Error while running deserialisation

[trold]

I am writing a mod (Bottleneck), which puts indicator lights on assembling machines and furnaces. The mod keeps track of these with a table "overlays" that maps machine to its indicator light. So far so good. The problem comes, if I place this table in global (i.e., replace "overlays" with "global.overlays"). Then I get this error on load time:

Error while running deserialisation: [string "do local _={overlays={},freeze={}};local tabl..."]:1: too many local variables (limit is 200) in main function near '='

I only get this error, when I have more than 200 a bunch of assembling machines in the table. What is the correct way to do this?

[DedlySpyder]

Can you provide the actual code that causing the problem? The error cuts it off.

[trold]

Can you provide the actual code that causing the problem? The error cuts it off.

The error occurs in the deserialisation, and thus not directly in code that I have written. The code for the mod can be found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/troel ... ontrol.lua.

[trold]

Zinal posted a fix. It appears that serialisation doesn't work properly, if the table contains entities as indices or values.

https://github.com/troelsbjerre/Bottleneck/issues/1

[Rseding91]

Zinal posted a fix. It appears that serialisation doesn't work properly, if the table contains entities as indices or values.

https://github.com/troelsbjerre/Bottleneck/issues/1

Yes it does, you're just hitting a built in limit of Lua. See my reply on the github conversation.

[trold]

Yes it does, you're just hitting a built in limit of Lua. See my reply on the github conversation.

Could I get you to check out the "naiveglobal" branch of troelsbjerre/Bottleneck, and have a look at why that give an error after saving and loading? As far as I can see, I only have two values directly in the global table.

[Rseding91]

Yes it does, you're just hitting a built in limit of Lua. See my reply on the github conversation.

Could I get you to check out the "naiveglobal" branch of troelsbjerre/Bottleneck, and have a look at why that give an error after saving and loading? As far as I can see, I only have two values directly in the global table.

Can you upload a save file that has this issue in it?

[trold]

Can you upload a save file that has this issue in it?

Sent in a PM.

[binbinhfr]

So what was the conclusion of that thread ? Any solution to avoid the serialisation problem on long lists ?
Is avoiding table indexed with entities is the final solution ?
No limitations on tables indexed by numbers of strings ?

[Rseding91]

So what was the conclusion of that thread ? Any solution to avoid the serialisation problem on long lists ?
Is avoiding table indexed with entities is the final solution ?
No limitations on tables indexed by numbers of strings ?

It's a limitation of the lua library - not something we can change.

[binbinhfr]

It's a limitation of the lua library - not something we can change.

Ok, thx Rseding, I just wanted a clarification on what should be avoided.
If you have in minds other coding situations that could lead to such errors, please share