How do I change a property of an entity type without using tables?

[Jackalope_Gaming]

I'm familiar enough with using

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for i,name in ipairs(insert table here)

to make a table of entities that I can then change properties of, but I'm having trouble finding a way to have it simply look at a type of entity and for all of those entities it will change a given property.

For what context it's worth, the intent is to create a mod in line with the proposed .17 plans to remove ingredient number restrictions on assemblers. Fixing the vanilla assemblers is quite easy, but I'd like a way to support assemblers from all mods and not have to go in and specifically define their names into a supported table.

How might I do that?

[darkfrei]

For what context it's worth, the intent is to create a mod in line with the proposed .17 plans to remove ingredient number restrictions on assemblers. Fixing the vanilla assemblers is quite easy, but I'd like a way to support assemblers from all mods and not have to go in and specifically define their names into a supported table.

Just so:

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for i, prot_type in pairs (data.raw) do
  for j, prototype in pairs (prot_type) do
    if prototype[my_prop] then
      -- change prototype
      prototype[my_prop] = "new parameter for existing one"
    end
  end
end

Or for assemblers only.