Luna Wrapper

Luna Wrapper

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LunaWrapper  is a short (53-line) wrapper to provide access to C++ classes from within Lua with relative ease. Inspired by  [1] , updated for Lua 5.1. Written by nornagon. Download:  [2]

LunaFour provides additional features such as properties (requires modification to Lua) and functions for retrieving and returning classes from C++.

template<class T> class Luna {
  public:
    static void Register(lua_State *L) {
      lua_pushcfunction(L, &Luna<T>::constructor);
      lua_setglobal(L, T::className);

      luaL_newmetatable(L, T::className);
      lua_pushstring(L, "__gc");
      lua_pushcfunction(L, &Luna<T>::gc_obj);
      lua_settable(L, -3);
    }

    static int constructor(lua_State *L) {
      T* obj = new T(L);

      lua_newtable(L);
      lua_pushnumber(L, 0);
      T** a = (T**)lua_newuserdata(L, sizeof(T*));
      *a = obj;
      luaL_getmetatable(L, T::className);
      lua_setmetatable(L, -2);
      lua_settable(L, -3); // table[0] = obj;

      for (int i = 0; T::Register[i].name; i++) {
        lua_pushstring(L, T::Register[i].name);
        lua_pushnumber(L, i);
        lua_pushcclosure(L, &Luna<T>::thunk, 1);
        lua_settable(L, -3);
      }
      return 1;
    }

    static int thunk(lua_State *L) {
      int i = (int)lua_tonumber(L, lua_upvalueindex(1));
      lua_pushnumber(L, 0);
      lua_gettable(L, 1);

      T** obj = static_cast<T**>(luaL_checkudata(L, -1, T::className));
      lua_remove(L, -1);
      return ((*obj)->*(T::Register[i].mfunc))(L);
    }

    static int gc_obj(lua_State *L) {
      T** obj = static_cast<T**>(luaL_checkudata(L, -1, T::className));
      delete (*obj);
      return 0;
    }

    struct RegType {
      const char *name;
      int(T::*mfunc)(lua_State*);
    };
};

class Foo {
  public:
    Foo(lua_State *L) {
      printf("in constructor\n");
    }

    int foo(lua_State *L) {
      printf("in foo\n");
    }

    ~Foo() {
      printf("in destructor\n");
    }

    static const char className[];
    static const Luna<Foo>::RegType Register[];
};

const char Foo::className[] = "Foo";
const Luna<Foo>::RegType Foo::Register[] = {
  { "foo", &Foo::foo },
  { 0 }
};

Then somewhere during initialization:

Luna<Foo>::Register(L);

From lua:

local foo = Foo()
foo:foo()

Later:

lua_close(L);

Results:

in constructor
in foo
in destructor

See Also

• BindingCodeToLua

Note

If you directly want to create the class in Lua and get a pointer back to set some values then you can add this function to the Luna class. I am new to implementing Lua to C++ so there is probably a better way for doing this and I am happy to see the approaches.

	// Directly add the new class
	static T* RegisterTable(lua_State *L)
	{
		luaL_newmetatable(L, T::className);
		lua_pushstring(L, "__gc");
		lua_pushcfunction(L, &Luna<T>::gc_obj);
		lua_settable(L, -3);

		T* obj = new T(L);
		lua_newtable(L);
		lua_pushnumber(L, 0);
		T** a = (T**)lua_newuserdata(L, sizeof(T*));
		*a = obj;
		luaL_getmetatable(L, T::className);
		lua_setmetatable(L, -2);
		lua_settable(L, -3); // table[0] = obj;
		for (int i = 0; T::Register[i].name; i++)
		{
			lua_pushstring(L, T::Register[i].name);
			lua_pushnumber(L, i);
			lua_pushcclosure(L, &Luna<T>::thunk, 1);
			lua_settable(L, -3);
		}
		lua_setglobal(L, T::className);
		return obj;
	}