I am trying to use Lua for the configuration of a C++ application and am having trouble generating helpful messages when something is wrong in the configuration, not the the Lua syntax.
For example, suppose the following is a valid configuration:
foo = { a = 0, b = 'bar' }
but the user actually typed this:
foo = { a = 0, c = 'bar' }
Now, the app knows that foo can have fields a and b. It can load foo and get the value of a. It can even tell that b is not set and use a default. But I want to detect that c is present and report a warning.
Here is an extract of my attempt at that which blows up:
static void check_table(lua_State* L)
{
lua_pushnil(L);
while ( lua_next(L, -2) )
{
// key at -2 and value at -1
if ( lua_isstring(L, -2) )
{
const char* key = lua_tostring(L, -2);
// validate here; just printing key for now
cout << key << endl;
}
lua_pop(L, 1);
}
}
This works fine as long as the table is not actually an array. When I hit one of those, it dies on the second iteration with this:
...
1
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (invalid key to 'next')
which I attribute to this from the Lua reference page:
"If the value is a number, then lua_tolstring also changes the actual value in the
stack to a string. (This change confuses lua_next when lua_tolstring is applied to
keys during a table traversal.)"
Any way around this? I am open to alternate approaches. Ideally a message could be emitted like:
WARNING: conf.lua line 18: table foo does not use key 'c', ignored
(The Lua debug API doesn't give the file name and line number either, but that is a different topic.)
PS: I know, c could benign, but it could also be a typo. In a large configuration, ignoring such things could lead to hours of head scratching.
Validation will probably be much easier if written in Lua. I have something like this in mind:
local template = { a="number", b="string"}
local function validate(t)
for k,v in pairs(t) do
if template[k]==nil then
print("field "..k.." cannot be present")
elseif type(v)~=template[k] then
print("field "..k.." should be a "..template[k])
end
end
end
validate{ a = 0, b = 'bar' }
validate{ a = 0, b = 42 }
validate{ a = 0 }
validate{ a = 0, c = 'bar' }
lua_isstring is defined:
LUA_API int lua_isstring (lua_State *L, int idx) {
int t = lua_type(L, idx);
return (t == LUA_TSTRING || t == LUA_TNUMBER);
}
So instead of:
if ( lua_isstring(L, -2) )
use:
if ( lua_type(L, -2) == LUA_TSTRING )
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