KotlinResources

Kotlin Resources

Overview

Kotlin Resources are my attempt to make data files more dynamic. I had started all data as json, but found querying game state for things like quest events or behaviors to be really hard to express with Json.

Modability

The hope is that one day user jars can be provided and at startup any kotlin resource files can also be picked up and used

Behaviors example

Start by taking a look at ReflectionTools, as it generates resource files by taking a Resource Interface and a base Class. In our example, it takes a BehaviorResource class and a Behavior Class. It then generates the other files for us. (You need to manually add the collection -> generated piece to the DependencyInjector).

Name	Kotlin Type	Generated	Purpose
Behavior	Any	No	The object you're actually creating
BehaviorResource	Interface	No	Each subtype in the resources package can be organized and grouped. The interface tells reflection it should be used when generating the final collection.
BehaviorsCollection	Interface	Yes	Promises to return a List<Behavior>
BehaviorsGenerated	Subtype of BehaviorsCollection	Yes	Grabs all BehaviorResource subtypes in the resources package and adds them to a list for the game to use
BehaviorsMock	Subtype of BehaviorsCollection	Yes	A mock implementation used for testing