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Posted by Shaun Biggs USA (644 posts) Bio

Date Tue 05 Jun 2007 06:29 AM (UTC)

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I'm poking around with trying to save some data between sessions for a plugin of mine, and I ran into a wall trying to deal with nested tables. Here's an example of some of the test data I was using:


/temp = {"qwerty","asdfgh","zxvcbn"}
/print( serialize.save("temp", temp))
temp = {}
  temp[1] = "qwerty"
  temp[2] = "asfdgh"
  temp[3] = "zxvcbn" table: 0116D540

/test = { {1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9} }
/print( serialize.save("test", test))
Run-time error
World: Aardwolf - Balaam
Immediate execution
C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\lua\serialize.lua:116: Invalid name 'test[1]' for table
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'assert'
        C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\lua\serialize.lua:116: in function 'save_item'
        C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\lua\serialize.lua:169: in function 'save_item'
        C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\lua\serialize.lua:61: in function 'save'
        [string "Command line"]:1: in main chunk

The same error is thrown each time I try to use a nested table, no matter what values I try. I know I'm missing something blatantly obvious here, but I can't figure out what that would be.

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Posted by David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date Reply #1 on Tue 05 Jun 2007 06:37 AM (UTC)

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If memory serves this is a small problem in Nick's serialization code. Search for the error message and you'll find it. Then make sure it looks like this:


      assert (string.find (name, "^[_%a][_%a%d%.%[%]\"\"]*$") 
              and not lua_reserved_words [name], 
              "Invalid name '" .. name .. "' for table")

I get:



[david@thebalrog:~/development/lib-lua/lua5.1/lua]$ lua

Lua 5.1.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

> require 'serialize'

> test = { {1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9} }

> print(serialize.save("test", test))

test = {}

  test[1] = {}

    test[1][1] = 1

    test[1][2] = 2

    test[1][3] = 3

  test[2] = {}

    test[2][1] = 4

    test[2][2] = 5

    test[2][3] = 6

  test[3] = {}

    test[3][1] = 7

    test[3][2] = 8

    test[3][3] = 9      table: 0x64c430

>

This might be worth fixing in the stock serialize.lua distribution, actually.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

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Shaun Biggs USA (644 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Tue 05 Jun 2007 02:02 PM (UTC)

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Thank you very much. Serialize works beautifully now. Unfortunately, I can't quite release my plugins with this unless it's fixed in the standard distribution as well. I suppose I could put in an error catcher and have instructions on how to fix it.

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Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

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Reply #3 on Tue 05 Jun 2007 09:22 PM (UTC)

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You could also try changing the global serialize table's function to your own, but that's kind of hackish. I think it would be easiest if the standard file got fixed. Or you could distribute a fixed version and ask people to use that one instead until the main one gets fixed.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #4 on Tue 05 Jun 2007 10:20 PM (UTC)

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I have updated the serialize.lua function as described by David - for version 4.08 onwards.

For the meantime, it is something you could simply incorporate in your plugin, rather than relying on the separate serialize.lua file.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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