[2.x] Storage Chest API support for getting/setting quality on its filter

[billbo99]

I've been working on some code to set the filter on storage chests and found no option to set the quality setting of the item in the filter.

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... age_filter

Before 2.0, I would set the filter using the item prototype. However, the 2.x API doc does not hint at how to set the quality.

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storage_chest.storage_filter = item_prototype

The same applies to reading the current filter. You can see the current LuaObject, but no quality information is provided.

[ahicks]

Another Factorio Access relevant request just wrt registering interest for some of these interface requests. Maybe we can work around this one with bleuprints. (I am assuming it's something one can do in vanilla, which I can't personally check). In general "if the frontend can do it and a mod can't, our players can't do it" is what we kinda have in our situation.

[LCStark]

Use the `set_filter` method:

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entity.set_filter(1, { type="item", name="iron-plate", quality="rare"})

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This works too:

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entity.storage_filter = { type="item", name="iron-plate", quality="rare"}

And I'm guessing here now, but I'd check if places where you've used ItemPrototype before aren't accepting ItemWithQualityID now.