Getting component of an object created with a factory (SOLVED)

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Hello,

I’m trying and getting the component of a game object , created with a factory.

I can get it, but i’m not sure it’s the optimal way.

I think i must use this function: msg.url(socket, path, fragment)

So at first, for getting socket and path for the game object, i do this:
print(msg.url(go_id_returned_by_factory_create))

And it gives me someting like default:/instance0 , for the first instancied game object.
As the number is incremented, it’s easy to compute the instance number, with a table of instancied game objects.

Then i do this, for example

    -- i is the index in my instancied game objects table.
    local url_sprite = msg.url("default","/instance"..i-1, "sprite_component")
    pos.x = pos.x + go.get(url_sprite, "size.x")

It works, but i wonder if there is a better way to get the url of a component.

Thank you for reading :slight_smile:

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msg.url is the best way.

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Yes, like this:

local id = factory.create("#myfactory")
local url = msg.url(nil, id, "mycomponent")
local value = go.get(url, "property")
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