Running on ESP32: load() function not working

[yesItsGaren]

Hello, I am new with Lua. I am trying to use it on the ESP32.
I have already tried using it to run the example script on Windows and it works flawlessly.
The problems start when I try to use the pb.c and import it using require "pb".

Some prerequisite info:

• protoc.lua is pushed as a string using:

  lua_getglobal(L, "package");
  lua_getfield(L, -1, "preload");
  error = luaL_loadstring(L, protoc_Lua);
  lua_setfield(L, -2, "protoc");

• The protoc.new() function seems to work, since I tried to print something in the Parse.new()

• The protoc:load(string) does not work and is causing the following error:
  Lua Error Run[2]: [string "..."]:8: attempt to call a nil value (method 'load')

• Tried using Parser:compile(), but I am getting the following error:
  Lua Error Run[2]: [string "..."]:8: attempt to call a nil value (method 'compile')

• Tried using the pb.load(user_data, type) instead but I get the following error:
  Lua Error Run[2]: [string "..."]:38: bad argument fixed disambiguity #1 to 'encode' (type 'Person' does not exist)
  Note that I declared the function mapping table as global, this enabled me to use the functions without using "require". But still i guess the pb.load() function does not seem to work properly.

• I am running this example script by pushing it as a string :

const char test_script_protobuf[] = R"delimiter(
local protoc = require "protoc"
local pb = require "pb"

local p = protoc.new()

-- load schema from text (just for demo, use protoc.new() in real world)
local retVal = p:load ([[
message Phone {
optional string name = 1;
optional int64 phonenumber = 2;
}
message Person {
optional string name = 1;
optional int32 age = 2;
optional string address = 3;
repeated Phone contacts = 4;
} ]],"Person")

print("p:load ")
print(retVal)

-- lua table data
local data = {
name = "ilse",
age = 18,
contacts = {
{ name = "alice", phonenumber = 12312341234 },
{ name = "bob", phonenumber = 45645674567 }
}
}

-- encode lua table data into binary format in lua string and return
local bytes = assert(pb.encode("Person", data))
print(pb.tohex(bytes))

-- and decode the binary data back into lua table
local data2 = assert(pb.decode("Person", bytes))
print(require "serpent".block(data2))

)delimiter";

My question: What am I missing here? How can I make the load() function and other functions to run properly?

[starwing]

Which Lua version you used? protoc.lua is not recommend in productive environment, you could just compile your .proto files into .pb file using protoc -o out.pb file.proto.

[yesItsGaren]

I am using Lua 5.1. But my goal is to write a protoc schema in Lua dynamically on the ESP32.
I have managed to run Lua scripts on the ESP32, but I can't seem to make the protoc-Lua Library to run properly.

[starwing]

@yesItsGaren I think I found the issue: you should require "pb" before require "protoc"？