Resource

Inherits: Reference < Object

Inherited By: Theme, AudioStream, EventStream, CubeMap, DynamicFontData, Translation, Curve2D, Shape, Shape2D, Shader, ColorRamp, StyleBox, Material, VideoStream, RoomBounds, PackedScene, Texture, Script, OccluderPolygon2D, Mesh, TileSet, ShortCut, BitMap, Animation, Sample, PolygonPathFinder, BakedLight, World, SampleLibrary, World2D, Font, SpriteFrames, MeshLibrary, Curve3D, NavigationPolygon, EditorSettings, Environment, MultiMesh, CanvasItemMaterial, PackedDataContainer, NavigationMesh

Category: Core

Brief Description

Base class for all resources.

Member Functions

Object	duplicate ( bool subresources=false )
Object	get_import_metadata ( ) const
String	get_name ( ) const
String	get_path ( ) const
RID	get_rid ( ) const
void	set_import_metadata ( Object metadata )
void	set_name ( String name )
void	set_path ( String path )
void	take_over_path ( String path )

Signals

• changed ( )

Description

Resource is the base class for all resource types. Resources are primarily data containers. They are reference counted and freed when no longer in use. They are also loaded only once from disk, and further attempts to load the resource will return the same reference (all this in contrast to a Node, which is not reference counted and can be instanced from disk as many times as desired). Resources can be saved externally on disk or bundled into another object, such as a Node or another resource.

Member Function Description

• Object duplicate ( bool subresources=false )

• Object get_import_metadata ( ) const

• String get_name ( ) const

Return the name of the resources, any name is valid (it doesn’t have to be unique). Name is for descriptive purposes only.

• String get_path ( ) const

Return the path of the resource. This is useful mainly for editors when saving/loading, and shouldn’t be changed by anything else.

• RID get_rid ( ) const

Return the RID of the resource (or an empty RID). Many resources (such as Texture, Mesh, etc) are high level abstractions of resources stored in a server, so this function will return the original RID.

• void set_import_metadata ( Object metadata )

• void set_name ( String name )

Set the name of the resources, any name is valid (it doesn’t have to be unique). Name is for descriptive purposes only.

• void set_path ( String path )

Set the path of the resource. This is useful mainly for editors when saving/loading, and shouldn’t be changed by anything else. Fails if another Resource already has path “path”.

• void take_over_path ( String path )

Set the path of the resource. Differs from set_path(), if another Resource exists with “path” it over-takes it, instead of failing.