[Question] How does setGlobal and getGlobal work ?

[celludriel]

I added a setGlobal in one script that runs on server startup, then tried using that global in a script attached to a script with getGlobal.  But its always nil

 

Are those globals just global in one script run, or are they global over the game instance ?  If they are just global in one script run, I'm so very very boned ....

[celludriel]

Aaargh this is frustrating, you can't use an array as a global variable {}.  This sucks , it's one of the most important things you want an associative array you can use as context to reach in your entire application.

 

Think springbeans in the springcontext if you would talk java.  Or just basic IOC design in any other programming language .... grmbl ...  I guess I could work with tons of prefixed variables in the global array as string ... but that is just messy ...

[Laserzwei]

you could convert your array to a single string and store it in a global variable.

[celludriel]

I did I'm using a Json library now

 

http://dkolf.de/src/dkjson-lua.fsl/home

 

It works but I lose some flexibility and some overhead decoding and encoding the json.  We are devs we always find workarounds, doesn't mean we have to like them though.  Not even fond on having to use globals ... it's not like they act as singletons ...