Refer to object property in that same object?

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#1

Hey! I’m trying to make the following work:

local module = {
	pit = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pit"),
	pits = {
		gates = module.pit.Gates	
	}
}

return module

The idea is that I can work further on the “pit” variable, so I can later do this:

-- Normal script
local pitModule = require(game.ServerScriptService.pitModule)
pitmodule.pit.Name == "Some other name"
pits.gates.pit5.Open.Value = true

Ideally I’d even love to change pit to pits, so if I say “pitModule.pits”, I get the upper variable, if I put a dot and something else behind it, it just goes into the object and searches, like how I did below.

Thanks in advance!

Kr
Jonas

#2

Do you mean that you’d like a table to give you the ‘game.WOrkspace:WaitForChild(“Pit”)’ object when you reference the module as module.pits, but when you reference the table as module.pits.pit5 it will give you the pit5 object from the gates object?

#3

Ideally yes. But if I can get it working like in my script above that would already be awesome.

#4

You can do this with metamethods. Highly recommend you read this and this to learn more

Module:

local refs = {
	pitObj = game.Workspace:WaitForChild 'Pit';
	gates  = {
		pit1 = game.Workspace.pit1;
		pit2 = {ClassName = "I am a table"};
	};
}

local module = { }
setmetatable(module, {
	__index = function (t, k)
		return setmetatable({ }, {
			__index = function (_, i)
				if refs[i] then
					return refs[i]
				else
					return refs.pitObj[i]
				end
			end
		})
	end
})

return module

Use in another script:


local pitModule = require(script.PitsModule)

print("Pit object:", pitModule.pits.Name);
print("Gates table ref:", pitModule.pits.gates);
print("Pit1 name:", pitModule.pits.gates.pit1.Name);
print("Pit2 table class:", pitModule.pits.gates.pit2.ClassName);