Entity References and Serialization

Entity references as shown below can be safely serialized. This feature is only for serialization, and the upcoming EntityLinkManager - since 2.0.0-RC1. EntityLinkManager can be configured to protect your references from dangling when entities go out of scope.

Examples

Serialization compatible entity references:

public class Parent extends Component  {

    public Entity entity;
    public Bag<Entity> entities;

    @EntityId 
    public int parentId;

    @EntityId 
    public IntBag entityIds = new IntBag();  
}