[Reflection] A function to print all the functions of a given table.

[Jack Parsons]

I grew somewhat tired of reading compat.lua to learn the available functions (Since they're mostly "shortcuts"), so I came up with this solution. Just introduce this function to your global.lua:

function listFunctions(t)
    for i, v in pairs(t) do
        if type(v) == "function" then
            print(i, v, debug.getinfo(v))
        end
    end
end

Then, you have to pass the table that you wish to introspect / inspect (Like "Player", "Item", "Town", "Creature", "Tile", etc (Still inside global.lua)).

listFunctions(Item)

This way, you can discover all the functions and read them each time the server starts. You could also use the I/O Library in order to export them to a text file.

Example:

 

[Marcelo Druida]

cool but luascripts and PIL are my friends

 

[Jack Parsons]

Do you mean PIL PIL or PIL PIL? =p

 

[Marcelo Druida]

rofl

cool music

 

[Codex NG]

Something similar was already written
https://otland.net/threads/tfs-1-0-and-up-get-metamethods-easy-to-update.228407/