Renaming Tables

[kingzooly]

OK this as mostly been covered somewhere if so please link me lol

I have a table I want to rename

Client = {}

Client['clientname'] = {
id='',
handle='',
ip=''
}

I want to replace 'clientname' without losing the details in the table, I am using web's sockets demo and trying to convert his multi chat demo to support more like private messages that only get sent to one given user, I really don't understand how hes done it its really confusing me lol

looks like he collects all the in coming messages and the pushs them back out to all the clients, this is good but trying to make it work 1to1 is killing my brain cells lol

What I have done so is the you connect to the server and the server sends back a username request what in the future can be bind to your IP, the client and server send room:user:message:addedswtichs
eg
mainroom:all:hello world:none
this will send the messange to everyone

priavte will be mainroom:jamesrivate message:switch

so I need the username to be part of the table I not really sure how to loop thought the table to find the right handle but that is also a option :P

[startup]

ok this is an example

Client = {"9","6","8"} -- original table

client_name= Client -- copy it to new name

Client= {} -- delete the original 

[Imagine Programming]

Indeed, when you want to rename a table, you can simply copy the reference.
When you assign your table value to a new variable, it will only copy the reference
to the table, not the actual data itself. You can then safely delete the original table
by setting the value to nil. As long at least one variable is referring to the table, the
garbage collector will not remove it.

Client = {}

Client['clientname1'] = {
	id	= 'id1';
	handle	= 'handle1';
	ip	= '1.1.1.1';
}

Client['clientname2'] = {
	id	= 'id2';
	handle	= 'handle2';
	ip	= '2.2.2.2';
}

Client['clientname3'] = {
	id	= 'id3';
	handle	= 'handle3';
	ip	= '3.3.3.3';
}

-- Now let's rename clientname2
Client['newname']     = Client['clientname2'];
Client['clientname2'] = nil;


for name, clientInfo in pairs(Client)do
	Dialog.Message(name, clientInfo.id);
end

[kingzooly]

thanks guys seeing it like that help a lot

[webultra]

Wazaaaaa! The chat client I made was just an example of how to use coroutines with lua sockets to build a server, but I´m not using an standard communication protocol. You can build your own protocol to execute some functions, etc. If you need any extra help let me know.

[kingzooly]

Wazaaaaa! The chat client I made was just an example of how to use coroutines with lua sockets to build a server, but I´m not using an standard communication protocol. You can build your own protocol to execute some functions, etc. If you need any extra help let me know.

Help is a big think I do need web, if you have gmail I could explain my idea in full detail, yes I was trying to start using your example to make a new idea, but every time I tried adding a way to send a message to one client only I failed

Nice to see you about web

[webultra]

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