Pass Object to link_message | Voters

Pass Object to link_message

WolfGang Senizen

Provide

link_message

event with an object representing the request instead of the LSL parameters

sender

num

str

I'd propose if possible an object with the following structure

type LinkMessage = {
    source: number,
    num: number,
    length: number,
    getMessage: (self: LinkMessage) -> string,
    id_length: number, -- not sure about this...
    getID: (self: LinkMessage) -> string|uuid
}

Example use

LLEvents:on("link_message",function(message)
  print("From prim", message.source)
  print("Num", message.num)
  if message.length < 500 then
    print("Message", message:getMessage())
  end
end)

This would make link_messages safer and easier to manage especially with large unknown scripts from other parties

6 days ago

Nexii Malthus

message.num

message.length

message.getMessage()

message.id_length

message.getID()

all feel odd and out of place with eachother.

For consistency either go with the shorthands (

num

str

) or expand to readable versions (

number

string

identifier

). Latter is preferable, reads well and is easy to understand.

Likewise with the length just suffix to be specific to the parameter as it is too vague:

stringLength

identifierLength

Thus:

type LinkMessage = {
    source: number,
    number: number,
    stringLength: number,
    getString: (self: LinkMessage) -> string,
    identifierLength: number,
    getIdentifier: (self: LinkMessage) -> string|uuid
}