Custom types from JavaScript

Questions
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I have a custom map format exported via a JS plugin, and I’m trying to take advantage of custom types so I can do more editing directly in Tiled.

Currently when I access a property that holds an enum value, I get an object with typeId, typeName, and value. I want to get the string value of the enum, but I can’t find a way to do that yet. “value” is numeric, while I would’ve expected it to be the string value of the enum because I chose “Save as String” under the enum definition.

What does “typeId” map to? Is there somewhere that I can access the enum members or info about the type?

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It is not currently possible* to get information about custom types via scripts, as there’s no API for custom types. This is a planned feature.

* it’s technically possible if you parse the user’s .tiled-project file yourself, but then you’ll have to be very careful to watch for changes to this file.

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It’ll be nice to have an API for this but in the meantime I just realized I can export a JSON file describing the types, and typeId corresponds to those. That’s good enough for me.

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