is it possible for a thread to use love.filesystem?

[jjmafiae]

is it possible for a thread to use love.filesystem?

[Robin]

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require('love.filesystem')

Have you tried it?

[jjmafiae]

yeah, it doesn't work (using 0.9.0)

[Boolsheet]

Well, then provide your code or some testcase so we can test it ourselves. If you only say "it doesn't work" then my answer to that is "works for me".

Also, as a general warning: assume nothing is thread-safe (unless stated otherwise). While PhsysicsFS might have been built thread-safe, the LÖVE code calling to it may not be. It is possible that it will work without issues, depending on what you do.

[jjmafiae]

(using löve 0.9.0 luajit version)

my code:

main.lua code

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thread = love.thread.newThread("thread.lua")
thread:start()

thread.lua

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	require("love.filesystem")
	http = require 'socket.http'
	
	
    local data1, r, e = http.request('http://geggames.com/test.txt')
    -- Ensure the file was donwnloaded properly
    assert(r == 200 and data1,
      ('Could not download file: %s')
        :format(host:match('/([^/]+)$')))
	
	love.filesystem.newFile("test.txt")
	love.filesystem.write("test.txt", data1)

[Boolsheet]

Yes, that works. A few things though.

You don't need to call [wiki]love.filesystem.newFile[/wiki] before you use [wiki]love.filesystem.write[/wiki]. [wiki]love.filesystem.write[/wiki] is more or less a short version of this.

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function love.filesystem.write(filename, data)
   local file = love.filesystem.newFile(filename)
   file:open("w")
   file:write(data)
   file:close()
end

Not exactly like that of course, but you get the idea.

I'm assuming the variable host is the url you pass in to the request function.

Have you checked with [wiki]Thread:getError[/wiki] if you made a mistake somwhere?

[jjmafiae]

it returns nil

it can make empty files but it doesn't work when i use the data downloaded from the internet :/

does luasocket work in threads?

[Boolsheet]

Yes, it returns nil until there's an error. Keep calling it until the thread has ended. If it's still nil, then we know it's not a Lua error in your code.

[jjmafiae]

nevermind, it works now, thanks for your help guys