How does one access the moves/variations/comments/etc. of a Game object?

[danegraphics]

I couldn't find anything in the documentation that allows one to access the content of a game object, such as the moves, the variations, the comments, etc. Only the names of the players and other things like that.

I need to be able to load PGNs, look at them/add comments and variations to them/etc, and then export the modified PGNs after.

How would I do that?

[danegraphics]

Turns out both Node and Variation are exposed and can be accessed, but only after calling Game.mainVariation().

Navigating a variation purely through next() is slightly annoying, but it's workable.

[yo35]

Hi,
I'm opened to any suggestion that would improve the API exposed by the Game and Variation objects.

[danegraphics]

@yo35 - It would be very useful to be able to navigate the variation object through an array of nodes.

Instead of doing multiple next() calls to reach a certain move, you can simply do something like variation.nodeList()[7] to reach the 8th ply in a variation.

[yo35]

Done in version 1.3.0.

WARNING: in order to provide a consistent API, I had to slightly break the API of the Node object, in particular regarding functions Node#next() and Node#play(..). Now, these methods always return a new instance of Node, instead of returning a pointer to this.

In other words, as of 1.3.0, a given Node instance always points at the same move within a Variation, which is also more understandable in my opinion.