An internal class used by [PackedDataContainer] to pack nested arrays and dictionaries.
When packing nested containers using [PackedDataContainer], they are recursively packed into [PackedDataContainerRef] (only applies to [Array] and [Dictionary]). Their data can be retrieved the same way as from [PackedDataContainer].
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var packed = PackedDataContainer.new()
packed.pack([1, 2, 3, ["nested1", "nested2"], 4, 5, 6])
for element in packed:
if element is PackedDataContainerRef:
for subelement in element:
print("::", subelement)
else:
print(element)
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Prints:
[codeblock lang=text]
1
2
3
::nested1
::nested2
4
5
6
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Returns the size of the packed container (see [method Array.size] and [method Dictionary.size]).