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Darussian
Darussian

Reputation: 1593

Lua list of objects

I am very new to Lua and am in need of assistance. I am trying to create a list of objects that have a name and a message. I need to be able to send JSON to my app like:

{{"name":"Joe","Message":"This is a test"),{....}}

From what I've read this could be accomplished with tables, but it does not seem to be working, what I have tried so far is 

message = {}
messages = {}

message["name"] = "Joe"
message["message"] = "This is a Message"

messages["1"] = ??  <--- I don't know what to do here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6786

Answers (1)

Paul Kulchenko
Paul Kulchenko

Reputation: 26744

Assuming you fix your JSON code, which should probably look something like {{"name":"Joe","Message":"This is a test"},{....}}, you can use the following code:

message = {name = "Joe", Message = "This is a Message"} -- capitalization in "Message" may matter
messages = {}
messages[1] = message

This is the same as:

message = {}
message["name"] = "Joe" -- or message.name = "Joe"
message["Message"] = "This is a Message" -- or message.Message = "...."
messages = {}
messages[1] = message -- the value of that element is a table

Note that I used [1] and not ["1"], which are two different keys. Given your structure, you do want to use [1].

Upvotes: 8

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