1. output events from Factorio into Kafka.
   1. Factorio mod listens to events.
   2. For each event, it emits a file.
   3. A Kafka Connector consumes each file.
2. Factorio Web Map reads data from Kafka
   1. converts data to images
   2. hosts a web map

License

While this project is under development, no license is provided.

todo

• add settings
  • is active - whether files are exported or not
  • delete files - clean up all files
  • tick-rate - how often reports are generated
    • requires on some sort of in-mod cache of map<entity-id, event>
    • also divide by game-speed? to keep ratio the same

to investigate:

• https://github.com/starwing/lua-protobuf

• https://github.com/grafi-tt/lunajson

• http://lua-users.org/wiki/CompressionAndArchiving

• https://luapower.com/zlib

• https://github.com/appgurueu/modlib#bluon

• https://github.com/dingyi222666/lua-table-serialize

• https://github.com/uriid1/lua-serialize

• https://github.com/rxi/lume#lumeserializex

• https://github.com/SwadicalRag/bON

• https://square.github.io/okio/#communicate-on-a-socket-javakotlin

• https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl

• https://opensource.expediagroup.com/graphql-kotlin/docs/server/spring-server/spring-subscriptions

• https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema

• https://jbrandhorst.com/post/go-protobuf-tips/

• https://github.com/bakpakin/binser

wasm

kt -> wasm -> lua? kt-flatbuffers -> wasm -> lua?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasm2lua?activeTab=readme

Encodings

• flatbuffers https://github.com/dvidelabs/flatcc
• z85 encoding
  • Kotlin https://gist.github.com/ischumacher/b4929f26341ebef62cbce35c65543eda
  • Lua https://web-eworks.github.io/lZ85/
• https://github.com/SafeteeWoW/LibDeflate
• CBOR
  • https://www.zash.se/lua-cbor.html
  • https://code.zash.se/lua-cbor/archive/68b3a36d0816.tar.gz