This was briefly discussed in the original table to json feature . It would be useful to have to allow for encoding of more complex data structures, also to allow tables that have functions to be encoded by specifying them to not be included Probably best for __tojson to return what we want to be encoded rather than actual json? local Nested = {} Nested.__index = Nested function Nested:__tojson() return { name= self.name, child= if self.child then self.child else nil } end function Nested.new(name,parent) return setmetatable({ name=name, parent=parent, child=nil },Nested) end local root = Nested.new("root") root.child = Nested.new("child1",root) root.child.child = Nested.new("child2",root.child) ll.OwnerSay(lljson.encode(root)) Possibly this is deemed too much of an addition as it can be achieved atm with this local Nested = {} Nested.__index = Nested function Nested:__tojson() return { name= self.name, child= if self.child then self.child:__tojson() else nil } end function Nested.new(name,parent) return setmetatable({ name=name, parent=parent, child=nil },Nested) end local root = Nested.new("root") root.child = Nested.new("child1",root) root.child.child = Nested.new("child2",root.child) ll.OwnerSay(lljson.encode(root:__tojson()))
