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Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:08 pm**

Hi together,

I just started to get into the whole Modding thing and i am stucl with this

for i = 1, ent.request_slot_count do
	local slotinfo = ent.get_request_slot(i)
	message_all(slotinfo)
end

this code works but it prints only Unknown Key:"Fast inserter" (given i have a fast inserter in the slot)
but i also need to grab the requested amount.

I tried to treat slotinfo like a table with a for loop in pais cause the documentation says (An item stack may be specified either as a string (in which case it represents a full stack containing the specified item), or as the following table:) but that is not working.

Can somebody help me and tell me how do i get the itemcount and name from that slot?

Thanks and greets Loki

Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:56 pm**

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message_all(slotinfo.name .. " " .. slotinfo.count)

The table also works with pairs(), but name and count are the only keys so it is not very useful.

Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:07 pm**

Hi There,

I just figured out my mistake

i tried it with slotinfo.name before but that was an error too.
problem was he did not like the empty slots....
when you print it out as string it does not seem to bother him but if he expects a table and gets a nil he is not happy

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for i = 1, ent.request_slot_count do
      local slotinfo = ent.get_request_slot(1)
              if slotinfo ~= nil then
                    message_all(slotinfo.name .. ": " .. slotinfo.count)
              end	
end

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[SOLVED] ItemStack Question with requestslot

[SOLVED] ItemStack Question with requestslot

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