Lens Studio scene object hierarchy

object_query.js

// -----JS CODE-----
function showProps(obj, pre) {
    pre = pre || ''
	var result = '';
	result += pre + "Properties\n";
    for (var i in obj) {
        if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
            result += pre + '    .' + i + ' = ' + obj[i] + '\n';
        }
	}
	result += pre + "Inherited Properties\n";
    for (var i in obj) {
        if (!obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
            result += pre + '    .' + i + ' = ' + obj[i] + '\n';
        }
    }
	return result;
}

function showComponent(component, pre) {
    pre = pre || ''
    var out = '';
    out += pre + component.getTypeName() + "\n";
    out += showProps(component, pre + '    ');
    return out;
}

function showSceneObject(obj, pre) {
    pre = pre || ''
    var out = '';
    out += pre + obj.name + " (" + obj.getTypeName() + ")\n";
    out += showProps(obj, pre + '    ')
    var componentCount = obj.getComponentCount('');
    if (componentCount) {
        out += pre + "    Components:\n"
        for(var i=0; i < componentCount; i++) {
            var thisComponent = obj.getComponentByIndex('', i);
            out += showComponent(thisComponent, pre + '        ');
        }
    }
    var childCount = obj.getChildrenCount();
    if (childCount) {
        out += pre + "    Children:\n"
        for(var i=0; i < childCount; i++) {
            var thisChild = obj.getChild(i);
            out += showSceneObject(thisChild, pre + '        ');
        }
    }
    return out;
}

function showScene(scene) {
    var out = '---\n';
    out += "core version: " + global.getCoreVersion().toString() + '\n';
    var childCount = scene.getRootObjectsCount()
    for(var i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
        var obj = scene.getRootObject(i);
        out += showSceneObject(obj, '');
    }
    return out
}

print(showScene(scene))

This is super useful! I have come back to it several times so I decided to make a version that behaves a little differently. It always prints the result, and exposes the functions globally so they can be called from other scripts.

https://gist.github.com/positlabs/13a4420a20f38715053af218c625c08a

I'm glad that this is useful. I'd encourage anyone reading this message to use @positlabs ' gist instead...better than mine in several ways.