Fixes to template Lua expansion

common/space_lua_api.ts

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export async function buildThreadLocalEnv(
     }
   }
   tl.setLocal("_GLOBAL", globalEnv);
-  return Promise.resolve(tl);
+  return tl;
 }
 
 export async function handleLuaError(e: LuaRuntimeError, system: System<any>) {

common/syscalls/lua.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { evalExpression } from "$common/space_lua/eval.ts";
 import { parse, parseExpressionString } from "../space_lua/parse.ts";
 import type { CommonSystem } from "$common/common_system.ts";
 import { LuaStackFrame, luaValueToJS } from "$common/space_lua/runtime.ts";
+import { buildThreadLocalEnv } from "$common/space_lua_api.ts";
 
 export function luaSyscalls(commonSystem: CommonSystem): SysCallMapping {
   return {
@@ -15,15 +16,21 @@ export function luaSyscalls(commonSystem: CommonSystem): SysCallMapping {
      * @param expression
      * @returns
      */
-    "lua.evalExpression": (_ctx, expression: string) => {
-      const ast = parseExpressionString(expression);
-      return luaValueToJS(
-        evalExpression(
-          ast,
+    "lua.evalExpression": async (_ctx, expression: string) => {
+      try {
+        const ast = parseExpressionString(expression);
+        const env = await buildThreadLocalEnv(
+          commonSystem.system,
           commonSystem.spaceLuaEnv.env,
-          LuaStackFrame.lostFrame,
-        ),
-      );
+        );
+        const sf = new LuaStackFrame(env, null);
+        return luaValueToJS(
+          evalExpression(ast, commonSystem.spaceLuaEnv.env, sf),
+        );
+      } catch (e: any) {
+        console.error("Lua eval error: ", e.message, e.sf?.astCtx);
+        throw e;
+      }
     },
   };
 }

plugs/markdown/api.ts

@@ -116,13 +116,11 @@ export async function expandCodeWidgets(
 
       let result = await lua.evalExpression(exprText);
 
-      if (result.markdown) {
+      if (result?.markdown) {
         result = result.markdown;
       }
 
       const markdown = renderExpressionResult(result);
-
-      console.log("Expanding LuaDirective", exprText, result, markdown);
       return await parseMarkdown(markdown);
     }
   });

website/API.md

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This describes the APIs available in [[Space Lua]]
-
 ${template.each(query[[
   from index.tag "page"  where string.startswith(name, "API/")
 ]], templates.pageItem)}

website/Space Lua.md

@@ -141,9 +141,7 @@ There's a magic `_CTX` global variable available from which you can access usefu
 * `_CTX._GLOBAL` providing access to the global scope
 
 # API
-All of these are available via the global namespace:
-${template.each(query[[from index.tag "page" where string.startswith(name, "API/")]], templates.pageItem)}
-
+![[API]]
 While in [[Space Script]] all syscalls are asynchronous and need to be called with `await`, this is happens transparently in Space Lua leading to cleaner code:
 
 ```space-lua