Check if meta.xml has been modified

['LinKin]

Hello,

Is there a way to check if the meta has been modified?

Not only the resource information (which you can get by using getResourceInfo) but the whole meta file.

Thanks

[Maurize]

Maybe this is a good information for you:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Meta.xml

Otherwise the easiest way that I know is, to set a value in xml and modify it through script.

['LinKin]

I do that with settings. But setting's names are defined in meta, therefore, if they are changed, the script will not recognize them.

But it's not settings the only reason why I want to check if the meta.xml is modified.

I want to check if a .lua file has been added/removed in meta also.

.. I don't have a clear idea of how to 'solve' this..

Probably using fileWrite, etc... I'm not sure..

How to compare a file to another?

[DakiLLa]

How to compare a file to another?

By checking their hashes, with md5 for example.

['LinKin]

Yeah.. but how to implement this on MTA?

I can generate the MD5 of the meta.xml and put it somewhere in the script,

but then when the script starts how can I compare the meta.xml against the original meta's MD5 ?

EDIT: Found this: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Md5

So hm yeah.. How can I get the meta.xml text as a string in order to turn it to MD5 and compare it with the original one?

EDIT2: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/FileRead But there's an argument (count: The number of bytes you wish to read.) .. Why in the example that argument is 500? I don't really understand it

EDIT3:Ok, I am reading the whole meta.xml but how can I know which number to put in the 'count' argument? I arbitrarily put 100000 (It did read the whole meta.xml) using the returned value of fileGetSize didn't work.

Edited May 28, 2014 by Guest

[xXMADEXx]

Use something like this

local hash = md5 ( fileRead ( "meta.xml", fileGetSize( "meta.xml" ) ) ) 

['LinKin]

Thanks Madex