# `logtalk_load_context/2`

## Description

    logtalk_load_context(Key, Value)

Provides access to the Logtalk compilation/loading context. The following keys are currently supported:

- `entity_identifier` - identifier of the entity being compiled if any

- `entity_prefix` - internal prefix for the entity compiled code

- `entity_type` - returns the value `module` when compiling a module as an object

- `source` - full path of the source file being compiled

- `file` - the actual file being compiled, different from `source` only when processing an `include/1` directive

- `basename` - source file basename

- `directory` - source file directory

- `stream` - input stream being used to read source file terms

- `target` - the full path of the intermediate Prolog file

- `flags` - the list of the explicit flags used for the compilation of the source file

- `term` - the source file term being compiled

- `term_position` - the position of the term being compiled (`StartLine-EndLine`)

- `variables` - the variables of the term being compiled (`[Variable1, ...]`)

- `variable_names` - the variable names of the term being compiled (`[Name1=Variable1, ...]`)

- `singletons` - the singleton variables of the term being compiled (`[Name1=Variable1, ...]`)

The `logtalk_load_context/2` predicate can also be called initialization/1 directives in a source file. A common scenario is to use the `directory` key to define library aliases.

Warning

The `term_position` key is only supported in backend Prolog compilers that provide access to the start and end lines of a read term. When such support is not available, the value `-1` is returned for both the start and the end lines.

Currently, any variables in the values of the `term`, `variables`, `variable_names`, and `singletons` keys are not shared with, respectively, the term and goal arguments of the term_expansion/2 and goal_expansion/2 methods.

Using the `variables`, `variable_names`, and `singletons` keys may require calling the standard built-in predicate `term_variables/2` on the term read and unifying the term variables with the variables in the names list. This, however, may rise portability issues with Prolog compilers that don’t return the variables in the same order for the `term_variables/2` predicate and the option `variable_names/1` of the `read_term/3` built-in predicate, which is used by the Logtalk compiler to read source files.

## Modes and number of proofs

    logtalk_load_context(?atom, -nonvar) - zero_or_more

## Errors

(none)

## Examples

    term_expansion(Term, ExpandedTerms) :-
        ...
        logtalk_load_context(entity_identifier, Entity),
        ....

    :- initialization((
        logtalk_load_context(directory, Directory),
        assertz(logtalk_library_path(my_app, Directory))
    )).

See also

term_expansion/2, goal_expansion/2