Lua UDF – API Reference

API Reference for Aerospike extensions to Lua, including functions, modules and types.

Types

Aerospike provides a variety of Lua types which coincide with the types supported by the database.

• bytes - The bytes type provides the ability to build a byte array using bytes and integers. This type coincides with BLOB type in the database.
• list - A list is data structure that represents a sequence of values.
• map — A collection of (key, value) pairs, in which a key can only appear once in the collection.
• record — Represents database records, including bins – (name, value) pairs – and metadata.
• stream - Represents streams of records.

Modules

The following are modules which provide added functionality.

• aerospike — The aerospike object is a global object that exposes database operations.
• logging — Logging functions that send log messages to the Aerospike Server's logs.