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[Kilobyte]

Hello together,

i just realized that you can't pass tables to peripheral functions. i am now requesting this to be added for multiple reasons:

• Its unexpected behaviour to not to allow tables
  
• If you got arbritrary data, having an argument list is much less convenient to use and makes it unecessarily confusing.
  
• We can also return tables or pass them as event args, so why not accept them as args?

Would really apreciate to get this added

Greetz, Kilobyte

[Cloudy]

Already planned.

[Left4Cake]

Cloudy, on 22 April 2013 - 09:29 PM, said:

Already planned.

Sweet!

The only work around I can think of is having the table saved to a file and passing the file location as an arg, but that's more work on the server.

[Bubba]

Left4Cake, on 23 April 2013 - 06:28 AM, said:

Sweet!

The only work around I can think of is having the table saved to a file and passing the file location as an arg, but that's more work on the server.

Or just use unpack.

[Kingdaro]

What exactly is OP asking for?

[Espen]

Kingdaro, on 23 April 2013 - 10:13 AM, said:

What exactly is OP asking for?

He's talking about peripherals, i.e. it has more to do with the Java-side of CC than the Lua-side.
Since Lua and Java use different data types, they have to be converted if they are being passed between a CC computer and a peripheral.
At the moment the peripheral API (Java-side API) doesn't allow you to directly pass a Lua table from a CC computer into a Java peripheral.

[Lyqyd]

If this is changed, does that imply that tables will become usable in manually-queued event parameters, or is passing the table to the Java not the biggest issue there?