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[wjykk]

Is there any way I can accept a table (or its equivalent) as an argument of IPeripheral.callMethod(), or return something as a table? Or is there any other way to do it? E.g.

myTable = {1,2,3}
otherTable = peripheral.myFunction(myTable)

[Cloudy]

No, you cannot accept tables. You can however return a table - just return a map in the object array.

[Xfel]

will that ever be changed? you could convert a table to a java map the same way you do it the other way round, couldn't you?

[SNCPlay42]

Cloudy, on 14 December 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:

No, you cannot accept tables. You can however return a table - just return a map in the object array.

Just FYI, this isn't mentioned anywhere in the doc.

[Cloudy]

SNCPlay42, on 16 December 2012 - 08:37 AM, said:

Cloudy, on 14 December 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:

No, you cannot accept tables. You can however return a table - just return a map in the object array.

Just FYI, this isn't mentioned anywhere in the doc.

That's because we haven't updated the doc since this was added.

[Espen]

Cloudy, on 14 December 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:

No, you cannot accept tables. You can however return a table - just return a map in the object array.

OMG, I can't believe it. I was just looking at some peripheral code and was stumped why a map was returned where I so painstakingly put together a string-representation of a table...
So I immediately searched for it, landed here and... what do you know, simply returning a map actually works.

Well that makes life much easier. Just goes to show how studying others' code can yield more information than studying the actual documentation, hehe.
Anyway, a big thanks for implementing that!