new

Creates a new typed thing of a defined Type.

When possible it is preferred to use the syntax MyType{...} to create a thing of a certain Type. However, sometimes you need to create an thing dynamically with the Type’s name as variable and then new() can be used.

Since version v0.9.2 the value argument is no longer required. If not given all properties will be set to their default values.

Since version v0.9.5 it is also possible to create a typed thing using the shorter syntax Type(thing) (instead of writing new("Type", thing)).

This function generates a change.

Function

new(type, [value])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
type	str	The name of the Type that a thing must be made of.
value	thing (optional)	Thing containing all the properties that must be added to the new thing of the given Type.

Return value

A Thing containing all the properties which have been added to the new thing of the given Type.

Example

This code shows how to use new():

// Create type `Person`
set_type('Person', {
    name: 'str',
    age: 'int',
    hobbies: '[str]'
});

// Create a typed thing of type `Person`
new('Person', {
    name: 'John',
    age: 34,
    hobbies: ['Football']
});

Return value in JSON format

{
    "name": "John",
    "age": 34,
    "hobbies": ["Football"]
}

The property names and (data) types of the values that are added to a typed thing of an existing type must exactly match that Type.