Tutorial world.containerItems()

Since it took me a while to decipher what is going on and the Lua docs for it was pretty much too vague to be helpful I am writing this guide.

world.containerItems(entity.id()) - is a Lua function that lists all items inside a container when you give it an entity.id to check.
If the object is not a container it returns nil.

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Primary Table[Slot Table 1, Slot Table 2 , Slot Table 3]

Slot Table[name]
Slot Table[count]
Slot Table[parameter]

Parameter["various parameter string keys"]

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Primary Table
The output is primary.table = world.containerItems(entity.id())
table position : slot position
slot number: secondary table.

Example;
1 : secondary table

where 1 is the first slot ( not a stringed key ) - and it gives you another table.


Secondary Table
is composed of stringed keys, "name", "count", "parameters"
name and count will give you the respective values of that item in the slot in the primary table
parameters = tertiary table

Tertiary table
Composed of stringed keys.


To give you an example code with log.

Code:

function vProc()
  sb.logInfo("Processing")
  sb.logInfo(aa)
  sb.logInfo(tostring(ab).. " main table")
    for i,v in pairs(world.containerItems(entity.id())) do
      sb.logInfo(tostring(ab[1]).. " Test")
      sb.logInfo(i .." Loop 1")
      sb.logInfo(tostring(v).. " Table 1")
      cstate02 = v
      vProc2()
    end
   sliq()
end

function vProc2()
  sb.logInfo("vProc2")
  sb.logInfo(tostring(cstate02["name"]).. " name")
  sb.logInfo(tostring(cstate02["count"]).. " count")
  for i,v in pairs(cstate02) do
    sb.logInfo(i.. " Loop 2")
    sb.logInfo(tostring(v).. " table 2")
  end
end

Code:

[08:07:29.307] [Info] 14
[08:07:29.307] [Info] table: 000001E0430FE9C0 main table
[08:07:29.308] [Info] table: 000001E0430FEAC0 Test
[08:07:29.308] [Info] 1 Loop 1
[08:07:29.308] [Info] table: 000001E04377E4C0 Table 1
[08:07:29.308] [Info] vProc2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] goldbar name
[08:07:29.308] [Info] 990 count
[08:07:29.308] [Info] count Loop 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] 990 table 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] name Loop 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] goldbar table 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] parameters Loop 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] table: 000001E04377E5C0 table 2
[08:07:29.308] [Info] table: 000001E0430FEAC0 Test
[08:07:29.308] [Info] 2 Loop 1
[08:07:29.308] [Info] table: 000001E04377E640 Table 1
[08:07:29.309] [Info] vProc2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] silverbar name
[08:07:29.309] [Info] 990 count
[08:07:29.309] [Info] count Loop 2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] 990 table 2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] name Loop 2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] silverbar table 2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] parameters Loop 2
[08:07:29.309] [Info] table: 000001E04377E740 table 2

Hopefully this saves some one else using this function some time.