love.data

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

Provides functionality for creating and transforming data.

Types

ByteData	Data object containing arbitrary bytes in an contiguous memory.	11.0
CompressedData	Byte data compressed using a specific algorithm.	0.10.0
Data	The superclass of all data.

Functions

love.data.compress	Compresses a string or data using a specific compression algorithm.	11.0
love.data.decode	Decode Data or a string from any of the EncodeFormats to Data or string.	11.0
love.data.decompress	Decompresses a CompressedData or previously compressed string or Data object.	11.0
love.data.encode	Encode Data or a string to a Data or string in one of the EncodeFormats.	11.0
love.data.getPackedSize	Gets the size in bytes that a given format used with love.data.pack will use.	11.0
love.data.hash	Compute message digest using specific hash algorithm.	11.0
love.data.newByteData	Creates a new Data object containing arbitrary bytes.	11.0
love.data.newDataView	Creates a new Data referencing a subsection of an existing Data object.	11.0
love.data.pack	Packs (serializes) simple Lua values.	11.0
love.data.unpack	Unpacks (deserializes) a byte-string or Data into simple Lua values.	11.0

Enums

CompressedDataFormat	Compressed data formats.	0.10.0
ContainerType	Return type of data-returning functions.	11.0
EncodeFormat	Encoding format used to encode or decode data.	11.0
HashFunction	Hash algorithm of hash function.	11.0

See Also

• love