GSoC 2014: Lua Scripting Support for Monkey, Week 1
I was having my university exams during the last two weeks of community bonding period and couldn’t dedicate as much time as I would have liked as my schedule became a little tight.I also lost a bit of time as I was moving and unfortunately lost my glasses. So my exams are finally over and I am fully focused on the coding work now.
I started of the week by going through the lua programming manual and few applications of the Lua C api. I made a few sample programs to better understand the stack based api.I started working on the plugin and made a basic configuration reader for the plugin which is very similar to the CGI plugin. The scaffolding of the plugin is in place and I can get into building a basic version the next week.
Most of my time this week was spend in reading code and identifying functions and data that should be exposed through the lua scripting framework. I haven’t finalized the api yet and will have to discuss with Jorge about the same. I have currently decided up on wrapping certain data structures like the server config structure, the session request structure and a few others and injecting them as globals.Then they have to be read back. Another possible implementation could be using explicit function calls from the lua scripts for communication.
Work for next week
- Complete a basic version of the plugin.
- Draft the api and start the implementation