List of all objects of a given type

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Sep 24 2015, 12:24 am
(See the best response by LordAndrew.)
Hello.

What I am trying to accomplish is to generate a list that contains one instance of all objects of a given type upon character creation.

In this case, the type is /item, which has /datum as its parent. So it is essentially a datum. Now, within my character creation routine, there is a list variable which I want to contain one of every object that falls within the /item type.

How would I go about to generate this list code-wise? It's been a while since I DM'd, so I'm just getting back in the bath, so to speak. Tried a lot of ideas, but couldn't come up with anything that worked. If anyone could provide an example on how to accomplish this, so I can understand how to handle these sort of lists, it would be great. :)


Thanks in advance!
Sep 24 2015, 12:56 am
Best response
You'd want to make use of typesof(), which will return a list of all the child paths the base path supplied has:

item
    parent_type = /obj

    longsword_of_frost
        name = "Longsword of Frost"

    nanosuit
        name = "Nanosuit"

    depthshine
        name = "Depthshine"

mob/Login()
    ..()

    // Subtract the /item path from the results of typesof().
    for (var/it in typesof(/item) - /item)
        new it(src)