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IRC log for #minetest, 2015-06-11

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00:34 Teckla VanessaE: THANK YOU for homedecor_modpack!  My daughter is going NUTS with excitement with it right now  :)
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01:13 Sokomine m4
01:13 Sokomine hi
01:27 VanessaE thanks Teckla  :)
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01:52 OldCoder /query VanessaE
02:49 technomancy what does it mean when minetest.env:get_meta returns nil?
02:50 technomancy I would assume that only happens when the pos is invalid, but in this case the pos refers to an existing node where I've placed metadata before restarting the server
03:20 Sokomine technomancy: the mapblock you're trying to get data from may not be loaded
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04:11 RealBadAngel or meta is not set rather
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04:39 technomancy the block is definitely loaded; I'm standing next to the node.
04:40 technomancy RealBadAngel: so that means the metadata k/v object is created on demand when it's set then?
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04:47 RealBadAngel technomancy, let me check the sources, hold on
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04:51 technomancy on-demand on read or write would make for a more convenient API
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04:53 RealBadAngel https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/src/script/lua_api/l_nodemeta.h#L32
04:54 technomancy "However, it is NOT guaranteed that the method will return a pointer" ._.
04:54 RealBadAngel yes, thats why you should add the check for NIL
04:54 RealBadAngel and skip if you got it
04:55 technomancy aka "watch out; it has bugs"?
04:55 RealBadAngel not really
04:55 RealBadAngel such not guaranteed situations happens usually on load
04:56 technomancy "watch out, it has undesirable/unpredictable behaviour" then
04:57 RealBadAngel it happens all the time
04:57 RealBadAngel and i wouldnt call that bug
04:57 technomancy just a source of bugs =)
04:57 RealBadAngel hehe yeah
04:58 RealBadAngel when something is not yet set, you shouldnt read it
04:58 RealBadAngel but how could you know that
04:58 RealBadAngel solution is to put check for nil as the first condition
04:58 technomancy I would expect it to give nils when you call get_string, not when you call get_meta is all
04:59 RealBadAngel nil you are getting in lua when something is not set, not yet used
05:00 RealBadAngel so same code can fail on startup and after some time it may work
05:00 RealBadAngel meanwhile the data was simply set
05:01 RealBadAngel checkin for nil will let you survive the startup
05:02 RealBadAngel also dont forget that many things are done in threads
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05:18 VanessaE in case anyone cares:  https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12537
05:18 VanessaE (now with Alphanumeric support)
05:19 Calinou "Atom now opens files larger than 2MB with syntax highlighting, soft wrap, and folds disabled. We'll work on raising the limits with these features enabled moving forward"
05:19 Calinou :D
05:23 RealBadAngel bombastic
05:23 RealBadAngel soon your fridge will be able to even print that file
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05:32 technomancy RealBadAngel: Thanks for the explanation. I think I found a better way for this that doesn't involve metadata.
05:32 RealBadAngel what way?
05:33 RealBadAngel imho metadata is very flexible, since it can store anything
05:33 technomancy well I already have to serialize off some tables to disk on save/load, so I just added this to that file
05:33 technomancy metadata is good for strings and ints, but I was trying to put tables in it, which is a lousy fit
05:34 RealBadAngel well, you should just ask
05:34 RealBadAngel technic has many examples of your problem solved
05:34 RealBadAngel almost all technic tools store data in meta
05:34 technomancy I realized about halfway through that a separate file would be better, but I was still curious about metadata because I'm sure I'll use more of it in the future
05:35 RealBadAngel lemme point you something
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05:35 technomancy RealBadAngel: I was using it for an environment table for shell sessions on my in-game server nodes.
05:35 RealBadAngel this is the way to store data in files: https://github.com/minetest-technic/datastorage
05:35 RealBadAngel per player
05:36 technomancy keeping the environment table in sync with the serialized tables in node metadata would have been a mess
05:36 technomancy theoretically possible using metatables, but metatables break iterators in lua 5.1 =(
05:38 technomancy but this could be useful for some other things; thanks for the pointer
05:38 RealBadAngel https://github.com/minetest-technic/technic/blob/master/technic/tools/mining_drill.lua#L262
05:38 RealBadAngel see here, im treating here meta as a table
05:39 RealBadAngel not as a string
05:40 technomancy yes but in this case the writes all come from a single place, so it's a good fit
05:41 RealBadAngel ofc
05:41 RealBadAngel best solution would be direct access for mods to db end
05:41 RealBadAngel and thats i will definitely code one day
05:41 RealBadAngel btw, fm already has it
05:42 technomancy awesome
05:42 technomancy especially if it can work with tables of arbitrary depth
05:43 RealBadAngel http://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Lua_Functions#Database_Functions
05:43 RealBadAngel we need that ported
05:44 technomancy ported?
05:44 technomancy or exposed to the sandbox?
05:45 RealBadAngel i mean luasql
05:46 RealBadAngel so you can directly throw tables into db and read them
05:46 RealBadAngel see the examples
05:47 technomancy oh yeah, I guess tables of arbitrary depth won't work in sqlite
05:47 RealBadAngel its transparent
05:47 RealBadAngel whatever works in lua can be stored in db
05:48 technomancy huh, nice. I've only seen that done is postgres
05:48 technomancy *in postgres
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06:48 RealBadAngel hi jin_xi how the particles are doing?
06:50 RealBadAngel technomancy, thats the beauty of this solution as you can see in the examples. storing tables in db is as easy as assigning them to another variable
06:51 RealBadAngel from modders point of view theres no differnce youre working on local or db variable
06:53 technomancy very cool
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07:40 Calinou squirrel of the day: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybw63nzPp1r5bvcto1_500.jpg
07:41 technomancy squirrel of the year if you ask me
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07:43 Calinou SOTY!
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08:58 JamesTait Good morning all; happy Ferris Bueller Day! 😃
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12:14 est31 man when will they release irrlicht 1.9?
12:14 est31 its already 2 years ago they released irrlicht 1.8
12:14 CWz maybe they quit
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12:43 VanessaE hi all
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13:03 CWz Hello VanessaE
13:03 VanessaE hey
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16:30 someguy_irc Someguy123, Greetings pal :D
16:30 someguy_irc ._.
16:30 Krock meow
16:30 someguy_irc I thought I was the only someguy here.
16:30 someguy_irc I thought I was official.
16:30 someguy_irc :c
16:31 someguy_irc Well the other guy has numbers in his name, lame.
16:31 someguy_irc im original m8ties.
16:31 someguy_irc any new stuff planned for the upcoming versions of Mt?
16:32 est31 someguy_irc, see the #mt-dev channel
16:32 someguy_irc Okay.
16:32 someguy_irc wait what.
16:32 est31 #minetest-dev
16:32 someguy_irc Ty.
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17:57 luizrpgluiz hi all
17:58 Calinou SpeedCrunch! https://lut.im/RbTQ6hGY/29kKt3Dc
17:58 Calinou https://github.com/speedcrunch/SpeedCrunch
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20:04 Calinou I won Hunger Games
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20:09 est31 how that
20:12 Calinou lost it this time... thanks OP diamond sword
20:13 Calinou can't do anything against it
20:17 Calinou HAHA
20:17 Calinou I got diamond sword after killing someone
20:19 Calinou won :p
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21:58 MinetestBot [git] est31 -> minetest/minetest: Reposition irrlicht timestamp in makefile c849d32 http://git.io/vIHbG (2015-06-11T23:56:54+02:00)
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