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// This one's for you, SDQL fans
// Give this a string and a location to create the object. Examples of using
// this function:
/*
CALL global.json_to_object_arbitrary_vars("{'type':'/obj/item/crowbar', 'color':'#FF0000','force':5000,'name':'Greytides Gravedigger'}", loc) ON /mob/living/carbon/human WHERE ckey == 'crazylemon'".
*/
// This is a bit more flexible than the serialization interface because that interface
// expects a rigid structure for the data
/proc/json_to_object_arbitrary_vars(json_data, position)
var/data = json_decode(json_data)
return list_to_object_arbitrary_vars(data, position)
/proc/list_to_object_arbitrary_vars(list/data, position)
if(!islist(data))
throw EXCEPTION("Not a list.")
if(!("type" in data))
throw EXCEPTION("No 'type' field in the data")
var/path = text2path(data["type"])
if(!path)
throw EXCEPTION("Path not found: [path]")
var/atom/movable/thing = new path(position)
data -= "type"
for(var/attribute in data)
thing.vars[attribute] = data[attribute]
return thing