[LUA]API declaring functions dinamically

i am trying to declare function dinamicaly in a api file…

so a have a variable
local collection = { x = " ", y = " ", z = " " }

which i iterate inside my api and inside the for in pairs(collection) and declare some global functions…

outside for in i have a private function named save which all colection will be receiving this functions
local function save () –do something end

so for my loop looks like this

local collection = { turtle = "", computer = "", chest = "", }

local function save ()
  print(computer_path)
end

for key,value in pairs(collection) do
	key = { save = save, }
end

but i can't use self inside api to declare the variables globally inside the for in loop… does anyone have a workaround for this?

outside the api file i want to access those dinamically declared function like filename.x.save() filname.y.save() etc..

getfenv() with no parameters returns the function environment currently being executed in. In an api, you can do this:

local myFEnv=getfenv()

myFEnv["dynamicMember"] = "some value"

Then you will be able to access it after calling os.loadAPI("myapi") as myapi.dynamicMember

very good gopher that worked just fine, thanks!!!