From 5c218bd5301618f279d34f257ff109488e48f715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: HampusM <hampus@hampusmat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:05:51 +0200
Subject: feat(engine): add discriminants to enum variant reflection

---
 engine-macros/src/reflection/enum_impl.rs | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 engine-reflection/src/lib.rs              | 11 +++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/engine-macros/src/reflection/enum_impl.rs b/engine-macros/src/reflection/enum_impl.rs
index e4743b6..7f7d25e 100644
--- a/engine-macros/src/reflection/enum_impl.rs
+++ b/engine-macros/src/reflection/enum_impl.rs
@@ -73,16 +73,13 @@ pub fn generate(input: syn::ItemEnum) -> proc_macro2::TokenStream
             .unwrap();
     }
 
+    if !has_c_repr && primitive_repr.is_none() {
+        panic!("Enums must have a C or primitive representation to derive Reflection");
+    }
+
     let mod_content = if is_unit_only {
         quote! {}
     } else {
-        if !has_c_repr && primitive_repr.is_none() {
-            panic!(concat!(
-                "Non unit-only enums must have a C or ",
-                "primitive representation to derive Reflection"
-            ));
-        }
-
         let variant_fields_structs = input.variants.iter().map(|variant| {
             let fields = variant.fields.iter().map(|field| {
                 let field_type = &field.ty;
@@ -314,10 +311,52 @@ fn generate_variants<'a>(
             }
         };
 
+        let enum_ident = &input.ident;
+
+        let discriminant = match variant.fields {
+            syn::Fields::Unit => {
+                quote! {
+                    let mut buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<i128>()];
+
+                    let discriminant = #enum_ident::#variant_ident;
+
+                    unsafe {
+                        std::ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(
+                            (&raw const discriminant).cast::<u8>(),
+                            buf.as_mut_ptr(),
+                            std::mem::size_of::<#enum_ident>(),
+                        );
+                    }
+
+                    buf
+                }
+            }
+            _ => {
+                quote! {
+                    let mut buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<i128>()];
+
+                    let discriminant = #mod_name::Discriminant::#variant_ident;
+
+                    unsafe {
+                        std::ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(
+                            (&raw const discriminant).cast::<u8>(),
+                            buf.as_mut_ptr(),
+                            std::mem::size_of::<#mod_name::Discriminant>(),
+                        );
+                    }
+
+                    buf
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
         quote! {
             #engine_crate_path::reflection::EnumVariant {
                 name: #variant_name,
-                fields: #fields
+                fields: #fields,
+                discriminant: #engine_crate_path::reflection::EnumDiscriminant {
+                    buf: { #discriminant }
+                }
             }
         }
     })
diff --git a/engine-reflection/src/lib.rs b/engine-reflection/src/lib.rs
index 0382598..c884edb 100644
--- a/engine-reflection/src/lib.rs
+++ b/engine-reflection/src/lib.rs
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ pub struct EnumVariant
 
     /// The fields of this variant. If `None`, this variant is a unit variant.
     pub fields: Option<EnumVariantFields>,
+
+    pub discriminant: EnumDiscriminant,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -104,6 +106,15 @@ pub enum EnumVariantFields
     },
 }
 
+/// The discriminant of a enum variant.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub struct EnumDiscriminant
+{
+    /// This buffer is the size of a u128/i128 because they are the largest possible enum
+    /// discriminant representations.
+    pub buf: [u8; size_of::<u128>()],
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct Field
 {
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