Module:ControllerUtilities

--- --- Centralizes some common functionality across controllers --- ---@module ControllerUtilities ControllerUtilities = {}

--region Public Constants

--endregion

--region Private Constants

local PATTERN_EVERYTHING_BETWEEN_COMMAS_AND_SPACES = "[^%s,][^,]+[^%s,]"

--endregion

--region Public methods

--- Converts a string that represents a list of items into an array of those items. This is useful when a template parameter is used as a list and not a single value. --- ---@param commaSeparatedStringOfIDs string the list of IDs, separated by commas ---@param needsKeyValueFlags boolean true if the list should be made of keys (IDs) and values of `true`, false if the list should be an array of IDs ---@return table the IDs now separated into elements in a table function ControllerUtilities.expandCommaSeparatedStringsIntoTable(commaSeparatedStringOfIDs, needsKeyValueFlags)

if not commaSeparatedStringOfIDs or "" == commaSeparatedStringOfIDs then return {} end

local list = {} for eachID in string.gmatch(commaSeparatedStringOfIDs, PATTERN_EVERYTHING_BETWEEN_COMMAS_AND_SPACES) do       if needsKeyValueFlags then list[eachID] = true else table.insert(list, eachID) end end

return list end

--endregion

return ControllerUtilities