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+local leap = require 'leap'
+
+-- metatable for every result_view() table
+local mt = {
+ __len = function(self)
+ return self.length
+ end,
+ __index = function(self, i)
+ -- right away, convert to 0-relative indexing
+ i -= 1
+ -- can we find this index within the current slice?
+ local reli = i - self.start
+ if 0 <= reli and reli < #self.slice then
+ -- Lua 1-relative indexing
+ return self.slice[reli + 1]
+ end
+ -- is this index outside the overall result set?
+ if not (0 <= i and i < self.length) then
+ return nil
+ end
+ -- fetch a new slice starting at i, using provided fetch()
+ local start
+ self.slice, start = self.fetch(self.key, i)
+ -- It's possible that caller-provided fetch() function forgot
+ -- to return the adjusted start index of the new slice. In
+ -- Lua, 0 tests as true, so if fetch() returned (slice, 0),
+ -- we'll duly reset self.start to 0. Otherwise, assume the
+ -- requested index was not adjusted: that the returned slice
+ -- really does start at i.
+ self.start = start or i
+ -- Hopefully this slice contains the desired i.
+ -- Back to 1-relative indexing.
+ return self.slice[i - self.start + 1]
+ end,
+ -- We purposely avoid putting any array entries (int keys) into
+ -- our table so that access to any int key will always call our
+ -- __index() metamethod. Moreover, we want any table iteration to
+ -- call __index(table, i) however many times; we do NOT want it to
+ -- retrieve key, length, start, slice.
+ -- So turn 'for k, v in result' into 'for k, v in ipairs(result)'.
+ __iter = ipairs,
+ -- This result set provides read-only access.
+ -- We do not support pushing updates to individual items back to
+ -- C++; for the intended use cases, that makes no sense.
+ __newindex = function(self, i, value)
+ error("result_view is a read-only data structure", 2)
+ end
+}
+
+-- result_view(key_length, fetch) returns a table which stores only a slice
+-- of a result set plus some control values, yet presents read-only virtual
+-- access to the entire result set.
+-- key_length: {result set key, total result set length}
+-- fetch: function(key, start) that returns (slice, adjusted start)
+local result_view = setmetatable(
+ {
+ -- generic fetch() function
+ fetch = function(key, start)
+ local fetched = leap.request(
+ 'LLInventory',
+ {op='getSlice', result=key, index=start})
+ return fetched.slice, fetched.start
+ end,
+ -- generic close() function accepting variadic result-set keys
+ close = function(...)
+ local keys = table.pack(...)
+ -- table.pack() produces a table with an array entry for every
+ -- parameter, PLUS an 'n' key with the count. Unfortunately that
+ -- 'n' key bollixes our conversion to LLSD, which requires either
+ -- all int keys (for an array) or all string keys (for a map).
+ keys.n = nil
+ leap.send('LLInventory', {op='closeResult', result=keys})
+ end
+ },
+ {
+ -- result_view(key_length, fetch) calls this
+ __call = function(class, key_length, fetch)
+ return setmetatable(
+ {
+ key=key_length[1],
+ length=key_length[2],
+ -- C++ result sets use 0-based indexing, so internally we do too
+ start=0,
+ -- start with a dummy array with length 0
+ slice={},
+ -- if caller didn't pass fetch() function, use generic
+ fetch=fetch or class.fetch,
+ -- returned view:close() will close result set with passed key
+ close=function(self) class.close(key_length[1]) end
+ },
+ -- use our special metatable
+ mt
+ )
+ end
+ }
+)
+
+return result_view