From f457b148f97ebd73e77581651eb1bc2c682f136b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Titanium Brain <titaniumbrain@vivaldi.net>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 17:12:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: WIP add lua config parser

Non-working implementation.
---
 ly-core/build.zig     |  7 +++++
 ly-core/build.zig.zon |  4 +++
 ly-core/src/root.zig  | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 70 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ly-core/build.zig b/ly-core/build.zig
index f62fb2e..37b8668 100644
--- a/ly-core/build.zig
+++ b/ly-core/build.zig
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
     const zigini = b.dependency("zigini", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
     mod.addImport("zigini", zigini.module("zigini"));
 
+    const zlua = b.dependency("zlua", .{
+        .target = target,
+        .optimize = optimize,
+        .lang = .luajit,
+    });
+    mod.addImport("zlua", zlua.module("zlua"));
+
     const translate_c = b.dependency("translate_c", .{
         .target = target,
     });
diff --git a/ly-core/build.zig.zon b/ly-core/build.zig.zon
index 0d84326..622037b 100644
--- a/ly-core/build.zig.zon
+++ b/ly-core/build.zig.zon
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
             .url = "git+https://codeberg.org/ziglang/translate-c?ref=zig-0.16.x#6fe0ffc4549f15c5f2d9432c2b4460ba90ff85ac",
             .hash = "translate_c-1.0.0-Q_BUWo_5BgD4flHdUhA31zOz0XvZk9k7lQv1ouzyNXj2",
         },
+        .zlua = .{
+            .url = "git+https://github.com/natecraddock/ziglua?ref=zig-0.16#8f271c82baa5fc43aa02a72f6da020c2025d9436",
+            .hash = "zlua-0.1.0-hGRpC2aABQD4D9PBVH3wAW8k32-I4969MRQ0CpOwoley",
+        },
     },
     .paths = .{
         "build.zig",
diff --git a/ly-core/src/root.zig b/ly-core/src/root.zig
index 42198f5..fab9bc3 100644
--- a/ly-core/src/root.zig
+++ b/ly-core/src/root.zig
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 const std = @import("std");
 
 pub const ini = @import("zigini");
+pub const zlua = @import("zlua");
+pub const Lua = zlua.Lua;
 
 pub const interop = @import("interop.zig");
 pub const UidRange = @import("UidRange.zig");
@@ -76,3 +78,60 @@ pub fn IniParser(comptime Struct: type) type {
         }
     };
 }
+
+pub fn LuaParser(comptime Struct: type) type {
+    return struct {
+        const Self = @This();
+
+        structure: Struct,
+
+        pub fn init(
+            allocator: std.mem.Allocator,
+            io: std.Io,
+            path: []const u8,
+        ) !Self {
+            var lua: Lua = try .init(allocator);
+            defer lua.deinit();
+
+            lua.openLibs();
+
+            // convert to sentinel terminated slice
+            const spath: [:0]const u8 = try allocator.dupeSentinel(u8, path, 0);
+            lua.doFile(spath) catch {
+                const error_str = lua.toString(-1) catch unreachable;
+                const lua_str = try allocator.dupeSentinel(u8, error_str, 0);
+                _ = lua_str; // TODO add error logging
+            };
+            var data: Struct = .{};
+            switch (@typeInfo(Struct)) {
+                .@"struct" => |struc| {
+                    inline for (struc.fields) |field| {
+                        try setField(allocator, lua, field, &data);
+                    }
+                },
+                else => @compileError("Expected a struct."),
+            }
+
+            return data;
+        }
+        pub fn setField(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, lua: *Lua, comptime field: std.builtin.Type.StructField, data: *Struct) !void {
+            try lua.getGlobal("ly");
+            defer lua.pop(1); // pop ly table
+            switch (@typeInfo(field.type)) {
+                .int => {
+                    _ = lua.getField(-1, field.name);
+                    const value = try lua.toInteger(-1);
+                    lua.pop(1);
+                    @field(data, field.name) = @intCast(@as(field.type, @truncate(value)));
+                },
+                .float => {
+                    _ = lua.getField(-1, field.name);
+                    const value = try lua.toNumber(-1);
+                    lua.pop(1);
+                    @field(data, field.name) = @floatCast(@as(field.type, value));
+                },
+                else => @compileError("unimplemented!"),
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}