# Objective
I've been tinkering with ECS insertion/removal lately, and noticed that
sparse sets just... don't interact with `InsertMode` at all. Sure
enough, using `insert_if_new` with a sparse component does the same
thing as `insert`.
# Solution
- Add a check in `BundleInfo::write_components` to drop the new value if
the entity already has the component and `InsertMode` is `Keep`.
- Add necessary methods to sparse set internals to fetch the drop
function.
# Testing
Minimal reproduction:
<details>
<summary>Code</summary>
```
use bevy::prelude::*;
fn main() {
App::new()
.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
.add_systems(Startup, setup)
.add_systems(PostStartup, component_print)
.run();
}
#[derive(Component)]
#[component(storage = "SparseSet")]
struct SparseComponent(u32);
fn setup(mut commands: Commands) {
let mut entity = commands.spawn_empty();
entity.insert(SparseComponent(1));
entity.insert(SparseComponent(2));
let mut entity = commands.spawn_empty();
entity.insert(SparseComponent(3));
entity.insert_if_new(SparseComponent(4));
}
fn component_print(query: Query<&SparseComponent>) {
for component in &query {
info!("{}", component.0);
}
}
```
</details>
Here it is on Bevy Playground (0.15.3):
https://learnbevy.com/playground?share=2a96a68a81e804d3fdd644a833c1d51f7fa8dd33fc6192fbfd077b082a6b1a41
Output on `main`:
```
2025-05-04T17:50:50.401328Z INFO system{name="fork::component_print"}: fork: 2
2025-05-04T17:50:50.401583Z INFO system{name="fork::component_print"}: fork: 4
```
Output with this PR :
```
2025-05-04T17:51:33.461835Z INFO system{name="fork::component_print"}: fork: 2
2025-05-04T17:51:33.462091Z INFO system{name="fork::component_print"}: fork: 3
```
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