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#245183 Calling private functions from another API

Posted by aadrik on 09 February 2016 - 11:22 AM in Ask a Pro

Thanks Bomb Bloke for the quick reply.
I did mean line 21, I had forgotten that I had placed another line in for debugging. Its funny that you said that I should just run them as regular APIs since that is what I just got finished testing right before checking the post and it worked, so thank you for your advice although I did it differently which leads me to my next question...
what is the difference between

setFuelSource = function ()
  print("in fuel")
  for i = 1, #this.fuel_sources do
   if learn.known(this.fuel_sources[i]) then
	    print("I have ", this.fuel_sources[i])
   end
  end
end

and

function setFuelSource()
  print("in fuel")
  LearnAPI.scan()
  for i = 1, #fuel_sources do
   if LearnAPI.known(fuel_sources[i]) then
    print("I have ", fuel_sources[i])
   end
  end
end

They both work so I dont really know the difference or is it more just a personal preference kind of thing? Thanks again for all your help.



#245177 Calling private functions from another API

Posted by aadrik on 09 February 2016 - 10:07 AM in Ask a Pro

I have made an API for my turtles to learn objects and save the object name to a file so that the can continually build a database of known object for easy comparison to later and I want to use some of these functions in another API that I am building that manages fuel. However when I call a function from my LearnAPI from within my FuelAPI I get a error FuelAPI:line20 attempt to index ? (nil). I have posted both my APIs. I have been stuck on this for several hours and nothing I do is making any difference. Also I will post my startup script in case that helps.

startup
os.loadAPI("LocationAPI")
print("Loaded Location API")
os.loadAPI("LearnAPI")
print("Loaded LearnAPI")
os.loadAPI("FuelAPI")
print("Loaded FuelAPI")
location = LocationAPI.Setup()
learn = LearnAPI.setup()
fuel = FuelAPI.setup()
fuel.setFuelSource()

LearnAPI
--Allows Turtle to learn new objects--
function setup()
local this = {
  learned_items = {}
}
local saveItems = function ()
  save = fs.open("known_blocks", "w")
  save.write (textutils.serialize({this.learned_items}))
  save.close()
end
local loadItems = function ()
  if fs.exists("known_blocks") then
   load = fs.open("known_blocks", "r")
   this.learned_items = unpack(textutils.unserialize(load.readAll()))
   print("...Loading known items...")
   load.close()
  else
   print("I dont know any blocks.")
  end
end
local getLearnedItems = function ()
  loadItems()
  for i = 1, #this.learned_items do
   print(this.learned_items[i])
  end
end
local known = function (search)
  loadItems()
  for i = 1, #this.learned_items do
   if search == this.learned_items[i] then
	return true
   end
  end
end
local scan = function ()
  loadItems()
  local success, item = turtle.inspect()
   if success then
	if known(item.name) == true then
	 print("Item already known.")
	else
	 table.insert(this.learned_items, item.name)
	 print ("Learned ", item.name)
	 saveItems()
	end
   end
end

local scanInventory = function()
  loadItems()
  for i = 1, 16 do
   if turtle.getItemCount(i) ~= 0 then
	local item = turtle.getItemDetail(i)
	if known(item.name) == true then
	 print("Item already known.")
	else
	 table.insert(this.learned_items, item.name)
	 print ("Learned ", item.name)
	 saveItems()
	end
   end
  end
end

return {
  scan = scan,
  getLearnedItems = getLearnedItems,
  scanInventory = scanInventory,
  known = known
}
end


FuelAPI
function setup()
local this = {
  min_fuel_level = 10,
  fuel_sources = {"minecraft:coal", "minecraft:planks", "minecraft:log"},
}

local refuel = function ()
  if turtle.getFuelLevel() < this.min_fuel_level then
   turtle.refuel()
  end
end

local setMinFuelLevel = function (min_level)
  this.min_fuel_level = min_level
  print("Minimum fuel level set to " , this.min_fuel_level)
end

local setFuelSource = function ()
  print("in fuel")
  for i = 1, #this.fuel_sources do
   if learn.known(this.fuel_sources[i]) then
	print("I have ", this.fuel_sources[i])
   end
  end
end
return {
  refuel = refuel,
  setMinFuelLevel = setMinFuelLevel,
  setFuelSource = setFuelSource,
}
end