There are several ways of doing that, because you not only need to return an IEnumerator
, but it's Unity itself that will iterate on it, so you don't have the possibility to catch the return value.
Technically is possible to do the following:
IEnumerator registerPlayer() {
yield return Player.NewPlayer("Raptor"); // this is legal, player will be the Current value of the IEnumerator
}
If you want to do do something like the code above, you need to wrap the coroutine
inside another, and iterate on it by yourself (I did something similar implementing behavior trees):
IEnumerator Wrap(IEnumerator playerRegister)
{
while(playerRegister.MoveNext())
{
Player p = playerRegister.Current as Player; //this can be done if you know what you are doing
yield return null;
}
}
Another way is not return anything and pass a delegate to the coroutine
, that will be called passing back to the caller the required parameter.
Something like:
IEnumerator DoSomething(Action<Response> whenDone)
{
while (doingSomething)
yield return null;
whenDone(response);
}
EDIT
The other problem with your code is that you are calling another coroutine (ExecuteAPI
)from inside Player
's constructor.
So, making registerPlayer a coroutine is pointless since you are not yielding anything.
In your case the simplest way to go is to pass a delegate to ExecuteAPI
that will be called when you receive the response from the server.