Classes

Click the following links for documentation:

• Enumeration
• PseudoInstance
• ReplicatedPseudoInstance

Contributing

Custom classes contributed to RoStrap should follow the following syntax:

local Class = {}
Class.__index = {
  -- Property defaults
  Property1 = true; -- This is preferred
}

Class.__index.Property2 = false; -- This is fine too

-- Constructor functions
function Class.new()
  return setmetatable({}, Class)
end

function Class.FromOther(Other)
  return setmetatable({Other = Other}, Class)	
end

-- Method functions
function Class.__index:Method()
  self.Property1 = not self.Property1
end

function Class.__index:Method2()
  -- This method does awesome things!
end

return Class

This syntax most clearly shows which functions and properties are inherited by Objects of type Class versus which functions are the constructors. Method functions are declared with a :, while constructors are declared with a . preceding the function name. Never use strings instead of Enumerators, except for .new(StringName) functions.

Wrapper classes are not bound to the same syntactic guidelines.