League of Extraordinary FoundryVTT Developers•2y ago

`template.json` Nesting Properties

I am in the process of developing a new system for Foundry VTT and I have found myself struggling to find the best way to organise some data. The system is broken into 3 categories of skills, Basic, Trained and Expert. I was able to find a nice way to separate them and have them appearing nicely in a nested sheet-tab, thanks to help in a previous post. My issue now is a couple skills are a base stat for other skills, e.g Diplomacy is the base skill for Barter, Persuade etc. Here is a snippet of the template.json:

"dipl": {
            "value": 0,
            "bb": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "cd": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "dm": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "int": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "per": {
              "value": 0
            }
          },

"dipl": {
            "value": 0,
            "bb": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "cd": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "dm": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "int": {
              "value": 0
            },
            "per": {
              "value": 0
            }
          },

When I try and loop through the keys, I hit an error that it is not iterable, as would be expected as trying to iterate through an Object inside an Object just wouldn't work without a nested loop. But is this the best way to organise the data structure as my config and en pack now look like this and it feels wrong to me:

OUTBREAK.skills = {
    label: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Label",
...
    trained: {
        label: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Label",
        bow: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Bow",
        calm: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Calm",
        dipl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Dipl",
        bb: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.BB",
        cd: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Cd",
        dm: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.DM",
        int: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Int",
        per: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Per",
        dgtlsys: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.DgtlSys",
        long: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Firm.Long",
        pistol: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Firm.Pistol",
        faid: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.FAid",
        bl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Bl",
        pi: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Pi",
        sl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Sl",
        nav: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Nav",
        swim: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Swim",
        throw: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Throw"
    },
...

OUTBREAK.skills = {
    label: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Label",
...
    trained: {
        label: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Label",
        bow: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Bow",
        calm: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Calm",
        dipl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Dipl",
        bb: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.BB",
        cd: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Cd",
        dm: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.DM",
        int: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Int",
        per: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Dipl.Per",
        dgtlsys: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.DgtlSys",
        long: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Firm.Long",
        pistol: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Firm.Pistol",
        faid: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.FAid",
        bl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Bl",
        pi: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Pi",
        sl: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.MA.Sl",
        nav: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Nav",
        swim: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Swim",
        throw: "OUTBREAK.Skills.Trained.Throw"
    },
...

1 Reply

Ikaguia•2y ago

I would use one of these two:

"dipl": {
  "value": 0,
  "subskills": [
    "bb": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "cd": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "dm": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "int": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "per": {
      "value": 0
    }
  ]
},

"dipl": {
  "value": 0,
  "subskills": [
    "bb": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "cd": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "dm": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "int": {
      "value": 0
    },
    "per": {
      "value": 0
    }
  ]
},

"dipl": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": null
},
"bb": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"cd": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"dm": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"int": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"per": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
}

"dipl": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": null
},
"bb": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"cd": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"dm": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"int": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
},
"per": {
  "value": 0,
  "base": "dipl"
}

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`template.json` Nesting Properties