Problems sending encoded strings

[clixx-io]

Not able to upload a program with the following line in it:

        _, _, method, path = string.find(request, "([A-Z]+) (.+) HTTP"); 

[dvv]

local foo = bar[i] as well -- chokes at trailing ]. A space after this char solves.

[marcoskirsch]

I ran into the same. Seems like this would be a pretty common issue.

After a little bit of debugging it is clear that anything ending with ] would choke since the commands send use double square brackets to send each line as a string literal. Similarly, anything with [[ in it would choke (can't nest [[]] string literals). Also, it appears there's a command length limitation of ~256 on the nodemcu device, so that breaks as well.

I'm not sure these are easy to fix without large changes to luatool.py; but they can certainly be caught by the script which could then return a useful error message. This way the user can trivially workaround the problems instead of being stumped.

[marcoskirsch]

jloyola has fixed the problems in his branch:

jlloyola@5dfa3ca
jlloyola@305358e

I assume it will get pulled shortly into the main branch.

[marcoskirsch]

I think this should be closed now?

[dvv]

Right. Thanks