Migrate identifier logic to lib

backend-chests.lua

@@ -17,26 +17,19 @@ local inventories = w.find_peripherals(function(type, name, wrapped)
     return string.find(name, "chest") or string.find(name, "shulker")
 end)
 
-local nameCache = {}
+local display_name_cache = {}
-
--- Get the name for an item in the cache
-local function get_cache_name(item)
-    local n = item.name .. ":" .. item.damage
-    if item.nbtHash then n = n .. "#" .. item.nbtHash end
-    return n
-end
 
 -- Gets the display name of the given item (in the given chest peripheral & slot)
 -- If its name is not cached, cache it.
 -- If it is, just return the cached name
 local function cache(item, chest, slot)
-    local idx = get_cache_name(item)
+    local idx = w.get_internal_identifier(item)
     
-    if nameCache[idx] then
+    if display_name_cache[idx] then
-        return nameCache[idx]
+        return display_name_cache[idx]
     else
 		local n = chest.getItemMeta(slot).display_name
-        nameCache[idx] = n
+        display_name_cache[idx] = n
 		return n
     end
 end

lib.lua

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Contains:
 error handling (a set of usable errors and human-readable printing for them),
 networking (a simple node-based system on top of rednet)
 configuration (basically just loading serialized tables from a file)
+general functions of utility
+Plethora helpers
 ]]
 
 local d = require "luadash"
@@ -110,6 +112,15 @@ local function query_by_type(type, request, tries)
     return query_by_ID(ID, request, tries)
 end
 
+-- PLETHORA HELPERS
+
+-- Gets the internal identifier of an item - unique (hopefully) per type of item, as defined by NBT, metadata/damage and ID/name
+local function get_internal_identifier(item)
+    local n = item.name .. ":" .. item.damage
+    if item.nbtHash then n = n .. "#" .. item.nbtHash end
+    return n
+end
+
 -- GENERAL STUFF
 
 -- Loads a config file (in serialized-table format) from "filename" or wyvern_config.tbl