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Bug 330238

Summary:	Support for Lua language
Product:	[Technology] DLTK	Reporter:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl>
Component:	Common	Assignee:	dltk.common-inbox <dltk.common-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	alex.panchenko, contact
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Jon Smirl

2010-11-15 07:41:43 EST

It would be nice to have support for the Lua language that is used in a lot of games (WOW, etc). 

A lot of work has already been done here:
https://github.com/KINFOO/LuaEclipse

But it is suffering from bit rot and not tracking the DLTK releases.

It is based on this debugger that does work:
http://www.keplerproject.org/remdebug/manual.html

Current failure, I think something is wrong in the packaging. The parser is there but Eclipse is not finding it.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2010-11-15 07:27:05.767
!MESSAGE Unable to create editor ID org.keplerproject.luaeclipse.editor: Editor could not be initialized.
!STACK 0
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.keplerproject.luaeclipse.parser.LuaSourceParser.parse(Lorg/eclipse/dltk/compiler/env/IModuleSource;Lorg/eclipse/dltk/compiler/problem/IProblemReporter;)Lorg/eclipse/dltk/ast/parser/IModuleDeclaration;
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.SourceParserUtil.parse(SourceParserUtil.java:137)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.SourceParserUtil.getModuleDeclaration(SourceParserUtil.java:197)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.SourceParserUtil.getModuleDeclaration(SourceParserUtil.java:183)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.SourceParserUtil.getModuleDeclaration(SourceParserUtil.java:174)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.AbstractSourceElementParser.parse(AbstractSourceElementParser.java:42)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.core.AbstractSourceElementParser.parseSourceModule(AbstractSourceElementParser.java:26)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.AbstractSourceModule.buildStructure(AbstractSourceModule.java:507)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.Openable.generateInfos(Openable.java:188)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.ModelElement.openWhenClosed(ModelElement.java:184)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.BecomeWorkingCopyOperation.executeOperation(BecomeWorkingCopyOperation.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.ModelOperation.run(ModelOperation.java:698)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.ModelOperation.runOperation(ModelOperation.java:764)
	at org.eclipse.dltk.internal.core.SourceModule.becomeWorkingCopy(SourceModule.java:68)
....

Comment 1 Alex Panchenko

2010-11-15 08:12:00 EST

AbstractMethodError means LuaEclipse was written for different DLTK version.
However, this issue is not related to Eclipse.org projects.

Please try to contact the community of this project(s) at github or luaeclipse.luaforge.net - I am not actually where the active development happens at the moment, as I can see 3 repositories - 2 at github and 1 at luaforge.net.

Comment 2 Benjamin Cabé

2012-01-09 13:49:10 EST

Hey Jon — you might want to try Koneki LDT (http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/ldt), which is kind of a successor to LuaEclipse!