EventValue Changers

[ShaneBeee]

Suggestion

I would like to suggest the option to have changers in EventValues

Why?

As of right now all you can do is GET, but you cannot modify the event-values.

This would be handy in cases where I wanna do something like
set event-value to some new value

Other

No response

Agreement

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[Efnilite]

I get the utility here, but I think the immutability of the event values is important. Changing the event-player midway through a long event can be pretty confusing if you're reading back the code a few months later, or if you're trying to understand it. Curious to see what others think here though

[ShaneBeee]

but I think the immutability of the event values is important.

This statement confuses me. The whole reason for Bukkit calling events is so plugins can manipulate the outcome of the event.
Skript is often:
a) Limited on what it can do in events, since quite often you can only get event-values, but you can't manipulate them.
b) Skript often has to make another expression just so it can have a changer, and then we have a simple expression which can be used in only ONE event.

As an addon dev, its super frustrating having to create single expressions for single events, just so someone can manipulate the outcome of said event.

Changing the event-player midway through a long event...

Correct me if Im wrong, but is there a single event in Bukkit that you can change the player?
... ok, 2 events.

Lets take a quick peak at the PlayerItemDamageEvent
What if I wanted to set the damage amount?
Skript wont let me do it, since we don't have changers for the event-values, even tho the Bukkit event supports setting the damage.
Now because Skript doesn't have changers for event-values.... now I have to create a whole new expression, just for this one thing, in this one event.

[Efnilite]

What if I wanted to set the damage amount?
Skript wont let me do it, since we don't have changers for the event-values, even tho the Bukkit event supports setting the damage.

this isn't a skript feature?!?

i thought you meant changing what skript thinks the event-value is that is used in the rest of the method, so it'd only update in skript, not also on the event

[ShaneBeee]

What if I wanted to set the damage amount?
Skript wont let me do it, since we don't have changers for the event-values, even tho the Bukkit event supports setting the damage.

this isn't a skript feature?!?

i thought you meant changing what skript thinks the event-value is that is used in the rest of the method, so it'd only update in skript, not also on the event

OHHHHHHHHHH, yeah no.
I meant like changing the outcome of the event, via the event values.
A simple example would be like:

on some event:
    set event-item to 1 of stick

And no, currently event-values are getters only

better yet:

on consume:
	set event-item to 1 of stick