Support for vector of unions

[Even Braudaway]

I was curious if there are plans to support it and how difficult the implementation would be? I'm working on generating a C# layer that sits between my game editor and the flatbuffer generated C# code. It provides mutable versions of the classes and a simple API for reading/writing them to flatbuffers, using the underlying flatbuffer generated classes. Generating code to support unions like below is a bit clumsy and I find myself wanting either a specialized table type that wraps a union field and nothing else or support for vectors of unions.

union UComponent { CompA, CompB }

table Component  { comp:UComponent }

table Entity     { comps:[Component] }

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

We're aware that this use-case is clumsy, but properly fixing it (such that a union could appear anywhere) has big consequences for forwards/backwards compatibility, so I don't see an easy way to do this any time soon.

Certainly the way you've done it is the best way for now.

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