Unity-Extended-Dictionary

Unity Package that provides extended Dictionary class with support for polymorphic serialization and editing in the inspector.

[!NOTE] Requires Unity 2021.3 or newer.

Setup

In Unity Package Manager select Add Package from git URL... and add following URL

https://github.com/ikold/Unity-Extended-Dictionary.git

To use serialized dictionary and have it show up for editing in the inspector use class SDictionary<TKey, TValue> the same way as you would use C# Dictionary<TKey, TValue>. It inherits from it and has access to the same methods.

using ExtendedDictionary;
using UnityEngine;

public class CustomMonoBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
    public SDictionary<object, object> Parameters = new SDictionary<object, object>
    {
        { "row 1", 1 },
        { 2.2, "string" },
        { 3, null }
    };
}

Features:

• Polymorphic serialization (can be used with Unity Objects)
• Prefab support
• Inspector:
  • Type selector for keys and values
  • Visual data validation
  • Support of Unity Object references
  • Adding and removing dictionary entries