[Question][Help] How do I Passing a lua.LTable to a CallByParam

[Skarlso]

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HI.

I'm trying to pass in a lua table to a CallByParam like this:

// Call will call a Lua method in a loaded plugin.
func Call(function string, args lua.LTable) (lua.LValue, error) {
	if err := L.CallByParam(lua.P{
		Fn:      L.GetGlobal(function),
		NRet:    1,
		Protect: true,
	}, args); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	ret := L.Get(-1) // returned value
	L.Pop(1)         // remove received value
	return ret, nil
}

So, obviously this isn't permitted since lua.P requires a lua.LValue. So I looked at userType because maybe that could help, but I'm still confused on how to do this the right way. I wonder if I'm missing something? Is there a way to nicely convert table to something usable instead?

The point of the table is that I have arbitrary parameters I don't want to parse rather pass in as a table so the corresponding lua script can deal with handling the data however it wants.

I saw something like map -> json -> table somewhere in the old issues, but I didn't see an example on that comment.

Thanks!

[Skarlso]

Well I'll be.

So what worked is if I instead of the LValue or convert, I just pass in the reference to the table.

I'm constructing a table using L.NewTable than set field via table.RawSetString than passing it in like this:

L.CallByParam(lua.P{
		Fn:      L.GetGlobal(function),
		NRet:    1,
		Protect: true,
	}, &args)

Where args is args lua.LTable. And in my lua script:

function git (args)
    print("translating...")
    return string.format( "git clone -b %s git@github.com:%s ", args['branch'], args['repo'] )
end

And done. this works!