[Peripheral Creation][MC 1.7.10] Modify a turtle's inventory

I am working on a ComputerCraft peripheral addon, and one of my planned peripherals requires consuming items from a stack in the turtle's inventory (specifically the selected slot), but I cannot find a method to modify the turtle's inventory in ITurtleAccess (you can read it, but there seems to be no setInventory(). Is there a way to do this with a different part of the API, or will I have to abuse turtle.drop() to make this work?

For more specific details, I am making a "claw" peripheral that allows a turtle to right click blocks (such as levers, buttons, ore berry bushes, etc.), but in some cases I actually need to consume one of the held item, such as when placing an item in a sieve from Ex Nihilo.

Why won't ITurtleAccess' getInventory method work?

Does that allow you to modify the original object? I am used to lua where function returns just give you a copy of the data rather than the original.

That's not how Lua works.

The IInventory object that the getInventory method returns has methods to change the contents of the inventory, which is what you'd use to modify the turtle's inventory.

Alright, I'll look into the methods of IInventory. (and I guess I am still a little confused on the way lua works as well) Thanks for the help!

KnightMiner, on 23 January 2016 - 03:21 AM said:

(and I guess I am still a little confused on the way lua works as well)

The point Lyqyd's presumably getting at is that Lua doesn't have any rules as to whether its functions return copies of objects or not. That's entirely up to the functions in concern - but as a general rule, you'd quite rightly expect that a function/method/whatever named "getObject" will get you that object, regardless as to the language you're using.

Bomb Bloke, on 23 January 2016 - 03:44 AM said:

The point Lyqyd's presumably getting at is that Lua doesn't have any rules as to whether its functions return copies of objects or not. That's entirely up to the functions in concern - but as a general rule, you'd quite rightly expect that a function/method/whatever named "getObject" will get you that object, regardless as to the language you're using.

My main reason for confusion was the fact that nearly every other function had a "set" and "get" variant, just not that one function. I should probably read up a bit more on objects too then.