Any way of adding lua modules ?

[FkinGuy]

I intend to use lua to make api calls, because it is much less cumbersome than blueprints when it comes to formating a string or extracting data from json. I tried to add a pure lua implementation of "requests" but it fails because it needs network support from the engine.

Is there any way to add not-pure-lua modules to the lua engine used here, like you would do with luarocks ?

Blueprints are very good for certain things, C++ for others, but I think there is still room for a traditional scripting engine too.

[FkinGuy]

Also, I noticed the discord link, in this repo and others, is expired :)

[rdeioris]

You definitely want to embed c lua modules in the core itself (allowing the load of .so/.dll will basically break every security measure). This is probably one of the best articles on the topic: https://leiradel.github.io/2020/03/01/Embedding-Lua-Modules.html

In your case embedding luasockets should be enough.

Regarding the discord link it is still valid (there are people still joining even today), which error are you getting ?

[inspire22]

Did you get this working? I'm still in early stages but trying to grasp how the pipeline will be if I use lua for a lot of code (as it's a much more comfortable environment for me than C++ or blueprints).

Would we hack the additional embeds into LuaState.cpp? Looks like that's where the preload table is added.

This SO post talks about including socket+mime (required)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2197144/how-could-i-embedded-socket-in-lua-internally-just-like-oslib-debuglib

I was hoping to get mysql database access (for the server) via lua as well, but it sounds more complicated - maybe the luasql library isn't made for full c++ importing & needs additional prototype classes? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12236032/how-to-embed-luasql-sqlite3-in-a-statically-linked-c-program