Lua reflection? debug.setinfo() proposal
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- Subject: Lua reflection? debug.setinfo() proposal
- From: Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@...>
- Date: 2010年2月04日 00:48:53 +0100
Hello,
is there any reasonable way to check, for a defined lua function, how
many arguments it expects and what are their names? And how many
arguments it can return?
I would expect this from debug.getinfo(f), but its not there.
For example:
function sum(a,b)
return a+b
end
and for debug.getinfo(sum) I could get:
{arguments:{"a","b"}, returns:1}
Or for more complicated example:
function sum(a,b)
if not a or not b then return nil, "null arguments"
return a+b
end
{arguments:{"a","b"}, returns:1,2} (means returns 1 or 2 arguments)
I know that the "returns" part is tricky, but the "arguments" part could
be doable, am I right?
Another proposal would be to have debug.setinfo(f, key, value), for example:
debug.setinfo(sum, "documentation", "Returns the sum of two arguments"),
so then following debug.getinfo() could return this field also. (it
could partially resolve "arguments"/"returns" proposal, if those could
not be set automatically).
This could help in generating documentation (for luadoc), code
completion within editors, creating webservices, and similar things.
What do you think?
Regards,
miko