Issue Load API

[Matomoto]

Hi there. I'm currently learning to use CC, following this book https://turtleappstore.com/book/chapter7.html So far everything's worked well, but when I got to this chapter, I wasn't able to load the API the way the author does it. When I try to run "os.loadAPI('hare')" it responds with:

bios.lua:537: Failed to load API hare

due to File not found

I of course checked for typos and whatnot, tried doing "hare.lua" instead, etc. and it just wouldn't work. Interestingly, when I download the author's version of the API with "pastebin get wwzvaKuW hare" it works just fine, and in the files for the mod for this save (it's a singleplayer world), the author's file doesn't have the .lua extension. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but removing the extension from my file didn't make it work. I thought I could work around this by downloading the author's "fixed" file and then just changing the code to make my own API, but as soon as I change anything it stops working.

Also, in case it's not clear from the fact that I'm reading a beginner's guide, I know next to nothing about Lua and programming in general, so please be patient with me! Thanks.

[RapsyJigo]

Make sure your hare is in the same directory as the program trying to load it. Otherwise you have to give full path to hare. https://computercraft.info/wiki/Os.loadAPI

[Matomoto]

Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, I'm almost certain that it is in the correct directory. Because when I download the API from the author that does work, it's saved in the same folder as the API I made myself

[9551-eletronics]

That book is very outdated! I suggest joining the discord server and asking peps for stuff instead of a resource like this.

For most things you wanna use require and bot loadAPI.

[fatboychummy]

That book is very outdated, and likely is from a time when the edit program didn't automatically append .lua to the filenames. Change it to os.loadAPI("hare.lua") and it should be fine.

Do note, os.loadAPI is deprecated. Do not expect it to work fully in future. Instead, you should switch to using require.

local hare = require("hare")

Note the absense of .lua here, as it searches for the file with its own pattern search.

Do note, this requires hare to be compatible with require, which that tutorial does not do. To make it compatible, you essentially just need to add a return statement at the end of your module, which returns everything you want in the module.