Thank you kindly, Snowdrop, for a patch that solves:

The current API for MRM is quite sparse, this patch 
supplies basic support for accessing the task 
inventory of object.

1 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions

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+

+using System;

+using System.Text;

+

+using OpenSim.Framework;

+using OpenSim.Region.Framework.Scenes;

+//using OpenSim.Services.AssetService;

+using OpenMetaverse;

+

+namespace OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.Scripting.Minimodule

+{

+        

+        

+        public class InventoryItem : IInventoryItem

+        {

+                TaskInventoryItem m_privateItem;

+                Scene m_rootSceene;

+                

+                public InventoryItem(Scene rootScene, TaskInventoryItem internalItem)

+                {

+                        m_rootSceene = rootScene;

+                        m_privateItem = internalItem;

+                }

+

+                // Marked internal, to prevent scripts from accessing the internal type

+                internal TaskInventoryItem ToTaskInventoryItem()

+                {

+                        return m_privateItem;

+                }

+

+                /// <summary>

+                /// This will attempt to convert from an IInventoryItem to an InventoryItem object

+                /// </summary>

+                /// <description>

+                /// In order for this to work the object which implements IInventoryItem must inherit from InventoryItem, otherwise

+                /// an exception is thrown.

+                /// </description>

+                /// <param name="i">

+                /// The interface to upcast <see cref="IInventoryItem"/>

+                /// </param>

+                /// <returns>

+                /// The object backing the interface implementation <see cref="InventoryItem"/>

+                /// </returns>

+                internal static InventoryItem FromInterface(IInventoryItem i)

+                {

+                        if(typeof(InventoryItem).IsAssignableFrom(i.GetType()))

+                        {

+                                return (InventoryItem)i;

+                        }

+                        else

+                        {

+                                throw new ApplicationException("[MRM] There is no legal conversion from IInventoryItem to InventoryItem");

+                        }

+                }

+                        

+                public int Type { get { return m_privateItem.Type; } }

+                public UUID AssetID { get { return m_privateItem.AssetID; } }

+                

+                public T RetreiveAsset<T>() where T : OpenMetaverse.Asset, new()

+                {

+                        AssetBase a = m_rootSceene.AssetService.Get(AssetID.ToString());

+                        T result = new T();

+

+                        if((sbyte)result.AssetType != a.Type)

+                                throw new ApplicationException("[MRM] The supplied asset class does not match the found asset");

+                        

+                        result.AssetData = a.Data;

+                        result.Decode();

+                        return result;

+                }

+        }

+}