Knowing if userdata is really an image

[Ubermann]

How?

So I can predict and avoid app crashes?

Because doing type(myImage) only tell me that it is userdata.

I could run through all elements in userdata and check if all of them are {r, g, b, a}, but since i'm implementing support for CMYK and HSV colors, it would be too much time invested for just that.

Thanks in advance.

[Santos]

Assuming we're talking about Image objects, does this work?

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if image:typeOf("Image") then

[Ubermann]

Assuming we're talking about Image objects, does this work?

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if image:typeOf("Image") then

No.

It is in fact ImageData type of object.
And when doing type() it just returns "userdata".
But I need to know if it really contains data that is image data or not.

[ejmr]

But I need to know if it really contains data that is image data or not.

If you want there to be zero doubt about the nature of the data I don't see any other option besides reading the entire file and verifying it, byte-by-byte if you have to. Popular image formats have header metadata you could look at, but if you base the test just on that you're trusting the rest of the data to be uncorrupted.