require.lua

Require all files in a folder

Credit

Written by @kikito and published in love forums under MIT license. Updated to work with newer love2d versions.

Post by kikito » Fri May 10, 2013 8:00 am

I did this some time ago:

https://github.com/kikito/fay/blob/master/src/lib/require.lua

It extends require with some methods.

Usage

The usage for requiring the files in a folder is:

require 'require' -- or require 'lib.require', depending on where you put it
local d = require.tree('path.to.directory')
d.file1 -- contents returned by path/to/directory/file1.lua
d.file2 -- contents returned by path/to/directory/file2.lua
d.subdir.file3 -- contents returned by path/to/directory/subdir/file3.lua

As a bonus, you also have require.relative:

local f = require.relative(..., "hello") -- if the path to the current file is 'foo.bar.baz', this requires 'foo.bar.hello'

Note that require('file') without methods works exactly like before.