FText and AssetRegistrySearchable

Development Programming & Scripting
1

I have an FText variable marked with AssetRegistrySearchable, which works fine, only that when I get it’s value by “Data.TagsAndValues.Find”, it gives back an FString, which is not in a readable format.

Code:
const FString* pName = Data.TagsAndValues.Find( TEXT( “DisplayName” ) );
if( pName )
{
aAssets.Add( FText::FromString( *pName ) );
}

return value is this:
“NSLOCTEXT(”", “”, “Deathmatch”)"

While I understand that this is the format I use when I make an FText in C++ code, my question is, how can I make FText from this format? Which uses the right localisation.

2

After searching in the source code I found the following methods in FAssetData which solved the problem:

/** Try and get the value associated with the given tag as a type converted value */
template <typename ValueType>
bool GetTagValue(const FName InTagName, ValueType& OutTagValue) const;

/** Try and get the value associated with the given tag as a type converted value, or an empty value if it doesn't exist */
template <typename ValueType>
ValueType GetTagValueRef(const FName InTagName) const;

These methods also offer some nice advantages over getting the values by hand:

  1. Common values are parsed to the correct type automatically. I also think FText values are automatically localized, but haven’t tested this out yet.
  2. There’s no need to check if a tag is in the data by using TagsAndValues.Find as the methods already take care of that.

Hope this will be useful to anyone who ends up here looking for a solution to the same problem (like I did). :slight_smile:

3

I’ve already done a workaround, I don’t even remember why did I want this, so I can’t test it out, but I believe you, so will mark this as a solution. Thank you! :slight_smile: