Rawget

rawget( tbl, member )

Read a table member, bypassing metamethods

tbl

The table whose member to read.

member

The member to read.

When creating things like class objects, one often overrides metamethods like __index and __newindex with custom code, but might then need to read directly from the table without going through those overrides. This can be done with rawget().

See also

• setmetatable()
• getmetatable()
• rawset()
• rawget()
• rawlen()
• rawequal()
• Metatables
• Tables
• Lua