Expose generators parameters at runtime.

ID:2652445
 
Feb 2 2021, 10:17 am
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Status: Open
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Right now you can't check what generator we're using.
_binobj has string representation but it's not uniform so can't parse that.

IE
var/generator/G = generator("circle",1,22)
...
if(G.generator_type == "circle" && G.A == 1)
  do_whatever()
Feb 2 2021, 2:16 pm
Not a bad idea, although I don't know how I'd do var access properly through the datum wrapper. I suppose one way to do it is just to add vars and set them in New().
Feb 2 2021, 2:17 pm
Yeah, even read-only access to the vars would be nice.
Mar 8 2021, 6:55 am
+1
Nov 5 2022, 1:30 pm
Semi-Workaround for anyone who might stumble upon this
/**
 * returns the arguments given to a generator and manually extracts them from the internal byond object
 * returns:
 * * flat list of strings for args given to the generator.
 * * Note: this means things like "list(1,2,3)" will need to be processed
 */
/proc/return_generator_args(generator/target)
    var/string_repr = "[target]" //the name of the generator is the string representation of it's _binobj, which also contains it's args
    string_repr = copytext(string_repr, 11, length(string_repr)) // strips extraneous data
    string_repr = replacetext(string_repr, "\"", "") // removes the " around the type
    return splittext(string_repr, ", ")