From 3f54007ab621d2e6b652523259b1cb2d3d158e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rebecca <ubq323@ubq323.website>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:42:28 +0100
Subject: create Thing class for general tuples of (pylon,descriptor)

---
 thing.lua | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 thing.lua

(limited to 'thing.lua')

diff --git a/thing.lua b/thing.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33a4bb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thing.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+local class = require'r.class'
+-- author or channel or whatever
+-- tuple of (pylon, pylon-specific-descriptor, optional displayname)
+
+local Thing = class()
+function Thing.make(cls, pylon, descriptor, displayname)
+	displayname = displayname or descriptor
+	return setmetatable({
+		pylon=pylon,
+		descriptor=descriptor,
+		displayname=displayname,
+	}, cls)
+end
+function Thing.__eq(self, other)
+	return self.pylon == other.pylon and self.descriptor == other.descriptor
+end
+function Thing.__tostring(self)
+	return self.pylon.name
+		.. ':' .. self.descriptor
+		.. (self.displayname == self.descriptor and '('..self.displayname..')' or '')
+end
+return Thing
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