Events

So far, each of our agents run within their own virtual machine and communicating between them is not easy. To alleviate this, we can create a data structure called an event, which can be passed between agents or the sandbox itself.

Attributes

Creating an event is as simple as creating a table within Lua with a few restrictions. As events are serialized by the sandbox and passed to each virtual machine, only simple table attributes can be added to the event.

Each supported attribute is listed as follows:

Event attribute type	Description
boolean	A true or false Lua value
number	Any Lua number internally represented as a float value
object	A code object, the sandbox, sandbox object, or an agent
string	Any Lua string value
vector	Any vector created from Vector.new

Note

Events might not have nested tables within them; any unsupported attribute type will be discarded during the serialization. Currently, this is a limitation of event serialization of the C++ side of the...