APIs

Lua

MWSE exposes it's APIs via Lua programming language. The available version of Lua is 5.1 with many extensions from Lua 5.2 and some from Lua 5.3. To see the extensions available from Lua 5.2 and 5.3 browse under "Extensions from Lua 5.2" and "Extensions from Lua 5.3" in LuaJIT's extensions page.

Additional MWSE libraries

MWSE implements some Lua modules useful for modding, that aren't available in the global scope. These have to be required before use.

Library	Documentation	Notes
logging.logger	Logging guide	Logging module.
Unitwind	Available at implementation site.	Unit testing module. It's implementation is found in MWSE\\core\\lib\\unitwind.

Third-party libraries

In addition, MWSE ships with some third-party libraries useful for modding. Their APIs aren't covered here. The table below lists all third-party libraries available and links to their respective documentation.

Library	Documentation	Notes
BitOp	BitOp Documentation	Module for bitwise operations. It's available in global scope (it doesn't have to be required before use).
LuaJIT's FFI	FFI Documentation	Foreign functions interface module. Use as local ffi = require("ffi").
semver.lua	Documentation	Utility module for semantic versioning. Use as local semver = require("semver").
inspect.lua	Documentation	Module for converting Lua tables to human-readable representation. Useful for debugging. Use as local inspect = require("inspect").
ansicolors.lua	Documentation	Module to print to the console in color. Use as local ansicolors = require("logging.colors").
luasocket	Documentation	Network support module. Use as local socket = require("socket").
luasec	Documentation	Lua binding for OpenSSL library. Use as local ssl = require("ssl").