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| Posted by
| Candido
USA (78 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sat 10 Jul 2010 05:14 PM (UTC) |
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| So I made a plugin that works fine without lua socket, but also has some added functionality if you have lua socket. The problem is that if you don't have lua socket, require will spam you with the 'not found' error. I feel like there should be a simple way to check for the existence of an add on like lua socket before you require it, but I can't seem to figure it out. I tried the obvious,
if require("socket.http") then http = require("socket.http") end
but that still generates the error. Anyone have some insight? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| WillFa
USA (525 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Sat 10 Jul 2010 07:52 PM (UTC) Amended on Sat 10 Jul 2010 07:53 PM (UTC) by WillFa
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| I believe you can pcall(require , "socket") and then check package.loaded.socket if it actually did.
pcall (require, "socket")
-- Do happy stuff
if package.loaded.socket then
-- do enhanced functionality stuff.
end
actually, if socket should be enough, but package.loaded may be the safer route. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Candido
USA (78 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Sat 10 Jul 2010 09:51 PM (UTC) |
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| | Did the trick. Thanks. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #3 on Sat 10 Jul 2010 09:55 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| The pcall tells you if it succeeded or not, so this is more reliable:
ok = pcall (require, "socket");
if ok then
-- use socket library now
end -- if
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #4 on Sun 11 Jul 2010 12:28 AM (UTC) |
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| You can also do this, to find what require returned:
ok, socket = pcall (require, "socket");
if ok then
-- use socket library now
-- the value "socket" is non-nil and is the same as
-- package.loaded.socket
end -- if
This effectively lets you test later on if the require worked (which is pretty-much what Willfa suggested).
This works because the pcall returns as its second (and subsequent) return values what the original function returned, on success. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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