Main.lua

Every Translator component contains an entrypoint, the main.lua module.

This module contains the main() function.

When you start a component, the Translator runs through the entire script in main.lua. Every time a running component receives a message, the main() function is called.

One thing to note is that variables are initialized at different times depending on where they are declared.

• Variables declared outside the main() are initialized once when the component is started.

• Variables declared within the main() are initialized every time a message is processed by the running component.

Keep main.lua short and sweet! main.lua should be a treated like a table of contents, all the major activities or functions should live in local modules or libraries and be called by the main() function.