Serialization API for Lua tables

[vovo4ka]

I wondered about serialization a huge tables. And it would be great if MTA would have built-in serialization functions for lua tables, because serialization by lua script is too slow (exceeds execution time limit).

There are several implementations in C++ described here:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/TableSerialization

There are only 2 functions are needed:

string serialize(table)

and

table unserialize(string)

Thx!

[Cassandra]

I support this suggestion.

[vovo4ka]

I found toJSON/fromJSON functions

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/ToJSON

upd. Oh no! It cannot handle integer indexes in tables!!!

[qaisjp]

I may be wrong, but doesn't var_dump do this?

[vovo4ka]

var_dump performs only one-way conversion. Moreover, its implemented as lua script and performance should be low.