Bulk setter for Attributes

Feature Requests Engine Features
#1

I would like a method that allows a developer to set multiple Attributes with a single call.

The current developer solution looks like this:

local function SetAttributes(instance, attributes)
	assert(typeof(instance) == "Instance")
	assert(typeof(attributes) == "table")
	
	for key, value in pairs(attributes) do
		instance:SetAttribute(key, value)
	end
end

Presumably, creating a loop of assertions and Set calls is leaving a lot of performance on the table.

Adding Instance:SetAttributes(dict) would be very handy in situations where a plethora of Attributes are applied to an Instance at the end of a process that might run each heartbeat or physics step, such as a car’s engine data.

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#2

Slowly drowning into insanity dealing with attributes in an instance based inventory system. We already have GetAttribute and GetAttributes, but only SetAttribute without SetAttributes, which perplexes me. It seems like a simple addition with a lot of benefit and without any API collision, and yet…

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#3

Adding this would remove so much repetitive code, still waiting for when this gets added :pray:

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