UAssetManager::DoesAssetMatchSearchRules

function Engine Since 4.22

#include "Engine/AssetManager.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtualconst

Description

Checks whether a single asset passes the restrictions defined in Rules. Useful when an asset has been manually registered and needs the same filtering logic used by SearchAssetRegistryPaths applied without re-running a full search.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Only checks the pattern/base-class restrictions in Rules — it does not check whether AssetData's path actually falls under Rules.AssetScanPaths, since that's a separate directory-scope concern handled by the caller.
• Uses the same wildcard matching as SearchAssetRegistryPaths, so keep the two consistent if you're pre-filtering results manually.

Signature

virtual bool DoesAssetMatchSearchRules(const FAssetData& AssetData, const FAssetManagerSearchRules& Rules) const

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
AssetData	const FAssetData&	Single asset to test.	—
Rules	const FAssetManagerSearchRules&	Search rules to test the asset against.	—

Return Type

bool

Example

Validate a manually registered asset against existing rules C++

if (UAssetManager::Get().DoesAssetMatchSearchRules(NewAssetData, ExistingRules))
{
	// Asset qualifies under the same rules used for the initial scan
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.22

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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