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Pentarctagon
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Get a table of all subtags

Post by Pentarctagon »

Is there a way to get a lua table representing all subtags? So a way to get:

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tab.option
{
  description="1",
	image="ball-blue.png",
	label="1.",
	tab.command
	{
	  tab.set_variable
	  {
			name="var",
			value=0
	  }
	}
}
from:

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[custom tag]
  [option]
	  description="1"
	  image="ball-blue.png"
	  label="1."
	  [command]
		  [set_variable]
			  name="MusicSession.current_playlist"
			  value=0
		  [/set_variable]
    [/command]
  [/option]
[/custom_tag]
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by gfgtdf »

I am not sure what exactly the differnece is beween your format and the normal lua format from for wml tables as returned by wesnoth.get_variable
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by Pentarctagon »

I feel kind of stupid asking this, but how do I access the data then? With:

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local test = helper.get_variable_array("test") 

wesnoth.message(tostring(test.description))
wesnoth.message(tostring(test[1].description))
wesnoth.message(tostring(test[1][1].description))
wesnoth.message(tostring(test[1].option[1].description))
the first 3 print nil, and the other prints an error about indexing a nil field.
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by mattsc »

This does not directly answer your question, but hopefully it gives you the tools to do so. If you want to know the structure of any Lua table, I strongly recommend using debug_utils from the Wesnoth Lua Pack. debug_utils.dbms() is incredibly useful, IMO.
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

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but how do I access the data then? With:
what exxactly does your [test] wml array look like?
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by Pentarctagon »

mattsc wrote:This does not directly answer your question, but hopefully it gives you the tools to do so. If you want to know the structure of any Lua table, I strongly recommend using debug_utils from the Wesnoth Lua Pack. debug_utils.dbms() is incredibly useful, IMO.
Alright, thanks, I'll take a look.
gfgtdf wrote:
but how do I access the data then? With:
what exxactly does your [test] wml array look like?

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[event]
  name="turn 1"
  
  [set_variables]
    name="test"
    [value]
      
      something="something"
      [option]
         description="1"
         image="ball-blue.png"
         label="1."
         [command]
            [set_variable]
               name="MusicSession.current_playlist"
               value=0
            [/set_variable]
        [/command]
      [/option]
      
    [/value]
  [/set_variables]
  [lua]
    code=<<
      
      helper = wesnoth.require "lua/helper.lua"
      
      local test = helper.get_variable_array("test") 

      wesnoth.message(tostring(test[1].something))
      
    >>
  [/lua]
[/event]
"something" is correctly printed, at least.
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by mattsc »

If you run debug_utils.dbms() over that, you see that the table looks like this:

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{
    [1] = {
          [1] = {
                [1] = "option",
                [2] = {
                          [1] = {
                                [1] = "command",
                                [2] = {
                                      [1] = {
                                            [1] = "set_variable",
                                            [2] = {
                                                      value = 0,
                                                      name = "MusicSession.current_playlist"
                                                  }
                                            }
                                      }
                            },
                          label = "1.",
                          image = "ball-blue.png",
                          description = 1
                      }
                },
          something = "something"
          }
}
To extract, for example, the image file name:

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    local option = helper.get_child(test[1], 'option')
    wesnoth.message(option.image)
(You can put that into one line, too, of course.)
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Re: Get a table of all subtags

Post by gfgtdf »

since [test] doesn't seem to be a wml array, its easier just to use wesnoth.get_variable directly instead of helper.get_variable_array wesnoth.get_varaible retruns a wml table as docuemnted in https://wiki.wesnoth.org/LuaWML#Encodin ... Lua_tables . You can use the helper functions helper.get_child and helper.child_range to acces subtags, for example as in

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  [lua]
    code=<<
     
      helper = wesnoth.require "lua/helper.lua"
     
      local test = wesnoth.get_variable("test")
      local option = helper.get_child(test, "option")

      wesnoth.message(tostring(option.description))
     
    >>
  [/lua]
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