Passing properties to spawned objects?

[MadCatter]

When spawning an object from a script, is there a way to pass a property to the spawned object so that it links to the object that spawned it? (directly or indirectly)

Alternatively is there a way to find the ID of an object of a specific type at a given x/y location?

[Batty]

Alternatively is there a way to find the ID of an object of a specific type at a given x/y location?

I have this script for finding IDs:

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function getID(self, name, coordX, coordY)
   for i in self.go.map:entitiesAt(coordX, coordY) do
      if i.name == name then
         print(name .. ' #1' .. ' = ' .. i.id)
         return i.id
      else
         print(name .. ' at ' .. coordX .. ', ' .. coordY .. ' not found')
      end
   end
end

Only finds the first instance of the object type you're looking for but it could be changed to find them all.

To call it from another script:

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global.script:getID('torch', 12, 18)