ResourceLoader/Saver cache question

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Akrylowy

Greetings!

I'm using ResourceLoader/Saver atypically, because it is for saving/loading persistent game data, i.e. game saves.

Related to this question is an older one: https://godotengine.org/qa/117198/resourceloader-load-no_cache-parameter-applied-resources

The way I'm using it, I never ever want to cache anything - thus I set the cache_mode to IGNORE (godot 4). This works fine for data in the "CharacterData" resource. However, the problem is when I want to reuse some code in a fashion that I've created "CharacterResource" sub resources for "CharacterData" class.

This is the way it is saved:

Now, the question is how does Godot's ResourceLoader handle cache for dynamically-created (at runtime) resources/sub-resources, that are not saved to disk separately but instead contained within a bigger resource.? The "has_cached()" method requires a path, which sub-resources do not have after all 🙂

On a side note I've noticed, and would like to confirm, that simply changing a scene flushes the resource cache. Is that the only way to flush it?

I didn't want to act on assumption that just because it seems to work fine now i.e. is seemingly not being cached and is loading/updating correctly it will remain to do so. I'm not very proficient with reading C++ source code, so I didn't take a look there either.

Megalomaniak

I don't have the answer, but I feel like the answer to the question should be documented somewhere in the documentation and if it is not, then it's probably worth bringing up on the documentation issue tracker on github.