Unclear about Entities placeholders (question)

[tsmuse]

I expected (I'm not sure why tbh) that once I ran my entities post-import script the LDTKEntity nodes that represented the entities I had handled in the post-import script would be removed but I have all the placeholders and all my actual nodes. I'm using the example script from the readme calling update_instance_reference(). I'm not using an Entity ref field in LDtk.

Having both nodes is causing naming issues since the placeholders have the correct names and the actual nodes can't have the same names since they're siblings in the Entities Layer tree. Is this cleanup something I have to write in my import script?

I don't see any other issues about this so I feel like I might just be doing something wrong/not understanding the importer correctly?

Thanks for the help

[tsmuse]

Well I feel really dumb now. I had the "use entities placeholder" option checked along with "resolve Entityrefs" and that was what we leaving the placeholders in. I assumed that my post-import script would replace the placeholder for the references that could be resolved and leave placeholders for the ones that couldn't. I guess that's not how it works?

[heygleeson]

Can confirm that is not how it works - it's an import setting to demonstrate that entities (and their data) are being loaded correctly by the importer.

The intended method is to turn off 'Entity Placeholders' once you have written a post-import script to correctly generate your actual nodes.