cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/4294116
I have a file with content like this:
item({ ["attr"] = { ["size"] = "62091"; ["filename"] = "qBuUP9-OTfuzibt6PQX4-g.jpg"; ["stamp"] = "2023-12-05T19:31:37Z"; ["xmlns"] = "urn:xmpp:http:upload:0"; ["content-type"] = "image/jpeg"; }; ["key"] = "Wa4AJWFldqRZjBozponbSLRZ"; ["with"] = "email@address"; ["when"] = 1701804697; ["name"] = "request"; });I need to know what format this is, and if there exists a tool in linux already to parse this or if I need to write one myself?
Thanks!
Item is a function?
Well actually, yeah thats kinda obvious isn’t it now I look at the whole thing.
Thats fine, I’ll just use a bit of the old sed and json it.
Aha I have avoided learning Lua yet again!
the code is constructing a table, and passing it to a function called item. But if all you need is the data, you can just remove the function call and assign the table to a variable like so: local myvar = {…}.
then you can just manipulate the table as usual.
Unfortunately, this sequence is repeated many many times, so I would need to do a for-each and construct a new table for each inner section…
There’s gotta be a better way. Time to read the source code and hijack whatever item() is doing.
actually those semicolons indicate this isn’t actually lua, they are invalid in table constructors afaik