moduleapi: Have modules internally store a reference to shared tables they use, to ensure they don't get collected while any module that had access to that table is still loaded (thanks Zash)
--- a/core/moduleapi.lua Sat Apr 21 22:50:57 2012 +0100
+++ b/core/moduleapi.lua Sat Apr 21 22:52:15 2012 +0100
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
-- Intentionally does not allow the table at a path to be _set_, it
-- is auto-created if it does not exist.
function api:shared(...)
+ if not self.shared_data then self.shared_data = {}; end
local paths = { n = select("#", ...), ... };
local data_array = {};
local default_path_components = { self.host, self.name };
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@
shared_data[path] = shared;
end
t_insert(data_array, shared);
+ self.shared_data[path] = shared;
end
return unpack(data_array);
end