# How to check if a player is holding an item

Published: 1/11/2022 for TQ Version: 3.2.4

TwilioQuest has a central "context" that holds most of the data the game uses. You can see a lot of this data saved in your save filed config.json (opens new window).

There are getContext and setContext functions attached to the world object that allow you to get and set these values. Look at this save file to get an idea of the properties you can use.

WARNING

Working with the context APIs tightly couples your extension to the internals of TwilioQuest. This may mean that your extension requires code fixes to keep working with future versions of TwilioQuest.

# Checking player loadout

This is an example events.js file. It gets the current loadout context when the player interacts with an object with the key property "test". You could trigger this logic on any event you wished.

The loadout object can have a property for each part of a player's equipment slot. If no items are equipped, any of these properties could be missing or set to null.

head
body
hand1
hand2
accessory1
accessory2
legs
feet

In this example, we're checking for the body property. Since it may be missing or null, we use JavaScript's optional chaining (opens new window) to avoid a potential error.

If the name of the equipped object is the key tshirt, we show a notification. This snippet also logs the loadout object so you can inspect that data.

module.exports = function(event, world) {
  if (event.name === "playerDidInteract" && event.target.key === "test") {
    const loadout = world.getContext("loadout");

    if (loadout.body?.name === "tshirt") {
      world.showNotification("I'm wearing a t shirt!");
    }

    console.log({ loadout });
  }
};