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Hello, i would like to programically read all LUA class definitions, but i only found HTML documentation at http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/, which is not ideal data source :/ (its doable but bleh...)

has factorio some other public methods to read api (json, xml) ?

PS: im guessing that documentation HTML is generated and not hand written, so there must be some machine readable data source that can be used ...

PSS: Reason why i wanna to do this is because in trying to create mod, but currently spending 90% of time in browser searching how to write stuff (new to lua too) and also i found this: https://github.com/Perryvw/TypescriptToLua ... so im thinking about creating mod written in typescript and then transpiled to lua via node script...

HTML is generated from C++ class definitions, which are not publicly available.

Lua is very easy to learn, easier than the Factorio API!

How does cross-compiling a mod from another language help you learn the factorio api?

HTML is generated from C++ class definitions, which are not publicly available.

So "only" thing, that needs to be done is writing generator, that will generate xml or json intead of html? --or-- make C++ class declarations (not definitions ofc) public

PS: Faster solution may be adding special html attribtues into generated html.
- for example only way i found out how to determine, that html is describing property is by looking for " :: " string as first child of <span class="attribute-type">. :/
Also property type may be spread across multiple html elements (LuaLogisticPoint or array of LuaLogisticPoint, etc.)

How does cross-compiling a mod from another language help you learn the factorio api?

In typescript i can write (generate) type definition file, that will be then picked up by IDE for intellisense, so i wouldn't need to remember (search for) correct syntax for factorio api related stuff...

CzBuCHi wrote:so im thinking about creating mod written in typescript and then transpiled to lua via node script...

I am betting that any time saved by this contraption would be small compared to setting it up and debugging

fiery_salmon wrote:

CzBuCHi wrote:so im thinking about creating mod written in typescript and then transpiled to lua via node script...

I am betting that any time saved by this contraption would be small compared to setting it up and debugging

probably ... but i have no idea how to debug lua using vscode ... also i dont wanna insall yet another ide for editing lua ....

PS: also i think that writing type definitions for typescript will force me to learn whole factorio api anyway

If you are using vscode, just use this already existing extension for autocompletion that also includes a script to parse the documentation: https://github.com/simonvizzini/vscode- ... er/scraper

Bilka wrote:If you are using vscode, just use this already existing extension for autocompletion that also includes a script to parse the documentation: https://github.com/simonvizzini/vscode- ... er/scraper

i tryied that extension already, but didnt look at the code so i definely look atparser code .... thx