rhai/doc/src/engine/scope.md
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`Scope` - Initializing and Maintaining State
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By default, Rhai treats each [`Engine`] invocation as a fresh one, persisting only the functions that have been defined
but no global state. This gives each evaluation a clean starting slate.
In order to continue using the same global state from one invocation to the next,
such a state must be manually created and passed in.
All `Scope` variables are [`Dynamic`], meaning they can store values of any type.
Under [`sync`], however, only types that are `Send + Sync` are supported, and the entire `Scope` itself
will also be `Send + Sync`. This is extremely useful in multi-threaded applications.
In this example, a global state object (a `Scope`) is created with a few initialized variables,
then the same state is threaded through multiple invocations:
```rust
use rhai::{Engine, Scope, EvalAltResult};
let engine = Engine::new();
// First create the state
let mut scope = Scope::new();
// Then push (i.e. add) some initialized variables into the state.
// Remember the system number types in Rhai are i64 (i32 if 'only_i32') ond f64.
// Better stick to them or it gets hard working with the script.
scope
.push("y", 42_i64)
.push("z", 999_i64)
.push_constant("MY_NUMBER", 123_i64) // constants can also be added
.set_value("s", "hello, world!".to_string()); //'set_value' adds a variable when one doesn't exist
// remember to use 'String', not '&str'
// First invocation
engine.eval_with_scope::<()>(&mut scope, r"
let x = 4 + 5 - y + z + MY_NUMBER + s.len;
y = 1;
")?;
// Second invocation using the same state
let result = engine.eval_with_scope::<i64>(&mut scope, "x")?;
println!("result: {}", result); // prints 1102
// Variable y is changed in the script - read it with 'get_value'
assert_eq!(scope.get_value::<i64>("y").expect("variable y should exist"), 1);
// We can modify scope variables directly with 'set_value'
scope.set_value("y", 42_i64);
assert_eq!(scope.get_value::<i64>("y").expect("variable y should exist"), 42);
```