LuaJava Coroutines/Kepler Project Docs

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

Hi,

I just wasted a lot of time getting LuaJava up and running in my current 
project, only to discover that a key feature isn't supported: coroutines.

If you try to call a Java function from a coroutine using LuaJava, it 
fails, because the architecture only keeps track of a single Lua state 
per thread. And there doesn't seem to be a quick workaround to fix it. 
I've wasted too much time with this already; I may have to abandon using 
Lua in this project as a result, since the project has a tight deadline, 
and I need things to be working NOW, not after I've rewritten LuaJava to 
work correctly, and I can sacrifice some project flexibility (i.e., Lua 
scripting) if I have to, but I can't take extra time to make things work.

If anyone knows of a patched LuaJava that works with coroutines, please 
point me at it. Honestly it doesn't look hard to patch, and I have some 
thoughts on how to patch it, but not the time to do it.

Regardless, can someone with the right permissions please modify the 
LuaJava project documentation at the Kepler Project to add a warning to 
prevent hapless developers like myself from having to figure out the 
hard way that it's broken with respect to coroutines? When a project 
like LuaJava claims to support Lua, and even contains helper functions 
to create and yield coroutines, one might naturally assume that it 
supports coroutines. I want my wasted day back. :(

This is on Android, so jnlua doesn't build (needs JavaBeans, which 
itself doesn't build...). Alternately, if someone knows of a working 
jnlua port to Android, that could potentially help.

Tim