Namify - Get the FullName of a Instance

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#1

Hello people of the dev forum :slight_smile:
Recently I started realising how much of a pain it was to get the path of an instance to use in a script and so I googled to see if there was a better solution to getting the full name of a part but there was nothing. So just the other day when I was bored I decided to just make it. I hope it’s something that can help you out when scripting and if you have any suggestions feel free to reply with them and I’ll look into it.

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P.S. This is my first public plugin so please be nice and if you have any plugin suggestions feel free to reply and I might pick some that I think are nice.

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#2

Do you mean the function of Instance Instance:GetFullName() ? I think that does the same thing as your plugin, if I am understanding correctly.

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#3

yeah, that’s exactly what the plugin uses. I just wanted to make a plugin that would make it easier instead of having to do :GetFullName() for every object.

#4

The plugin helps you with getting an object path.

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#5

just checked the plugin, simple & useful, but i still prefer game.Selection:Get()[1]:GetFullName()

#6

I believe a better alternative to :GetFullName() would be this function:

local SpecialCharacters = {
	['\a'] = '\\a', 
	['\b'] = '\\b', 
	['\f'] = '\\f', 
	['\n'] = '\\n', 
	['\r'] = '\\r', 
	['\t'] = '\\t', 
	['\v'] = '\\v', 
	['\0'] = '\\0'
}
local Keywords = { 
	['and'] = true, 
	['break'] = true, 
	['do'] = true, 
	['else'] = true, 
	['elseif'] = true, 
	['end'] = true, 
	['false'] = true, 
	['for'] = true, 
	['function'] = true, 
	['if'] = true, 
	['in'] = true, 
	['local'] = true, 
	['nil'] = true, 
	['not'] = true, 
	['or'] = true, 
	['repeat'] = true, 
	['return'] = true, 
	['then'] = true, 
	['true'] = true, 
	['until'] = true, 
	['while'] = true, 
	['continue'] = true
}

local function GetFullName(Object)
	local Hierarchy = {}

	local ChainLength = 1
	local Parent = Object
	
	while Parent do
		Parent = Parent.Parent
		ChainLength = ChainLength + 1
	end

	Parent = Object
	local Num = 0
	while Parent do
		Num = Num + 1

		local ObjName = string.gsub(Parent.Name, '[%c%z]', SpecialCharacters)
		ObjName = Parent == game and 'game' or ObjName

		if Keywords[ObjName] or not string.match(ObjName, '^[_%a][_%w]*$') then
			ObjName = '["' .. ObjName .. '"]'
		elseif Num ~= ChainLength - 1 then
			ObjName = '.' .. ObjName
		end

		Hierarchy[ChainLength - Num] = ObjName
		Parent = Parent.Parent
	end

	return table.concat(Hierarchy)
end

because if you have a part name that uses reserved Lua keywords such as and, or a part with spaces (test part), then :GetFullName() wouldnt properly get those names - or at least it wouldn’t get the names with valid Lua syntax. This custom function I wrote would get the names properly, I.e workspace.and → workspace["and"] etc.

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#7

Really nice and cool idea. I’m thinking of using this in the plugin with some slight adjustments and improvements.

Don’t worry I’ll make sure to credit you.

#8

UPDATE

Namify now supports syntax/operator characters (Thanks to @PysephDEV for the suggestion and an example of some code) as well as numbers. E.g. 1word, %percentage, ca$h.

If you have any issues or you feel I have missed a character feel free to reply to this message and I’ll check it out.