Inherent Types and Arbitrary Properties

Instead of having a column for type that applies to a property column, this update makes the property have the type inside itself. Much better UX and smaller sheets.

Once we no longer need a typing column, then we don't need to enforce a specific sheet structure. This update includes the ability to put any amount of arbitrary properties per Value.

This update also moves the type transformers into a separate file for maintainability and adds a few more types.

SheetValues/TypeTransformer.lua

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+--[[
+	TypeTransformers are functions that take in a entry of the CSV as a string,
+	and then transform it into the desired datatype.
+	Note that dict keys in here must be entirely lowercase.
+]]
+
+return {
+	["string"] = function(v)
+		return tostring(v)
+	end,
+	["number"] = function(v)
+		return tonumber(v)
+	end,
+	["boolean"] = function(v)
+		return string.lower(v)=="true" and true or false
+	end,
+	["array"] = function(v)
+		return string.split(v,",")
+	end,
+	["dictionary"] = function(v)
+		local values = string.split(v,",")
+		local dict = table.create(#values)
+
+		for _,value in ipairs(values) do
+			local components = string.split(value,"=")
+			dict[string.gsub(string.gsub(components[1],"^ ","")," $","")] = string.gsub(components[2],"^ ","")
+		end
+
+		return dict
+	end,
+	["vector3"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return Vector3.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["vector2"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return Vector2.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["udim2"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return UDim2.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[4]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["udim"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return UDim.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["color3"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return Color3.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["brickcolor"] = function(v)
+		return BrickColor.new(v)
+	end,
+	["rgb"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return Color3.fromRGB(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["cframe"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return CFrame.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+	["enum"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,".")
+		return Enum[comps[1]][comps[2]]
+	end,
+	["rect"] = function(v)
+		local comps = string.split(v,",")
+		return Rect.new(
+			tonumber(comps[1]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[2]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[3]) or 0,
+			tonumber(comps[4]) or 0
+		)
+	end,
+}