ContainerType

Available since LÖVE 11.0
This enum is not supported in earlier versions.

Return type of various data-returning functions.

Constants

data

Return type is ByteData.

string

Return type is string.

Notes

Use data return type if you want to pass a reference to the data to another thread or LÖVE function, and use string return type if you want to use it immediately, like sending it to network.

See Also

• love.data
• love.data.compress
• love.data.decompress
• love.data.encode
• love.data.decode
• love.data.pack
• love.filesystem.read
• File:read