Interesting idea. I didn't notice that function, back when I was trying to get target effects to work.
I don't think you can create the objects directly; nor is there any enumeration of all possible effects. I think the best you can do is save all of the effects into a hash as you receive them from EffectAdded events or EffectList:Get(). Of course, if you are maintaining that hash, there's no reason to call the Contains() function. Just do a direct hash table lookup.
In case it's not clear, I mean maintaining a list of the form
Code:
{
[effectObject1] -> true,
[effectObject2] -> true,
[effectObject3] -> true
...
}
so you can use Lua's built-in hash function to see if an effectObject is present in the list.
I still have my fingers crossed that
the situation will be improved in U24.