Inspired by the loader-library from https://github.com/wube/factorio-lua-tools and https://github.com/alexaulbach/FactorioLua2WikiGenerator

This has/will have the following features:

• correct loading in the order of the dependencies
• adding a "header" information about the used modules, date and (relative) paths where it was read from
• some kind of BTN-unit-tests

Needs installed lfs and zip.

luarocks install luafilesystem luarocks install luazip

On Mac luazip needs the zlib to be installed:

brew install libzzip

All other dependencies come with the package.

This is intended to be used inside of your own Lua-script (or any other program) to get the basic-data you need to make your own calculations with it! Please follow the interface-instructions in the docs/-folder.

If you want to use that in your own project, just use the library/loader/-folder as external into your project.

To see and test, how the lib works (or to generate useable output), the library has included some generators.

Interface, which converts the data to:

• XML
• Lua-Code
• json

XML has the advantage of having tools, which could be quite useful (xpath for example) and readers (your favorite browser for example), which makes the structure readable. Example:

xpath tmpdata/factorio-data-0.11.11.xml //steam-engine

--> outputs all structures about steam engine, see example data-files in tmpdata!

PrintData.lua path [path...] [output=xml|raw|lua|json]

Example:

generators/PrintData.lua /Applications/factorio.app/Contents/data/base /Applications/factorio.app/Contents/data/core/ >tmpdata/factorio-data.xml

--> outputs the core and base modules as XML-structure and stores it into tmpdata/factorio-data.xml

• doesn't work with packed mods.

• Work with packed modules.
• Tests.
• An option to expand the pictures/animation-filename prefixes for all modules with the full/relative path.
• Add arguments to see, which module adds which entity to the data.
• Make it run with all platforms.
• List all installed modules.
• Find the install and userdata-directories automatic on all platforms / no full paths are needed.
• Sort the output to make it better diff-able (quite complex)