type

This global replaces the built-in Lua function of the same name.

Arguments	Returns
v: any	string

The type(v) function returns a string representing the type of the passed object v.

Return values

The type function can return the following values.

• "nil" (nil)
• "number" (number)
• "string" (string)
• "boolean" (boolean)
• "table" (table)
• "function" (function)
• "Action" (Action)
• "ActionWheelAPI" (ActionWheelAPI)
• "Animation" (Animation)
• "AnimationAPI" (AnimationAPI)
• "AvatarAPI" (AvatarAPI)
• "Biome" (Biome)
• "BlockState" (BlockState)
• "BlockTask" (BlockTask)
• "ClientAPI" (ClientAPI)
• "ConfigAPI" (ConfigAPI)
• "EntityAPI" (EntityAPI)
• "EntityNameplateCustomization" (EntityNameplateCustomization)
• "Event" (Event)
• "EventsAPI" (EventsAPI)
• "HostAPI" (HostAPI)
• "ItemStack" (ItemStack)
• "ItemTask" (ItemTask)
• "Keybind" (Keybind)
• "KeybindAPI" (KeybindAPI)
• "LivingEntityAPI" (LivingEntityAPI)
• "MatricesAPI" (MatricesAPI)
• "Matrix2" (Matrix2)
• "Matrix3" (Matrix3)
• "Matrix4" (Matrix4)
• "ModelPart" (ModelPart)
• "NameplateAPI" (NameplateAPI)
• "NameplateCustomization" (NameplateCustomization)
• "NameplateCustomizationGroup" (NameplateCustomizationGroup)
• "NullEntity" (NullEntity)
• "Page" (Page)
• "Particle" (Particle)
• "ParticleAPI" (ParticleAPI)
• "PingAPI" (PingAPI)
• "PingFunction" (PingFunction)
• "PlayerAPI" (PlayerAPI)
• "RenderTask" (RenderTask)
• "RendererAPI" (RendererAPI)
• "Sound" (Sound)
• "SoundAPI" (SoundAPI)
• "SpriteTask" (SpriteTask)
• "TextTask" (TextTask)
• "Texture" (Texture)
• "TextureAPI" (TextureAPI)
• "TextureAtlas" (TextureAtlas)
• "VanillaModelAPI" (VanillaModelAPI)
• "VanillaModelGroup" (VanillaModelGroup)
• "VanillaModelPart" (VanillaModelPart)
• "VanillaPart" (VanillaPart)
• "Vector2" (Vector2)
• "Vector3" (Vector3)
• "Vector4" (Vector4)
• "VectorsAPI" (VectorsAPI)
• "Vertex" (Vertex)
• "ViewerAPI" (ViewerAPI)
• "WorldAPI" (WorldAPI)