FDataRegistryType

A DataRegistry item is an arbitrary USTRUCT representing a specific piece of data, that can be acquired from many possible sources, cached, and returned to requesting code. It is similar in concept to a DataTable Row, and will often literally be one.

Here is the asynchronous data flow to go from DataRegistryId to a DataRegistryItem:

DataRegistryId is constructed with either a special editor customization or at runtime. Can be a gameplay tag or raw name

User tells DataRegistrySubsystem to start an async request to fetch a DataRegistryItem using the Id, and passes in a context object

Subsystem finds the right DataRegistry by looking at the type and forwards the request

Registry resolves the id into DataRegistryLookup using the context object and game specific logic (ex: converts tag Banner.Foo.Bar into Foo_Bar in a local datatable)

Registry looks in its cache for that lookup, if it is found and valid then it schedules success callback for next frame

If not found in cache, use lookup to search DataRegistrySources in order

Source looks for item, if finding it requires loading an asset or accessing the internet this may take a long time

If source fails to find item, try next source until exhausted. If all exhausted, schedule failure callback

If source finds item, cache found result into Registry, then schedule success callback

Once asset is in cache due to previous async call or always loaded assets, it can be accessed directly via the subsystem cache get functions Wrapper struct to represent a global data registry, represented as an FName internally and implicitly convertible back and forth. This exists so the blueprint API can understand it's not a normal FName.