Factory manager.

Info:

• Copyright: Atom-TM 2020
• Author: Abelidze, Kasai

Functions

Manager:init([kwargs])	Configure FactoryManager.
Manager:create([class[, kwargs[, ...]]])	Create entity instance of the specified class.
Manager:scan(path)	Method for loading markup elements' classes.
Manager:add(element)	Method for adding new element to factory's engine.

Functions

Methods

Manager:init([kwargs])

Configure FactoryManager.

Parameters:

• kwargs table Keyword arguments.
  • scanpaths string or {string,...} Directory path or array of paths to scan. (optional)

Returns:

l2df.manager.factory

Manager:create([class[, kwargs[, ...]]])

Create entity instance of the specified class.

Parameters:

• class string or table Lower-case class name. If table is passed instead of string, class argument would be skipped and passed table would be used as kwargs argument. (optional)
• kwargs string or table Could be a string containing path to the .dat file to parse or a table with keyword arguments that would be passed to the creating object constructor. (optional)
• ... Would be passed to Entity:new() after kwargs array-part elements. (optional)

Returns:

l2df.class.entity

Manager:scan(path)

Method for loading markup elements' classes.

Parameters:

• path string Path to the folder containing files with .lua or .dat extension. For more information see helper.requireFolder(path) function.

Manager:add(element)

Method for adding new element to factory's engine.

Parameters:

• element table or l2df.class.entity It could be both an entity class or table containing table.name string field and table:new(kwargs, ...) constructor.

Returns:

boolean true if the specified element is valid and false otherwise.