Sorry, how to get the layer type?

tangyue0924

Sorry, it's my another question. I have read the whole document, but I can't find the way to get the type of a layer.

The Dev Tool can output the text like MSRectangleShape or MSTextLayer, how could I get this?

const selectedLayers = context.selection;
selectedLayers.forEach(e => {
   // how to get the type of each element?
})

Thanks for your answer...

mathieudutour

String(e.class()) but you should use the JS API instead of the obj-c API: https://developer.sketchapp.com/reference/api/ 🙂

tangyue0924

mathieudutour Thank you very much!!!!

tangyue0924

mathieudutour Sorry for disturbing...I have another problem again...If one pathLayer was selected, and I want the code of this layer (<path d="M221.152581,24.072125 L215.199209,17.912125 C215.090966... fill='#fff'></path>), how should I do? Thanks again...

ptewari

mathieudutour Where can I find the list/definitions of all the different types of layer? I have looked through the api documentation and it does not include those.
I know: "Text", "Hotspot" , what are the other one?
I am also ok with the class names, sketchObject.class() eg: MSRectangleShape.

Just need a list of all the types and what they mean so that I can add a filter.

mathieudutour

you can find them here: require('sketch').Types. In the documentation, each layer is its own type: https://developer.sketchapp.com/reference/api/#layer

ptewari

Thanks,

Library: Library
Style: Style
Fill: Fill
ImageData: ImageData
Image: Image
Shadow: Shadow
Document: Document
SharedStyle: SharedStyle
Override: Override
Group: Group
Artboard: Artboard
Border: Border
BorderOptions: BorderOptions
Shape: Shape
Blur: Blur
Gradient: Gradient
SymbolMaster: SymbolMaster
DataOverride: DataOverride
Text: Text
HotSpot: HotSpot
Page: Page
ImportableObject: ImportableObject
Flow: Flow
SymbolInstance: SymbolInstance
ShapePath: ShapePath
GradientStop: GradientStop

This was not very evident from the documentation. There are a lot of api that I find in this forum from comments and questions, but I cannot find them in the documentation. Is this the way to develop sketch plugins or can I find some references / git repo for the 'sketch' js module.

mathieudutour

the repo is here: https://github.com/BohemianCoding/SketchAPI and the reference is here: https://developer.sketchapp.com/reference/api. It's all open source! Feel free to send a PR to make things more obvious, I might miss things since I'm working with it every day

ptewari

mathieudutour Awesome. this is what I was looking
for. https://github.com/BohemianCoding/SketchAPI/tree/develop/docs