Component:DataFeedItemMapper

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Data Feed Item Mapper component as seen in the Scene Inspector

The DataFeedItemMapper allows you to define which data feed items map to which UI templates. It does this via the list Mappings, which take classes that extend DataFeedItem and If they match a mapping in the list it Duplicates that item's template and adds it into the list.

For more info on data feeds, see Data Feeds

Fields

Fields

Name	Type	Description
persistent	Bool	Determines whether or not this item will be saved to the server.
UpdateOrder	Int	Controls the order in which this component is updated.
Enabled	Bool	Controls whether or not this component is enabled. Some components stop their functionality when this field is disabled, but some don't.
Mappings	list of DataFeedItemMapper.ItemMapping	A list of item Mappings to map data feed item types to Feed Templates.

Sync Delegates

Triggers

Method Name	Method type and Arguments.	Is the method hidden?	Description
OnSetupTemplate:ButtonEventHandler	ButtonEventHandler	✓	Set up a basic settup with this component with a bunch of example UIs.

ItemMapping

Fields

Name	Type	Description
ItemType	direct SyncType	The type to map to a template. The type coming from a data feed will extend the abstract class DataFeedItem.
GenericReplacementTypes	list of SyncType	If ItemType is a type that has generic single letter arguments, the type won't be accepted if it's arguments in order don't match the arguments in this list in order.
Template	FeedItemInterface	The template to duplicate when matched with this item mapping.

Usage

This component is to be put into a Component:SingleFeedView or similar so that the component it is specified inside of can use this component to map incoming feed items from the data feed to UI or object templates.