Help Using knife.serialize

[CanadianGamer]

I am trying to use a library called knife.serialize but I've never used a library before can anyone tell me how to make it work

[airstruck]

Dowload serialize.lua and put it in somewhere your project.

If you put it in a folder called "knife" you would include it like this:

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local Serialize = require 'knife.serialize'

Let's say you want to serialize a table named "data"

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local serializedData = Serialize(data)

Now the variable "serializedData" contains a string that can be saved to a file...

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love.filesystem.write('savegame.lua', serializedData)

...and later the file can be deserialized with dofile.

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local deserializedData = dofile('savegame.lua')

Now "deserializedData" contains a table equivalent to the original "data" table.

[Nixola]

Never use "dofile" in LÖVE. Love.filesystem.load works better.

[airstruck]

Never use "dofile" in LÖVE. Love.filesystem.load works better.

Thanks, still not used to the way Love wants to interact with the filesystem. Dofile will break if you don't know the full path to the file, so the last code block should be something like this under Love:

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local deserializedData = love.filesystem.load('savegame.lua')()

[CanadianGamer]

Thank You for your help

[CanadianGamer]

Okay it is still not working I have it saving table settingsTable:

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settingsTable = {SoundFxSetting = true, MusicSetting = true}

in settings.lua by doing this:

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serializedSettingsData = Serialize(settingsTable)
love.filesystem.write('settings.lua', serializedSettingsData)

but settings.lua is still blank

[airstruck]

The code looks fine, it should work.

Love might not be saving the file where you expect, take a look at love.filesystem and love.filesystem.setIdentity to get an idea of how this works. You should be able to print(love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory()) to see where it's actually being saved.

If that doesn't solve it, upload a .love and I'll have a look (or someone else will).