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wea.inspect: pull metatable names from item.__name
this is completely arbitrary, but will assist in discovering types of tables etc.
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--- Serialises an arbitrary value to a string.
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-- Note that although the resulting table *looks* like valid Lua, it isn't.
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-- Completely arbitrarily, if a table (or it's associated metatable) has the
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-- key __name then it is conidered the name of the parent metatable. This can
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-- be useful for identifying custom table-based types.
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-- Should anyone come across a 'proper' way to obtain the name of a metatable
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-- in pure vanilla Lua, I will update this to follow that standard instead.
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-- @param item any Input item to serialise.
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-- @param sep string key value seperator
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-- @param new_line string key value pair delimiter
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@ -12,7 +17,13 @@ local function inspect(item, maxdepth)
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end
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if maxdepth < 1 then return "[truncated]" end
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local result = { "{\n" }
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local result = { }
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-- Consider our (arbitrarily decided) property __name to the type of this item
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-- Remember that this implicitly checks the metatable so long as __index is set.
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if type(item.__name) == "string" then
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table.insert(result, "("..item.__name..") ")
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end
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table.insert(result, "{\n")
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for key,value in pairs(item) do
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local value_text = inspect(value, maxdepth - 1)
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:gsub("\n", "\n\t")
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-- @class
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local Vector3 = {}
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Vector3.__index = Vector3
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Vector3.__name = "Vector3" -- A hack to allow identification in wea.inspect
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--- Creates a new Vector3 instance.
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-- @param x number The x co-ordinate value.
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