Jupiter - Save tables to files

[Lafolie]

Hello. I know you guys like to gets your hands on libraries so I spent a little time abstracting some of my code into one. It's a file i/o library, so I called it Jupiter (Io is one of its moons...). If you dislike the name, it matters not!

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jupiter = require "jupiter"
data = {_fileName = "example.txt", "Save this string!"}
success = jupiter.save(data)
newData = jupiter.load("filename.extension")

The above script would generate the following file in the love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory folder:

1=Save this string

Jupiter is capable of handling nested tables to the nth degree, so it will serialise and write your tables to a file for you. To keep things simple Jupiter handles filenames of loaded files for you. However, if you are writing a new file you must include the table property _fileName in the lowest level of your table:

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tableToSave = {_fileName = "example.txt", someVar = 7}

Nested tables manifest as:

index.subIndex.nIndex=value

Full documentation and the script itself can be found on github:

https://github.com/Lafolie/Jupiter

Have fun saving your data.

[luaz]

Nice! I may use this thing when I get past all the main menus and stuff.

[Anickyan]

Nice. But I think you over-complicated the table saving/loading WAAAAY too much. Look at this (at the bottom of the code), and see if you can figure out what I did...

[Lafolie]

You're joking right?

[Robin]

You're joking right?

Lord I hope so.

[Anickyan]

I know that it sounded like whoring, but it was not meant to do that, at all. I was just trying to tell you, that I thought you overcomplicated it. I see that it easily looks like something else.

[Roland_Yonaba]

*shakes head*
Kids these days...

[luaz]

I see that it easily looks like something else.