Trying to use serialize

Posted by Shaun Biggs on Wed 11 Apr 2007 01:10 AM — 3 posts, 14,936 views.

Shaun Biggs USA Wed 11 Apr 2007 01:10 AM #0

I'm attempting to use serialize to store tables. I can get everything put INTO a variable just fine. It looks great and all, but I can't seem to load it. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong here:


require "serialize"
do
  temp = { 1,2,3 }
  serialize.save( "temp", temp )
  temp = {}
  print( loadstring( GetVariable( "temp" ) ) )
  for i,v in ipairs(temp) do
    print(i,v)
  end
end

This will store the temp variable just fine, but the only output is: function: 00D11968 which suggests that loadstring isn't doing much of anything.

David Haley USA Wed 11 Apr 2007 01:51 AM #1

loadstring creates a function that when called does whatever the string says to do. So you are missing the step where you actually call the return value of loadstring. See:
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-loadstring

Also, IIRC, serialize.save returns the string in which the table has been saved, so you'd still need to actually set the variable 'temp'.

Shaun Biggs USA Wed 11 Apr 2007 02:34 AM #2

I must have copied the wrong serialize.save line down, I had it wright in my script. Encapsulating the loadstring in an Assert did the trick for loading it. This wasn't in the only examples of loadstring I found for serialize though, either in the .lua file itself, or in http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=4960