Is there a way to iterate through something's properties without going through them manually?

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#1

Let’s say I wanted to put all the properties of an object in a dictionary. Is there a way to iterate through all of it’s properties? I’d rather not go through each property manually.

#2

From my knowledge, the simple answer is no.

But, you could define property tables once for specific object classes and use them for your iteration, maybe something like this:

local part_properties = {
"Transparency";
"Size";
"Color";
}

for i, property in pairs(part_properties) do
print(script.Parent[property])
end
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#3

Ehhh the thing is I’d rather not do something like that. I was kind of hoping that there was some built in function that returns all the properties of a part in a table or something.

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#4

I see.

Out of curiosity, why do you need this functionality??

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#5

Just to check if there is a clone of an object in the game. I would ideally get all the properties of an object and iterate through everything in the game checking if the properties are the same.

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#6

You can’t get every property in code, you’d probably manually record property names.

For checking if an object is a clone, just have a value represented in the original that wouldn’t change if it was cloned?