Adding Other Types

Adding Other Types

You can make a new struct type compatible with the Lightweight Data Structures ecosystem by implementing the following methods:

• reduceToData(): Return a JSON-encodable representation of self in terms of only GML elementary types (i.e. untyped structs, arrays, real, string, boolean, undefined).
• expandFromData(data): Clear self and restore the output of reduceToData() into self.
• copy(source): Clear self and shallow-copy from the provided source.
• copyDeep(source): Clear self and then deep-copy from the provided source. If there is no further nesting in your type, you can alias this to copy.
• clone(source): Return a shallow clone of self.
• cloneDeep(source): Return a deep clone of self. If there is no further nesting in your type, you can alias this to clone.

Then go to __LDS_CONFIGS__ and add a function entry to global.__lds_registry__ like this that returns a new starter struct of your type:

    MyNewType: function() {
        return new MyNewType();
    },