How to make sure a table doesn't reload itself?

[iViscosity]

So an addon that I'm writing right now uses tables to store channel names, and I have a command that will add another channel to that, but I want to make sure that on a map change or server restart that the channel(s) added aren't removed.


This is what I have in place to make sure of that:

Code: Lua

1. SVC = SVC or {}
2.  
3.  
4. SVC.VoiceChannels = SVC.VoiceChannels or { -- The [ key ] is what is connected to, and the "Value" is the name of the actual group.
5.    [ "default" ] = { name="Default", access="user" }, -- Do not change the key in this one, only the value.
6.    [ "dead" ] = { name="Dead", access="user"}, -- Do not change the key in this one, only the value.
7.    [ "english" ] = { name="English", access="user" },
8.    [ "spanish" ] = { name="Español", access="user" },
9.    [ "admin" ] = { name="Admins", access="operator" }
10. }

Then, how I add them:

Code: Lua

1. function SVC.AddChannel( calling_ply, channelName, accessKey, opAccess )
2.         SVC.VoiceChannels[accessKey] = { name=channelName, access=opAccess }
3. end

I have it set to itself or a table, will that work?

[MrPresident]

data persistence like this through server sessions (map change/restart) need to be written to a file and loaded.

You can encode the table as a json blob and write it to a data file and then when the map/server loads you can read and decode the json back into a table.

This is literally the only way to do it.

[iViscosity]

I thought so but I wanted to see if there was a lazy way. Ok then

[MrPresident]

Fun story related to this.. apparently a newer version of lua does in fact have state persistence which would do this, but gmod doesn't use it and I doubt they'll ever update to it.. But I suppose it IS possible in lua.. just not glua at the moment.