# Objective
My motivation are to resolve some of the issues I describe in this
[PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/11415):
- not being able to easily mapping entities because the current
EntityMapper requires `&mut World` access
- not being able to create my own `EntityMapper` because some components
(`Parent` or `Children`) do not provide any public way of modifying the
inner entities
This PR makes the `MapEntities` trait accept a generic type that
implements `Mapper` to perform the mapping.
This means we don't need to use `EntityMapper` to perform our mapping,
we can use any type that implements `Mapper`. Basically this change is
very similar to what `serde` does. Instead of specifying directly how to
map entities for a given type, we have 2 distinct steps:
- the user implements `MapEntities` to define how the type will be
traversed and which `Entity`s will be mapped
- the `Mapper` defines how the mapping is actually done
This is similar to the distinction between `Serialize` (`MapEntities`)
and `Serializer` (`Mapper`).
This allows networking library to map entities without having to use the
existing `EntityMapper` (which requires `&mut World` access and the use
of `world_scope()`)
## Migration Guide
- The existing `EntityMapper` (notably used to replicate `Scenes` across
different `World`s) has been renamed to `SceneEntityMapper`
- The `MapEntities` trait now works with a generic `EntityMapper`
instead of the specific struct `EntityMapper`.
Calls to `fn map_entities(&mut self, entity_mapper: &mut EntityMapper)`
need to be updated to
`fn map_entities<M: EntityMapper>(&mut self, entity_mapper: &mut M)`
- The new trait `EntityMapper` has been added to the prelude
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Co-authored-by: Charles Bournhonesque <cbournhonesque@snapchat.com>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: UkoeHB <37489173+UkoeHB@users.noreply.github.com>
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