[vJASS] Unsure about this.

[Rugarus]

private function OnAttack takes nothing returns boolean
  local unit a = GetAttacker()
  local player pa = GetOwningPlayer(a)

  local integer SideATK = PlayerData(pa).side
endfunction

I have this script (not written by me)
I've read up array structs that is like

integer x = 1

local playerdata pd
set playerdata[3].x=5


But in this script I don't see "side" ever declared anywhere. Is side a pre built in property of player data?
The script also doesn't require any other libraries, so I don't know how else 'side' could be defined unless already a premade property?

And if it is, what are the other things that are premade properties?
In the same script it also does

playerdata[3].main

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[MyPad]

What you have there is a member of a struct, (in this case, side of PlayerData). The struct would look something like this...

struct PlayerData
    integer side
endstruct

As you can see, it is a member to every instance of the struct, but not to the struct itself.

 

[Chaosy]

Seems like a struct as "." syntax is not really used elsewhere.

So you want to look for the struct playerdata which supposedly has the "side" variable you are looking for

 

[Rugarus]

Seems like a struct as "." syntax is not really used elsewhere.

So you want to look for the struct playerdata which supposedly has the "side" variable you are looking for

But wouldn't the library this code is in require another library that contains the 'side' variable? Because it's not in this script.

 

[Chaosy]

Not necessarily.

If the stars align you can have it work.

Basically, in order to use something it needs to be placed above the line that uses it.
So if you are lucky the struct you want to use happened to be placed above your triggers.

The "requires" keyword ensures that the dependency is placed on top, but it is technically not needed.

(actually I do not think it is "random" but rather in which order the triggers were created, but do not quote me on that)

 

[IcemanBo]

Yeh, like it was said there must be a struct somehwere declared with this data. You can always attach the map, too if there are issues to find.

struct works a bit different than normal JASS, it doesn't need to be placed on top, or concretly required/used by some library, because JassHelper will automatically make the organization for struct variables and methods.

• struct variables will be globals, and there is anyways always only 1 globals block on the very top, in final JASS script
• struct methods will be declared directly under the globals block

 

[Rugarus]

Oh ok gotcha, guess I need to sift through like 100 libraries to find this! xD
Thanks!

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can intentionally put a compiler error in your code after a line that uses PlayerData(pa).side and then see what array is assigned to play the role of .side by JASSHelper when it notices the error during compilation.

Say it's __s__PlayerData__var__side. Then you remove the compiler error, save the map, and extract its war3map.j. Search through that file for instances of __s__PlayerData__var__side and you might be able to identify which library or bit of code is modifying .side.

 

[Rugarus]

You can intentionally put a compiler error in your code after a line that uses PlayerData(pa).side and then see what array is assigned to play the role of .side by JASSHelper when it notices the error during compilation.

Say it's __s__PlayerData__var__side. Then you remove the compiler error, save the map, and extract its war3map.j. Search through that file for instances of __s__PlayerData__var__side and you might be able to identify which library or bit of code is modifying .side.

I found it but thanks.