Re: Type of userdata
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- Subject: Re: Type of userdata
- From: Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@...>
- Date: 2012年1月13日 04:30:21 +0800
2012年1月13日 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
> 2012年1月12日 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>>> Is there any way to find out from Lua what the registry type of a
>>> userdata is, short
>>> of giving it a `type` method?
>>
>> If you used luaL_newmetatable to assign a metatable to the udata,
>> then you can search the registry for an entry whose value is that
>> metatable. The key is then the "type" you seek.
>>
>> This example print "FILE*":
>>
>> t=getmetatable(io.stdin)
>> for k,v in pairs(debug.getregistry()) do
>> if v==t then print(k) end
>> end
>>
>>
>
> Aha! Thanks!
>
Or if the library is yours' yourself, just make a reverse match table
when you using luaL_newmetatable (untested):
luaL_newmetatable(L, "foo");
lua_getfield(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, "typeinfo");
lua_pushvalue(L, -2);
lua_pushliteral(L, "foo");
lua_rawset(L, -3);
lua_pop(L, 1);