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Summary

  • bound derived-type discovery to loaded assemblies with a reference path to the requested base assembly
  • route both NPC discovery paths through the bounded reflection helper instead of calling Assembly.GetTypes() across the entire AppDomain
  • add verbose before/after assembly enumeration markers for fatal-crash diagnosis
  • preserve transitive extension assemblies and ordinary ReflectionTypeLoadException recovery

Root cause

NPC prefab warmup enumerated every loaded assembly with Assembly.GetTypes(). On the reported MelonLoader 0.7.3 IL2CPP setup, CoreCLR terminated inside RuntimeModule.GetTypes() with 0x80131506. Because this is a fatal runtime error rather than a managed exception, the surrounding try/catch cannot recover.

This change removes generated game assemblies and unrelated mods from the scan before type enumeration. It does not claim that S1API owns the underlying malformed/runtime type state.

Validation

  • dotnet test S1API.Tests/S1API.Tests.csproj -c MonoMelon --no-restore -p:AutomateLocalDeployment=false — 711 passed
  • dotnet test S1API.Tests/S1API.Tests.csproj -c Il2CppMelon --no-restore -p:AutomateLocalDeployment=false — 697 passed
  • focused ReflectionUtilsTests — 7 passed on each runtime configuration
  • git diff --check — clean

The exact Discord reporter assembly/mod set is not available locally, so the fatal crash itself has not been directly reproduced. The verbose markers are intended to identify the precise remaining assembly if the bounded candidate set still reaches the fatal CLR condition.

Upstream assessment

MelonLoader 0.7.3 is currently the latest release and already includes Il2CppInterop 1.5.1-ci.845. Current alpha-development uses the same Il2CppInterop revision. The older MelonLoader type-prefixing fixes predate 0.7.1, and the broken SystemTypeFromIl2CppType patch was removed before 0.7.2. An upstream MelonLoader/Il2CppInterop issue should wait for the exact failing assembly and a minimal reproduction.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved discovery of NPC-derived types across directly and indirectly referenced assemblies.
    • NPC network-spawned wrappers and prefab registration now handle assembly-loading scenarios more reliably.
    • Assemblies that cannot be safely inspected, or whose identities do not match, are excluded without interrupting type discovery.
  • Diagnostics

    • Added clearer logging for assembly scanning and type enumeration, including successful, partial, and failed inspections.

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ReflectionUtils now discovers derived types through direct and transitive assembly references, validates assembly identities, logs scan results, and handles enumeration failures. NPC wrapper creation and prefab registration use this shared discovery path. Tests cover dynamic assemblies and identity mismatches.

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NPC reflection discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Assembly-aware derived-type discovery
S1API/Internal/Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs
GetDerivedClasses now filters assemblies by direct or transitive references and validates full assembly identities. Recursive traversal detects cycles and handles failures. SafeGetTypes logs enumeration results and failures.
Assembly reference discovery tests
S1API.Tests/Internal/Utils/ReflectionUtilsTests.cs
Tests cover direct references, transitive references, unrelated assemblies, dynamic assembly generation, derived test types, and same-name assemblies with different identities.
NPC discovery integration
S1API/Entities/NPC.cs
Network-spawned NPC wrapper creation and prefab pre-registration now use ReflectionUtils.GetDerivedClasses<NPC>() and exclude the base NPC assembly.

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The PR bounds custom type discovery to relevant loaded assemblies and adds diagnostic markers while preserving recovery behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant NPC
  participant ReflectionUtils
  participant LoadedAssemblies
  participant SafeGetTypes
  NPC->>ReflectionUtils: Request derived NPC types
  ReflectionUtils->>LoadedAssemblies: Check direct and transitive references
  ReflectionUtils->>LoadedAssemblies: Validate assembly identities
  ReflectionUtils->>SafeGetTypes: Enumerate candidate assembly types
  SafeGetTypes-->>ReflectionUtils: Return available types
  ReflectionUtils-->>NPC: Return non-abstract derived NPC types
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In `@S1API/Internal/Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs`:
- Around line 143-154: Update ReferencesAssemblyTransitively to compare each
loadedReference’s full AssemblyName identity with the referenced assembly
identity before recursing, using an identity comparison that does not rely on
AssemblyName.ReferenceMatchesDefinition. Skip non-matching identities, preserve
recursion only for the exact referenced assembly, and add a regression test
covering same-simple-name assemblies with different identities.
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@Diffuin Review plz

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Verdict: Changes Requested
Confidence: High
Findings: 1 P1

One correctness issue remains: transitive dependency traversal resolves assemblies by simple name only, so it can reintroduce enumeration of an unrelated assembly and fail to contain the fatal GetTypes() path this PR targets.

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  • P1: Match transitive references by assembly identityS1API/Internal/Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs:148
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  • Reviewed the complete three-file PR patch for commit 1354b9942aabae7ff896222e4f3df7847bb4931f through the read-only pull-request source.
  • Reviewed all repository call sites of GetDerivedClasses<NPC>(), including registration, client wrapper creation, readiness, and save-load paths.
  • The working tree is clean.

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  • Static review of the complete PR diff and relevant repository code paths.
  • Checked the working-tree status.

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  • Focused ReflectionUtilsTests for MonoMelon and Il2CppMelon could not run because this checkout environment has no dotnet executable.
  • The full MonoMelon and Il2CppMelon test suites remain unverified locally.
  • A human must validate NPC prefab warmup and network-spawned wrapper discovery in the affected IL2CPP MelonLoader setup. No live game or Unity runtime is available here.
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[P1] Match transitive references by assembly identity

assembliesBySimpleName groups every loaded assembly by AssemblyName.Name, then traversal follows every matching entry without checking whether it satisfies referencedAssembly. If two loaded dependencies share a simple name but have different identities, an unrelated instance that references S1API can make the candidate appear reachable. SafeGetTypes then enumerates that candidate even though its real dependency graph has no S1API path, which can still reach the fatal CLR call the bounded scan is meant to avoid.

Recommended change: Before recursing into loadedReference, require it to match referencedAssembly with AssemblyName.ReferenceMatchesDefinition. Add a regression test with same-simple-name assemblies of different identities to ensure the unrelated candidate is excluded.

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@Diffuin Clean up the PR by addressing both reviews from Diffuin and CodeRabbit please

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I opened #290

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