Unity How to detect sprite mssing? or null?

Question

I want to detect image sprite is "Missing" or "None"

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When I Get this sprite , They all got "null" like this , So How do I know it is "Missing" or "None" ?

PS : I want to know it is missing or none , it is different situations for me.

Answer 1

Unity throws different exceptions for different reasons why the reference is null when trying to access them!

This is also the reason why you should strongly avoid someObject == null checks. Unity has overwritten the behavior of == null for the type Object (basically the mother class of most Unity built-in types) and even if an object appears to be null it still stores some information like - as just mentioned - the reason why it is null.

So you could use a little "trick" and simply try to access a field and check which exception exactly you get within try - catch blocks:

public void CheckReference(Object reference)
{
    try
    {
        var blarf = reference.name;
    }
    catch (MissingReferenceException) // General Object like GameObject/Sprite etc
    {
        Debug.LogError("The provided reference is missing!");
    }
    catch (MissingComponentException) // Specific for objects of type Component
    {
        Debug.LogError("The provided reference is missing!");
    }
    catch (UnassignedReferenceException) // Specific for unassigned fields
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("The provided reference is null!");
    }
    catch (NullReferenceException) // Any other null reference like for local variables
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("The provided reference is null!");
    }
}

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Example

public class Example : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Renderer renderer;
    public Collider collider;

    private void Awake()
    {
        renderer = GetComponent<Renderer>();
        Destroy(renderer);
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (!Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) return;

        CheckReference(renderer); // MissingComponentException
        CheckReference(collider); // UnassignedReferenceException

        Sprite sprite = null;

        CheckReference(sprite);   // NullReferenceException

        sprite = Sprite.Create(new Texture2D(1, 1), new Rect(0, 0, 1, 1), Vector2.zero);
        DestroyImmediate(sprite);
        CheckReference(sprite);   // MissingReferenceException
    }

    public void CheckReference(Object reference)
    {
        try
        {
            var blarf = reference.name;
        }
        catch (MissingReferenceException) // General Object like GameObject/Sprite etc
        {
            Debug.LogError("The provided reference is missing!");
        }
        catch (MissingComponentException) // Specific for objects of type Component
        {
            Debug.LogError("The provided reference is missing!");
        }
        catch (UnassignedReferenceException) // Specific for unassigned fields
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("The provided reference is null!");
        }
        catch (NullReferenceException) // Any other null reference like for local variables
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("The provided reference is null!");
        }
    }
}