[THRIFT-4170] Support lua 5.1 or earlier properly for object length determination

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Lua - Library
• Assignee: James E. King III
• Reporter: James E. King III
• Created: 06/Apr/17 19:18
• Updated: 31/Dec/18 21:56
• Resolved: 06/Apr/17 21:52

Description

I found an old, small PR in the backlog (https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/669) and it has a trivial change that is more correct than the solution in the codebase right now. I'm going to submit it as a new PR.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #669
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1241