Sending functions over rednet?

What if I want to send over functions like so?

rednet.open("left")

rec = peripheral.wrap("right") –working with big reactros mod

recStat = rec.getActive
recTemp = rec.getFuelTemperature

table = {recStat, recTemp}

message = textutils.serialize(table)
rednet.send(id, message)




To this I get this error:

textutils:166: Cannot serialize type function



Any ideas???

This topic was split from here.

Bagoly, on 15 August 2016 - 09:40 PM said:

recStat = rec.getActive
recTemp = rec.getFuelTemperature

you are missing parantheses "()" in the end of these lines.

Admicos, on 16 August 2016 - 12:10 AM said:

Bagoly, on 15 August 2016 - 09:40 PM said:

recStat = rec.getActive
recTemp = rec.getFuelTemperature

you are missing parantheses "()" in the end of these lines.

the title says that the OP wants to send the functions via rednet.

@ OP: it's not possible at present. It's a Lua limitation.

Correction, you can't send functions with upvalues. Sending something as simple as "return 1 + 1" would work, as you can simply string.dump and loadstring it.

Admicos suggested (rather badly) the correct way of doing things, which is to send the data, not the functions themselves, over rednet.