Re: [ANN] lua-marshal - fast table serialization

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

On 01/04/2011 12:23 PM, Alex Bradbury wrote:
> On 3 January 2011 11:34, Richard Hundt<richardhundt@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I thought I'd throw this little lib over the wall in the hope that somebody
> > finds it useful:
> >
> > https://github.com/richardhundt/lua-marshal
>
> I noticed one bug - tbl_marshal doesn't check its argument type which
> results in a segfault if you pass it something which isn't a table.
>
> I'm not entirely sure about the current error policy. Attempts to
> marshal a LUA_TTHREAD just result in a nil being stored, while
> persisting a C function raises an error. The attempts to marshal and
> unmarshal functions of course fail on LuaJIT 2 (probably lua-marshal
> should at least check the lua_dump return value).

Thanks very much, this is good feedback. I'll add/tidy up error checking.

Cheers,
Richard