Having issues with the "peripheral.getType" method

[MintTee]

I don't understand how to actually know a peripheral's type using the "peripheral.getType" method.

So when you just enter the command : peripheral.getType("name"),
It does print correctly the name and the type of the peripheral.

However, when you try to plug that result into a table, it only registers the name of the peripheral, not it's actual type. I was expecting it to be registered as a table where index 1 = name and index 2 = type but it doesn't seem to work that way, despite what the CC:T documentation claims.

var = peripheral.getType("minecraft:chest_0")

print(type(var))
      returns : "string"

print(var)
      returns : "minecraft:chest"

As you can see, it gets registered as a string, not a table. What I want to know is if that peripheral is an "inventory" or not. Am I missing something obvious ?

Thanks in advance for the help,
Martin

[SquidDev]

To clarify the documentation, it's the argument that can be a table, not the return value. This means you can do both peripheral.getType("top") or peripheral.getType(peripheral.wrap("top")).

getType will return multiple values — that can be put into a table with {peripheral.getType("top")}. You can then loop over that table and look for the "inventory" string, but it's probably easier to call peripheral.hasType("top", "inventory").

[MintTee]

Hello @SquidDev

So it was me missing something obvious 😅 ...

Now it makes total sense ! Indeed, it seems much more straight forward to just use the peripheral.hasType() method.
Thank you very much for the fast answer.