code completion for ressource attributes?

keylee

This is somewhat a conveinience question and somewhat error prevention. I'm watching one of HeartBeast's tutorials on scriptable objects.

He's creating a StatsClassextending Ressource with a few attributes (String, ints and a texture). Now when I am referencing one of the newly created ressources in code I can access the data:

var my_resource = load("res:wizard.tres")
my_ressource.health # do something with this

My actual question here is: The code editor does not autocomplete the attributes in the editor. If I type my_ressource. I'd somehow expect the list to contain my own attributes like health, strength, class, etc. They are not present in the auto-complete list, though. So If I (or someone else working with it) would want to access them they's need to know that the attributes are actually there.

Is this a limitation of the Python type scripting or the code editor itself? Or is it something that would actually work if it was set up correctly in the class desctription?

I'm primary an artist and still rather new to Godot so please be kind ;) Thanks.

(edit) Or more curious to me: why is there auto-completion inside the assign_data function :

... but not when I want to access the same kind of ressource in _ready?

Link to the video I'm talking about:

Kequc

It will only give you code completion if you tell it what the object is. Inside of a class it knows what it's own class members are, if you want the same functionality outside of the class, you need to tell the editor that the object you're accessing is an instance of that class.

keylee

Isn't that done by using a strict assignment as well, though? onready var class_data : ClassStats

it does work if I do it like this:

extends ColorRect

# get a reference to one of our class ressources
onready var class_data : ClassStats = load("res://Ressources/Classes/Wizard.tres")

func _ready() -> void:
	var class_data : ClassStats = class_data	
	assign_data(class_data)  # call function to update UI

This feels kind of wrong, doesn't it?
shouldn't the onready var class_data : ClassStatsdefintion be enough to make it clear inside _ready as well?