From 9e3b790fd7c05e438b7195806688ed14857fc7f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francois Cartegnie <fcvlcdev@free.fr> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:04:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] lua: add missing documentation for scopes --- share/Makefile.am | 2 ++ share/lua/meta/README.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 share/lua/meta/README.txt diff --git a/share/Makefile.am b/share/Makefile.am index 105ed0cbe203..8c7c36c9ac91 100644 --- a/share/Makefile.am +++ b/share/Makefile.am @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ nobase_doc_DATA = \ lua/extensions/README.txt \ lua/intf/README.txt \ lua/intf/dumpmeta.lua \ + lua/meta/README.txt \ lua/meta/art/README.txt \ lua/meta/art/01_googleimage.lua \ lua/meta/fetcher/README.txt \ @@ -198,6 +199,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \ lua/intf/modules/host.lua \ lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua \ lua/intf/telnet.lua \ + lua/meta/README.txt \ lua/meta/art/README.txt \ lua/meta/art/02_frenchtv.lua \ lua/meta/art/03_lastfm.lua \ diff --git a/share/lua/meta/README.txt b/share/lua/meta/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..774250327e0e --- /dev/null +++ b/share/lua/meta/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +## Generic instructions about VLC Lua meta scripts. +$Id$ + +There is 3 types of Lua meta modules: art, fetcher and reader. +See their own README.txt for documentation. + +See lua/README.txt for generic documentation about Lua usage in VLC. + +## API + +VLC Lua meta modules should define a descriptor function: + * descriptor(): returns a table with information about the module. + This table has the following member: + .scope: Search scope of the script. Can be "network" or "local". + and defaults to "network". + "local" scripts are considered fast and processed first. + "network" scripts are considered slow and processed in a + second pass only if policy allows it. + + Example: + function descriptor() + return { scope="network" } + end + -- GitLab