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+The component API is used to access and interact with components available to a computer. Also see [[the page on component interaction|ComponentAccess]].
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+- `component.get(address: string, componentType: string): string | (nil, string)`  
+  Tries to resolve an abbreviated address to a full address. Returns the full address on success, or `nil` and an error message otherwise. Optionally filters by component type.
+- `component.isAvailable(componentType: string): boolean`  
+  Checks if there is a primary component of the specified component type.
+- `component.getPrimary(componentType: string): table`  
+  Gets the proxy for the primary component of the specified type. Throws an error if there is no primary component of the specified type.
+- `component.setPrimary(componentType: string, address: string)`  
+  Sets a new primary component for the specified component type. The address may be abbreviated, but must be valid if it is not `nil`. Triggers the `component_unavailable` and `component_available` signals if set to `nil` or a new value, respectively.
+
+Note that the component API has a metatable that allows the following syntax:
+```lua
+local rs0 = component.getPrimary("redstone")
+local rs1 = component.redstone -- syntactic sugar
+print(rs0 == rs1) -- true
+```
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