feat: Adding a method to get any object in a map by its unique ID

packages/tiled/lib/src/tiled_map.dart

@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ class TiledMap {
   List<EditorSetting> editorSettings;
   CustomProperties properties;
 
+  // Cache the object by ID when accessed.
+  Map<int, TiledObject>? _cachedObjects;
+
   // only for hexagonal maps:
   int? hexSideLength;
   StaggerAxis? staggerAxis;
@@ -279,6 +282,27 @@ class TiledMap {
     throw ArgumentError('Layer $name not found');
   }
 
+  /// Finds the [TiledObject] in this map with the unique [id].
+  /// Objects have map wide unique IDs which are never reused.
+  /// https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/reference/tmx-map-format/#object
+  ///
+  /// This reads through a cached map of all the objects so it does not
+  /// need to loop through all the object layers each time.
+  ///
+  /// Returns null if not found.
+  TiledObject? objectById(int id) {
+    if (_cachedObjects == null) {
+      _cachedObjects = {};
+      layers.whereType<ObjectGroup>().forEach((objectGroup) {
+        for (final object in objectGroup.objects) {
+          _cachedObjects![object.id] = object;
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
+    return _cachedObjects?[id];
+  }
+
   Tileset tilesetByName(String name) {
     return tilesets.firstWhere(
       (element) => element.name == name,

packages/tiled/test/map_test.dart

@@ -380,4 +380,55 @@ void main() {
       expect(map.tilesetByName('Humans'), equals(tileset));
     });
   });
+
+  group('Map.objectById', () {
+    late TiledMap map;
+    setUp(() {
+      map = TiledMap(
+        width: 2,
+        height: 2,
+        tileWidth: 8,
+        tileHeight: 8,
+        layers: [
+          TileLayer(
+            name: 'tile layer 1',
+            width: 2,
+            height: 2,
+            data: [1, 0, 2, 0],
+          ),
+          ObjectGroup(
+            name: 'object layer 1',
+            objects: [
+              TiledObject(id: 1, name: 'object one'),
+              TiledObject(id: 5, name: 'object five'),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ],
+        tilesets: [
+          Tileset(
+            name: 'TileSet_1',
+            image: const TiledImage(source: 'tileset_1.png'),
+            firstGid: 1,
+            columns: 1,
+            tileCount: 2,
+            tiles: [
+              Tile(localId: 0),
+              Tile(localId: 1),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ],
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('gets images only in use on each TileLayer', () {
+      final object1 = map.objectById(1);
+      expect(object1?.name, equals('object one'));
+
+      final object5 = map.objectById(5);
+      expect(object5?.name, equals('object five'));
+
+      final object3 = map.objectById(3);
+      expect(object3, equals(null));
+    });
+  });
 }