Object oriented programming, need help again. I can't set a method. It returns nil?
Person = {}
Person.__index = Person
Person.martialArts = {Karate = {}}
function Person.new(name, age, eth)
local newPerson = {
Name = name,
Age = age,
Ethnicity = eth,
martialArts = "Karate"
}
return setmetatable(newPerson, Person)
end
function Person.martialArts.Karate:Kick()
if self.martialArts == "Karate" then
print("Kick!")
else
return 0
end
end
function Person:Swim()
print(self.Name.. " is swimming!")
end
return Person
This is my running script:
Person = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.OOP)
local John = Person.new("John", "Young", "Human")
print(John.martialArts:Kick())
I get an error:
attempt to call method 'Kick' (a nil value)
I want to basically be able to do John.martialArts:Kick() and in that function it will check if he actually has the martial arts "Karate" and if he does, it will execute. I can't find any examples online about this and I've tried but I don't know how to get it to do that (what I'm trying to do). Any idea/help?
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I want to basically be able to do John.martialArts:Kick() and in that function it will check if he actually has the martial arts "Karate" and if he does, it will execute
Since it needs to check if John is a certain way, it should be a method of John and not of one of John's fields:
function Person:Kick()
if self.martialArts == "Karate" then
print("Kick!")
else
return 0
end
end
john = Person.new("John", "Young", "Human")
john:Kick() --> Kick!
Methods either act upon an object or ask that an object act. In this case, you're asking John to Kick, so it should be a method on John. Since John is a Person, that means you need a Kick method defined for the Person class.
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A few things were wrong. First, you forgot to put ".Karate" on line 3, it should be:
Person = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.OOP)
local John = Person.new("John", "Young", "Human")
print(John.martialArts.Karate:Kick())
Next, the reason why John.martialArts.Karate:Kick() does not work is because martialArts is not a table, you actually set it to a string in the Person.new function.
Person = {}
Person.__index = Person
Person.martialArts = {Karate = {}}
function Person.new(name, age, eth)
local newPerson = {
Name = name,
Age = age,
Ethnicity = eth,
--martialArts = "Karate" --Don't put this here or give this a different name!!
}
return setmetatable(newPerson, Person)
end
function Person.martialArts.Karate:Kick()
if self.martialArts == "Karate" then--Also if you changed the string from martialArts to something else, don't forget to change it here too.
print("Kick!")
else
return 0
end
end
function Person:Swim()
print(self.Name.. " is swimming!")
end
return Person
That's all that you did wrong, it should work if you fix these.
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