data.lua and control.lua

[sOvr9000]

I generated a table in data.lua based on recipes of item prototypes. I want to be able to use that table in control.lua. How do I do that?

[SyncViews]

The runtime control script is in a different context. You can access prototypes in the game/LuaGameScript object.

[sOvr9000]

Okay, so I'm getting this error:

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control.lua:131: attempt to index global 'game' (a nil value)

I referred to https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/ and https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaGameScript.html, which led me to believe that referencing "game" in control.lua should work. Why doesn't it?

EDIT: Oops, I missed this: "It is, however, not available inside handlers registered with LuaBootstrap::on_load." Thank you, SyncViews. I know what I can do now.