I would like to be able to parse the ReflectionMetadata.xml in order to retrieve a list of instance types and their properties; however, as CDUP was disabled to prevent “snooping” this is no longer possible. Please allow access to the ROBLOX version folder via CDUP so that we may access the ReflectionMetadata.xml – this goes for both Studio and the ROBLOX Player. If we want to make any sort of in-game explorer, custom object browser with filter functionality, retrieve a list of an object’s properties in order to then determine its default properties, etc we are unable to do so cleanly and must manually input and update our own ReflectionMetadata script each time ROBLOX updates. It would be really nice if we could access ReflectionMetadata.xml in order to parse it for data.
You can’t read a file anyway though
I’d rather just have a way to retrieve the API through some real function.
Oh, I thought plugins had access to reading files. Either way though, a function would be nice.
You could load the contents via HttpService?
What’s CDUP?
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I’ll help expand on this unhelpful answer:
This is the “Change to Parent Directory” (CDUP) command. Basically in a file’s path you can add in “/…/” to go up to the parent directory. People used to be able to use this to access local files on users computers by doing “rbxasset://…/…/…/etc”.
I would find this useful in some cases, like you need to access Versions\version-____\PlatformContent\pc\textures, and I do not this being a security risk or anything.
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I’ll help expand on this unhelpful answer:
This is the “Change to Parent Directory” (CDUP) command. Basically in a file’s path you can add in “/…/” to go up to the parent directory. People used to be able to use this to access local files on users computers by doing “rbxasset://…/…/…/etc”.[/quote]
Thank you. I’ve actually used the OS equivalent before (…/) but was unaware of the naming for the FTP command.