error¶

the single error/exception type

class error : public std::runtime_error {
public:
        error(const std::string& str): std::runtime_error("lua: error: " + str) {}
};

If an eror is thrown by sol, it is going to be of this type. We use this in a single place: the default at_panic function we bind on construction of a sol::state. If you turn off exceptions, the chances of you seeing this error are nil unless you specifically use it to pull errors out of things such as sol::protected_function.

As it derives from std::runtime_error, which derives from std::exception, you can catch it with a catch (const std::exception& ) clause in your try/catch blocks. You can retrieve a string error from Lua (Lua pushes all its errors as string returns) by using this type with any of the get or lookup functions in sol.