Pass Lua table by stringified reference instead of directly by reference

Question

I want to pass a lua reference to another function without actually using assignment = but something like loadstring.

local myTable = { test="Hello" }
local myTableStringified = tostring(myTable) -- table: 0xref
print(myTableStringified)
local myTableUnstringified = loadstring(myTableStringified)
print(myTableUnstringified) -- nil but should show table: 0xref

As seen above, this won't do.

Answer 1

You'll have to use one of the modules that provide serialization.

Keep in mind that loadstring returns a function that needs to be called, so to get the table back you need to use loadstring(myTableStringified)().