binser help

[Divinity]

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my_data = nil

on load, im trying to make "my_data" from nil into a table (basically deserialize all that i previously saved into "game_save.dat"
so, it becomes something like

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my_data = {
			name = "jack",
			gold = 30,
			class = nil,
			items = {13, 24, {139}},
			lore = {}
}

what am i doing wrong?

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function deserialize_into_table(name, table_pointer)
    if filesystem.getInfo(name) then
        local file = filesystem.newFile(name, "r")
        local serializedData = file:read()
        file:close()
        local deserializedData = binser.deserialize(serializedData)
		deserializedData = deserializedData[1]
		
		
		for k, v in pairs(deserializedData) do
            		table_pointer[k] = v
        	end
        end
end


deserialize_into_table("game_save.dat", my_data)
        	

[MrFariator]

Can you provide more code, or say what your exact error/issue is? At a glance, if your "my_data" variable is nil when you call the deserialize_into_table function, "table_pointer" won't be a table; it'll be nil. Additionally, binser.deserialize already returns a table, so you might be better off doing (assuming your serialized file is just a table):

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function deserialize_into_table(name)
    if filesystem.getInfo(name) then
        local serializedData = love.filesystem.read ( name )
        return binser.deserialize(serializedData)
    end
end

my_data = deserialize_data("game_save.dat")

I do note that I have more familiarity with bitser, so I'm not sure if binser does certain things differently.

[Divinity]

thanks i already swapped to bitser and all seems to work