After sending table over triggerEvent, handler function cannot call table's method functions

[John Smith]

Hello.

I am using this piece of code as a test example here:

Mother = {};
Mother.__index = Mother;

addEvent("onClientHandlerEvent");

function Mother:new()

	local self = setmetatable( {}, Mother );

	self.type = "Mother";

	triggerEvent("onClientHandlerEvent", localPlayer, self);

	return self;

end


function handlerTable(theTable)
	outputDebugString(tostring(theTable:getProperty("type"))); -- attempt to call method :getProperty (a nil value)
end
addEventHandler("onClientHandlerEvent", root, handlerTable);

function Mother:getProperty(property)
	return self[property];
end



local myMother = Mother:new();
outputChatBox(tostring(myMother:getProperty("type"))); -- works

 

The issues that I'm having with this is that when I transfer the table with triggerEvent, function which handles that custom event cannot call any custom methods because apparently they're 'nil'.

Why is this happening? Is this a triggerEvent issue?

[Gravestone]

I hope this works for you.

function handlerTable(theTable)
	local theTable = Mother:new();
	outputDebugString(tostring(theTable:getProperty("type"))); -- attempt to call method :getProperty (a nil value)
end
addEventHandler("onClientHandlerEvent", root, handlerTable);

 

[John Smith]

24 minutes ago, Gravestone said:

I hope this works for you.

function handlerTable(theTable)
	local theTable = Mother:new();
	outputDebugString(tostring(theTable:getProperty("type"))); -- attempt to call method :getProperty (a nil value)
end
addEventHandler("onClientHandlerEvent", root, handlerTable);

 

You're using theTable as a function argument and then creating it below which is a leftover by the way, and the handler function is supposed to handle the table (aka recieve it), not create it.

However thank you for trying to help me out, but this isn't what I'm looking for

Edit:

Well, this seems to be more an issue with triggerEvent, so you guys don't need to reply anything.

Edited September 24, 2016 by John Smith