I may have missed this, but is there a built-in method for serializing/deserializing lua tables to text files and vice versa?
I had a pair of methods in place to do this on a lua table with fixed format (e.g. 3 columns of data with 5 rows).
Is there a way to do this on lua tables with any arbitrary format?
For an example, given this lua table:
local scenes={
{name="scnSplash",
obj={
{
name="bg",
type="background",
path="scnSplash_bg.png",
},
{
name="bird",
type="image",
path="scnSplash_bird.png",
x=0,
y=682,
},
}
},
}
It would be converted into text like this:
{name="scnSplash",obj={{name="bg",type="background",path="scnSplash_bg.png",},{name="bird", type="image",path="scnSplash_bird.png",x=0,y=682,}},}
The format of the serialized text can be defined in any way, as long as the text string can be deserialized into an empty lua table.
require "json"
local t = json.decode( jsonFile( "sample.json" ) )
reference here for a simple json serializer.