, and it shouldn't be improper setup on my end because everything works fine in the same class as long as it's a public field and not a prop.

[gasgiant]

Hi! I don't think Unity serializes properties and so MarkupAttributes do not work on them.

[gasgiant]

It should be a field to work properly. Though it doesn't have to be public, private/protected [SerializeFiled] marked ones work as well.

[lorenblue]

Unity most definitely serializes the backing fields though. The serialization aspect of the snippet I added above works, and I use it all the time. Cheers!

[gasgiant]

I see. Either it did not do it before or I was misguided. Whichever it is, I only check for attributes the FieldInfo for each SerializedProperty, so the attributes on properties won't register. Relevant code is here: https://github.com/gasgiant/Markup-Attributes/blob/main/Assets/MarkupAttributes/Core/Editor/EditorLayoutDataBuilder.cs

[gasgiant]

Or, if I understand the syntax correctly, the attributes are applied to the backing field. In this case it won't have the same name as the SerializedProperty, so GetField would return null.

[lorenblue]

Gotcha. Do you think this could be something you support? All good if not, I was just hoping to switch away from Naughty Attributes as yours seems to handle nesting way better.

[gasgiant]

I think I can do this relatively easily, if the name of the underlying property can be relied on. I'll let you know about the outcome.

[lorenblue]

Sounds good, cheers!

[MJRamon]

Sgining up for an update for the solution.