Reading a sub value from a saved Component, without instantiating it?

[BoxxyPrime]

Hey there. Just getting kind of situated with Easy Save, which has been pretty awesome so far. I'm working on a city builder game, and when saving, I'm saving the buildings, pawns, etc using ES3.Save("thing", Pawn/Building), etc. When loading, I'm using something like

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HarvestableResource resource = ES3.Load<HarvestableResource>($"Resource_{GUIDs[i]}");

which creates a gameObject with the component I've saved. That's fine, and I can pull the sub entry from that (A GUID that points to a ScriptableObject that holds a reference to the prefab I want to instantiate), but I'm curious if I could read a sub entry in the save file without actually using Load if that makes sense. It'd also be useful because my Buildings, Pawns, etc, have a Start function that generates things if they're first being placed. Something like

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ES3.FindEntry("Building_GUID").SubEntry

to just read the value - in my case an identifier that points to a ScriptableObject that holds the data for that particular object.

I have tried just maintaining the reference to the ScriptableObject, but for some reason when I load it keeps showing up as null. I don't have the original code for that, at this point but I may accidently swing back around to that haha.

[Joel]

Hi there,

It's not possible in the way you've described unfortunately as random-access happens at a key level, not a field level. The alternative would be to save the variable as a separate key.

All the best,
Joel