Don't support nested message.

[yihuang]

The decode api only decode one layer.

For example, a message like this:

message Detail {
  ...
}
message List {
  repeated Detail details;
}

I want to decode a list, i have to manually decode details with a loop:

local list = protobuf.decode('List', buffer)
for _, buf in list.details or {} do
    local detail = protobuf.decode(unpack(buf))
end

Is there an api to decode it recursively, or is it possible to implement this using a lua function.

[SimonRen]

seems that, there is a metatable for table 'list', when you access any field of table 'list', it will decode sub-fields of 'list' automatic for you.

On Dec 23, 2012, at 8:28 PM, yihuang wrote:

The decode api only decode one layer.

For example, a message like this:

message Detail {
...
}
message List {
repeated Detail details;
}
I want to decode a list, i have to manually decode details with a loop:

local list = protobuf.decode('List', buffer)
for _, buf in list.details or {} do
local detail = protobuf.decode(unpack(buf))
end
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[cloudwu]

SimonRen is right.
And did you use lua 5.1 ? lua 5.1's pairs can not invoke the meta method '__pairs' .

[yihuang]

It tuns out my table dump function don't trigger any metatable magic methods, whan i index it normally, it works,