raiseEvent works with everything but tables?

[ktiedt]

I was expecting to write an event handler that accepted a table, to avoid a long function declaration however...

<raiseEvent: bad argument #2 type (string, number, boolean, or nil expected, got a table!)>

I'm curious, is this an oversight or an intentional decision to not support tables?

[Nyyrazzilyss]

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it can be worked with using the function pair yajl.to_string / yajl.to_value

These function encode a table into a usable string, and decode the string back into a table.

[Vadi]

Yeah table serialisation can get tricky - remember even a function is a first-class citizen in Lua a valid member of a table. Go with the serialisation Nyyrazzilyss proposed if you don't want to split your data into arguments for the event.

[SlySven]

Phew the type detection code did it's job and spotted a table - - Yeah! Wot the others said - the code to past a table through the Event code would be more complicated than I would be willing (or understand enough about ) to do...