how can i locate an object with a certain varible at a certain value?

ID:2869880
 
May 14 2023, 12:21 pm
Code:
/obj/spawnpoint/player
    icon_state = "player"

var/totalspawnpoints = 0
/obj/spawnpoint/player/var/spawnpointid = 0

/obj/spawnpoint/player/New()
    if(src.spawnpointid==0)
        totalspawnpoints = totalspawnpoints + 1
        src.spawnpointid=totalspawnpoints

/mob/lobby_player/verb/
    join()
        view() << "Joining the Game!"
        var/spawnpointid = 0
        var/spawnpointidchosen = rand(1,totalspawnpoints)
        var/turf/spawnpointidloc = locate(/obj/spawnpoint/player, spawnpointid == spawnpointidchosen)
        loc = locate(spawnpointidloc.x, spawnpointidloc.y, spawnpointidloc.z)


Problem description:
i am trying to locate a "/obj/spawnpoint/player" with a certain var called spawnpointid that is equal to spawnpointidchosen. how would i do this?
May 14 2023, 2:01 pm
Check out the tag variable in the reference
obj/location
    tag = "location A"

var obj/location/l = locate("location A")


One thing to keep in mind is that object won't be GC'd until the tag variable is cleared or del is used.
May 14 2023, 2:03 pm
can a tag be a number?
May 14 2023, 2:05 pm
In response to Cannibal Hunter
Cannibal Hunter wrote:
can a tag be a number?

You could do

var obj/location/l = locate("location [ID]")
May 14 2023, 2:17 pm
In response to Cannibal Hunter
Cannibal Hunter wrote:
can a tag be a number?

No, but it doesn't matter because tags are text, and converting a number to text is trivial.

/obj/spawnpoint/player
    var
        global/totalspawnpoints
        spawnpointid = 0

    New()
        if(!spawnpointid)
            spawnpointid = ++totalspawnpoints
        tag = "playerspawn[spawnpointid]"
        ..()

/mob/lobby_player/verb/join()
    view() << "Joining the Game!"
    var/obj/spawnpointidloc = locate("playerspawn[rand(1,totalspawnpoints)]")
    loc = locate(spawnpointidloc.x, spawnpointidloc.y, spawnpointidloc.z)
May 19 2023, 2:29 pm
One important thing to be aware of is that a tag will prevent soft deletion by the garbage collector. Probably not relevant to the case of creating a spawn point, but it's worth keeping in mind for anything you might use tags for.

Tags effectively act like putting the object in an internal associative list. The exact same structure is used.