Easy to use serialization library for Warhammer.

Features

• Supports the use of most data types as table keys, including tables, booleans, and wstrings.
• Tables containing circular references are properly serialized and references restored when deserialized.
• Functions cannot be pickled, instead they are replaced by a wstring to allow pickling of large objects and table structures without having to remove them first, try pickling GameData or SystemData sometime!
• All serialized data is output as wstrings.
• Low serialization overhead, strings are as compact and short as possible

Loading LibPickle

Copy LibPickle.lua and LibStub.lua to your project and add the following to the files section of your .mod file

<File name="LibStub.lua" />
<File name="LibPickle.lua" />

Using LibPickle

Once loaded you can either use LibStub to reference LibPickle

LibPickle = LibStub("LibPickle-0.1")
then
LibPickle.pickle(table)
LibPickle.unpickle(wstring)

or you can just use the global function directly without the nead to use a local reference to LibPickle

outputWString = Pickle(table) -- will output wstring
restoredTable = Unpickle(outputWString) -- will output table

Note: If you need a to access a specific version of LibPickle, use the LibStub method instead of the global, which will be overwritten by the last version loaded

Happy pickling!

Addons Using LibPickle

Aura

If you use LibPickle in your addon leave me a message and I'd love to add your addon to the list