Get 'id' from renoise.ViewBuilder().views

Renoise Tool Development
1

Hello,
I have a lot of widgets and to save and record configuration I want to speed up differently.
List of all widgets in the program I write down.

for w in pairs(viewbuilder.views) do
    rprint(w)
end

So in Views I have individual widgets stored.

class: ValueBox
 properties:
    active
    height
    max
    midi_mapping
    min
    steps
    tooltip
    value
    visible
    width
 methods:
    __STRICT
    add_child
    add_notifier
    remove_child
    remove_notifier

But to be able to work with it as I need, I need to find out his defined ‘ID’ that I gave him when creating.
Is it possible?
Thanks

EDIT:
And same for data created with renoise.Document.create(‘test’)
How i print keys and values ?

2

I assume you mean like this:

local vb = renoise.ViewBuilder()
local button = vb:button { id = "my_button" }
local checkbox = vb:checkbox { id = "my_checkbox" }

function find_view_id(vb, view_object)
  for id, view in pairs(vb.views) do
    if rawequal(view, view_object) then
      return id
    end
  end
end

print(find_view_id(vb, checkbox))
print(find_view_id(vb, button))
Summary

PS. I stay as far away from view id:s as possible. They do not feel as part of a healthy design pattern imo, but an ad-hoc feature to cater to beginner needs. I cannot think of one case where their use is part of a well structured code.

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3

Thanks,
it’s out of laziness.
My gui code is long and I don’t have every important widget in a separate variable. ‘id’ is the easy way for me.
When uploading the configuration, I just want to pass the data from the configuration and if the key from the configuration matches the ‘id’ of the widget, it will automatically put a value in it. This could be done in one short cycle rather than assigning each value separately.
Pseudocode:

for key in Config.keys() do
    result = check_if_same_id_is_in_widgets(key)
    if result then
        widget.value = key.value
    end
end

easy and readable

My config file has now 147 values and growing…