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Introduction

Object instance: luajava


Description

luajava is an object of the LuajavaLib library. It can be used to coerce Java static objects to Lua or create new Java object instances.


Examples

Example of exposing a static object or enum to Lua:

-- store a Java enum in a Lua global variable
ConversationStates = luajava.bindClass("games.stendhal.server.entity.npc.ConversationStates")

-- access the enum values like so
ConversationStates.IDLE

Example of creating an object instance:

-- store instance in local variable
local dog = luajava.newInstance("games.stendhal.server.entity.npc.SilentNPC")
-- access object methods like so
dog:setEntityClass("animal/puppy")
dog:setPosition(2, 5)

-- class with constructor using parameters
local speaker = luajava.newInstance("games.stendhal.server.entity.npc.SpeakerNPC", "Frank")
speaker:setOutfit("body=0,head=0,eyes=0,hair=5,dress=5")
speaker:setPosition(2, 6)

Synopsis

To make scripting easier, Stendhal employs a master script & some helper objects & methods to handle the functionality mentioned above.