Custom Child-Resources for storing named items

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Godot Version

4.2

Question

In my game I have resources for the different Goods in the game. I have a parent class called Good. I also have child classes of Good such as Food, Ore, etc.

I want every Good to have a good_name, so in the Good class I have

extends Resource
class_name Good

static var good_name:String = "Default Good Name"

and in the child class I have

extends Good
class_name Food

func _init():
	good_name = "Food"

In other parts of the code, I want to get any Good Resource and the name of that resource.
But if the variable is just a resource or reference to the Food Resource then in order for good_name to be “Food” and not “Default Good Name” I need to call good_res.new(), just so that good_res.new().good_name is “Food” and not “Default Good Name”. But do I really have do call .new()? That is not efficient. Is there a way to have a static var for a Resource that is different for different sub classes?

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In GDScript static variables are shared amongst all instances so I don’t think making the name static would work to begin with.

You could make a static get_name function, like:

static func get_goods_name(resource):
    if resource is Food:
        return "Food Name"

But yeah, I’d be interested in better solutions to this problem, too.

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Thank you! This solves my problem.
I’ve changed your solution slightly, so that each child class of Good has its own version of static func get_goods_name() that simply returns the name of that Good.