Re: Object "Forwarding" Between States

["Marc H. Balmer" <marc@...>]

Am 29.06.22 um 09:47 schrieb Oliver:
> On 28.06.22 17:14, Scott Morgan wrote:
> > I'm thinking about ways to share objects between states, something I've not
> > needed to do before, and have come up with a possible technique:
> >
> > Q1 : Has anyone ever done this? (Is there already a lib)
>
> you may want to have a look at "mtstates" for invoking Lua interpreter states
> from multiple threads:
>
> 	https://github.com/osch/lua-mtstates

There is also mqLua, https://github.com/arcapos/mqlua

It does basically the same, but include ZeroMQ for message passing 
between Lua states.

> > A call in L2, e.g. `fwd:foo("test")`, picks up the name of the method, and it's
> > arguments, than passes them into L1's state, calling the method on `obj`.
> > Results are then returned to L2 as expected, with non-basic Lua types being
> > wrapped in their own forwarding objects.
>
> you could easily do this with pure Lua on top of the low level mtstates package,
> see the examples at: https://github.com/osch/lua-mtstates#examples
>
> Best regards,
> Oliver