Best way of doing Item class?

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Hello! I want to make a good base-class for items so i can easily add new items and itemTypes. I was wondering if there is a way to access different types of data from an item ID, i'm sorry if i'm bad at explaining, maybe if you look at my code you can understand what i mean and maybe point me in the right direction!

What i want to be able to do is write something like this to access the data:

readItemData(001).name;

Is what i'm trying to do possible? Am i doing item classes as good as possible or is there better ways to do it?

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class itemInfo : MonoBehaviour {
     
     
     public int universalStackLimit;
     
     public int[] IDs;
     public string[] Names;
     public GameObject[] Models;
     public string[] Types;
     public GUIContent[] IconImages;
     public bool[] stackables;
 
     
     public void assignItemData(int ID, string Name, GameObject Model, string itemType, GUIContent IconImage, bool stackable)
     {
         IDs[ID] = ID;
         Names[ID] = Name;
         Models[ID] = Model;
         Types[ID] = itemType;
         IconImages[ID] = IconImage;
         stackables[ID] = stackable;
     }
     
     public void readItemData(int ID)
     {
         
     }
 }

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Answer by Dave-Carlile · Jan 03, 2013 at 01:56 PM

You probably want to use a class or a struct for this instead.

e.g.

 struct Item
 {
   public int ID,
   public string Name,
   public Model GameObject,
   public string Type,
   public GUIContent IconImage,
   public bool Stackable
 }

Store the structs in a list using generics...

 List<Item> items = new List<Item>();

Add one to the list...

 Item item = new Item {
   ID = 10,
   Name = "AnItem",
   Model = someModelReference,
   Type = "Test",
   IconImage = someIconImageReference,
   Stackable = true
 }

 items.Add(item);

And so on. Look up generic arrays and structs for more info. You could also use a class rather than a struct and things would look mostly the same. Depends on your needs.

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Nokirar · Jan 03, 2013 at 04:19 PM 0

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Thank you! I tried something similar with enum, but struct seems much better, this looks much cleaner than my way of doing it!

Nokirar · Jan 04, 2013 at 08:51 AM 0

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List, is not available, IList is though. It seems to work the same way, the only thing i cant get to work is items.Add(item);

Nokirar · Jan 04, 2013 at 08:59 AM 0

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Never mind, added using "System.Collections.Generic;" and it worked.

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