Porting ObjC / Java Interface Back to Core Corona?

CoronaCards (Corona in native apps) CoronaCards for iOS / Android
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The NSDictionary / Hashtable interfaces that you added to CoronaCards is really nice.  I may be missing it, but I did not see this in the core Corona SDK.  If not already there, are guys thinking of porting this interface back into the core Corona SDK?

Thanks! Mark

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Hi Mark, there are places in the Lua API where we do this conversion before passing data back to the Lua side, e.g. push notifications (where Apple delivers an NSDictionary, and we convert it to a Lua table before sending the event to you). 

Is there something more specific you had in mind wrt porting back to Corona?

BTW, we’re also doing something similar on the Android side we have in the works.

walter

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Hi Walter,

It seems like the CoronaCards Obj-C / Lua interface (http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/coronacards/ios/communication.html) is much simpler to use than the manual language binding interface used for Enterprise (http://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/03/18/tutorial-corona-enterprise-quickstart-ios/).  I was wondering if this simpler CoronaCards interface would also be made available for the Enterprise Corona SDK.  I may be missing some fundamental concepts with enterprise plugins though.

Thanks!

Mark

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The CoronaCards communication interface is completely asynchronous, so it’s not a good substitute for what binding/bridging APIs offer. 

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Hi Mark, there are places in the Lua API where we do this conversion before passing data back to the Lua side, e.g. push notifications (where Apple delivers an NSDictionary, and we convert it to a Lua table before sending the event to you). 

Is there something more specific you had in mind wrt porting back to Corona?

BTW, we’re also doing something similar on the Android side we have in the works.

walter

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Hi Walter,

It seems like the CoronaCards Obj-C / Lua interface (http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/coronacards/ios/communication.html) is much simpler to use than the manual language binding interface used for Enterprise (http://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/03/18/tutorial-corona-enterprise-quickstart-ios/).  I was wondering if this simpler CoronaCards interface would also be made available for the Enterprise Corona SDK.  I may be missing some fundamental concepts with enterprise plugins though.

Thanks!

Mark

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The CoronaCards communication interface is completely asynchronous, so it’s not a good substitute for what binding/bridging APIs offer.